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HOG & DOGS => DOGS ON HOGS => Topic started by: Etxcntryboy on November 03, 2009, 11:07:14 pm



Title: What age?????
Post by: Etxcntryboy on November 03, 2009, 11:07:14 pm
I've got three 5mo puppies that are burnin' some pork up in a pen.  When do ya'll think I should take them to the woods?


Title: Re: What age?????
Post by: stoked on November 03, 2009, 11:27:46 pm
I've got three 5mo puppies that are burnin' some pork up in a pen.  When do ya'll think I should take them to the woods?

i always start them early, but until they can jump in the back of my truck, that's when they go to the woods!


Title: Re: What age?????
Post by: Mike on November 04, 2009, 07:17:38 am
Depends on the maturity level of the pups. I usually start them in the woods around a year old, but work them on "staged hunts" from 3 months on. These pups i'm raising now I started at 9 months in the woods... but they were very mature for their age and all buisiness when it comes to hunting.


Title: Re: What age?????
Post by: a-khunter on November 04, 2009, 07:38:18 am
i like to put mine in the woods around 7-8 months old, just to give them experience and let em go w/ the big dogs.


Title: Re: What age?????
Post by: Cristina on November 04, 2009, 05:17:59 pm

7-8 months is good, although I started taking my bmc at 5 1/2 months but he was very mature for his age. It definately depends on the maturity of the dog.


Title: Re: What age?????
Post by: bob on November 05, 2009, 10:57:10 am
I have two pups that are a year old last sept. I hunted them all winter , they have been on thirty plus hogs before they where 9 months old in the woods with seasoned dogs and now finding there own hogs , one seems to be a better dog than the other one , so she go"s on almost every hunt