Reuben
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Re: How often to shoot a coon out got me thinking
quote: Originally posted by Reuben
So what type of puppy will make a dog that won’t require many coon shot out to them? Let’s say you have well bred pups...and they are well socialized...you are a breeder that demands the best to maintain and improve the bloodline and you want to keep the best make for hunting and breeding if he turns out...if there are 4 males in the litter...how many would you keep and how would you cull and select so that in the end you have a dog that doesn’t need many coons shot out to him...and he is a bold full of confidence...
If I were keeping the 4 males in trying to pick the better pup of the 4...
I would hunt the pregnant dam...
I would socialize the pups and observe them daily...
I would use a coon in a roll cage at 4 month old...I will be interested in the pup that is bold and bays tight...the one that acts like he wants a piece of that coon...
The pups that are overly cautious that turn tail every time the coon hisses are loosing points...the one that fires up more really has my interest...
I will also set them up to tree and watch how they operate...I will encourage a higher level of performance but I am looking for natural ability...the pups that just go crazy over a coon the first time they see one...the one that goes green eyed and hackled, slobber mouthed hate a coon coondog puppy or puppies...Yea
At 6 months I’ll let them bay a coon and then I will have a coondog probably their dam, ready to turn in to the fracas that’s fixing to happen...when the pups are fired up I will turn the coon loose as well as their dam...they can catch or chase the coon to the tree and tree it...I want to see how they handle themselves...if a pup gets a little mauled and it is a setback for him I probably won’t be needing that pup...if a pup gets a little mauled and he gets right back in the coons face...well that is a big plus in his favor...
At six months I will be down to three pups...at ten months I’ll be down to two pups and at a year I might be keeping two...
There is no guarantee I am keeping the best but this style of testing and conditioning has worked for me...
This is looking for the natural want to in a pup...when we select and choose for this type of pup many positive traits will fall in place...
he might be near death from heat exhaustion as a coondog but he’ll be trying to get back on the wood...
It’s in the breeding and selection...
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