cripple creek
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Registered: Jan 2006
Location: mississippi
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I hear you carl....
yea there is a long list of folks wanting pups from that cross, but I breed for myself first. selling pups is just an after thought for me. If folks like what I am hunting and showing then they can get in on it.
I make different crosses to add different aspects to my line. I want them to always be balanced when I make a cross for sure, but Mouth is a desired trait, but sometimes I add confirmation in a cross if I feel like I am not getting the feet and legs to compete nationally on the show stage and still maintain the coondog aspect.
My females throw coondogs with loud mouths no matter what I breed to. I have always believed and it has held true in my breeding over the years is that the female throws better than 60% of the pups traits sometimes even more. If you find a dog that will throw 50% of himself on his pups even if he breeds a less than quality female, he is a dominate stud in my eyes.
I believe Box to be a dominate stud. You can see it in the mouths, tracking ability and for sure the looks. Box throws a narrow type head on a hound and I personally prefer a boxier head on my dogs.
That Ruth gyp in the video will reproduce world beaters whenever we decide to breed her down the road. she has about a year before I even think about breeding her. My females are dominate reproducers because I am cautious to what I breed to and I keep all my desired traits piled up generation after generation.
That's why you can see dogs like the Lil miss Milo dog that won walker days a couple of years ago and her daughters this year winning the walker days pup hunt with a big score and just being a yearling pup and the Milo dog himself who just passed away today and was a multiple finalist in the UKC world hunt and on and on are dogs that their ancestors came from my kennels.
Its all in the breeding and making the right cross at the right time.
Bottom line it all starts with the female for me and it has been good to me for sure.
Box is a nice reproducer and I wont be afraid to go back to him down the road.
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