wkfii
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Re: Cross Bred Hounds
quote: Originally posted by JOE H BROOKS
Actually some of the walker dog roots, came from blue ticks, that's why, you some times get a blue tick litter of pups, that are black and white, no ticks. The red ticks also came from the blue tick breed and some of the english, i won't say all, cause, some of them came, from the walker breed. I see a lot of in breeding, line breeding, and people start haveing problems, in their dogs, parrot mouth, no heat cycle, dogs, found dead in pen at 3 yr. old, 8 yr. old, remember, you get the bad, defects, just as well, as the good. The old dogs of years past use to live longer, 15 to 16 years, we are lucky, today if they are alive at 11 years of age. I prefer to use a total out cross, black&tan to walker, i still try to breed, for what is lacking, in the female or male, if i have a dog that goes too hard, i'll bred to a female, that hunts close, that takes, pressure, stays hooked, if one is a little trashy, i'll bred something clean, in there.
Actually, the American Bluetick was produced in general by importing the French Gascon (sp?) hound and crossing them with running Walkers and Mountain Curs. I am sure that there were many variations to this breeding. The earliest written record off Gascon hounds being introduced was the pack that Lafayette gave to George Washington. Washington thought them too slow and started crossing in the various foxhounds of the area. The original running Walkers had this blood in them. Of course given the ticks that alot of the hunting breeds have, it is obvious that Gascon genes runs in other places. In the last 50 years, I am also sure that there has been many crosses between Walker, English, and Bluetick- documented and otherwise.
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