Fractions

[foresterj 1,096]

Half cross, three quarter, or three eights five eights, if you had to choose one to do everything anywhere, which one and why?

[Guest thebigdog]

lurcher x lurcher

[Bosun11 537]

I wish folk would stop thinking in 'fractions' and more on working ability....

[Guest thebigdog]

I wish folk would stop thinking in 'fractions' and more on working ability....

my sentiments exactly.

[foresterj 1,096]

I've fekked it up again, this is why I rarely post.cant get me point over.knew the first answer would be lurcherxlurcher , that dont nescessarily equate to worker to worker.I dont give a ff about fractions, what I asked was if you HAD to choose one which one an why, just an attempt at a bit debate that wasn't 'photos of'.

[Guest thebigdog]

the thing is, there is no logical way to choose, what i mean is, genetics are not exact. if you cross say, a collie with a greyhound your not guaranteed to get 50% of one and 50% of the other, it just doesn't work like that. so if you were in a position where you had to choose i dont think it would really matter, as you could end up with a cloddy 1/4 and a racy 1/2 for example.

 

and for being short in my initial reply i apologise.

[Giro 2,648]

Never had one.. However hypothetically I would try a 1/8 beardie - 1/8 border- 3/4 grey.

 

Should be fast enough hopefully and would want it to take between 25 - 30 rabbits a night and spin a honest daytime hare..

 

I would run it on varied feilds from small padocks to large winter weat feilds..

 

I prefer lurcher x lurcher but there has to be a first cross in there some where

[Bosun11 537]

Forrester, you ain't 'fecked up' mate, just if your gonna put up a post about fractions, i'll always give my honest opinion and reading through this site for enough years convinces me that most folk are more interested in what makes up the dog and how that mix 'should' perform than what a dog, regardless of what it is, IS doing in the field..

 

On your fractions thing, with my bull bloods I always preferred half crosses, seen and owned some crackin 5/8ths but never seen a 3/4 I really liked (not to say they ain't out there!). As far as fractions are concerned, any others, to me, are irrelevant...

[foresterj 1,096]

Big dog, no need to apologise at allhonest opinions are the basis of the forum.giro that seems a popular choice.Bosun, I'd expect no less, do you think thats because the base blood is more important than the ghound blood or becsuse breeders pay more attentionbto base blood than the quality of the ghound? Perhaps in 2013 we will see less and less importance put on ghound blood with the availability of evolved coursing stock which has no interest in 'fractions'?

[Big bald beautiful 1,231]

Forester

Are you meaning that if the greyhound is a sire or dam it doesnt matter about the quality of the greyhound..or are you saying the sire or dam hopefully in future breeding will be lurchers and not greyhounds.

Interesting point either way.

[**Lurcherman** 32]

3/4 greyhound 1/4 bull do any job I want or 1/2 collie x if I was going more all rounder

[foresterj 1,096]

Big bald initially I was just after peoples preferences within the 3 variations, as that was not recieved too well I was just following the evoloution of the thread, it seemed Bosun favoured crosses with less ghound so I just wondered if this was because the ghound was found wanting? Just trying to start a bit craick really mate.

[Bosun11 537]

No Forrester, nowt to do with poor greyhound blood, didn't really think about it. Just that for what I was using my dogs for, half's were my pref choice. With the 3/4's and I'm talking about bull bloods here, they really didn't suit, too much greyhound blood, rather than inferior blood.

 

These days i'm looking for a faster lurcher to lurcher bred dog next but i'd rather not have anything thats been put to a straight greyhound. For me, to increase speed i'd rather see a coursing mutt used or some other 'longdog' type but anyway, once you take the 1/2's, 3/4's an 5/8ths out the equasion to me none of it matters a toss... Just lurchers with a drop of this an a drop of that, or more of this an less of that...

[paulus 26]

No Forrester, nowt to do with poor greyhound blood, didn't really think about it. Just that for what I was using my dogs for, half's were my pref choice. With the 3/4's and I'm talking about bull bloods here, they really didn't suit, too much greyhound blood, rather than inferior blood.

 

These days i'm looking for a faster lurcher to lurcher bred dog next but i'd rather not have anything thats been put to a straight greyhound. For me, to increase speed i'd rather see a coursing mutt used or some other 'longdog' type but anyway, once you take the 1/2's, 3/4's an 5/8ths out the equasion to me none of it matters a toss... Just lurchers with a drop of this an a drop of that, or more of this an less of that...

i have another convert to my way of thinking pity im no longer carrying on with my breeding theories

[C Hall 552]

Half cross, three quarter, or three eights five eights, if you had to choose one to do everything anywhere, which one and why?

 

Its nice to know what is in the mix but fractions have never really concerned me that much Never really known that much emphasis put on fractions until I came on these hunting forums worker to worker has always been the most important thing to me preferably from a few generations of such if there line bred even better IMO

 

If I had to choose fractions it would be half cross more specifically generation half bull greyhound to generation half collie greyhound making them quarter bull quarter collie half greyhound preferably from a half bull dam.

I have had the pleasure to watch some right handy lurcher's work out of half cross bull dam's

Edited June 7, 2013 by C Hall