Culling for the good

[patterdalejoel 669]

how do you choose which pups you cull? colour sex body shape? seems a bit of a lottery

[123456 146]

breed close, work em hard and cull even harder!

[BEARINATOR 2,872]

and why seek to breed some mental thing in the UK anyway, a dog that 'isnt for everyone'??

 

Referring to me, the dog is a cross I've long admired and the stud owner said they don't like to change hands, so there first home will be there last one. I got my mate interested in running dogs but told him that I wouldn't give him a pup as he has no experience with lurchers but I did offer him a beddy cross for free as it would be easier to train.

 

So how am I being irresponsible by making sure my pups go to decent lads that won't get rid at the first hurdle?

[BEARINATOR 2,872]

breed close, work em hard and cull even harder!

:yes: Spot on mate

[Ideation 8,216]

Surely if they are worth breeding, then you should have more folk after pups than pups born . . . . . .

 

Although i totally agree with culling in theory, i think a lot of folk like talking about it because it makes them feel like 'proper serious dogmen'.

[BEARINATOR 2,872]

Surely if they are worth breeding, then you should have more folk after pups than pups born . . . . . .

 

Although i totally agree with culling in theory, i think a lot of folk like talking about it because it makes them feel like 'proper serious dogmen'.

 

Hopefully I will with the beddy litter but not the other litter . I'd rather see the other litter in good PERMANENT homes than cull the excess but I am soft like that

[mark21 8]

its a bad way 2 los a good line if alot of them pass away doining a job u would kik yoursself

[Ausnick 190]

dont breed off shit and shit wont need to be culled!!!! if i ever bred a litter it would be because the resulting pups should be better than the the parents so why the f**k would i knock them on the head and no one in this world can tell which ones wont be the best out the litter at a few days old, so it seems a stupid idea to me!! if hancock and the likes can find homes for 100s of pups each year out of pet collies and ex racers then surely 8-10 pups out of good workers cant be that had to find owners for :hmm:

 

No one in this world can tell which ones wont be the best at a few months old either... hancock breeds for money doesn't he? he doesn't even work them?

 

so many ex racers also get put down each year... a lot more than what go to homes.

[troter58 1,711]

breed close, work em hard and cull even harder!

how many litters you bred mate

[jcm 2,327]

If all you culled your pups then how would you keep the sport going, alot of people encourage young lads like myself to keep the sport going, working lurchers and enjoying it as so many people in the past have. If all the spare pups got culled people like me would not be able to get our hands on a good lurcher pup to enjoy going out and getting the dogs to catch rabbits for the pot ?

I understand that alot of dogs are miss treat and sold on for profit but there is also alot of genuine people out there, the breeder just needs to suss out the genuine lads from the bellends.

[Ausnick 190]

how do you choose which pups you cull? colour sex body shape? seems a bit of a lottery

When I did it I just chose the larger ones that were more consistent with body shape, size etc. does seem a bit of a lottery but if you use really good dogs it will be less of a lottery and you shouldn't really have any shit ones unless you're really unlucky

[Blainy88 25]

I haven't yet decided if I'm for or against the culling of excess pups. Jackie Drakeford said she culls the dogs before bitches, and the white dogs first as these are harder to home.