ov_blues
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Registered: Feb 2007
Location: Pomeroy, Ohio
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Eddie, I had one cross that wasn't worth a hill of beans. She was just a bad reproducer although a good gyp in the woods, I had the same results with her and my OV Jimmy dog and he reproduced well on every other female I bred him too except her. Other than that I have bred him to 4 of my own females, Mr. Woofters female, and John Vaughts Midnight female. Different bloodlines from some of the different females and a line bred Mad Dog female. Biggest things I see out of his pups for the most part are they are good looking pups that are smart and are eager to please. They have real good mouths on them, start easy without having to do a lot of mock stuff with them before you take them hunting, they are fairly independent but not loners, good noses but not wallowers, and they like to have a coon when they tree so not a lot of slicking going on just for the sake of treeing. Overall I like his pups really well and he seems to throw a lot of his traits in his pups. He is 10 now and in very good shape for his age. Hunted him last season some and when you cut him you were going to get him off of a tree even though he doesn't get thru the woods like a young dog anymore he makes it up with brains and ability.
Mr. Woofter, thanks for the good words. You are right, if someone has a special female like Lou I'd love to get Ranger bred to a couple more high caliber females like her. He's been bred to some good females so far but a couple more definitely wouldn't hurt. He was 8 when I got him and I think he had 29 pups on the ground so I don't think he'll get to 100 pups and finish enough to make the reproducers list before it is too late but I think he'll leave a little mark on the Bluetick breed. Like Tim used to say, they knew we were there. lol.
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