The latest cross pups (TUG HILL SNOW HOUNDS}
Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2018 8:34 pm
Here is a little story just for sharing. I have breed raised hounds for 50 years. As of late I have bred and kept a pretty decent line of AKC registered beagles. Well I have a good friend that runs a beagle hound cross with a preference for blue tick hounds. He had a male beagle/blue tick cross. Best hare dog I have ever seen. 4" or 4' of snow, 40 above or 40 below always ran the same smooth and steady pretty much check free. Well like them all he aged and passed at the age of 13. My buddy has a few real good females out of him.
I felt bad for him loosing this male and new he did also. So I thought it would be nice to have a good male to breed one of these females to. hard to find a 18 to 20 inch hare hound so I thought I will make some. I made a lot of calls checked into some male hounds but was a little worried about breeding a 13" beagle to a hound. So I looked for a female hound to cross with my 15" male beagle. I located a bitch with a good nose and brains thru out the family tree. I bought her built a stool and made the cross. 8 pups were born May 20, 2017. 7 males and one female. I kept them all raised them and started them at 6 months of age, I thought they would start a little hard, hounds typically mature slower then beagles. Well they started fairly easy and caught my interest. I figured 7 of the 8 were going to at the very least be worth hunting, one was going to have to be a pet. We usually start running in the wild right after deer season, the weather here in late December was a little tough 30 below and a pile of snow. Things kinda of leveled out in January and we started hunting these pups. My buddy took two, another took 1 and I kept the other 4. I had not originally planned on keeping any for myself but they were doing well enough that they had sparked my interest. I had my favorite, Ox and the female lady. I ran them he ran his and the other buddy was running his. We were all pretty impressed they showed nose brains the ability to work a check. We ran together, we soloed them some and by the end of the season they at 10 months old were better then average, they are 18 to 20 inches the deep snow is not a problem. I messed with them a lot as pups and they handle very well. I sold one of the other males to a fellow that wanted to try him on cats, the other went to a good old boy that loves a cross hound. These pups would take a track left in the night and cold trail it and get the start. I had a lot of fun with them. I bet they will be even more fun next year. I will solo the 2 I have thru the summer they will mature and by gun season they will be a lot of fun.
Just a little story and a total out cross made for a friend that just happen to please us. TUG HILL SNOW HOUNDS
Hunt-Em-UP
I felt bad for him loosing this male and new he did also. So I thought it would be nice to have a good male to breed one of these females to. hard to find a 18 to 20 inch hare hound so I thought I will make some. I made a lot of calls checked into some male hounds but was a little worried about breeding a 13" beagle to a hound. So I looked for a female hound to cross with my 15" male beagle. I located a bitch with a good nose and brains thru out the family tree. I bought her built a stool and made the cross. 8 pups were born May 20, 2017. 7 males and one female. I kept them all raised them and started them at 6 months of age, I thought they would start a little hard, hounds typically mature slower then beagles. Well they started fairly easy and caught my interest. I figured 7 of the 8 were going to at the very least be worth hunting, one was going to have to be a pet. We usually start running in the wild right after deer season, the weather here in late December was a little tough 30 below and a pile of snow. Things kinda of leveled out in January and we started hunting these pups. My buddy took two, another took 1 and I kept the other 4. I had not originally planned on keeping any for myself but they were doing well enough that they had sparked my interest. I had my favorite, Ox and the female lady. I ran them he ran his and the other buddy was running his. We were all pretty impressed they showed nose brains the ability to work a check. We ran together, we soloed them some and by the end of the season they at 10 months old were better then average, they are 18 to 20 inches the deep snow is not a problem. I messed with them a lot as pups and they handle very well. I sold one of the other males to a fellow that wanted to try him on cats, the other went to a good old boy that loves a cross hound. These pups would take a track left in the night and cold trail it and get the start. I had a lot of fun with them. I bet they will be even more fun next year. I will solo the 2 I have thru the summer they will mature and by gun season they will be a lot of fun.
Just a little story and a total out cross made for a friend that just happen to please us. TUG HILL SNOW HOUNDS
Hunt-Em-UP