Good luck with you test. Chukars do too, pigeons are largely made to recall. A few tips on raising Chukars for dog training Dog + birds= Birddog!

FAQ; Logout; Register; Board index General Chat General Chat; Raising Quail or Chukar. Looking at raising some chukar chicks this year to help with training my pup and also a friends. Wild birds are not inherently better for your dog than pen-raised birds.

Plus, once we are shooting birds over our young dog, chukars make delicious dinners.

Raising Quail or Chukar. Had a great experience with chukar this past wknd flight wise and ease of handling . Plans for a small backyard loft are available from Lion Country Supply. If anything, mature chukars seem to be hardier than mature quail, we keep chukars for dog training in the winter as they seem to handle the bitter SD winters and the wet springs better than quail. Make sure that the dog will swim and track on command and has a reasonable recall. There was a time, perhaps, when that wasn't true, when wild birds were abundant and access to the land they lived on was given freely. RichK Rank: 2X Champion Posts: 483 Joined: Sun Jan 27, 2013 11:36 pm Location: Rochester, NY. Without much training at all (just a little of Wolters’ wing-on-a-string work) and some great bonding between us over his first few years, he quickly figured out not just how to find and point chukar (and Huns and grouse and quail and pheasant), but exactly how close he could get before busting them. Plus more to eat when you want. I have really got frustrated trying to locate birds local when needed and quality of quail has been poor. We use pigeons to start puppies, train derbies and rehearse with older dogs.

10 posts • Page 1 of 1. ↳ Training ↳ Health and Nutrition ↳ Hunting ↳ Brags ↳ Product Ratings & Reviews ↳ GDF "Hall of Fame" Posts; General Information ↳ Events ↳ Guns and Ammo ↳ Polls ↳ Legislation & Hunting Rights ↳ Tributes to the Departed ↳ Wild Game Recipes ↳ Horses; Trading Post - BUY/SELL/TRADE/SEEK ↳ Submit Your GUN DOG Site

foot per 6 chicks for the first 12 days and 1 foot per 3 chicks up to 6 weeks old, then 2 sq. We keep some chukars in our bird pen for training, but we also like to use chukars when we continue our training at the game preserves. Plus, once we are shooting birds over our young dog, chukars make delicious dinners. foot per 6 chicks for the first 12 days and 1 foot per 3 chicks up to 6 weeks old, then 2 sq. Good dog, happy man. Here is our newest, certified Higgins Gundog Sage, a Cesky Fousek, and her owner Ron. In training you can whoa a dog AFTER a point but it will hurt you to do so in the test. They help us train dogs at every step of the process and training a dog would much more expensive and more difficult without them.

I well remember having to rinse out and refill the pigeon water several times a day, every day, this time of the year because the water would be soiled almost within minutes after the changing. I will describe a setup for 100 chukar chicks and you can modify it to fit your own particular needs, they need 1sq. Skip to content. Teaching a dog to catch his own birds will be a heart break.
Hunting Dog Training, Gun Dog Puppies, and Discussion. We use them in backing drills and stop-to-flush work. We took her from bumping and chasing birds, to steady to wing, shot & fall in three days. Even so, I have my doubts.

Raising Chukar Chicks is basically the same as other poultry except they are only about 2/3 the size of bantams, so the brooder setup has to be right the first time. Most pigeons are also quite hardy, but they are also quite messy. Quick links. Finally, we’ll progress to pheasants as the last step in our bird training program, but even then, we’ll use hen pheasants first. Gun Dog Forum. Not any new revelation, it takes birds to make birddogs. They’re also smaller and easier for the pup to pick up, if the dog is a natural retriever. So let's talk about training dogs the efficient way. Chukars hold well and are good flyers, ensuring that your pup has time to find and point them and won’t catch them. And did I mention that he loves retrieving? Was my first time for baby chukars, have raised older chukars and quail chicks before- and I didn't find the chukars to be much more difficult than the quail.
The more birds the better, wild birds even better.

They help us train dogs at every step of the process and training a dog would much more expensive and more difficult without them. Post by RichK » Thu Aug 28, 2014 7:08 pm … Raising Chukar Chicks is basically the same as other poultry except they are only about 2/3 the size of bantams, so the brooder setup has to be right the first time.. Be careful about from who and what advice you get from other members of your club.