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- Sun Dec 04, 2016 7:21 am
- Forum: Training
- Topic: Pup intro to grouse
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5957
Re: Pup intro to grouse
Birds, birds, birds. Birds make bird dogs. Get him out for a run.
Re: FF Pup
My pup just hit his 6 month mark. Last weekend I had him at the farm while we deer hunted. I have had an issue with him this past week on retrieving to hand. He gets 10 or so feet away and drops whatever he is holding. Saturday afternoon I was working with him on basics, which he has pretty well do...
- Mon Nov 21, 2016 3:43 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Getting the itch
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4457
Re: Getting the itch
LOL Very good. Consider a setter Nick. I know a good breeder near you who regularly breeds fine hunting pups - Terry is getting one in Dec. They are just fine in the house- with proper opportunities to run/ hunt. You can get one on the smaller size- mine is only 35 pounds. They don't have to be a b...
- Sun Nov 20, 2016 2:54 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Getting the itch
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4457
Re: Getting the itch
Lol I do like poodles but shedding isn't that huge of a concern. It'd be nice to get a dog that doesn't shed as much but I also know it comes with the territory.
- Sun Nov 20, 2016 10:32 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Getting the itch
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4457
Getting the itch
Well with the passing of the wife's lap dog this past summer I've been getting the itch to add a second dog to the house again. I feel like a lab is probably the right choice to add but am having a hard time settling on that. Whatever breed we end up going with I know this time around I will of cour...
- Thu Oct 20, 2016 4:44 pm
- Forum: Training
- Topic: New 8 wk old puppy whinning all night
- Replies: 22
- Views: 9654
Re: New 8 wk old puppy whinning all night
It's a puppy. You may have to put up with it for a week or 2 before he settles. You just have to wait it out. Buy some ear plugs
- Mon Oct 17, 2016 6:17 pm
- Forum: Training
- Topic: Dog barking on track.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1998
Re: Dog barking on track.
Yep it happens. He'll get over it
- Fri Oct 14, 2016 8:23 am
- Forum: Health and Nutrition
- Topic: 34/16 dog food
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7974
Re: 34/16 dog food
If you're looking for better endurance you definitely need more fat. 19-20% is the minimum. 16% formulas are more for maintenence or weight loss formulas
- Tue Oct 04, 2016 4:53 pm
- Forum: Health and Nutrition
- Topic: Is Excessive Shedding Herditary?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6063
Re: Is Excessive Shedding Herditary?
I think so. Shedding is a major problem with my cocker. He is in an all out coat blow year round. There are no times when it's better or worse. He literally sheds as much as 3 normal dogs. I have asked other cocker folks (and springer folks) that I train with and they all say their dogs don't shed m...
- Fri Sep 02, 2016 11:16 am
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: Who listens to Podcasts?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4890
Re: Who listens to Podcasts?
Hunting dog podcast here
- Thu Sep 01, 2016 3:53 pm
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: Birds
- Replies: 22
- Views: 17030
Re: Birds
Nope, no roos
- Wed Aug 31, 2016 6:04 pm
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: Birds
- Replies: 22
- Views: 17030
Re: Birds
Well, being as summer is coming to an end I am holding off on pigeons till the spring when I can get a team of young birds going. I did however break down and get a chicken coop and so far have 3 hens and 7 squirming embryos in the incubator on the way. Now the big question.... How in the world do I...
- Sat Aug 06, 2016 5:35 am
- Forum: Training
- Topic: Springer Introduction to pigeon
- Replies: 20
- Views: 9484
Re: Springer Introduction to pigeon
Sounds like a real nice pup you have there. Where did you get him? Photos? Got him from Jim Karlovec at flushing star gun dogs in Ohio. http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc35/brad-hendrickson/Mobile%20Uploads/5ACE3289-9855-4714-93C0-0CC3E6C25335_zps7zgsbxrq.jpg http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/c...
