First cross

[Dean 4546 66]

[Busher100 739]

If they were the best at that you would see them on the fens not saluki X's If they were the best dog for teeth lads doing good numbers of them wouldn't have bull and wheaten X's I think they are a good allrounder that will do most jobs but not b the best or specialise in any one qaurry

[Dean 4546 66]

This is my 14 week old, deer hound/ greyhound/ collie. Bought from a chap in huddersfield, who runs this cross but it looks like he has a lot of collie in him but both sire & dam, have no white in them at all & they both look very deer houndish but this pup has thrown the collie look. 

[Black neck 15,899]

Just now, Busher100 said:

If they were the best at that you would see them on the fens not saluki X's If they were the best dog for teeth lads doing good numbers of them wouldn't have bull and wheaten X's I think they are a good allrounder that will do most jobs but not b the best or specialise in any one qaurry

Now im not slagging them off and i dont know much about them but the doxhope fella in one his books says that his bred down ones were miles better than his f1s at rabbits and from the photos they look like medium sized smooth coated lurchers of any other cross

[Marvel 469]

6 hours ago, David stockwell said:

Am looking at get one 

If your serious about your hunting you'd be much better getting a well bred deerhound lurcher rather than a grey/deer, atb

[Busher100 739]

1 minute ago, Marvel said:

If your serious about your hunting you'd be much better getting a well bred deerhound lurcher rather than a grey/deer, atb

Aye that's what I were thinking every first X has limitations source something bred for a few generations doing the job ( maybe even with a drop of something else in there) should give you a more capable animal

[shaaark 10,729]

Well, I don't know about any first cross type being the best at any one thing. But I have to say, the first cross deer/greys I have seen, have been better general alround lamp dogs, taking good numbers of a variety of quarry, than any other first cross.

I'll duck out now ☺

[nothernlite 18,080]

On the moors they come into there own 

[Phil Lloyd 10,738]

The Deerhound influence can produce some capable working dogs.

 

[Guest Navek]

Isn’t there some fella somewhere breeding Wheaton in to pure deerhounds then crossing them in to greys trying to put some fire into them ..sure I read it on here 

[Black neck 15,899]

10 minutes ago, Phil Lloyd said:

The Deerhound influence can produce some capable working dogs.

 

Yeah

[shaaark 10,729]

48 minutes ago, Black neck said:

Yeah

You never seen a good one then?

[Black neck 15,899]

5 minutes ago, shaaark said:

You never seen a good one then?

No ive not or a bad one no one has them round here i dont know ote but when a deerhound enthusiast says his best dogs were at least 34 greyhound or outcrossed to other lurchers theres gorra be summat in it

[morton 5,368]

21 hours ago, David stockwell said:

Whos breeding the best deerhound greyhouns 

All they will do is part you from your hard earnt dollar,Any Deerhound first cross is a waste of a futile gallop.The only decent Deerhound lurchers are generations lurcher bred,find one of these and you will never kennel anything else,find a modern KC Deerhound bred lurcher and you will soon realise why folk no longer recognise them as useful.

[Phil Lloyd 10,738]

28 minutes ago, morton said:

All they will do is part you from your hard earnt dollar,Any Deerhound first cross is a waste of a futile gallop.The only decent Deerhound lurchers are generations lurcher bred,find one of these and you will never kennel anything else,find a modern KC Deerhound bred lurcher and you will soon realise why folk no longer recognise them as useful.

During the late 1980s, we put the first cross Deerhound/Greyhounds back to sheepdog blooded lurchers,..they were smashing dogs,..far more versatile than the F1...