John Burns
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Registered: Jan 2004
Location: utah
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REPEAT CROSSES,HOW OFTEN DO THEY WORK.
Shane, I suspect you have asked a question that will be difficult to answer but you aren't the first to ask it nor are you the first to say that repeat crosses generally don't work as well as the first.
Berton Oney, a hound dog man of some notoriety is reported to have said," A cross after the first, will never be as good as the first".
Many houndsmen hold the opinion that if there are ten pups in a litter, only five will get a fair chance. To readily accept this opinion, it is helpful to recognize that some will get run over, shot, die of some illness, be chained to a box for years, not hunted, be owned by an idiot etc.
John Wick, a breeder of high repute holds the opinion that crosses subsequent to the first are seldom, if ever, the equal to the first cross. Mr Wick also counsels that one should find a breeder that is successful and buy a pup from him. I think that this is good advice because even though I have hunted quite a bit and had some good dogs, I realize that I will never be as wise as some of the top breeders out there.
The trick, as I see it, is to find a reputable breeder that is breeding for the kind of dog you want to hunt. If a breeder is breeding for some special kind of a fast strike, go deep, barn burner competition dog and you are looking for a mellow mouthed, cold nosed hound, that hunts close enough so that you can catch him before daylight, pleasure hound that don't tax you too much you might want to look up another breeder.
I am a five day walk from knowing all there is to know about this subject so this is just one man's opinion.
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