- Thu Jul 28, 2016 6:40 pm
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: Birds
- Replies: 22
- Views: 17030
Re: Birds
Thanks for the pics Rob! I also want to build kennels so the dogs can spend some time out during the day while we work instead of being cooped up in their crates and being annoying in the evenings. I have a nice workshop on the property and think it could be incorporated some how. I will post pics t...
- Wed Jul 27, 2016 2:29 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Getting Started, E collar Etc.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7694
Re: Getting Started, E collar Etc.
Thanks, It it unreasonable to expect to be able to train her on wild birds, or do i need to find farmed ones. She is already crazy about any bird she sees from geese to flickers haha! I have taken her to the range with a dead pigeon, and a 22, when my wife shot the gun, i thew the bird, seemed to w...
- Tue Jul 26, 2016 7:44 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Getting Started, E collar Etc.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7694
Re: Getting Started, E collar Etc.
Good looking dog. I think without much bird exposure, you need to decide what you are going to train her as - pointer or flusher.... You have been keeping her close so to me that sounds like flusher as a pointing dog that close isn't going to be very productive.
- Tue Jul 26, 2016 7:08 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: "bottom end"
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6527
Re: "bottom end"
Nice caboose
- Sat Jul 23, 2016 6:34 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: What does "Mature" mean?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4875
Re: What does "Mature" mean?
This is kind of a tangent but what breeds are generally thought of as quick to mature and which ones are usually said to be slower?
- Sat Jul 23, 2016 5:44 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: What does "Mature" mean?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4875
Re: What does "Mature" mean?
To me I think of "mature" as kind of all-encompassing. I think of it as the entire package - the dog is physically mature, mature enough to absorb the training you are giving it and performs it consistently, it is consistent on game and how it reacts to it and different situations, and then of cours...
- Fri Jul 22, 2016 5:13 pm
- Forum: Training
- Topic: PP Doesnt Want To Fetch Outside Of Backyard
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3320
Re: PP Doesnt Want To Fetch Outside Of Backyard
You're not using them while still frozen are you? Asking him to pick up an ice cube should make you trigger on why he doesn't want to. Always thaw birds unless you want to deal with mouth issues later on.
- Sun Jul 17, 2016 10:03 am
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: Birds
- Replies: 22
- Views: 17030
Re: Birds
The house is set to the front of the property closer to the road. The majority of the land is behind it.
- Sun Jul 17, 2016 7:40 am
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: Birds
- Replies: 22
- Views: 17030
Re: Birds
I may not even get chickens. But would be interested in knowing if I could keep quails with the pigeons or pheasants with them. In the end, I may just stick with pigeons. I kept them as a kid and I am excited to get back into them. Just thinking about all the possibilities.
- Sat Jul 16, 2016 1:31 pm
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: Birds
- Replies: 22
- Views: 17030
Birds
Didn't really know where to put this so I shoved it here... My wife and I just bought our first house and we get the keys in 2 weeks. We have 3 acres and I have said for years once we get out of town and own a place I would be putting a pigeon loft up so I could get back into them, and have some for...
- Fri Jul 15, 2016 3:16 pm
- Forum: Training
- Topic: The Spaniel Spot
- Replies: 1740
- Views: 841808
Re: The Spaniel Spot
What a sharp little looker! Where's it from???!welsh wrote:Oh, and while we're talkin' spaniels ... I'm getting little sleep this week.
- Fri Jul 15, 2016 7:58 am
- Forum: Training
- Topic: The Spaniel Spot
- Replies: 1740
- Views: 841808
Re: The Spaniel Spot
I think the best way to train a spaniel how to do blinds is to forget the spaniel part and train it as you would a lab. What gundogguy says of spanielers here is what I have observed as well - none of them handle well at all. And while I can appreciate that in a trial the judges are looking for a do...
