Worker ?

[birddog 1,354]

you should take them off when theres no moon bud, had a wee lookout this morning early only red thing we saw was a squirrel got some sweet chestnuts though before he got them ha ha, sussed some braw new hazel for chopping next month and a tree dripping with crab apples...........happy days

[haymin 2,465]

Na just take them off when ever I feel moon or no moon ? . Ill have to get my chain saw sharpened saying that got a ton of coal delivered 2 weeks ago what a pile in the shed f magic lol

[whitefeet4190 1,729]

If its good breeding its worth feeding

[Derek1962 50]

How many breeders out there would admit to litter wastage when breeding lurchers,the collie greyhound is the starting point to breeding a good all round lurcher,i have talked to a few breeders here in Ireland and most wont tell you of all the lurchers and longdogs they have bred how many turned out good,i talked with King from Cavan last year and i asked him of all the dogs he bred how many turned out good running dogs,he told me that 95 per cent of the dogs that he bred were top class runningdogs,[which is a lie for i know people that bought some of his dogs and they were useless,he did breed a few good ones in the early ,s which i think made his name,he gave me a tour of his dogs and he told me all his dogs were Deerhound x Saluki x Irish terrier,which most of them looked like first cross saluki greyhound,but he insisted that none of his lurchers had any greyhound in their makeup,i told him that every lurcher had greyhound in their makeup and he said maybe they had but his hadnt.

[birddog 1,354]

is this where we fall behind the honesty in breeding and culling of the yanks?

[beast 1,884]

 

the only question to my mind is whether this dog has high prey drive? herding is of course just a form of hunting, so a dog which is keen to herd is demonstrating prey drive. then again, a cross to a grey should put plenty of drive into the pups anyway. i would use this dog for lurcher breeding myself, but as has already been said a lot of it boils down to chance (but NOT all of it!!!)

Birddog's already given a rundown of the dog's qualities, drive being one of them, I think the dog sounds a very good worker and definitely worth putting into a line of lurchers. And I don't think a 40% failure rate would happen, depending on what type of work the resulting pups would be worked at. If people are talking about fox, 40% failure rate sounds about average to me

 

 

i know birddog said about drive, but i meant specifically PREY drive. a lot of dogs show a high level of drive, but not necessarily hunting. even so i agree with you, i would use the dog myself