The American Beagler Forum

What characteristics do most patch hounds have?

grit,,drive..hunt,desire to please owner.. normally not trashy some never run off game.....

You can take what ole Preacher says , he knows these Patch dogs well .

Without bashing anyone or any kennels who is breeding the most pure line of patch dogs? Who has solid lines with speed and grit?

The Preacher and J R Patch

think he meant preacher & LR Patch

Chris Hornick...the original...thru the original...

Please educate me here on Patch...

With Branko bloddlines you have Jack of all trades, Heli-prop, Ali Baba, and lumber jack....and the female branko based his bloodlines around, the great anna ann.

Please give me the run down on the top patch hounds of yesterday and today?

thanks
Steve

Just like Jim said Chris Hornick has the most pure patch hounds out there. A lot claim too but he is the man chosen by Mike who was chosen by Willet to carry on the kennel. He has all the info you need based on 100 years of breeding that line of dogs.

Chris from The Patch Kennel. No doubt about it.

there are many out there raising patch hounds.. some..mix .some don't..i don't...i.got my start about 13 years ago from ole plowboy/...he vdont get on here anymore,,,,,mine are heavy in leherns linus patch....since then I have mixed a small amount of a superior patch in there..has worked well for me.....I don't get in these whose best crap.....I run what I like ...could care less if anyone else does....but they must I sure cant keep a pup when I have a litter..lol. ole lR BEEN doing this longer than me...

My buddy just got a patch 3 year old male that's why I was wondering on what kind of characteristics they was known for. Went running with him the other night and the dog seemed to be all business when the tail gate dropped and done some nice work on tracking to.

PREACHERS KENNEL wrote:there are many out there raising patch hounds.. some..mix .some don't..i don't...i.got my start about 13 years ago from ole plowboy/...he vdont get on here anymore,,,,,mine are heavy in leherns linus patch....since then I have mixed a small amount of a superior patch in there..has worked well for me.....I don't get in these whose best crap.....I run what I like ...could care less if anyone else does....but they must I sure cant keep a pup when I have a litter..lol. ole lR BEEN doing this longer than me...

this is the information i'm looking for.....I don't buy directly from branko, so nothing against Chris from Patch, but Im wanting to see what "Patch" studs most consider to be the backbone to their breeding. No bashing other dogs, other peoples kennels, or anything like that. Just like I love turbo's....an outcross of branko because it wasn't bred by branko. Im very interested in learning all I can about this line. What traits people are seeing, and what outcrosses people are having good luck with so far. I'm also hoping Chris jumps in here and throw some input on what he see in his stud dogs that he is currently using verses what the line was 10 to 15 years ago. You never know....you might convert a turbo guy to a patch guy here one day. Its never to late to learn something new, or is it to late to educate a few about a great producing line that many may not know anything about.

thanks Preacher Kennel!!!!!!

i got my first patch hound around 2000 from jack palmer in roland oklahoma, he said if the pup wasnt started by 9 months old bring him back and he'd refund my money. i dont think he ever had to refund anyones money. ive had patch bred hounds ever sense, easy starters, all day hunt, grit and tuffness. youll feel sorry for them and leash em before they quit. but dont fix whats not broke, with out crossing. im speaking from my own failures at trying to out cross. i too like the turbo dogs. i took my best patch hound and ran with tk's rockhill ramler, both dogs were in thier prime. after an hour or so it was any bodys guess who was the better dog. tony bragged on my white hound and i bragged on his blue one. a few months later i dropped off a patch bitch for breeding, that first out cross did well but after that it went to crap. who knows what i did wrong. it was never the dogs fault, i bred some outstanding hounds, just my crossing never panned out. so i stick with patch blood to patch blood.