The American Beagler Forum

Have posted coi%ped`s on my site for possible future breeding would like honest reply`s.

Thanks in Advance

How big r ur dogs?

14 1/2 to 18.
Cain 16 3/4 Skeeter 16 1/8

You own them, You feed them, You breed any way you think is going to produce what your looking for.

peytonbeagles wrote:You own them, You feed them, You breed any way you think is going to produce what your looking for.

Tsa la gi - take Peytonbeagles advice and run with it. You are the best one to determine the direction that your breeding program should go. After all, who knows your hounds better that you?

They are big and they are white but I could tell more about them if I could see em on a fox.

How did Gus turnout? I had him when he was young.

Thanks for the advise guys, won`t happen till next year if she matures to my expectations. She will be two in March.This would I guess be a brother sister cross and thats what I am haveing second thoughts about.

Buck Ol Friend,don`t want them runing fox so you might never know.

Rabbithunter1, Gus is awesome on Hare, Swamper`s and wild as hell on cottontails. A hard cat to clean after and I am glad you got rid of him. He has ran a couple flag tails but I don`t think he will any more tri tronic has made a beleiver out of him.

I liked Gus. He ran a rabbit the first time I ever had him out. I couldn't get him to stop chasing those flag tails. He never tracked one down but if you bumped into one it was all bad. I am glad he got a good home and someone that enjoys him.

Tsa la gi - About breeding brother to sister. As an experienced Houndsman, I am sure you know that such a breeding is a big, big gamble especially when the family carrys genes for defects (dwarfism, malformed front ends, propensities toward cherry eye, hyperthyroidism, hyperactuvity, under or over bites, crooked tails and such). But.... you will certainly learn that the mateing was a good, average or a bad one when the pups are proved. In short, you will know if you want to make the same cross again.
More than a few Breeders are against breeding close within a family because they liken it to incest. Well, animals do not have the same standards of morality as humans so that becomes a moot point. As for myself, I have no problem with inbreeding my family of dogs if both the male and female have the majority of qualities and abilities that I like.
In this matter, yours is the best opinion that you will get. Good luck!!

Thanks Bill,
Your reply has given me much to think about for the next few months. I thought about the animal morality part of it. Surely deer rabbits all wild animals will have lots of inbreeding as they have small territories they live and die in. In my life I have witnessed many ups and downs in wild populations.Mother nature has a way of controling that.Thisis the type of response I was looking for. Thanks again.
Tsa

Here's some info on inbreeding. http://www.vetinfo.com/problems-with-in ... -dogs.html Then decide if you want to end up with a whole litter of problems Brace beaglers interbred and got more bad than good. But , then most of them had a huge ego

Thanks Roscoe,
Read the article and agree with it. I took care of an accidental bro sis breeding a long time ago and probably won`t do this one.There are just to many negative`s. As you can see some do it and have sucess and others are againest it.Thats what i was lookin for.

Bill, I agree. If houndsman were as good at culling as the animals their selves would be in the wild, where the weak are weeded out and superior speciman breed not giving no mind to relation but rather better we would have some awsome hounds,lol