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I'd burn it and chain harrow afterwards,I've noticed it helps a ton in my pasture when doing that.Seems like the ash creates some type of fertilizer that really encourages growth.

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Nike, This one hauls 6 million dollars worth of horse flesh,high dollar quarter horses.Ranch is in oklahoma and the guy's got more money than davy crockett but you'd never know it,most down to earth common sense having rich guy I've ever met. Been at it 20 years for a living,the money is not in qual...

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Been at it 20 years for a living,the money is not in quality pieces like the dog box and the horse trailer pictured,the money is in anything construction that keeps liquid in or processes liquid.I gave up the custom fabricator job 10 years ago to pipefitting/welding,great pay but at the end of the d...

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Measure the height at the withers

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For starters you know your dog,if he ain't pissy leave him be,if he is pissy neuteriing will not help the pissiness.It kills me that people think they are going to modify a dogs personality for the better with neutering,it does not work.If you have a fighter with nuts it will be a fighter without nu...

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Get an owl decoy and put it in a tree in your yard to chase the tweetys away

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I've got 4 there right now,this brings the total to 12 that have been through the program

WillieELk78GSP wrote:
Wildweeds wrote:http://www.quicksilverkennels.com I highly reccomend him for any pointing breed.
+1. I have my dog there now training, i have had a great experience with him so far!!

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www.quicksilverkennels.com I highly reccomend him for any pointing breed.

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It is hunting season,IMO the dog will learn far more than you could even try to set up and teach him if you just go hunting,keep your bar set low and let him figure it out for himself,the first season is the dogs,the rest are yours.

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After reviewing Gerties pedigree and considering her age I have one more question,it there small scabs and a greasy look to the skin of the tail? If so My internet diagnosis for this would be localized demodectic mange if she is NOT gnawing at it,if she is gnawing at it a seasonal pollen allergy of ...

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I'd take the dog hunting and not worry about perfection,get that sucker into a bunch of birds and don't worry about perfect dog work every time.I'd say the dog was a sour trial dog,have seen quite a few that were sulky do to the pressure applied to be perfect,my guess is that the dog your talking ab...

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Is the hair loss the complete length of the tail or just at the tip or near the base?

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For a pointer you need a stakeout and a checkcord and birds For a retriever you need a stakeout,checkcord,2 retrieveing dummies and birds. The stakeout is universal,can be used as a whoa post(if your into teaching the dog whoa for obediance purposes) and used on the retriever to stop them from break...

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Got a dog here that will do it when he is in pain,got another one here that does it because of the heat.

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I've got the four setters along the south wall of the kennel,they've been there two months.Two reports,He knows I don't need reports though,have used his services on 6 dogs in 12 years and will not change.

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Not enough info IMO to make anykind of comment,sorry doc.Does the dog wolf it's food down like it's never eaten before?Does the dog have a deep chest?Does the dog eat from a bowl on the floor or an elevated bowl?Is the dog an easy keeper?Does the dog ever puke the food back up and then wolf it back ...

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Caps you say........... only three to wear in eastern washington palouse, CAT,John Deere or WSU Cougar well worn of course.If your looking to hunt the Flying 5 Rodeo company land near the snake river the go to hat is Copenhagen Skoal Pro Rodeo Actually, it is neither the LL Bean nor the Carhartt tha...

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Thats exactly what it is Ezzy,these guys got cattle,horses and they are money,leave a gate open that's shut,or one closed that's supposed to be open,do some risque shooting around whatever,Tractors,barns,Leave garbage,drive where your not supposed to,all kinds of stuff.Yeah I work for a living and h...

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Heck I'm really old school,I don't expect much or put pressure on them until they tell me when it is right,I've had dogs broke as early as 14 months and as late as 3 years.I give them the first hunting season to be tough enough to buck bad luck,Rank bold pups that knock and chase don't give me heart...

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I'm a carhardt guy too.I feel that when asking permission for hunting it goes over a might bit better with the natural look,than jumping out of the truck like you just stepped out of the LL Bean catalog looking like a bird hunting pimp.

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Ted Turner was married to Hanoi Jane................ He's off the list in my book due to fraternization with the enemy.

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Has anyone thought of this,How about a birddog celebrity handler and athlete? Robin Gates and one of his charges,or Rich Robertson and one of his,George Tracy and one of his ? My guess is a call to Robertsons would get you a show on the ranch seeings as how they hunt it.

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I had a dogtra launcher go on the fritz,turns out it was the soleniod that was the cause of it not working properly.I got the part and fixed it myself,was really easy.

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Amazing how the terminology changes with the era's..................Dechase is now what was known as point em or knock em.Used to be you'd run em till they pointed and then kill the pointed bird,I still use that method as wild birds have far better timing than any human could ever try to replicate w...