- Thu Jul 14, 2016 6:55 pm
- Forum: Training
- Topic: retrieve distances
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4009
Re: retrieve distances
I think it is just what the dog becomes accustomed to... My own cocker finds most of his retrieves within the same distance (due to my personal training geography). If a retrieve falls short of that (or farther), even though he sees it, he still runs past (or short) of it and hunts the area where he...
- Wed Jul 13, 2016 3:51 pm
- Forum: Training
- Topic: Introducing a duck
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1869
Re: Introducing a duck
Ducks stink - this is not an unusual response. Give him time and more exposure, he'll be fine.
- Tue Jul 05, 2016 11:17 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Aggressive 2 Year Old Male
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3369
Re: Aggressive 2 Year Old Male
Neutered or not that dog will still be aggressive. He needs training and behavior modification - not genital modification.
- Mon Jul 04, 2016 4:07 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Ranking upland Gamebirds.
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7845
Re: Ranking upland Gamebirds.
1. Ruffed Grouse 2. Woodcock 3. Ducks 4. Geese Reasoning? That's what's most available to me where I hunt. We don't have wild chukars, pheasants, quail or any of that stuff. Ruffed grouse reigns supreme for me... woodcock following only because I encounter them while hunting for grouse. Ducks are my...
- Mon Jul 04, 2016 3:41 pm
- Forum: Hunting
- Topic: day out enjoying the new pup working birds.
- Replies: 20
- Views: 10273
Re: day out enjoying the new pup working birds.
You should be a detective. :) Well some dogs are too much for the experience of the handler . Better to sell then to have 13 miserable years. Yeah true but then there are also people who just move em on like its nothing. My first impressions of a "prominent" Ontario spaniel person my first time see...
- Mon Jul 04, 2016 2:16 pm
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: Identifying the Enemy
- Replies: 498
- Views: 557632
Re: Identifying the Enemy
As a Canadian I think you folks are fecked either way... pardon my french
- Mon Jul 04, 2016 2:14 pm
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: Pigeon photo's
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3319
Re: Pigeon photo's
I've always been partial to grizzles. When I was young and kept rollers I had a few baldies and some almonds as well - a real nice colour. Even had a mosaic bird (half one color, half another)... neat looking bird but I didn't feed him for too long as he never rolled. I'm just getting ready to move ...
- Sun Jul 03, 2016 5:19 pm
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: Pigeon photo's
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3319
Re: Pigeon photo's
I love that red grizzle in the first photo
- Sat Jul 02, 2016 5:53 pm
- Forum: Hunting
- Topic: day out enjoying the new pup working birds.
- Replies: 20
- Views: 10273
Re: day out enjoying the new pup working birds.
That didn't take long...jeff shumaker wrote:shorthair for sale
- Sat Jul 02, 2016 4:47 pm
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: Canada Day 2016
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3394
Re: Canada Day 2016
Happy belated Canada Day Sharon! Hope you had a good one! Pretty quiet here, just some pints with the pooch. For our country of course.
- Mon Jun 20, 2016 3:51 pm
- Forum: Training
- Topic: Not watching the bird or dummy during training...
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5040
Re: Not watching the bird or dummy during training...
Never seen a dog that doesn't mark the dummy when the thrower tosses it. Pretty basic stage in retriever development.
- Mon Jun 20, 2016 2:37 pm
- Forum: Training
- Topic: Not watching the bird or dummy during training...
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5040
Re: Not watching the bird or dummy during training...
I think the simple answer is to have someone else throw the dummy out in front while you and the dog watch.
- Sat Jun 18, 2016 1:36 pm
- Forum: Health and Nutrition
- Topic: 4 health preformance dog food.
- Replies: 17
- Views: 10893
Re: 4 health preformance dog food.
Dog food adviser has a 3.5 star rating on this BB lam and brown rice. I'll stop you right there. Dog food advisor is definitely not a worthwhile source of information, don't waste your time. Ask what people that have the same expectations out of their dog as you do feed, and see what works for your...
