. Coursing and falconry. Coursing; Falconry. PRACTICAL GREYHOUND BREEDING 75 In breeding from such a bitch as we have described, when mated with a dog of size and substance, there would be httle fear of the produce being undersized; but she must not, of course, be weak in bone, rickety, splay-footed, or in any way misshapen. As we said before, size must be the sole supposed objection. When this bitch has her litter she will, in all probability, be found a good mother. Big bitches are prone to lie on and. The nursery otherwise injure their whelps. It might be argued that in like manner it is be
. Coursing and falconry. Coursing; Falconry. PRACTICAL GREYHOUND BREEDING 75 In breeding from such a bitch as we have described, when mated with a dog of size and substance, there would be httle fear of the produce being undersized; but she must not, of course, be weak in bone, rickety, splay-footed, or in any way misshapen. As we said before, size must be the sole supposed objection. When this bitch has her litter she will, in all probability, be found a good mother. Big bitches are prone to lie on and. The nursery otherwise injure their whelps. It might be argued that in like manner it is better to breed from an own brother to a great winner than from the dog himself. A list of winners would not, at first sight, show this to be the case; but we think the reason is that the distinguished dog gets more and better chances, and unless an unknown dog, by accident as it were, produces some great winner, he will not, however well bred, be generally patronised by breeders. This is so with thoroughbred stock ; unless a horse is ' fashionable,'. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Cox, Harding Edward de Fonblanque, 1854-; Lascelles, Gerald William. Falconry; Richardson, Charles, ed. London and Bombay, Longmans, Green, and Co.
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