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COLLIE X GREYHOUNDS...ENDANGERED SPECIES...


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I often read threads concerning collie crosses with a degree of confusion . More to do with the sometimes negative comments that relate to the border collie , and often mention is made of the far supe

After many a wasted trip to see so called collie x greyhound litters I decided to go to Hancocks for a pup, she is entering her 6 season now, and is a credit to my team, she has supplied us with some

I think you are right there Roybo... I shall always keep my own home-bred, watered down Collie hybrids, they suit me for the ground I hunt over, but most lads coming into the game today seem to w

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Me and the misses have been talking and I’m gone be Toning it down after the pup I got now and something like Phil Lloyd’s would do nice 22ish small enough to have around the house either that or a beddy whippet type 

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  On 29/06/2018 at 18:10, japs eye said:

5/8 3/8 ideally but 3/4 bred or racey 1st cross i would consider.

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Tbh mate I think these are all beginners crosses people that were dedicated an worked them have bred further on than this I think your going to struggle after the bull x in everything phase trying to get the exact % your after unless you visit David handjob good luck anyway. 

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Maybe they are "endangered" because as you say people want pups out of working parents ,

And unless working sheep or racing is working you will struggle .

 Coupled with the fact that some add something else that they feel a first cross maybe missing, 

 Or maybe they just ain't wanted any more.

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I think you are right there Roybo...:yes:

I shall always keep my own home-bred, watered down Collie hybrids, they suit me for the ground I hunt over, but most lads coming into the game today seem to want a far more athletic style of running dog...The genuine F1 hybrid twixt a sheepdog and a Greyhound would still suit me, but I feel I am in the minority...

 Facts are, if such an easily produced hybrid was required, on masse, by the lurcher fraternity,..there would be no shortage of them...

The situation speaks for itself really...?

Wee Maggie, a pup I sent down to North Devon...

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