Bearded Collie bred lurchers.

[Magpie 102]

 

I do like the look of Aura, beautiful, just curious as to how you have found them at hunting up. I had a lurcher with a quarter beardie in him and he was excellent at using his nose and had the best strike on a dog ive owned, much better at hunting than my half border collie lurcher. Are yours hancock beardie bred or non hancock beardie? Other than hancock they seem very thin on the ground.

Cheers Wuyang

 

Aura was bred by David and Sally Hancock. She's the second half cross I've had from them.

 

Galan was a home reared pup. His granddam was out of the Hancocks kennels and was sister to my original half cross bitch. Galan is the result of mating a pure Beardie (Drew pringle bred) to a 3/4 Grey 1/4 Beardie (Tom Muirhead lines). Sister to Keeps's dog Indie incidentally.

 

Delta I bred myself. I had Aura mated to Keeps's superb 3/4 bred Indie earlier in the year and she was the only bitch in a litter of eight pups.

 

Nose is a quality I rated very highly in my lurchers. Aura and Galan possess first class noses and will hunt up all day. Delta shows all the signs of going in the same direction.

 

Aura and Galan marking...

 

[warrigal 4]

Lovely looking dogs there Magpie. How do you find the 5/8 Beardie 3/8 greyhound ? A friend of mine has a litter sister to

stabs dog and we are looking at using a Tasmanian Smithfield dog over her.

 

 

As a point of interest these Tassie smithfields are not a Stumpy tailed cattle dog, the dog that is usually refered to as a Smithfield in Oz. These Tassie smithfields are essentially a working beardie type from, as the name suggests Tasmania,they have super feet and wrists, are quiet,quick learners who have an "off switch" and are very versatile WORKING herders.

 

I for one do not believe ,(before anyone says it LOL), that these are some mystical link back to the dogs of the 1800s, rather they are a tough,brainy, light framed readily trained sort of herder that may(note I said may LOL) be a useful first step in a lurcher line. I am interested in this cross purely for my own use in my rabbiting work (and for a few pals) the market for these dogs in oz is tiny, most here like the big raking "staghound" types and frankly nothing wrong with that, however they are not ideally suited to the rabbiting game.So we shall see.

 

 

 

I shall try to put a pic of Tarn the dog we are going to use.He works sheep (including Wiltshire horns and Damaras not the

most "dog friendly" of breeds! and cattle and is super loyal. Underneath all the jacket he is built more racy than many border collie 1/2 cross lurchers.

In the mean time try this link for interest.www.smithfielddogs.com/page and follow links or whatever it is one does on these things.

Cheers

Warrigal (computer div)

[Stabs 3]

As we've mentioned before Warrigal, I reckon that'd be a nice little cross that one, and something close to what Magpie has there. The one I'd be personally interested in would be a bitch out of that mating put back to that great lump I have here.

[SMART DOG 340]

best dog i've ever seen in the field was a beardie cross

[whin 463]

got beardie in my colie type lurchers and had agenuine one great dog in cold weather tough as teak but poor on strong hares fast roe when it was legal mines was ahalf cross grreat rabbit dog very clever but lacked agearon fast qaurry on short wheat but all in all agood bitch, saw faster types were more suited ,the one i had was clever but took awhile to settle down ,one sever al obeidence type contests and got to feild trails with her as a14 month pup but had put alot of work in her there still working beardies here in scotland and if you get the [bANNED TEXT] type of greyhound youll get adecent mouching lurcher ,but not a class allrounder

[lurcherdave 6]

 

alright stabs your dog in the bottom photo is very similar to mine awesome dogs. Atb

[Stabs 3]

You got any pics Dave?

[Keeps 403]

I have only the one straight beardie x greyhound, Indie, who sired Magpie's pup Delta, pictured above. I bred him to my deer/grey/collie 18 months ago and have a bitch out of him, who looks very much like Delta.

 

 

[fordie 8]

Nice dogs hancock the only person I know that breds Bearded collie/Greyhound type Lurchers is Hancock

[slsteele 1]

Hey, nice dog....is he hancock bred? Looks very much like the hancock first cross i picked up this year. Will hopefully post a photo later.

[KittleRox 2,147]

Nice dogs and interesting thread,cheers,

[lurcherdave 6]

You got any pics Dave?

stabs these are the best ones i can fit on.

Edited December 13, 2010 by lurcherdave

[Stabs 3]

Very smart mate. How are you getting on with the dog?

[johnny boy68 11,726]

Good thread..........some cracking dogs got a beardie x myself but she's got an 1/8 border in her,so she don't count

[lurcherdave 6]

Very smart mate. How are you getting on with the dog?

getting on good now she only 18 months and catches every night we out so im happy with her, what about your dogs what age's are they and do they work well for you.