Culling

[Hipshooter]

If u study your lesson
& your breeding program is right from the same blood line all the time
U won,t have many culls.
Ask Mr Clay about this.
U get your culls when u cross breed
& cross breed from one strain to another with in a breed.
Some of these pups will be out standing & some will be culls in the same litter.
U won,t find the culls till after buying a lot of dog feed.

[Dan Edwards]

Culling is simply removing the “bad ones” from your breeding line.
How you cull is up to the individual. I know a man that had a great line of dogs that went way back. He lived where he could just turn the dogs lose and they could run all they wanted to all year long. He is late in years and had done it all his life. He could tell by 3-4 months of age what dogs he wanted to keep because of so many raised in this line. One year he had about 3-4 litters about the same age. He would raise all and cull at around 3-4 months and again at 6 months and then unless a dog just lost interest what was left would make dogs. Maybe not all top shelf dogs but a high percentage was. He created a pretty big name for having good dogs and if you got a 3 month dog you had a better than average chance of having a dog that would turn out and reproduce. But someone talked him out of his culls one year (about 8 or 9 at one time) and then started breeding them and saying they was the same line trying to sell dogs on the hard work the true hound’s men dedicated. (And in reality they were but they were exactly not what he wanted and all the bad he was trying to get out of his line). This stopped him from ever selling or giving away a cull again unless it was fixed. And goes to show just because it is out of X and X it may not be the good side. You can't breed or cull on papers only performance.

Great post and a great reason to not give culls away no matter what.

[lifreediver]

great story cullin a dog at 3-4 months wow again at 6months did they eat out of the wrong side of the bowl i have not hear of a finished tree dog much before 2years the way trainin seasons are and huntin seasons are its hard to put time into pups when you have older dogs to get in shape etc
if a pup is born in july up north he would miss trainin season if he dont get off the nipple quick sept he would have a tough time keepin up unless ya want to drive him to the tree then winter run bobcat alittle tough puttin 3 litters on snow mobile or walkem from the house to find a track
well by his birth day he has not did much and you buy a bus to drive around ya 3 or 4 litters its hot roadem a bit and hes one now dump him on a hot track that the other dogs strike and warm up or walkem in on a tree if you can durin trainin season a few split races well seasons comin to a end and up here 4 dogs a limit at a tree now its 6 dog limit thats a lot of dogs in the box
unless ya a paw reader dog would have to be two to cullem up here but for some reason most of them find the tree the older dogs are at and most strike from the box only problem there trashy when there young nothinthe collar cant fix
for me if ya freind wont offer ya money good money for a dog or if he wont take the dog for free you can bet its a cull
just not the way it works up north but sounds great