cripple creek
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Registered: Jan 2006
Location: mississippi
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I have been a breeder of the same line
of walker dogs for over 30 years and consider myself an established breeder. I for one thing this is a great idea.
The walker breed has bred itself into a corner. there are litterally a hundred dual grand champions at stud right now on this board and in the magazines. I see young dogs at a year old and older for sale on here for mere cents on the dollar for what they were paid for as a weaning pup.
The vast majority of walker hounds now are hot nosed, go into the universe, mouthy radically treeing idiots.
Now I know I will get a hundred posts of come on down and bring your best and old sport will grind out a two day old track and has never treed slick in his life challenges.
You can say what you want...I dont see it. Genetically we have bred the walker breed into this by everybody breeding to the latest Truck winner or world hunt winner and not truly studying the DNA and genetic makeup for each hound before we make the cross.
We have bred our walker hounds into the typical painting yourself into a corner situation. The complete hound of nose, agility, intelligence, stamina, voice, and dominant reproductive ability, and accuracy is all but gone.
With that said, I think it would absolutely create an opportunity for me as a breeder to experiment and create a hound that can truly meet all those requirements.
You can find one or two of those traits in some of the walker studs, but I havent found it as a complete package in one yet.
If it was, you would see complete dominating studs that are reproducing the same in sons, grandsons, and great grandsons. We have watered the gene pool down to a puddle.
I can not see where this would harm anyone. Like someone said above, it would not take but about two generations no more than three before you would see complete dominance in the hunts from this. The black and tan/walker crossed Hardrock is a prime example of this.
UKC I want to throw my vote into the ring on this issue as a big YES for moving forward with this.
I will be one of the first to make a move and make a cross on it because I believe it will help the over all game.
What is the reason not to do it? Those that want to continue on with their breed forever nothing will stand in your way by doing this. AS a matter of fact it will help breeders in the walker arena anyway. There are walker stud adds that have been on the board for years and the owners havent bred an outsid female except his local buddys dog.
You might get some play on your dog from the black and tan man down the road or an English for sure.
Let's think outside the box. I think this will be a win win for UKC as I think the breeding game is stagnant right now and this would create a new excitement that would bring in added money for UKC. And not to mention a whole new converstation down at the feed store pickle barrel and a whole new line of arguments to get deleted by the monitors!!!!
Its like resurrecting the old WWF. Dont delay vote today. I got a cross I am ready to roll with.
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