My setup is the same as mentioned above. My dogs all have separate 5x10 pens, but are all turned out into a large yard off the kennels when I am home, so basically they are apart about 10 hours, 3 times a week while I work. So the pups will be born next to the other dogs and as they come out and exp...

Good thread. A lot of wisdom. I do believe there are plenty of cold nosed dogs left. I think there are just not as many people that hunt enough to really know what they have and make a those types of dogs. I do also think that cold trailing is as much learned and conditioning as it is genetics. I ha...

She looks pretty typical of all the Walker x Plott crosses I've seen. She is definitely part Walker, where the dudley nose came from, and the brindle on her legs could only come from a Plott if she is all "pure hound"

I have enjoyed them quite a bit. They aren't "typical Walkers" that most have seen go, thats for sure. Especially when it comes to big game.

All of the most current pictures and videos are on my Facebook kennel page, this forum and my website just take too long to update when your busy hunting.

https://www.facebook.com/RedwoodKennelsHounds

Ol' Man is getting older. He'll be turning 8 before long. Still going strong. Bred him to his niece and had some gorgeous black headed pups. He was just bred to one of my lead females, as she's gettin' pretty old herself, time to keep something off her and get her spayed. Those are due April 1st 201...

Nothing on him yet Bryce? Will you be out here in Cali in the next few months at all?

Was it Legend?

Dogs know when its hunting time or not. A dog does not need to be "on guard" and bark at every chicken, cat, deer or squirrel that comes into the yard. This is where people get lazy in the training aspect of things. My dogs live with both cats and chickens that eat out of their food pans w...

If you know he's quiting and back tracking maybe correct him, make him turn back around and stick with the other dogs. Especially at the tree. As soon as he starts to mill around or get more than a few yards away, shock him.Watch that dog on GPS like glue. I mean the second he turns around, bump him...

Can't use snares in CA and cannot trap Bobcats at all.

Two were bought and to be shipped to CA, one never made it, never refunded, the other a cull.

And to get DNA back on everyone takes WEEKS if they don't screw it up. So plan to have the entire litter around until at least 12 weeks old or so, by then you will probably tell by how they look and behave who they are out of if your linebred line has any consistency to it. But you have to separate ...

It has nothing to do about what day a dog is bred. She CONCEIVES when she is ready. You can breed her 2x a day from day 9 to 15, she is going to take on the day her eggs are ready. Sperm lives about 3 days once inside the female, they do say female sperm lives longer, but male sperm are faster. Fema...

What your doing is teaching him to be scared of smelling a deer, not breaking him from running them. There's a difference. Now what happens is when he is on good game, and a deer comes across the track or he trails up to a deer kill, then he remembers all those times he was shocked for just smelling...