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Depends on the dog. One of my puppy buyers named his pup "Stain." I told him that with a name like that, he'd better switch to 'here' and stop using 'come' when he calls the dog

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Sounds like the plantation was pretty inexpensive. How much land did you get for the $250,000? That was a seperate expense all together! Here's a fictitious break down of the financial costs to far too many field trialers I know: Dog 1: $800 Year 1: training books, DVDs, latest, greatest (unnecessa...

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$250,000

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No matter how thoughtful and careful you are, NO ONE can prepare for a disaster of this magnitude. My heart aches for the people of middle Tennessee

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Ugh. If they are asking more than $100 for this dog--and they get it--they will just go out and get another to sell. Give them some info on local rescue groups and convince them to give the dog to rescue (contact rescue first. Explain the situation and ask for advice). Then get the dog from the resc...

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Mav: You've waited a long time for your weim, and I hope this one works out. BUT....as a fellow hunter, I'm going to ask you to be patient and objective. You should know by now that the overwhelming majority of weims suck in the field. The sire of this pup may or may not have a good pedigree (if you...

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Yikes, I just read this thread. All this talk of 'touching, soothing and stroking tails', makes me wonder if I'm on a dog forum! How you guys can write this stuff with a straight face is really quite impressive :lol: p.s. whether I touch or not, is a private matter between me and my dogs :mrgreen: A...

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Ross Callaway is on this forum. Contact him. I also really like Maurice Lindley at http://lindleykennel.com Both are in SC and both are good trainers.

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I sold a weim pup to a guy in Indiana a couple of years ago, and he trained her to hunt morels. He claims she's worth her weight in gold (or 'shrooms)

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What? You mean this dog isn't a VC DC AFC MACH MH yet? Dude, you had a year. What a slacker

(congrats on the green ribbon, btw)

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I don't know where you're located. Above the mason-dixon line: a gwp/dd, chessie, or weim. Below the mason-dixon line, definately a weim or a thin coated gwp. Just make sure that they come from solid hunting stock.

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We've got the same problem here in Georgia. Last year, the major suppliers over-produced and were left holding the bag financially. This year, they under-produced. Can't blame them. All you hear about is the bad economy. But bird hunters and trialers always seem to find the extra change to follow th...

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Too many breeders, IMO, want a quick fix for their bitch's weaknesses and shop for a stud to 'repair' them in a single generation Using this logic,,, lets say you have a bitch that has a 9 o'clock tail,, do ya shop for a stud with a 10 o'clock tail, then the next breeding an 11 o'clock tail and so ...

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If your dog is checking in every 2-5 minutes, he IS hunting with you. Get a garmin and check yor watch. You may just find that pup hasn't gone as far or for as long as you think. 5 minutes in the field without your dog feels like an eternity, but it's really only 5 minutes. The more you try to force...

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Breed to your strengths and never waiver from that. And always, always think 2,3,4 generations down the line. Too many breeders, IMO, want a quick fix for their bitch's weaknesses and shop for a stud to 'repair' them in a single generation. If you solidify your strengths over 4 generations, you will...

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I've had pups that tagged. Very annoying trait. Some do grow out of it and running them with multiple dogs really helps. Another thing that's worked for me is to carry along a check chord. The instant your pup shows any interest at all in her bracemate, put a hook on her. Make her watch the other do...

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Sounds like you've got a pretty good base to start from. The weeds are critical. With the *right* weeds, there will be little need to plant food crops. Until/unless you establish ragweed, beggarlice, partridge pea, etc. go ahead and plant narrow strips of milo, pearl millet, grain sorghum, but let t...

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Welcome Bama! I'm from Georgia AND I have weims. Brenda force fetched two of them for me (good trainer, good choice). Hope to see you and Franky in the piney woods next season

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Further the more you get your Weimer pup into the habitat you plan to hunt the better. You want your pup to become bold and hunt for you, not trail along beside you. I couldn't agree more. I've got four weim pups right now, 3 months old. Every morning I kick 'em out of the kennel and let them have ...

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I''ve got to agree with what everyone else has said about the weim. You'll have more to choose from if you go with the gsp. But if you have your heart set on a weim, --and the breed has a way of worming right into your heart--then Judy Balog and Pam Cherry are great choices. You need to pick the bre...

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I believe that there is no one culprit. Farming practices, urbanization, predators, chemicals, loss of share-cropping, etc. all play a part. Here in central Georgia, one of the 'culprits' was the timber industry. Huge swaths of wall-to-wall pine, planted so densely that the sun couldn't reach the gr...

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Great thread. I just started doing my own vaccines and am pretty much following what my vet does. DHPP (I'm using Vanguard) between 6-7 weeks, then again at 11 and 16 weeks. Rabies at 16 weeks and lepto at 5-6 months if at all. I've heard that I am wasting time and money for giving that first shot s...

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I know another dog that has a 2pt AA win to his credit, at a horseback Weim trial. Funny thing was the dog was handled off of foot on a piece of ground really not big enough to run a GSP gundog stake. The first AF shooting dog stake I went to was a walking trial ,with a birdfield, held on a piece o...

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Yikes! So sorry to hear this. Hoping for a speedy recovery.

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Doesn't matter what you call the dog. All of mine come (eventually) to "Hey you #$%@% piece of !@#%!#@$$ get the !@#%!@#$ over HERE!"

