Do all game birds smell the same?

[gripper39]

I was just wondering about the smell of game birds do they all smell the same and do they smell different than regular songbirds? My dog mainly hunts pheasants and quail but I have used chukar to train him and at the hunt club he has pointed partridge. Why would a pigeon smell different than a songbird or would a dog point a songbird if it was planted in the grass? I don't know just something that I was wondering about.

[Modi]

The dogs can definitely tell the difference. I have always wondered how dogs keyed onto game bird scent more than non-game bird scent and when this distinction happened. Humans, after all, decide what is a game bird. Can a woodcock smell THAT different from a robin? We raise chickens, and my dog has no interest in them, but will follow you through heck for a cage-raised pheasant. Go figure.

[PkerStr8Tail]

I raised pheasants, chukar and quail for a few years and I can tell you that the smell is very distinctly different. So if the human nose can tell a difference, I would think a dogs nose would detect the difference.

[ezzy333]

I was just wondering about the smell of game birds do they all smell the same and do they smell different than regular songbirds? My dog mainly hunts pheasants and quail but I have used chukar to train him and at the hunt club he has pointed partridge. Why would a pigeon smell different than a songbird or would a dog point a songbird if it was planted in the grass? I don't know just something that I was wondering about.

Not only can they smell differnt spieces they can tell different bird within the spiece. Every bird Like every human has a smell all their own.

JMO

Ezzy

[markj]

Every bird Like every human has a smell all their own

Unless someone makes a descented bird feed to feed them hmmm could this be a new marketable item?

I had a dog once that only pointed male pheasants. Made me a few bucks with her on that.

[ezzy333]

Every bird Like every human has a smell all their own

Unless someone makes a descented bird feed to feed them hmmm could this be a new marketable item?

I had a dog once that only pointed male pheasants. Made me a few bucks with her on that.

For seventy years I have heard a lot of people that had one that only pointed cocks but no one ever has one. Wonder why? Must have disappeared due to poor breeding.
Ezzy

[markj]

For seventy years I have heard a lot of people that had one that only pointed cocks but no one ever has one

She was killed at age of 3. Now if ya wish to come over here and talk to my cousin that paid me 50.00 for the demonstartion we did.... he dont ever let me forget it and is always trying to get it back.

I aint 70 tho........ close but not quite.

I should stop making that claim as she is gone and Icant prove it other than those that lost a bet with me on it...