choosing a worker.

[Guest Zak]

i have made mistakes in the past, by getting a pup, from an advertising and not seeing the parents work.

as the pup did not make the grade, i have learnt from this, so now, will oly get a pup, where i have seen the parents work for a season or so and the running style ect jells with my type of lurcher work.

what do you all prefer, or have done ect? would you get a pup, where you have never seen the parents of the lurcher work, or only get a pup from where you have seen them run ect? experinces would be interesting, cheers.

[Rabbithunter 456]

i've bought pups, and never seen the parents working. one was brilliant, one was shite, and i'll find out over the next year what the third is like

[Guest smashygadge]

i was lucky i got my first and new the guy that bred so saw the parents.but i think alot of people wont be as lucky and will have to take their chance on buying the pup without seeing the parents work.as normally the bitch is taken to the dog etc for breeding .

and i cant see many wanting to show the bitch work so soon after a litter .only other thing is to buy from, where you can see both parents and pups then theirs a possible chance they may show the sire work

[Guest Zak]

i got lucky by meeting a lad that i spent a couple of seasons with, lamping. he had a pair of lurchers, that were very good, had a high catch rate on the lamp and took most quary. this was all before he decided to breed them, to keep a pup back for himself. before this, i bought in the dark, was promised that the parents were top workers, but this did not show in the pup. the pup i got off the parents that i seen work, is amazing and so is all the litter mates, as they have been bred over generations of workers ect. then again, you could get a good worker to worker and have a low grade pup out of them aswell. sometimes its a lottery, but if done right, their is a high percentage of a garanteed worker in all the litter reckon. just my personall thoughts on it.

[Guest smashygadge]

i got lucky by meeting a lad that i spent a couple of seasons with, lamping. he had a pair of lurchers, that were very good, had a high catch rate on the lamp and took most quary. this was all before he decided to breed them, to keep a pup back for himself. before this, i bought in the dark, was promised that the parents were top workers, but this did not show in the pup. the pup i got off the parents that i seen work, is amazing and so is all the litter mates, as they have been bred over generations of workers ect. then again, you could get a good worker to worker and have a low grade pup out of them aswell. sometimes its a lottery, but if done right, their is a high percentage of a garanteed worker in all the litter reckon. just my personall thoughts on it.

 

 

id have to agree with you zak the only thing is keeping that line of worker and lining the same stock over and over, you are inevetably slowing a dog down .in putting lurcher to lurcher all the time .some where down most breed of working strain or such like at some point the greyhound has to be re introduced into that stock.and all the better if you can get a greyhound thats a good worker and has plenty of prey drive too.so to say if i put my lurcher with my mates lurcher maybe because you both think their good workers could acctually produce a slower dog and not such a quick and clever worker as its dam and sire

[Guest Zak]

good point. iv seen a few good greyhounds and they can surely work!!

they had good mouth, very high pray drive, go threw a wall ect, took all quary. these, introduced into the gene pool, spices things up a bit alright, especially, a good working coursing greyhound.

[Guest smashygadge]

good point. iv seen a few good greyhounds and they can surely work!!

they had good mouth, very high pray drive, go threw a wall ect, took all quary. these, introduced into the gene pool, spices things up a bit alright, especially, a good working coursing greyhound.

 

 

well i got my dog out of a litter of proven workers .now the lad can do the job

for his age i cannot knock him.now on comparison to some of his litter mates he is slow.

but steady which is a good thing and does his job with a lot less accidents injurys and such like .but i think thats my plan to go back to a grey with him just to get that spark back in the dogs, that bit of whick speed.i have a very good working bitch and hope it goes well on a litter .as breeder i got mine from lost his dogs unfortunatly and i would like to give a little back

[Guest Zak]

fair play to you, wish you good luck with it.

[lamping-lad 160]

YOU PAY YOUR MONEY AND TAKE YOUR CHANCES.

[allgame 0]

i think its a bit much to see the perents work but id expect a few photos