What Would It Turn Out Like????

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i have just been offered a collie x greyhound x collie, last of the litter but i'm not sure how it would turn out?? being crossed with a collie would it have protential as a working dog??

any opinion would be helpful

 

[Strike Whippets]

My pure bred collie works as well as my Whippets (just a tad slower :b ) ..she's even raced (w00t) ......depends on wether she's more greyhound or collie IMHO

 

[posh totty]

My pure bred collie works as well as my Whippets (just a tad slower  :b ) ..she's even raced  (w00t)   ......depends on wether she's more greyhound or collie IMHO 

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My father bred working lurchers for many years and always put collie into the mix, he felt the greyhound gave the speed and the collies quick thinking made a sensible reliable and consistent working lurcher. his personal fav mix was greyhound x collie x bedlington and would sometimes put in a bit of whippet to that mix and at one stage he never sold a pup threw any adverts people asked for his dogs and waited til he bred again, times of working dogs may have changed and im only saying what i remember as a child but from my memories that was a good mix. good luck to you and hope all goes well for you

 

[Mr F]

my old lurcher (gone now) was a whippet collie cross

 

[Pennymeadow Whippets]

So this pup is a 3/4 collie 1/4 greyhound it should be able to work well enough if trained to do so but you might find it a little on the heavy/slow side for open field rabbiting but fine for bushing a better option would be a 3/4 grehhound 1/4 collie more the allround lurcher

 

[nigelmcfc]

I agree with Pennymeadow . it would probably be too slow for the open fields, but be a good bushing/ferreting dog. A lad I knew years ago had a pure bred merle border collie which was agreat ferreting/bushing dog . When you start breeding lurchers though, you never know which side they will favour till they`re born