great dog work love seeing the dogs work and its even more satisfying when you train um yourself I have a 8 month old pup in training myself but where I am is very hard to come across birds wud love to have a place or club where I could get him more interested in flushing the pheasants and woodcock ha anyway great vid 👍
shadowhunter springer4life get your self on a local shooting estate out beating as many days as you can and you’ll get him interested. Make sure your got some real good recall to start with though. Best of luck.
Hey I am writing to you from Sacramento, CA. Got a question: With all the cover your dogs go through, dont they ever get any debris in their ears that requires vet visits? Here we have what they call Foxtails which are just notorious. You can look them up. Dont you get any problems with your dogs in europe?
Bahman Ghashghaei The dogs sometimes incur injuries while hunting cover,thorns are a constant problem,facial cuts are common,one of my very good dogs died from pyothorax when a foreign body entered his chest cavity,probably a thorn.Unless the dogs tails are docked as pups they will have constant bleed problems from the tail tip.But to have any success hunting here in Ireland hard hunting cover dogs are an imperative.Hope this helps.
springerspanielful the dogs. I'm getting a field Springer and I've heard as a general consensus they are usually smaller than bench Springers but I haven't heard any numbers.
Cool. The sire of my pup belongs to the president of the English Springer Spaniel Field Trial Association, and he is on the lower end of that range, but the pups mom is larger I believe. The litter is due in a month or so, and I am excited to pick my pup out. Hoping for a male.
Well, the dog flushes the bird, it flies up above the dog. I'd be afraid that in my haste to get off the shot at the bird I might hit the dogs below with some shot. They seem to be in close proximity
cloudbuster77 It might appear that way on the video,but the dogs are in no danger at all from the guns,it just requires a level head giving the bird time to rise well out of the way of the dogs.
great dog work love seeing the dogs work and its even more satisfying when you train um yourself I have a 8 month old pup in training myself but where I am is very hard to come across birds wud love to have a place or club where I could get him more interested in flushing the pheasants and woodcock ha anyway great vid 👍
Thanks for the positivity.
shadowhunter springer4life get your self on a local shooting estate out beating as many days as you can and you’ll get him interested. Make sure your got some real good recall to start with though. Best of luck.
George, I see those pups turned out to be good,They off Bruce ????? I should have taken two back to london with me
They wouldn't be much good to you over there in the big smoke!!!
George , that drake dog is unreal did you breed him yourself ? What breeding lines is he out of .
No,bought him,and I've just bought his brother too.
Hey I am writing to you from Sacramento, CA. Got a question: With all the cover your dogs go through, dont they ever get any debris in their ears that requires vet visits? Here we have what they call Foxtails which are just notorious. You can look them up. Dont you get any problems with your dogs in europe?
Bahman Ghashghaei The dogs sometimes incur injuries while hunting cover,thorns are a constant problem,facial cuts are common,one of my very good dogs died from pyothorax when a foreign body entered his chest cavity,probably a thorn.Unless the dogs tails are docked as pups they will have constant bleed problems from the tail tip.But to have any success hunting here in Ireland hard hunting cover dogs are an imperative.Hope this helps.
Thank you. Just wanted to see how they do in their "native" land. I guess injury is inevitable.
How much do they weigh?
Which,the dogs or the birds?
springerspanielful the dogs. I'm getting a field Springer and I've heard as a general consensus they are usually smaller than bench Springers but I haven't heard any numbers.
A working springer typically weighs around 15-20 kgs as an adult.
Cool. The sire of my pup belongs to the president of the English Springer Spaniel Field Trial Association, and he is on the lower end of that range, but the pups mom is larger I believe. The litter is due in a month or so, and I am excited to pick my pup out. Hoping for a male.
Best of Irish luck with your pup.
Wouldn't it be easy to shoot the dogs when you're shooting at birds on top of them?
cloudbuster77 On top of them???
Well, the dog flushes the bird, it flies up above the dog. I'd be afraid that in my haste to get off the shot at the bird I might hit the dogs below with some shot. They seem to be in close proximity
cloudbuster77 It might appear that way on the video,but the dogs are in no danger at all from the guns,it just requires a level head giving the bird time to rise well out of the way of the dogs.
+cloudbuster77 Practice, practice, practice.
the dog would be on the ground and unless your an extremely bad shot then you can't hit the dog