Work continues

Today, we worked a few dogs. Yesterday we got lots of rain.

Lily - 2 finds on pheasants broke at flush

Tanner - Worked some scent but was not able to come up with any finds - ran okay

Jill - Still playing with butterflys

Trevor - One find - still breaking at shot

Buck - 2 broke finds

Cisco - Running well - got into birds

Gunner - Find on sharptails - broke at flush

Chance - One pretty find on pheasant - broke at flush.



I am pleased with the progress we are making.

Keith - Posting from Under the Rusty Windmill

More Rain

Today - we have rain - however, the last few days have been clear.

Maggie - Doing better in yard work - pointed some huns last night but broke at the flush.

Trevor - Pointed pheasants - held through the flush - broke at shot

Cisco - No birds

Lucy and Otto - Ran last - were in the vicinity of flushing birds but no points.

Chance - Is doing better with "whoa"

Mac - "Whoa" is coming along

Tanner - Pointing well - still breaking at the flush - "whoa" coming along

Lily - Jessie - Tripp - Getting better - lots of go - Tripp is starting to point better and although still not finding as many birds as I would like.

Jill - Still in Season

Millie and Mike - Pointing birds and getting into shape.

Rocky - Needs some more work.

Lola - Standing well broke in yard work - very happy with her

Tech - Still need my arms shortened after a workout with Tech

Tucker - 2 broke finds on birds.

We are starting to work more dogs off the KMule in some native pastures this is working great.

Last couple of days

Have been difficult - Friday we had severe rain and wind - and Saturday was spent repairing the damage to the bird pens and other equipment.

We have high hopes for the coming week.

Keith - Posting from Under the Rusty Windmill

Updates

Well, we are getting rained on today. Won't be going out all day.

We had a good couple days. The big dogs are getting in shape. We are running young derbies and doing lots of yard work.

Chance - Pointing birds and getting steadier

Trevor - Running hard and finding birds. He had once really nice find yesterday.

Cisco - Had a nice find this morning before the rain came.

Mags - She had multiple finds and a huge race

Otto - Getting into the swing of it - pointed an area that a bird had just flushed from

Millie - Multiple finds getting into shape

Tripp - Found some birds and ran well

Lucy - Finding birds and pointing regularly.

Gunner - Three contacts one point

Overall, since we are just finishing our 2nd week of training. I am pleased with the progress of the dogs.

Keith - Posting from Under the Rusty Windmill

PS Daniel has another slide show/video that he put together that will be uploaded in the next day or so.

Puppy Fun

We are making progress with the puppies.

Annie - Pointed 3 times today and was around lots of birds

Lucy - Nice point and was around lots of birds

Otto - Was into a couple broods of birds.

Xena - Pointed several times and was around lots of birds

Gunner - Had some nice finds

Cisco - Runs well and is bird crazy

Jill - Had a couple nice points and is running well

Mags - Breaking is coming along

Chance - Lots of drive - may be a handful to get broke

Mac - Super nose - nice style - working towards being broke well

Tanner - More dog than I can hold back sometimes - Will be a nice dog once he puts it all together.


Keith - Posting from Under the Rusty Windmill

Progress

Progress of the young dogs is very good.

Rita and Jakey - Super nice young two year olds - they are running hard finding and pointing birds.

Trevor - Has multiple contacts daily

Cisco - Nice running young dog

Maggie - Easy training and finding some birds

Jill - Nice points on a few birds.

Lucy and Otto - Getting more bird contacts

Chance - Powerful dog - bird crazy

Jessie and Lily - Look like their mom running and on birds nice dogs

Gunner - Running good and nice finds

Annie - Running well, not much contact yet

Lola - Slimming down and doing well in yard work

Tech - Pulling into the harness like a madman

Dolly - Progressing well

Another Good day

Well, today we had a great day. Very pleased with progress

Dolly - Very nice work today - retaining most of her past training well - still tough as nails

Mia - Tough as nails (littermate to Dolly) did a nice job today.

Chance - Doing great - we hope to get some good work done

Cisco - Running on the prairies will help this dog greatly.

Mac - Nice dog - plenty of drive - will be interesting to see how he develops

Jakey - Doing great nice dog - super nice breeding - love the trainability of this - Contrasts with Dolly, Mia and Stubby - that are tough as nails and nearly as stubborn in some ways

Evening training was very good.

Tripp - Had contact with some birds - still needs lots of time and work

Jill - Pointed lots of birds

Trevor - had 3 finds

Otto and Lucy - Ran around but didn't find any birds

Xena - Had one find

Cisco - Had 2 contacts



Keith - Posting from Under the Rusty Windmill

Evening Training

Well, we have found out that the Kmule we brought up (at great expense) is working better than planned. We use it at night to get extra bird contacts driving the two tracks that crisscross the prairies - our trial experiments have worked great.

Keith - Posting from Under the Rusty Windmill

Training going well

Well, we started working dogs in earnest - yard work commenced today with good results.

Maggie - Stood well, probably will not take long to break her steady to wing and shot

Lola - Stood well, and I am really happy with what she retained

Lily - - Nice young dog - pointed well and we have plenty of work ahead

Tanner - Did a nice job - lots of good stuff to work with I think

Jessie - Pretty intense - decent nose - liked her ability to train

Tripp - Worried a bit here - he seems indifferent to training

Trevor - Still have lots of work to do with this youngster

Rita - Great pointing ability - really happy with where this youngster is.

Keith - Posting from Under the Rusty Windmill

Plenty of birds

We have been getting out more the last couple days - plenty of birds around here. Tomorrow we will start roading in earnest and we will start working puppies and young dogs on birds sometime in the middle of next week.

Pics and videos will be forthcoming as we start really working the dogs.

Keith - Posting from Under the Rusty Windmill

Great Looking summer

Daniel and I have been busy taking care of animals, cleaning up the camp, mending fences and other stuff that we always need to do upon arrival here in camp. I took the puppies on puppy walks and we have been roading about 10 dogs per day off horseback for a few days. We will increase this number to 16+ per day soon (we have to clean up and get the ATVs running).

We will get more going in the next day or so.

Camp is green - the prairies look great and on trip to town we counted 30 bunches of pheasants and sharptails this morning going in and coming back.

Keith - Posting from Under the Rusty Windmill