For the ones who have the misconception of the term FARMER being synonymous to POOR, this is for them. Poor people can’t afford to buy 2-6 hounds and condition them for optimum performance. Keeping varied animal interests, one has to manage their upkeep and invest time and money. The returns are not assured in the animals hence whatever stock held is considered valuable. A city chap comes on his high horses and consider farmers poor and hence their livestock cheap. The ones only playing dogs, have you even the slightest clue what a fine Khillar or a Pandharpuri Gavlaht buffalo costs? It costs approximately equivalent to a hatchback car the city chap pays EMI for. The Madgyal sheep and her kid cost more than your Royal Enfield motorcycle. These POOR farmers have such expensive livestock not handful but yards and sheds full of them. Similarly expensive is their upkeep. Only a worthy payment buys a worthy animal. The farmer owns acres of land. The population is increasing but the land isn’t hence the northward set prices for these land holdings of a farmer. Accounting these factors, can we still consider the native Houndsman poor?
Not just the owning and knowing a fine being but upkeep is a major part of the hobby. Expensive and important animals are well fed, well kept in all aspects possible. This involves serious money which goes unaccounted for a novice to notice. Being wrestlers at some point of their lives, they know the fact that a match performance depends solely upon the efforts taken outside the ring. Good food, good exercise and a good trainer are crucial factors for optimizing skills. Similarly these are working animals and their performance depends upon their conditioning. People here depend a lot upon ample milk for their animal .Be it horses, bulls, buffalo, cows, goats, sheep and dogs of course. Copious amount of milk is fed to the lactating female and the puppies. Some keep a milch animal not to sell the milk but just for feeding milk to their other animals. Fed meat, eggs, and various farm produce. Milk will be fed to most of the good canines throughout their lives.
There is another side to this coin as well. There are people who have average animals, feed average, expect only average performance and have no concerns about how healthy the animal looks since its value is insignificant. These people breed their females to any male available to them for free irrespective of any other factor like his breed confirmation, ability, temperament, structure, etc. They expect average returns for the young ones. So the animal they give is cheap not because they are poor farmers but only because they know it is not up to the mark. These kind of animals are obviously much more in numbers and easily available. Any outsider coming in search of a caravan pup is certainly going to find these before anything else. These comprise of your pet shop purchases.
In a rare instance if an animal with decent confirmation shows up in the possession of an average upkeep owner, it is immediately cracked a deal with the neighborhood houndsman who values its worth. Such deals happen only in the close circuit and it is highly rarely that an outsider is going to get a decent animal at a lower value since everyone in the natives knows the value of their livestock. Quality always comes at a cost, be it the cities or the natives. All the best sourcing your cheap or best Indigenous hound.