Which cross has the most litter wastage.

[Guest bezza]

I've seen some comical and some monstrous looking lurchers that just happened to inherit the wrong set of genes. For example a friend has a wheaten/grey which is a dead ringer for Greyfriars Bobby, runs like the latter too. I've seen some ripped bullcrosses which would struggle to catch a crisp packet in the wind.

I had a collie/grey which was racy enough but inherited the temperament of a collie, and a wired- to- the-moon, hyper collie at that. It was super sensitive and would bolt for home if she heard a firework, jet engine or a bolt of lightning. Not easy to keep your temper when you've isolated an easy run on the lamp and your lurcher goes awol.

Seriously which crosses are prone to a lot of litter wastage, or are all crosses equally susceptible to it?

Keep it light lads, no wars or breed blindness.

Edited September 13, 2012 by bezza

[paulus 26]

pot licker to pot licker is always a bad choice

[Chid 6,560]

malumut x greyhound , they all bark at quarry :laugh:

[South hams hunter 8,924]

Any first cross

[Guest bezza]

It always makes me smile when someone posts the question what is such and such cross like? The answer is they are all different, sometimes in looks and sometimes in temperament . A lot will depend on the cross's early socialisation. A pup confined to a run will be a very different dog to one that is exposed to lots of different experiences.

I'm not sure I go along with the worker to worker commandment either. There are lots of people who have chosen not to work whose parents worked all their days I think genetic inheritance is more important. Hancock's dogs have their critics but he would not be in business after all these years if a high percentage of his dogs failed to please their owners. Yet very few, if any of his breeding dogs work.

Edited September 13, 2012 by bezza

[birddog 1,354]

Any first cross

seriously ?............1st x saluki greyhound........or deerhound greyhound..........or whippet greyhound........seem to remember reading somewhere they throw lots of cloddy wastage

[South hams hunter 8,924]

Not one of them is a Lurcher bd

[birddog 1,354]

Not one of them is a Lurcher bd

touche'..........point taken

[South hams hunter 8,924]

Lol, but saying that ive seen throwbacks aswell that I would class as wastage. Lad I know has a golly bred bitch - 22 tts, body like a bull with the head of a whippet

[beast 1,884]

had a bitch a few years ago bred from two very decent "bitza" lurchers, both big strong racey dogs, and she ended up 20"tts and 42lb. looked like a beddy cross collie with a few extra muscles. made a decent ferret dog but NOT what you would have wanted from the two parents. i thi k the more diferent breeds in the mix, the less predictable and more variation in the litter.

 

but of course, a lot of dogs classed as wastage still have a use , as a ferreting/bushing or even rough shooting companion

[bird 9,942]

Not one of them is a Lurcher bd

touche'..........point taken

 

 

how do work that out .?? a lurcher is a x of a (working dog = collie,gundog,terrier, to a running dog ) a 1x is the start of any line of lurcher, and regards litter wastage, any dog with half running dog should catch a rabbit and thats the quarry today, even collies,gsds, labs can the odd rabbit, so stick 50% greyhound to it carnt see they will that much wastage .!!

[littlefish 586]

Lol, but saying that ive seen throwbacks aswell that I would class as wastage. Lad I know has a golly bred bitch - 22 tts, body like a bull with the head of a whippet

 

but.......can it work?

[South hams hunter 8,924]

Depends what you want bird and there's a lot of difference between the odd rabbit and a good shift

[South hams hunter 8,924]

Lol, but saying that ive seen throwbacks aswell that I would class as wastage. Lad I know has a golly bred bitch - 22 tts, body like a bull with the head of a whippet

 

but.......can it work?

 

Not how it was intended to be, it has neither the physical or mental attributes IMO but has the odd night lamping

[undisputed 1,664]

Not one of them is a Lurcher bd

touche'..........point taken

 

 

how do work that out .?? a lurcher is a x of a (working dog = collie,gundog,terrier, to a running dog ) a 1x is the start of any line of lurcher, and regards litter wastage, any dog with half running dog should catch a rabbit and thats the quarry today, even collies,gsds, labs can the odd rabbit, so stick 50% greyhound to it carnt see they will that much wastage .!!

 

I think the point he's making Ray is technically the breeds mentioned were long dogs not lurchers.