Mike, In the pic. with the Plotts on the hog, The dog on the right with the purple collar is one of those trashy beardogs. She goes back to my breeding so I know she is trashy. lol At first she was not sure about running a hog but did not take her long to get in the thick of things. Those guys love to come down in Feb. because by then, they are tired of being in that cold weather up there. c dunn, I have seen some really good crosses on Plotts x curs.
do you think it matters which way the cross goes? Plott male x cur jip vs. cur male x plott jip.
Not to hijack this post and I'll back what Mr. Mike says about starting with stock that have what traits you want, but I read an article by James Crenshaw the legendary APBT breeder, most don't know but he was a plott man as well and he noted that he took two full litter mates that were plott, a male and female, and did the same with some of his Bulldogs, he crossed a male plott to a female bulldog and vice versa, a male bulldog to a female plott just to see if they were any differences, he stated that the resulting crosses were two different types and styles of dogs even though the parents were from the same gene pools in each of their breeds, there has been some research done that the genetic coding received from each parent plays a part in the development of different parts of the brain, in lay mans terms the sire is responsible for one part of the brain and the dam the other, it gets pretty deep when you research what parts of the brain control what bodily functions and as of now it's a speculation and theory being as there's no hard scientific data to 100% back it up, I know I went into science nerd mode on this but is something I've read into a good bit and something I keep an eye out for just to see how much merit and truth there actually is to this, sorry for the hijack Mr. Mike....
