sprocker spaniel

[trekmoor]

I've seen good and bad springers and cockers out working so why would a cross between the two breeds be any different ? Usually when a litter of sprockers are for sale the sire and dam will have been nothing special and the breeder is just trying to make a few quid from his bitch...........he is very unlikely to have paid the stud fee for a top quality stud dog.

I'm not anti sprocker, I am just too stingy to pay pure bred prices for non pure bred pups especially if the sire and dam are just run-of-the-mill dogs.

Wullie

[Matt]

While perusing a borrowed copy of Shooting Times at lunch today I spotted an article by the ever popular David Tomlinson on just this subject. Apparently he recently received a letter (unsigned of course) outlining a great many accusations of top cocker trial lines being infiltrated by springer blood. These accusations do seem to be something of an open secret around here - but it makes you wonder if there is any point even having the conversations on this thread if there really is a whole load of springer blood in the cocker gene pool anyway?

Frankly I'd love to know which lines are implicated so that I can buy one - I'd love a "pedigree" cocker with a bit of genetic diversity

Sadly I can't find the offending article online anywhere or I'd post a link - anyone? He did claim that said letter was also sent to the KC…

[Naj]

There's been accusations of springer blood being sneaked into cockers going back decades. It's nothing new.

Naj

[Naj]

There's been accusations of springer blood being sneaked into cockers going back decades. It's nothing new.

Naj

[EssGrouse]

No but back then it was actually done to improve the breed, not for financial gain I would say.

[James]

I would more impressed if the artical came with a name, if they are so sure of it and feel so intent on it going further then they should stand their ground and put their name to it.

[Springfield Pointers]

No but back then it was actually done to improve the breed, not for financial gain I would say.

To improve the springers or the cockers??

[trekmoor]

I would more impressed if the artical came with a name, if they are so sure of it and feel so intent on it going further then they should stand their ground and put their name to it.

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Just wait until my secretly bred cocker and springer x Brittany pups hit the trial scene . That'll liven things up a bit and make folk stop moaning about boot polishers !

Wullie

[Judy]

There is no doubt that some Cocker lines are leggier and produce more liver and white pups than seems kosher.

[Dawnrazor]

There's been accusations of springer blood being sneaked into cockers going back decades. It's nothing new.

Naj

Yep, nothings new.