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Good pedigree? No.

Good dog? Maybe. If you like him, that's all that really matters.

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Chip: I too have a litter of pups in the dogs for sale section. Weims at $1000 a pop. The litter is nearly sold out. And yes, I WILL make a profit on this litter. I've lost money on other litters, but that's just breeding for you. What I don't understand is the general attitude that it is wrong for ...

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Any news? Have you tried placing a crate or dog box at the scene with a shirt of yours in it? An aquaintance of mine had a similar experience years ago. She was hurt pretty badly, so some friends went out a few days later with a crate and one of her sweaters. It took about a week, but the dog return...

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Weimaraners:

1 male 69lbs
1 male 60lbs
1 female 54lbs
1 female 52lbs
1 female 49lbs
1 female 44lbs

My vet has a chart in his office of various breeds and what they 'should' weigh. Under Weimaraner, it says "70-120lbs" I crossed it out and wrote in "50-75"

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I trained and hunted over a JRT mix when I was a kid. He was an awesome squirrel dog and pretty good on rabbits and quail. More of a flusher than a pointer. He did like to shake the snot out of game before completing the retrieve, but he lived for retrieving and what he brought was usually edible. R...

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Tell her she CAN'T go hunting with you. That was all it took for me. :D After I whoa broke the family terrier and started shooting at tweeties with a slingshot in the bacdkyard, my mom made my dad take me along :lol: If that doesn't work, get her a puppy and let her train it herself. Aline http://zz...

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sjkennels wrote: gun broke but had a problem with the gun but she is coming along great.

If there is a problem with the gun, I'd get that issue cleared up completely before starting ff.

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sjkennels wrote: gun broke but had a problem with the gun but she is coming along great.

If there is a problem with the gun, I'd get that issue cleared up completely before starting ff.

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Funny--I was contacted by a guy yesterday who wanted me to help him train his Weimaraner puppy to hunt coons and rabbits. Maybe he saw the weim/walker ad? :roll:

(btw, weims are actually amazing trackers and are used much like hounds in other parts of the world)

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vzkennels wrote:The lesser known breeds usually cost more with less chance of getting a good one.Just a little something to think about.

What he said.

(but I'm a sucker for a good red setter)

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Hi mik If you want a good hunting weim, you'll need to be patient and will likely have to travel. I personally would never buy a weim pup unless I hunted over both parents first. I know that is inconvenient, but 15 years with a yard ornament that doesn't hunt, is dang annoying. If you find yourself ...

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It's my understanding that all dogs shed about alike but the secret is to have one the same color as your furnishings and carpet. Ezzy That's why we have Weimaraners. That pale gray/taupe blends in with everything :P Plus, I'm more afraid of the vaccum cleaner than my dogs are :mrgreen: Aline http:...

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WTG, Gary! She's a really nice dog.

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rapid fire wrote:Congrats Jay! I'm not even remotely surprised.

Me either

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To be held Oct. 10-11 at Black Creek Plantation in McIntyre, GA http://blackcreeklodge.com

For info and entry, go to http://gsbirddogchampionship.com

Open to pointers and flushers.

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Clays are a great way to sharpen your shooting skills. The aproch I take is. Walk up to the line saftey on. Now close your eyes. When you hear the trap open them aim and shoot. I go to help keep my reflexs sharp. I've seen guys walk up shoulder the gun safty off and yell pull :? Loser buys. I've bo...

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Train in trees. When your dog goes on point, walk around a tree before you go in front of him. If the dog moves forward, the pressure on the checkchord will come from behind, as it is looped around a tree.

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Mayonaise. I haven't tried it myself, but a friend with a hard keeper swears by it, and his dog looks good. Kind of makes sense, as it's basically oil and eggs. He just squirts it on the dog food.

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web's night and day

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tommyboy72 wrote:
ACooper wrote:Setters have been bred to Pointers in the south for years and years.
Blasphemy I say! Who would ever breed a pointer and a setter intentionally? Unheard of.

Oh "drop" it already!

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I agree with Rick. 4 months is a bit young for a difficult bird like the dove. I would wait until she's a little older, the weather is cooler, and she's demonstrated her retrieving ability on larger, less explosive birds.

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99.9% of weims in America have no hunt, are not sold to hunting homes, and are worthless field dogs, Easy there, you might want to change that to don't hunt not won't hunt. Even then 99.9% seems a little outlandish Actually, it is not outlandish :cry: And the reason we went to Germany for our first...

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[. It is a quality control thing. If it is a quality control thing, why are so many DD's sold to pet homes? Or even to Americans for that matter? In Germany, it is rare to see a DK in a non-hunting home. Ditto for weims. When I bought my first weim, it was absolutely forbidden to sell one to a non-...

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COI is helpful if the information is acurate and you either do or do not want to do a line breeding. If you want to do a linebreeding, you don't really need a COI program (though they are helpful) to know the common ancestors. On the other hand, if you want to do a complete outcross, COI programs co...

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[. It is a quality control thing. If it is a quality control thing, why are so many DD's sold to pet homes? Or even to Americans for that matter? In Germany, it is rare to see a DK in a non-hunting home. Ditto for weims. When I bought my first weim, it was absolutely forbidden to sell one to a non-...

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