How much saluki is enough in Irish dogs?

[Good Man 196]

So, to the folk who run their dogs here in Ireland and for the conditions we have here, ie, fences, gates galore, electric wire small fields filled with ditches, rivers drains, stone walls ect , ect, for the long ears to get away, how much saluki is enough, is too much slowing the dog down?

Lot of different opinions on this, would like to hear from folk who have pures and saluki saturated lurchers, how do you find your dogs, running here in Ireland, your true experiences?

For the ones that have pures, do they regularily catch and kill winter hares??

Keep it clean please, just a topic of friendly debate i hope...

 

Cheers.

[brendy mc l 694]

in my years of hunting it has to be saluki lurcher x saluki lurcher i think to much of a ful bred would be to slow as u said small fences/ tight fields/ wire/ gates/ rivers i think any thing over half bred would be to much for this country then again im sure someone out there could have a 3\4 bred doing it here in ireland but ill stick to lurcher x lurcher

[desertbred 5,490]

It would depend on the dog and its natural speed an example I have seen Tony Burns Sonny run one time it would catch no problem on the irish fields it is like a rocket and can run big and small land it has learnt its craft well and can box them

[ferret features 289]

It would depend on the dog and its natural speed an example I have seen Tony Burns Sonny run one time it would catch no problem on the irish fields it is like a rocket and can run big and small land it has learnt its craft well and can box them

You must need to go to spec savers.theres no time for a dog starting to box them.straight in bang bang Dead.i run an english dog in ardee last year it jacked as yer man says lurcher x lurcher touch of saluki x terrier

[speedie 329]

I have seen those english breed dogs run here for about 25 years and im not going to get into a slaging match but never seen a top grade dog breed that way. When they were breed with something irish with fire in it then their have been some good dogs produced .Dont think speed is the problem or stay either my opinion is that they do things to slow like fences gates wire they just dont go trough or over quick enough and most of them dont turn quick enough either they never seem to get a good winter hare under control .As i said just my opinion

[Gaz_1989 9,539]

How about a line bred saluki/grey over a pure whippet?

[2.8 guy 403]

It would depend on the dog and its natural speed an example I have seen Tony Burns Sonny run one time it would catch no problem on the irish fields it is like a rocket and can run big and small land it has learnt its craft well and can box them

You must need to go to spec savers.theres no time for a dog starting to box them.straight in bang bang Dead.i run an english dog in ardee last year it jacked as yer man says lurcher x lurcher touch of saluki x terrier

ive heard this said before about the terrier what strains are about of this make up,mr king bred irish terriers now coursing dogs have the two mixed?

[Good Man 196]

Some interesting points.

The pure saluki, was bred for plains running for sure, their is some exceptions, how pure these strains are, is any ones guess mind?

Not so long back, their was a great clip on here, of Asha running pre-ban with MP, she was right on top of them and impressed me, no slowness their??

A lot of good coursing lads over here i have spoken to, from their experience, say 1/8th saluki is enough, however, over the years, i have seen a few first crosses, take a lot of stuff... A well bred one of these, i think suits Ireland well.

Edited May 3, 2012 by Good Man

[banner man 587]

i think 25 percent saluki in irish dogs is enough or a well bred first x saluki greyhound is perfect for ireland, some of the best dogs iv seen running in the past has just been lurcher x lurcher no saluki at all in them and they had loads of speed and enough stamina for here,

[Good Man 196]

i think 25 percent saluki in irish dogs is enough or a well bred first x saluki greyhound is perfect for ireland, some of the best dogs iv seen running in the past has just been lurcher x lurcher no saluki at all in them and they had loads of speed and enough stamina for here,

 

[ferret features 289]

It would depend on the dog and its natural speed an example I have seen Tony Burns Sonny run one time it would catch no problem on the irish fields it is like a rocket and can run big and small land it has learnt its craft well and can box them

You must need to go to spec savers.theres no time for a dog starting to box them.straight in bang bang Dead.i run an english dog in ardee last year it jacked as yer man says lurcher x lurcher touch of saluki x terrier

ive heard this said before about the terrier what strains are about of this make up,mr king bred irish terriers now coursing dogs have the two mixed?

Aye theres an ould 3/4 bred irish terrier knocking about ard/oine he covered a bitch out of alecs dog hope.i think hope was Irish Ladys pup speedy might know.Anyway most of this breeding in the right hands are doing the bissniss.cant bate back street breening.

[doodles 78]

I personly think 1/4 saluki is enough , I have a bitch that's has 1/8 in her and is a good bitch in small fields , IMO anything more that 1/4 saluki wouldnt be ideal for the fields I hunt

[Hoker 79]

ffs does anybody want to buy a saluki

[ferret features 289]

ffs does anybody want to buy a saluki

ballywaltrers on sat n sun sell it there no sweat

[Hoker 79]

ffs does anybody want to buy a saluki

ballywaltrers on sat n sun sell it there no sweat

are you going to watch the greyhound racing