408northville
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John, the bluetick breed has everything you need and more. Going outside what you have to get a specific trait that is missing is fine, but you bring everything else with it, good and bad. A better way and a way that works is finding top related hounds and improving them by keeping whole litters and only breed within that family. The problem all breeds are having is not cleaning up what you do have and using methods that do not work. The method should be based on results not what someone said or heard. If the method of breeding is working there would be constant improvement with each breeding.
The walkers are also have the same problems, that is not much improvement or at least the way I look at improvement." measurable results" There's more walkers than bluetick so the law of numbers will always give them an edge.
JTG
quote: Originally posted by ov_blues
I appreciate all the input so far. Keeping this thread clean, and informative may help someone, including me, in a better way. Although some of the time, some of the people on here are referred to as computer hunters or whatever, there are some on here that I respect their opinions and know what a TOP hound is. Getting out and hunting with stud dogs, pups out of the studs, etc is somewhat harder to do than if our Blueticks had larger numbers. I think that is a disadvantage to us as a whole. So, input, good or bad, can be positive.
My Dad started with, and I continued with him, breeding Blueticks several generations of dogs ago. Dad was always a person that said if he saw something he liked outside our kennel, and he thought it would add something to our dogs, he would go get some of it. I feel the same. When I realized the magnitude of trying to breed hounds that could compete on a national level against any breed, it became obvious to me how low the percentage would be of completing that task just using the dogs tied out back so to speak. So, we went out and purchased, hunted with, and tried to gather information on as many lines and dogs as we could. I think a lot of what has been talked about on different lines and their abilities is fairly accurate.
JV (whom I have talked to on the phone and doesn't seem like a half bad person. lol) keeps saying that we don't have the gene pool to work with to improve our Blueticks. I disagree. I have seen Blue dogs that hunt just as hard, don't have quit, aren't lazy, etc. I've seen Blue dogs that are just as fast on their feet as any hound of any breed. I've seen the dogs that can drive any kind of track, locate just as quick, tree just as hard, etc. I'm sure a lot of you have. JV has brought up a point that doesn't get discussed a lot. Where are the lines or dogs that know how to compete? To put all of it's tools together, even if they aren't quite as good as the competition, and still be able to win? Not get flustered and have that competitive attitude? Is that what is missing in some of our Blue dogs? Who has those types of dogs?
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