Eli/Mims

[CYJ]

Your male has the markings/color that shows up in the older Carver type bred dogs. Your female shows some of the Don Maloney/Lightner looks and traits. Good deep chested and wiry strong built bitch.

When you break the pedigree down to 14 generations on both dogs separately and the future breeding. Shows basically a strong Eli x Red Boy cross with a lot of Tudor's Dibo influence. Should get great looking and balanced type dogs. If the Red Boy influence from the bitch side dominates the pups. May fire up early and if the Eli/Dibo dominates. Dogs may mature a little slower.

Either way unless they get fight crazy or start chewing roots/chains etc. Best start schooling around 18 months old. Let us know what colors the pups end up being. Looks to be a great breeding. If you get a cold dog, especially a cold bitch. If that bitch is well built and intelligent. Do not kill that bitch.

Patrick's Tombstone's full sibling sister was a cold bitch. Was only bred twice and produced some good match dogs. Bass' Tramp Red Boy's dam. Mc'Cleods' Susie Que, let the chickens eat out of her feed pan. Tudor's Dibo showed no strong prey drive till around three years old. The Vernon Jackson's Hank dog did not show a strong prey drive till around three years old. When Vernon sent Hank to my dog yard and later to Howell's dog yard was when this dog fire up. It was history after that.

Good luck with your breeding and hopefully a large litter of healthy pups. I know I have said this before, whether using a large brood pen off the ground or a brood pen on the ground. Make a bench type platform high enough that the bitch dog can jump up on. Too get some me time away from the pups. This will start around 3 or 4 weeks when the pups start getting those razor sharp milk teeth.

Less danger of a over worried and stressed out brood bitch from losing control and hurting any of her pups. When her udders get full of milk, will go back in the box to nurse and clean up the pups. The pups will also wean themselves much faster this way. Once they can not get to mama, the pups will start mulling around in the feed pan. I had mine eating solid kibble at three and half to four weeks old. Your brood bitch will look as good coming back out of the brood pen as it did going in. If fed and wormed properly etc. From the beginning of the gestation till the end of raising the puppies. Cheers