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    Took a bit for me to learn to grab quarry as a kid. I did get bit. My dad was pissed. I can remember him saying... "Way to ruin everything. You're mom wants you to stop hunting the hounds and terriers and that'll ruin all my fun." Ha Ha No sympathy. I've never been bit again and I grab everything alive, usually no gun and no big dogs. There have been times I really wished I had a bigger hard draw dog. I'd keep one. I haven't used locators though so I am often a few feet off when I dig.
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    Good deal ya'll. The type of answers I'm looking for. I've started a ton of pups. More got culled than I ever expected. I took a long time off from pups after I got a few good ones and now I'm back at pups. I want the most to turn out as possible. Super difficult waiting when in the hole for dogs. Not that adult dogs aren't available to me. It's just I've never worked an adult that has been raised by someone else that hunted just how I like in this area. I've had some game catchers but there is always something wrong. I think knowing how to make an exceptional dog is a skill and some people ju
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    Thanks for the reply bob. I understand every dog is different. More what I'm looking for is what has produced the highest percentage of workers. Starting later or younger? Does starting a dog young lessen t's likelihood of becoming all it can be?
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    This has been asked many times. I ask it to every terrierman I speak with. When do you start a terrier. I grew up starting dogs when they wanted to start on their own. If they were 7 months so be it. They started. I went through a ton of dogs. I know men who have had success breeding awesome dogs that start very young but they were raising numbers of terriers I couldn't handle and culling unbelievable numbers. Currently, I have 3 pups in my yard that all want a go. If I leave them to their own devices, they find game and they engage intensely. One got in on a coon underground and really went
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    Bitches have been terrible for me too. They are worse than dogs. I don't let them near eachother.
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    I think this topic is too good to get lost in the past topics. Come on ya'll who have bred your own dogs for sometime. What are your percentages. I don't want to name anybody but I know there are some guys who have been in the game a while. I wanna know what I can expect in the future with my litters.
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    Amen
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    I like how he used the dog for bait. Genius
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    Ha Ha Ha. That's the prob. I'm on vacation and ain't sleeping with my woman.
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    I pulled a dog out of retirement for a bit of tussle with coons the past month. He was nothing like the dog he was just two years ago. He's still good, not acting like a cull by anymeans. He sticks it out til the end but now I have been having dream after dream that all my dogs fail me when I need em most at a dig or in a brush pile. Anybody else ever have this experience. I've been having the dreams all damn week.
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    I am very curious about this as well Cleanspade. I ask alot of guys this question... jagd guys are producing the best numbers I gotta say. But those dogs can be a pain in the ass ha ha. If I get 1 in 5 I am happy. But I'm crossing totally different styles of workers. If those odds continue after sometime breeding my own stock I don't deserve to breed anymore. If I were getting those kind of odds from established lines I wouldn't breed the dogs again. Too much litter wastage. I know that this isn't super relative to ya'll but they are terriers and they do their job to ground... I have heard of
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    Yeah, if you're fifteen my advice is don't listen to the guys on here. It's a load of horse shite. I gave away, culled or didn't breed the best dogs I was ever gonna find because I expected the wonder dogs people described - that never actually existed. Learn from experience. When you see a better dog than yours make that your next goal. That is a real goal an attainable one. Hunt with more people, you'll keep seeing better and better dogs. Raise your expectations for yourself and your dogs each wrung of the ladder of performance you witness. I never go hunting with a better dogman than myself
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    I'm with busterdog, if I went to a pound, a pup would be the only way to go. Sad thing is they neuter what comes in. You'd have to strike a deal with the folks at the pound to call you in whenever terriers come in. I have a buddy who got the best jack russells he'd ever had from a rescue he had such a deal with. He'd get all the dogs that were going to be euthenized for aggressiveness. I saw some of these dogs. They were great. And some produced. It is true that alot of the wonderdogs don't produce. Same can be said with linebred dogs too. I am curious what percentage peoples litters are reall
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    Good hounds can be found at the pound around here. Most men who have dogs are terrible dogmen. I agree to a degree with the original post. Especially with hounds. I hear new stories all the time of the mutt found on the road becoming a great coon dog that beats the pants off the nite champs. Lots of people can figure out how to breed worker to worker... funny thing is the best dog men wouldn't call most of the so-called workers good dogs. I have witnessed litters of worker to worker that not a single one lived up to the parents' degree of work. I had a show bred manchester that put up more co
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    I call mine working terriers or mutts when people ask
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    Most guys with awesome dogs aren't trying to sell you anything and they aren't trying to talk anybody into taking their dogs. Why would they want random people taking on their dogs. Good dog men are begged for their dogs. They don't have to brag anything up. The dogs do the talking. I'm not saying good dog men don't sell dogs. Just saying they don't have to talk up their stock.
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    I've heard alot of good things about a pinch of bull blood. But I've heard things that equally concern me. I'm leary of touching the stuff but it could be ignorance speaking. I have no experience with them.
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    Topper - I totally agree.
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    Yes. The time constraints and room for dogs is the catch. Its almost as tough as breeding good dogs but finding good dogmen to help is the trick I think. A group of like minded men(occassional women) who will work together on a project. Buster, It is often the case that shite produces shite. But often what is thought to be shite is a diamond in the rough. Genetics isn't always 1+1=2. It can get very complicated. An accidental breeding of two dogs that were mediocre produced my best terrier. And luck would have it that the same bitch, not much of a worker produced more good dogs when bred to
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    Gotta say. Canada just sounded tempting.
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    I wrote this on a thread about borders but it applies to breeding in general. I do not want to rework the ideas into generalities myself. Reply however you want but I want this new topic to focus on breeding in general not just on borders. I mention alot of stuff about showbred stuff, etc. etc. Many working breeds don't need any infusion of that. Just wanted to post a general idea that I stated in specific terms in another thread. Please, generalize. Overlook specifics on the borders. I want ideas on all breeds stated. For instance in one line of fell that is particularly well known the males
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    I often wonder about age. I ask every terrierman I talk to about how they start their terriers. Interesting how everybody has a different motto. The way I look at it is, I want there to be no excuse on my part if the dog doesn't cut the mustard. Everything should be played to lead the dog to success. If I start the dog too fast on too hard of game. I have an excuse for why the dog fails in the end. I don't want that. I want to be sure of what I'm working with. 18 months is what I have heard the most from guys who work the dogs single handed. Out here in america with brush hunting alot start th
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    One man who I respect as a breeder told me, "Don't worry about size. Big or small will just come on their own. There are freaks on both sides in many litters. Just worry about work." and I would add Health.
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    I thought I was set for dogs two years ago. My buddy and I had some great dogs coming on. Long story short, 3 died within one month. 2 more over this last year. We're looking at bringing in 4 pups from outside sources and starting totally over with new stuff. I pay up $200 for a pup from good stock. I've paid $500 for a bitch that was the sister of my best producing bitch. As far as selling a top notch "finished" dog... Not happening. Alot of dogs or pups come with the agreement that you don't ever sell them or anything off of them. An agreement like that should be kept. If not under that cons
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    depends on the background of the dogs you're breeding. I've got a tiny little bitch that is smaller than both parents. The parent's were the bigger in their litters, so couldn't expect the size to hold true. Produced smaller than both parents.
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