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« on: July 21, 2022, 10:59:44 am » |
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I’ve seen interest on this forum in working/hunting Airedales in the past. The have their pros & cons but are my breed of choice to do anything with. I put together a YouTube video of my main dog Vango, and I think it may be some of the best footage of how versatile Airedales could be. I figured some of y’all might want to see it so here’s a link to it. Let me know what y’all think! https://youtu.be/VWJhBprZpxYOr if that link don’t work it’s “Vango- A legendary hunting Airedale” on YouTube. |
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« Reply #1 on: July 21, 2022, 06:46:23 pm » |
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Ole Vango isn’t scared to mix it up for sure. How do you use him? What I mean is do you cast him, track hunt him, or send him to sight game, etc,? I’m curious too about his bottom or stamina?
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TexDaleKennels
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« Reply #2 on: July 22, 2022, 12:15:38 am » |
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I live in northwest Texas towards the bottom of the panhandle and edge of the plains so with pigs it’s a lot of dumping from the truck or casting him down into the creek bottoms. All the pigs we catch are found by him. Really good stamina, during winter he can go on forever, during summer he’ll get hot after a bit.
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« Reply #3 on: July 22, 2022, 04:40:50 am » |
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If you clip their coats short they can go quite a bit longer without getting hot…I noticed that with the ones I had…Airedale’s usually are not fighters with other dogs which I liked and will side step a dog that is persistent in trying to start a fight…but once they commit, they can and will be fierce…
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Training dogs is not about quantity, it's more about timing, the right situations, and proper guidance...After that it's up to the dog...
A hunting dog is born not made...
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« Reply #4 on: July 22, 2022, 08:04:01 am » |
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Cool Video. A friend of mine who I used to bearhunt with in Fla. when they had a season had a Airdale he used for a catchdog. Never put a lead on him and could call him off and he was as solid a catchdog as you would want. It's hard to see because of the hair but most airdales have super conformation and are really well made dogs.
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« Reply #5 on: July 22, 2022, 11:15:43 am » |
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Very impresive ....Any dog that can kill a coyote or javelina singlehandidly is a freak...What are his bloodlines, Sandhill, Mooreland ?
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« Reply #6 on: July 22, 2022, 11:49:58 am » |
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Very impresive ....Any dog that can kill a coyote or javelina singlehandidly is a freak...What are his bloodlines, Sandhill, Mooreland ?
I used to have a combination of the two and sometimes pure of each…also Quachita out of Mena, Arkansas… Cajun…they have a wide loin and solid rears to match…the width between the front legs is not wide…but the chest is deep and the withers arch high into the neck and with a very muscular neck… When they spread their rear legs and pin their adversaries down they can exert some power… I believe a lot of the power is in the wide loins, sturdy rears and muscular necks…the necks are not wide but they are deep… The mouth is fairly long and the ivory is easy to see…lol |
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Training dogs is not about quantity, it's more about timing, the right situations, and proper guidance...After that it's up to the dog...
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« Reply #7 on: July 23, 2022, 08:45:04 am » |
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The show Airedale…l don’t know about now but I don’t think it has changed since then…
In my younger years I used to run my dogs at the beach when no one went to that particular beach in those days…I ran the dogs for exercise and to teach them how to road my style…I also did this to find out speed and stamina from each dog…
I had a Sandhill x Mooreland Airedale, probably around 65-70 lbs…very good looking dog…short coupled and flashy…this dog at half to 3/4 speed had a normal gait…anything past that and he started hopping…I knew that wasn’t normal so I slowed it down until he would get back into a normal stride…
Of course there is a reason for everything and I came up with a theory as to why he hopped at higher speeds…the show Airedale is bred to be short coupled compared to being tall which will exaggerate the leg length… not a square built dog but taller than long…this will make the dog prance…must pick up front legs before rear feet hit front feet making the dog prance…looks good but not very efficient…you don’t see this in the wild…
The hackney horse was developed in this way…breeders call it natural…it becomes a natural trait when the hackney is selectively bred to be short coupled…natural gait out of necessity due to unnatural shorter body…
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TexDaleKennels
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« Reply #8 on: July 26, 2022, 12:04:07 pm » |
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Very impresive ....Any dog that can kill a coyote or javelina singlehandidly is a freak...What are his bloodlines, Sandhill, Mooreland ?
Yes he’s not fast enough to catch a coyote but when my sighthounds get one caught he’s usually the finisher. Been on two accidental javelinas killed 1 smaller one fairly easily the other was a big boar in the middle of winter, pinned it by the throat and I finished it with a knife. Talked to the game warden about it both times and they just basically shrugged and said “oh well it happens” lol he has Mooreland a few gens back on one side, he’s mostly windstar in his pedigree. Texas Airedales mostly all of them |
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« Reply #9 on: July 26, 2022, 12:06:13 pm » |
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Very impresive ....Any dog that can kill a coyote or javelina singlehandidly is a freak...What are his bloodlines, Sandhill, Mooreland ?
I used to have a combination of the two and sometimes pure of each…also Quachita out of Mena, Arkansas… Cajun…they have a wide loin and solid rears to match…the width between the front legs is not wide…but the chest is deep and the withers arch high into the neck and with a very muscular neck… When they spread their rear legs and pin their adversaries down they can exert some power… I believe a lot of the power is in the wide loins, sturdy rears and muscular necks…the necks are not wide but they are deep… The mouth is fairly long and the ivory is easy to see…lol Perfectly put! |
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