AIRDALE TERRIER/GREYHOUND

[cymro 0]

Anybody doing anything with Airedale terrier/Greyhounds cross?just wondering how they would work and would they have the grit to do "all legal quarry"?

[Guest Eggers]

Anybody doing anything with Airedale terrier/Greyhounds cross?just wondering how they would work and would they have the grit to do "all legal quarry"?

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Not as yet, but will have my first pups by the first of the year. As a newbie to lurchers and sighthounds, I will be looking for some local hunting partners in the Pacific NW, USA. :friends:

[cymro 0]

Anybody doing anything with Airedale terrier/Greyhounds cross?just wondering how they would work and would they have the grit to do "all legal quarry"?

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Not as yet, but will have my first pups by the first of the year. As a newbie to lurchers and sighthounds, I will be looking for some local hunting partners in the Pacific NW, USA. :friends:

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Well i wish you all the best on the pups.If you could would you leave me know how you get on with them.ta mate.

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Well i wish you all the best on the pups.If you could would you leave me know how you get on with them.ta mate.

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Sure, I'll be posting all about them and how they develop. Got high hopes, and my fingers crossed. The sire is an exceptionally tall 28", long, and leggy Airedale from a line that has been bred to find and bay wild boar, and the dam is from a long line of coyote dogs bred for speed. Catching and killing coyotes will be the challenge, but they will expected to be useful all-around lurchers. The dice have been rolled, we'll soon see in the coming year how the genes combined!

[Guest mucker]

i like the sound of this cross,i remember on the old site a couple of years or so back there was talk of some one bringing some working airdale over to uk and getting something going with them,i know it would be early days in the programme would like to know how they got on..

[Guest jrearthdog1]

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it was me on the old smoochers site, i brought back 4 airedales with me 2 longcoats & 2 slicks, they are all doing well i breed the females as there were people asking for pups from them and i wanted to get some airedales out to working homes the first female had 8 pups all have gone to working homes some on this site the second female was breed and there were 9 pups 6 of these are going to working homes mid jan and hopefully the last 3 all males will also ,as for the lurcher-x i am still waiting for the greyhound to come into season ,and all that i get from this litter are going to working homes all booked

Ian

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thanks for that fella,i look forward to the updates on those X,s when they come about,im sure they,ll be some dog

[Guest Eggers]

I read a discussion about USA Airedales back in September. There was much talk of them baying. There are some lines that definitely do that. I could only find one line of actively bred Airedale dogs that had more kill than bay (actually too hard in some cases). And they appeared to be substantially faster too than most Airedales by looking at their build, and talking to some people that had seen them in action.

 

I might add that the sire I chose, Geronimo, is not from those USA hunting lines that bay trapped badgers, nor coyotes, nor coons. On boar hunts they occasionally catch coons and coyotes which they are discouraged from doing. It takes one of these Airedales one bite to kill a raccoon, and a few seconds to put a coyote down for good. They are hunted 2 or 3 at a time, and bay boars over 150 lbs, but kill anything smaller. They do not wear cut collars or cut vests. In 16 years (if I am not mistaken), he has never lost a single dog, but the harder ones ran up some large vet bills! He seems to be getting smarter dogs now without losing the aggression, and apparently the vet bills are no longer threatning to bankrupt him.

 

Anyway, here is a link to his website: http://www.huntingairedales.com/

 

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