dsodshounds
UKC Forum Member
Registered: Oct 2007
Location: United States
Posts: 407 |
The Evolution of the Brushy Ridge hounds
A thread that I have written to showcase some of my nice hounds that ive used to persue big game and how they came about.
I first started with hounds many years ago, I was taken under the wing of a well known local houndsmen who sold me a pup in which I named Brushy Ridge Rackett, Rackett was and is a solid hound and started at a very early age on coon, then did great things as a young dog when I dedicated him to bear hunting. I developed a bond with this hound unlike no other that I had owned and we became a great team. Rackett taught me many things by hunting him that I didnt know came from many years of selective line breeding and great genetics. Rackett was and still is a incredibly loud bawl on track to steady chop on tree hound, handles like a dream, laid back but knows when its go time. He posesses a very cold nose. I hunted him and a nice pair of blueticks I had together and they made a great team as well. Little did I know that my hound was a decendant of a hound named Allegheny Racket who produced very dominant and is seen in almost every pedigree of top bear dogs in this area.He was a decendant of a well known dog, Turkey Ridge Racket. Allegheny Racket produced Rohrbaugh's Spot and Wendy and through that channel came Rohrbaugh's Driver which was the coldest nose dog I have still to this day ever hunted with. I researched as much as I could and learned great things about this bloodline and how beneficial it had been to many people. It was also being very kind to me and treeing me alot of game. But that wasnt all, Rackett's mother, Lilly also came from an outstanding reproducer that was well known GRNITECH GRCH 'PR' West Virginia Faith owned by Lee Ours. Faith was off Perk's Northern Cujo whom was off, Turkey Ridge Racket. It wasnt until about a year later I purchased a nice pair of pups off another local cross from two very well known bear hounds at the time that and this was cross number 2. The first cross was excellent so it was made again. I named those pups, Evans' Moonshine Katie and Evans' Brushy Ridge Storm. Both of these hounds started the same as my Rackett dog had at a very early age and showed incredible intelligence. I knew I wanted pups from these outstanding females. When I received the 6 generation pedigree from UKC I surprisingly learned that these females carried some of the same blood as Rackett. They were line bred as well and carried alot of the same stuff. After alot of thought I knew I wanted pups from these two nice females. I then bred Rackett to Storm, and produced my first litter of what I call, Brushy Ridge Hounds. From that litter, 4 well known top hounds were produced. Brushy Ridge's Blue Penny, Rohrbaugh's Dixie, Brushy Ridge Spot, and Coppertop Pepper. Two died at a young age and never had the chance to prove themselves, one owned by myself. I also lost those two outstanding females way to young, Storm to a bear, and Katie to a lighting strike in her kennel. To this day I have incorporated these hounds and line bred them to get the best results from the bloodline. I dedicate myself to my hounds and hunting them. If it wasnt for hard working houndsmen behind these hounds I wouldnt have had these hounds to work with today, I always give credit where credit is due. Rackett is 11 now and has reproduced like his ancestors before him. He still continues to produce pups like himself.
__________________
Adam Evans
Brushy Ridge English Hounds
Light Foot English
304-257-6079
http://s816.photobucket.com/albums/zz81/teambrushyridge/
brushyridgehounds.webs.com
Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged
|
03-22-2012 12:29 AM
