LABRADOR GREYHOUND ANYONE HAVE THIS CROSS

[Truther 1,579]

Right guys,

 

I have had a look at things at home and decided to wait till summer for the mating. She is regular twice a year and I would expect to be looking at July for mating. I spoke to Maxhardcore and he has a choice of two greys for sire. I don't know enough about lurchers to make an informed decision which dog to use so if people who are interested have a preference then it might be worth guys speaking to Maxhh too.

 

I've good experience breeding, my last litter of GWP's had 14 pups -which was too many-on a double cover mating. I will only go for a single cover and hope to rear about six pups. Most of the ball ache of breeding is dealing with selling them so I would prefer to get ahead of the game by getting together a list of people who will have one. I would prefer the bitches to go to guys with experience breeding because my gut tells me that the first cross grey X lab offspring would probably best being covered by a male whippet.

 

 

We could do with someone with a good greyhound bitch for Butlers lab to cover so that we have some more genes in the pool. Derry Argue (Advie gundogs) told me a few years ago that you need to run two parallel breeding lines, an A and a B, and don't cross them over. I don't know if he's still alive but I'll get in touch with him again.

 

I'm happy to do this at cost so I feel we should be upfront about who is in line for a pup so that this involves reliable guys and gals who aren't just after a cheap pup.

 

My first choice wouldn't be a pure greyhound mate, the right grew, with a light but tall frame should cut down the muscle mass/weight of the pups a bit, and some lads use grews as lurchers, they'd have more idea about the dogs mentality or lack of it than a grey just running round a track. You're only putting the engine in, the lab would see to the brains, starting with something a bit lighter in the first place might produce more useful first x's?

 

I'm doing the same thing using spaniel blood, we've got two 5 year old bitches, litter sisters, first x whipp/span, both athletic, stamina to burn, but need another dose of runner to make useful little rabbit dogs.

[Mick C. 229]

THATS one thing that comes so natural is retreiving and they will do it consistently,my lab greyhound bitch retreived a cock pheasant which i shot at night which droped into a pool still alive 50 yards in the middle,she couldnt get there quick enough luckely for me

No problem there mate retrieve of water and jump a gate with game still in the mouth.Then straight to hand un trained awesome really