BREEDING FOR PRODUCTION...EGGS AND OR MEAT.

[hellbender]

He is really beautiful! I love big, stocky, strong dogs. I hope he continues to impress you with his behavior.

LOL...He is stocky and strong but not big by my standards. He's only about 18 or 19 inches at the withers and perhaps a third longer than that. Really smart boy.

Thanks.

EDIT: If he really were big...there would be no room in the house for him. I love big dogs but don't want to share my living space with them. There are enough little black hairs to deal with as it is!

 

[cyborg]

LOL...He is stocky and strong but not big by my standards.  He's only about 18 or 19 inches at the withers and perhaps a third longer than that.  Really smart boy.

Thanks.

EDIT:  If he really were big...there would be no room in the house for him.  I love big dogs but don't want to share my living space with them.  There are enough little black hairs to deal with as it is!  

and I thought you were too advanced in age to have little black hairs!

 

[cyborg]

Spent most of yesterday canning chicken, so a lot of planned weekend projects haven't happened yet. The next one is a new roof section for the damaged section of my chicken pen. Will check in later, hopefully with a satisfactory progress report!

 

[dfr1973]

LOL...He is stocky and strong but not big by my standards. He's only about 18 or 19 inches at the withers and perhaps a third longer than that. Really smart boy.

Thanks.

EDIT: If he really were big...there would be no room in the house for him. I love big dogs but don't want to share my living space with them. There are enough little black hairs to deal with as it is!

So he's actually a little boy! And IMO there is always room in a house for a happy, spoiled ROTTen house Rottie! At one time I had two girls, Myra (Mam-Rott) and Bel (Baby-Rott) and while Myra was small by Rottie standards, Bel hit 125lbs before her first birthday. Of course, having two Rotties blowing their coats at the same time in the house killed quite a few vacuum cleaners ... this house has no wall-to-wall carpeting though, so once the retarded (literally!) pit bull dies of old age we will be back to happy house Rotties.

 

[DesertChic]

Spent most of yesterday canning chicken, so a lot of planned weekend projects haven't happened yet. The next one is a new roof section for the damaged section of my chicken pen. Will check in later, hopefully with a satisfactory progress report!

I'm still trying to complete the outdoor pens from my chicken cabin/barn, but yesterday afternoon a swarm of bees decided to take up residence in the tree right next to where I need to work. There really isn't much that's scarier to me than a swarm of Africanized bees, so all progress came to a screeching halt, and the only time I can get help from my husband to help carry and install the heavy panels I'm building is one the weekends. *Sigh* Maybe next weekend?

 

[hellbender]

My Scotch-Irish grand dad's red-hair and ruddy complexion cane through over the Native American grand ma ...to both me and my mother. My dad died at age 81 and had not one gray hair but was black and curley....There lies a quandary for those interested in genetics. How do I get curly deep-ginger colored hair with all that Native American ancestry? Apparently there's some dominant genes at play there somewhere.

 

[hellbender]

So he's actually a little boy! And IMO there is always room in a house for a happy, spoiled ROTTen house Rottie! At one time I had two girls, Myra (Mam-Rott) and Bel (Baby-Rott) and while Myra was small by Rottie standards, Bel hit 125lbs before her first birthday. Of course, having two Rotties blowing their coats at the same time in the house killed quite a few vacuum cleaners ... this house has no wall-to-wall carpeting though, so once the retarded (literally!) pit bull dies of old age we will be back to happy house Rotties.

As mentioned elsewhere on the thread, he's 1/2 Rott and 1/2 half Irish staff. Very compact and weighs about 50 pounds. I think he has potential to be a great little companion/personal protection dog for daughter to travel with when she goes somewhere and even when he's totally safe with the chickens, I'd not use him for a poultry guard.

I've made up my mind (and provided I'm still around) the next poultry guard dogs will indeed be Old Time English Shepherds. I've been tracking them and there are some still around.

I'm not above picking up a pair of pups sooner than later, to get then started. The Heelers are 7 and 8 years old and in great shape but no one wants to be caught flat-footed when something unthinkable happens

 

[DesertChic]

My Scotch-Irish grand dad's red-hair and ruddy complexion cane through over the Native American grand ma ...to both me and my mother. My dad died at age 81 and had not one gray hair but was black and curley....There lies a quandary for those interested in genetics. How do I get curly deep-ginger colored hair with all that Native American ancestry? Apparently there's some dominant genes at play there somewhere.

LOL! I'm such a mutt that I've been told I resemble nearly all the nationalities. When I was younger we attempted to trace our nationalities for a grade school project. When the teacher saw that I was up to thirteen and still going to marked my page with an "A" and told me I could stop there before I wore myself out.

 

[cyborg]

My Scotch-Irish grand dad's red-hair and ruddy complexion cane through over the Native American grand ma ...to both me and my mother.  My dad died at age 81 and had not one gray hair but was black and curley....There lies a quandary for those interested in genetics.  How do I get curly deep-ginger colored hair with all that Native American ancestry?  Apparently there's some dominant genes at play there somewhere.    

Well, I'm German and Scottish, but if any little black hairs show up, they're probably from my eyebrows!

 

[NanaKat]

 
So he's actually a little boy!  And IMO there is always room in a house for a happy, spoiled ROTTen house Rottie!  At one time I had two girls, Myra (Mam-Rott) and Bel (Baby-Rott) and while Myra was small by Rottie standards, Bel hit 125lbs before her first birthday.  Of course, having two Rotties blowing their coats at the same time in the house killed quite a few vacuum cleaners ... this house has no wall-to-wall carpeting though, so once the retarded (literally!) pit bull dies of old age we will be back to happy house Rotties.

As mentioned elsewhere on the thread, he's 1/2 Rott and 1/2 half Irish staff.  Very compact and weighs about 50 pounds.  I think he has potential to be a great little companion/personal protection dog for daughter to travel with when she goes somewhere and even when he's totally safe with the chickens, I'd not use him for a poultry guard.

I've made up my mind (and provided I'm still around) the next poultry guard dogs will indeed be Old Time English Shepherds.  I've been tracking them and there are some still around.

I'm not above picking up a pair of pups sooner than later, to get then started.  The Heelers are 7 and 8 years old and in great shape but no one wants to be caught flat-footed when something unthinkable happens

I'll have to look up the Irish Staff.
Currently we have a 11 year old Australian Shepherd and an 8 year old 1/2 Catahoula 1/2 Labrador. The Aussie Gracie herds from behind, breaks up cock fights and she watches everything going on like a Matron. The Catahoula Lab Red loves chicks and alerts me when one is stressed, sick or in trouble. He will lie on the floor and make a whine, then lead me to the chick. He brings the one I point at to me without hurting it...gently holds it in either his lips or his mouth depending on the size. He has chased a coyote, killed a snake but lets the chickens climb all over him.
They both are great guard dogs but let an earthquake or thunderstorm rumble and they are both terrified. She is by my side and he is huddled under the desk because he is too big to fit in my chair too.