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Break a leg or hobble the legs with twine or zip ties before planting them and they won't run.My freind used to guide at a preserve,he found he got better dog work and bigger tips when he broke the legs.The bigger tips came from getting all their birds and stroking the client's up on their shooting ...

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In the american hunter magazine last month they had a snippit of an article on Gretchen Wilson................. She hunts her own land.

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My guess is hip and or disk/arthritis issues in the spine.

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Hank Williams JR

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Hunting

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Nice post TrueBlu, couldn't agree more.At six months you let em buck snort rip around and get fired up,get em to go with you ,everything is supposed to be fun fun fun.I have a philosophy that the first and quite possibly the second season depending on the maturity(and off age pups) between the ears ...

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That's a DANDY Setternut!

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I have some good english setter pups that are 14 months old,I hunt the same place that you do,intalco,BP and Lake terrell,I do not go hunting there until well past noon.Two saturdays ago I went at 3:10 and found 5 birds before quittng time,I shot my second rooster at 3:53.We have been hunting one of...

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Beware of the Suicide Queen,I learned this long ago.I would have a dog go on point,produce a hen,sometimes three or four,give up and move on without thinking anything of it.Till I saw this very thing one day,two roosters slinking off in figure 8 patterns necks to the ground in the crp.I've killed qu...

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Think it's a case of missed keys Don,I take it that the dog is an english setter who is 1 1/2 years old.

DonF wrote:What's the other half?

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Get the dog from Matzke or Schaff? Welcome aboard.

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Concur on the guage of the wire,my kennels were made by the local chainlink fencing contractor,I ordered them with the 9 guage fabric,it's bulletproof. The gauge of the galvanized pipe is a big factor. The thin fabric and fencing from the local hone improvement store won't last however the old comme...

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I was wondering if the jaws are spring steel or just plain old carbon,Brand new kleins might very well cut through the spring steel though,I use them for cutting stainless steel filler wire.

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How big is the wire/rod that the jaws are made of? if it's carbon steel and 3/16 of an inch around or less,I'd just for ease and speed back a new pair of Klein linemans pliers in my vest.Not much in the way of trapping where I hunt,fact is I don't think any.But as a welder I know that the linemans p...

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Ive got 8 galvinized kennels,I've rep;aced 2 bottom bars total in10 years.The cheapest part of the chainlink kennels is the pipe the mesh is attached too.It's thin and the galvinizing is pretty thin .I've dealt with a lot of powdercoated stuff too,if the metal isn't super clean your not going to get...

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Ive been told the NGSPA Sharptail is the one you want to win,all wild birds and the best venue for a birddog in the country.The fellow that told me this goes everyyear to watch em go,he's run a dog or two but just a couple of times.

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Going to make this short and sweet................ magical blue sleeping serum at the vet.I myself do NOT put up with that type of behavior.If the VCA wants to retain these type genetics they are not very smart.

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Use the silouette and a bird launcher as Don suggests,trying to use another dog at the onset can be a fiasco,been there and done it.Put the launcher directly behind the mass of the body of the silouette,when you know good and well the dog has made visual contact with the dummy dog,pop the bird.This ...

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Since everydog is different,so will the time when gun and birds is right for introduction.I've had all kinds,the kind I was killing birds over at 4 months and the kind that at 16 months wasn't really ready for the gun.The latter dog was a real pain in the butt to get acclimated to the gun,he really ...

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The trick is pulling the skin of the tail towards the rump,so that when cut the excess covers the stump.Vets(around here anyways) always throw a stitch in the tip to hold it together.

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Concur on the being on the young side,keep exposing her,it's an age old game known as "Point em or Knock em" She will point them when she is ready,it's all new to her and she needs to figure it out.Don't say whoa either,let her work it out with the birds,she will have an encounter that flips her swi...

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I use a soldering gun with a rope cutting attachment,pups but goes against a board,board has a reference mark on it for half the tail,some may be a fuzz long for color ,or shorter.Pull skin towards the pups butt on the tails and cut it off with the white hot rope cutter,it's cotterized at the cut an...

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Send the dog........... your paying for him to set in a kennel or.................. if he goes he's gonna be working birds.Did I mention send him?

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Coop in close to a hundred and a half pups,I feel we only got one bucked off to long shooting for the my buddys white tip or brown tip fettish.That dogs tail ended up somewhere close to 10 inches,it's blocky all the way way though.He hates short tails his first 2 gsps had a cumlative tail length of ...

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Sounds perfect to me.

Johng918 wrote:It's kind of funny because it don't get thinner as it goes up and it's about 8 inches long now.

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Even my vet cuts them too short,in his office one day and a guy had the cutest little wirehair pup came strolling out,I eyed the tail and thought "too short".Got in the office with the vet and he asked if I saw the wire pup,I said "yeah,but someone cut the tail off to short" ,he responded " Hey now,...

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