I was in a conversation about this the other day but not just walker hounds but all breeds of hounds . I too believe its the competiton hunting ruining the hounds

A good diet can change their over all performance. I dont know if it would effect genetics but it will help show their traits . Shows what you have to work with . I really dont know much about environment.

JTG I think that would help . An I do agree health an confirmation is a big part of a successful breeding program

I dont really mean to come off like a know it all theres alot of good breeders that knows alot more than me on the subject . CKRHTR about that being a theory in bird dogs that could have been where i adopted it from. This is off subject but changing anythings feed can make them better too

with in a breed you have many different strains. a strains is one family that has been line bred or in bred to they are pure which is like 7 generations . When ever you cross one of these strains out on another strain it is a cross no matter if its in the same breed which is adding new blood ...

oh yeah what kind of hatch an grays do you got JTG

JTG thank you You are right with dogs you can breed diseases an other faults into the strain . I wasnt really plain in what i said . i was trying to warn about breeding old specimens . A specimen in its prime seems to throw healthier an faster offspring . In inbreeding an linebreeding it tends to ...

Good post lot to think about in it . Breed what ever you like an willing to put money an time in . I raised an bred fighting roosters from about the time I was 4 till i was 23 then it became a felony in north carolina then they shut the derbys down . Point is been around it at extreme amounts not 20 ...

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It wasnt a den tree it was just a few big oaks. I think the coon had been run many times he just found a real good place to hide nobody ever got him he was a real old boar. The night we got him we walked up an down the side of the mountain over a hour trying to see in all the forks.

we had one couple of days ago. He ran the same way an treed almost in the same tree 4 different nights. Thought the dogs was just slick treeing We finally found him big old coon

thank you all

my pups off the plott dogs 4 months old now

thank you all

ive heared of people doing that with papers