cripple creek
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Registered: Jan 2006
Location: mississippi
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I will be adding the 11th generation
of hounds to my kennels later this month that trace back to my original cross. I have been breeding hounds with good mouths, balanced on track and tree, with intelligence and great looks and confirmation. Generation after generation of the same type hounds. Entire litters that had all the same abilities.
I achieved this by doing the homework before breeding just two hounds together. Most crosses I make take a minimum of two years of planning before they are made.
I see folks on the message boards put out a post and ask "What should I breed to?" Then I see a list of folks giving their two cents worth and when I look at the pedigree of some of the suggestions and I think to myself there is no way that is going to work. Most often folks dont listen to any of the advice anyway and then they breed to who they had in mind anyway and usually you see them for sale at discount rates at a time they should be bringing their highest value. It is because they didnt do their homework.
Even the great studs do not cross well on everything.
Coon dog to coondog does "NOT" always equal a great cross or even the greatest chance of a great cross. I dont care who says it. I have been breeding the same hounds for over 30 years. Not just throwing two dogs in the pen and getting pups and calling myself a breeder.
I am a successful breeder. I dont say that with any arrogance at all. It took lots of trial and error and experimental breeding of line breeding, inbreeding and out crossing and knowing when to do each of the above.
I believe there are some good studs out there that have never seen the pages of a magazine or a post on these message boards that can produce as well as most advertised studs.
Right here in the midsouth, I want to list a few studs that I think are good solid studs that based on their pedigree and genetic make up that will produce a higher percentage of nice pups per litter than just breeding to the latest world champion or truck winner.
Here's just a few. As I learn of more, I will post for those of you who want to up your chances of getting pups that are way above average in ability, looks, mouths and intelligence.
Tyler Hawkings in Batesville, Ms has a super nice 2 year old Nt. ch. with wins toward Grand nite out of Lock Box and my Boots female. He is extra loud, good looking and smart. He can tree any kind of coon and do it right. Ill put a video of him later on here.
If you are interested, pm me and Ill give you tylers no. I am going to try and help tyler advertise his Bo dog soon. He is worthy big time of breeding to. I will breed something to him later.
Matt Cantrell up around clarksville, tn has a double Hillbilly mac dog that is line bred so many ways it will cross your eyes. All the crosses are in the right places. He has more old blood than any dog currently alive. It is as close as you can get it as well. Johnsons Banjo the star of the walker breed who every walker dog living pretty much goes back to is in the pedigree multiple times. Spring creek rock a bunch of times, His dog is a nt. ch and grand champion. Jesse is his name. contact me on pm for his info as well.
Also I think Lock Box, his brothers Repete and Hortons Bullet are all reproducers that are all worthy of breeding to before you go off and pay 400 to 500 to breed to the magazine super stars.
Repete and Bullet are on the walker stud boards on here. You can check out their contact info.
Bone collector is also proving he can reproduce at a high level. Seen that first hand as I have with lock box.
I hope to ad something from tylers dog and Matts dogs later this year to my kennel.
I have added a couple of partners to help me with raising pups and stuff. I am only going to keep one hound here at a time maybe a second if I plan on moving one of them. I want to keep my focus on my family and church before the hounds. hounds are my hobby and not my life.
We need to keep those perspectives in place.
Again, if I can offer any advice toward breeding, showing or training a young dog, please pm me and we can contact each other and I will help anyway I can. I have learned a great deal about breeding hounds over the past 30 plus years and maybe it will save you a lot of heartache and money when breeding to get pups. After all when you make a cross, it is a lasting proposition.
The cross today could be somebodies headache years down the road if you dont do your homework.
God bless and thanks for reading my posts and rants.
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