Bryant,
The pups look good and healthy! I am a firm believer in taking care of the pups. A lot of guys figure the mother should take care of them the first 2 months, but I do it differently. We start worming our pups at 2 weeks and worm them every 2 weeks after that. We start feeding them good puppy food at 3 weeks of age. With a big litter, that really helps the momma dog.....Usually by the time my pups are 5 weeks old they are weaned and don't need momma anymore.
BoarNinja,
Sounds like you have a good one coming on. If she worked for over 20 minutes by herself and put hogs on the end of it at a year old, I would say you definately have one to be proud of. No harm in her booger barking a few times on a group of hogs and her by herself. May be the first time she has seen that many hogs together. Let her confidence build and I bet she will be better with the groups next time.
So, tell me again when you are sending her down here to Fla?
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Larry,
I always say thats why they make more than vanilla ice cream. Everyone has different tastes! Think how boring it would be if we all hunted the same color and type of dogs. We all like our own dogs for our own reasons and the way we hunt. My dogs probably wouldn't work for you as you seem to like a long range dog. I like a dog that handles and is more of a close/medium range fairly rough type of dog. We both catch hogs so both types work. Its just a matter of what you like, and how you hunt......but I still like red dogs....LOL I think my bad experience with some Plotts soured me some on the black & brindle dogs in general.
