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My name is Aaron Jaggers and I raise, breed and sell AKC field trial quality rabbit hunting beagles. I am located in Richmond, Kentucky just south of Lexington and 10 minutes from I-75. I've owned rabbit hunting beagles off and on since I was a kid. Until the 2001 they were just your average country boy rabbit dawgs. Now, I raise and breed field trial quality rabbit hunting beagles for sale.
I grew up in Bonnieville, Kentucky; a little town of 300 in Hart County.
Bacon Creek is little creek that runs through that area. I never owned a registered beagle until the late 80's, but I did own a pretty nice coon dog named Bacon Creek Cricket. It was only appropriate that I use that kennel name because I lived on that creek and Cricket treed her first coon there. I joined the military in 1984 and spent the next 8 years living in South Carolina without beagles. In 1992 I moved back to Kentucky and wasn't in a position to get back into beagling until 2001. I knew Gary Brown of Bromns LA Beagles from church ministry and contacted him about purchasing some hounds. I bought a double mated Fd.Ch.Shorts Pro female and another older female named J and R Annie. She was a very nice Yellow Creek bred female that had produced field champion pups. I had no plans to field trial beagles; I just wanted a good pair of beagles for hunting.
When I decided to breed my Fd.Ch.Shorts Pro female, Gary told me to contact a man named Ronald Stephens and that is where I got into trouble. I bred that female beagle to a line bred Fd.Ch. Garr-Hill Stinger male and she had 8 females and 1 male. Ever since then I've been in contact with my good friend Mr. Ronald Stephens every week talking or training beagles. I joined Lake City Beagle Club in 2004 and that closed the deal on getting into field trials.
I get several phone calls from people wanting to buy hunting beagles, but not field trial beagles. I tell them for me they are the same. I not only field trial my beagles, but gun hunt over them as well. All well bred hunting beagles should be gunned over every season, because that is the real reson they exist isn't it?
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