At what age is it ok to introduce my new pup to live birds?
Any idea where I can get live pigeons in western NY?
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Ten to twelve weeks. Trapping/netting in barns or overpasses. Otherwise, craigslist is a good place to start. Pick up a dozen yb's next month and you should be good.
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yb's?bonasa wrote:Ten to twelve weeks. Trapping/netting in barns or overpasses. Otherwise, craigslist is a good place to start. Pick up a dozen yb's next month and you should be good.
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I believe he meant young birds, pigeons that people sell, not as nesting/egg laying birds, only a few months old but they can flyRichK wrote:yb's?bonasa wrote:Ten to twelve weeks. Trapping/netting in barns or overpasses. Otherwise, craigslist is a good place to start. Pick up a dozen yb's next month and you should be good.
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I agree with Doc on starting pups real young. I start on quail and pigeons with the pup just looking at them through the wire and progressing as the pup indicates readiness. By 12 -14 weeks I would expect them to be attempting to handle live, running, quacking ducks with aggressive eaze.
Here are 2 young pups at 14 weeks working a live duck. The DD is very aggressive with ducks at this stage and the Chocolate lab more stand-off-ish. Both are about 14 months old now, with hundreds of shot birds over them and both real deal hunting machines on dry land and in the water. DonYou do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.