- Sat Jun 18, 2016 5:35 am
- Forum: Training
- Topic: First time at a NAVHDA training day...likes/dislikes
- Replies: 26
- Views: 13118
Re: First time at a NAVHDA training day...likes/dislikes
Is it normal for a dog to be on a check cord the first time it has contact with a pigeon/game bird? I am not a pointy guy so my question is genuine. I kinda share pedro's feelings. I don't think you need to be worried about working a CC and all that stuff yet, the pup needs to be a pup and just chas...
- Thu Jun 16, 2016 5:36 pm
- Forum: Training
- Topic: Training in the heat
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5949
Re: Training in the heat
Obedience work and water drills.
- Wed Jun 15, 2016 5:11 pm
- Forum: Training
- Topic: Retrieving
- Replies: 41
- Views: 14275
Re: Retrieving
I'll second that. Normal behavior for a 6 month old puppy but time to break it before it goes on too long.polmaise wrote:Place Board Training would be a good 'place' to start .
- Mon Jun 13, 2016 4:56 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Pigeon Questions
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3299
Re: Pigeon Questions
Ive Been raising homing pigeons the past few year to have my own flock of homers all is well, just a couple questions on homing pigeons, What is the purpose of banding the birds will the bands fit on older birds? or just when they are young you band them? how do you tell the difference between home...
- Sat Jun 04, 2016 3:05 pm
- Forum: Training
- Topic: Examples of "pressure"
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6497
Re: Examples of "pressure"
I too like that line. I think with my strict regime-type thinking I may be better suited to labs. For many years I worked as a youth worker, I believe in structure and expectations. My cocker, which luckily is a bit harder than most is still quite soft to be suited to my style. I constantly have to ...
- Thu Jun 02, 2016 4:32 pm
- Forum: Training
- Topic: First time e-collar and very uncomfortable
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6704
Re: First time e-collar and very uncomfortable
I too live in the city. If you want it, you'll find a way. Birds make bird dogs.
- Thu Jun 02, 2016 2:23 pm
- Forum: Training
- Topic: The Spaniel Spot
- Replies: 1740
- Views: 841808
Re: The Spaniel Spot
Robert - love that classic look at the end where the dog is staring up at you as you talk. What I think people would benefit from - what do you do in your daily interactions with the dog to get it to that point. My dog is always intent on me but I couldn't tell you how I got him there - he's always ...
- Tue May 31, 2016 7:13 pm
- Forum: Training
- Topic: The Spaniel Spot
- Replies: 1740
- Views: 841808
Re: The Spaniel Spot
I'm located in central Pennsylvania (more North East though). I'm really thankful such experienced trainers, like you all are, are taking the time to assist me. Great location!!! Lookup Royal Kennels or Flushing Star Gun Dogs..... both have lots of experience. My cocker is a flushing star dog and h...
- Mon May 30, 2016 7:04 pm
- Forum: Training
- Topic: The Spaniel Spot
- Replies: 1740
- Views: 841808
Re: The Spaniel Spot
If you've been following one then yes, stick with it. Hup! is about as good as it gets as far as a somewhat linear spaniel training book. As for the e-collar, it can be somewhat taboo in the spaniel community as there are a lot that are against their use. However, the more you get out and train with...
- Sat May 28, 2016 8:00 am
- Forum: Training
- Topic: Building desire
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4699
Re: Building desire
You say after a few the dog loses interest.... sounds like at this stage in the dog's development you're giving him too many retrieves. If you give him one fun one and he goes out enthusiastically and brings it back, ready for the next one.... stop. Leave him wanting more. Lots of other fun things y...
- Mon May 23, 2016 5:48 am
- Forum: Training
- Topic: The Spaniel Spot
- Replies: 1740
- Views: 841808
Re: The Spaniel Spot
Congrats Hal and Zeta!
- Fri May 20, 2016 6:22 pm
- Forum: Training
- Topic: Training collar
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2342
Re: Training collar
Not sure why anyone would waste time or money on anything other than dogtra or TT/Garmin