John Carroll
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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Talala, Oklahoma
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Originally posted by Briar
John I believe you are one of the purest examples of the benefits of raising your own dogs for years. You have such a large amount of experience with generations of these dogs that I have a feeling every generation gets a little better for you.
Best of luck with this young fella.
Well, really I just tag on to the best efforts of the breeders who raised these dogs for years.
This pup is the product of a total outcross--something I don't do much.
His mother is heavily linebred on the old Ranger blood, and his sire is a linebred Echo hound, which basically is a lot of old Smoky River Diamond Jim lined up with some Jimmy I blood crossed in a few years ago.
I had his sister out with him too last night, and while she didn't get treed like he did, she ran the hair off the track with a good bawl mouh. It was her first time in the woods too.
These pups, if they go ahead and make it, will be bred back to each side of their pedigrees over time to see what works best.
For example, I'll breed the bitch to an Uchtman hound eventually, and probably back to something Echo bred, to see what I get each way.
That will determine the direction I go from there. Of course, that is thinking way ahead, and assumes that these youngsters will make something that suits me. They got off to a good start, but it's a long way from here to what I call a coon dog.
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