Workers Out Of Non Workers

[dai dogs 1,404]

Going back a few years maybe 20 or so i bred a litter of Lurchers out of non working parents kept 2 back and they turned out to do what i expected them to do . The one bitch ( Pam) i named her was as good as any iv seen

 

Apart from Hancock bred dogs have anyone tried the same ?

[Blueboybilly 164]

A mate of mine recently got a lurcher out of none working parents and it works very well.

I think that nurture will play a big part in the way that any dog turns out.. Even with Hancock lurchers

[Blueboybilly 164]

A mate of mine recently got a lurcher out of none working parents and it works very well.

I think that nurture will play a big part in the way that any dog turns out.. Even with Hancock lurchers

[Dabhand 887]

look on Facebook sights theres hundreds being bred and the sire dam haven't done a tap

 

 

when we wer young we used to borrow a whippet off a lad down road and a cocker from the other end of the road they wer pets but knew the local golf course better than the green keeper

[Bosun11 537]

2000 years of selective breeding in sighthounds for the chase aint gonna be lost in a generation or two.

[Blueboybilly 164]

2000 years of selective breeding in sighthounds for the chase aint gonna be lost in a generation or two.

Very very well said!

[Dabhand 887]

2000 years of selective breeding in sighthounds for the chase aint gonna be lost in a generation or two.

very true a dog that set the standard for me his mother never done a days work

 

look at how many good lurchers that have come from greyhounds and non working bulls or collies

[Paulnix 426]

2000 years of selective breeding in sighthounds for the chase aint gonna be lost in a generation or two.

This, dogs which don't work is a lot different to dogs which won't work.

[Penda 3,341]

I like them off of working parents but one of my best dogs was off of none workers but I knew where the breeding was from that's why I had her,you see a lot of these so called big name lurcher people knocking pups out of brood bitches they've never had a walk never mind been worked

[look up 406]

I think most lurchers will work ... Out of none working parents .. It's when you ask for that extra graft when the real working blood show... I had it with a Hancock .soon as I stepped his game up ..the brakes come on.....

[shaaark 10,721]

2000 years of selective breeding in sighthounds for the chase aint gonna be lost in a generation or two.

I've been saying the same thing since I've been on this site, 2010 lol, whenever someone mentions breeding from non workers lol.

 

And years ago, look at the mutts we used to traipse about the countryside with, mongrels with no work breeding whatsoever behind them. Worked like trojans lol

Edited April 1, 2017 by shaaark

[tb25 4,627]

Surly eny mutt will catch a rabbit..

[DogMan85 722]

2000 years of selective breeding in sighthounds for the chase aint gonna be lost in a generation or two.

Add in the fact that dogs are natural predators it ain't hard to see why.

[roybo 2,873]

I think the problems will come from generations of breeding none working dogs and selecting for traits like low drive to fit in with sub-urban tweed and wellie mums .

We had a family poodle that would kill rats as a kid ,so it's in most dogs if allowed and that comes from millions of years of evolution and not selective breeding for 200 or so years.

But to advance then surely workers is the way to go ?

[Penda 3,341]

My mate had a coursing bred dog off big names I'm not gonna mention and it would run stuff into the ground but pick up it would not