Another Video of the dogs

Hope you enjoy it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4xKANuQ_L8&feature=share

Taz and Primo

Taz with Primo honoring

Keith - Posting from Under the Rusty Windmill

Training Today

Well, we loaded up and ran dogs today on a pretty nice piece of ground that holds birds.

Chance and Charlie - Charlie ran short race, had one find and one back. Chance ran a moderate gun dog race - with one find on pheasants, took steps at shot and was corrected.

Mali and Sam - Mali had a broke find and stop to flush, corrections were made on another stop to flush - Sam had one find. Both dogs ran well - Sam being short and lateral - Mali running moderate range and forward.

Primo and Taz - Primo had a find, and stop to flush, and a back took steps at shot - corrections made. Taz had a find - broke on flush and chased.

Hondo and Millie - Last brace of the day, getting hot - both dogs ran well, searched diligently and had no bird contacts.

Lucy and Amos- Had 3 or 4 finds - broke at the shot - made corrections making progress. Ran well, Amos had a broke find.

Keith - Posting from Under the Rusty Windmill

Another Day working field trial and hunting dogs

Well, we got out and worked a bunch of dogs today. We have worked up to 10 miles in our roading course. Duc, Hondo, JuJu, and Taz all had bird work this morning.

We trailered over to one of our good spots to work some young dogs and field trial dogs.

Dolly and Kona - Dolly had 1 find, she mishandled it a bit. She had two stop to flush. Kona had a find and a couple times he put up birds and chased

Mac and Gus - Mac had a four finds - one he handled well, the other three not so good. Gus pointed and knocked 4 different groups of birds

Knikki and Annie -- Knikki had 4 finds - one he handled well, 3 not so good and had some corrections made. Annie had 3 finds - she broke at flush but we are making good progress

Stub and Chip - Stub had one nice broke find, and several others that were not so good. Chip had a nice point and knocked a bunch of birds too

Jakey and Red - Jakey had 4 finds - two with good manners. Red knocked and chased a bunch of birds and we were able to fire some blanks around him with no noticeable effect (he was 30 to 40 yds away in full chase)

Keith - Posting from Under the Rusty Windmill

Working on the prairies

Well, we worked 5 braces of dogs on the prairie - We had two bird contacts - Unusual because this field is usually productive for 4 or 5 bunches of birds. I was disappointed

Chance and Trevor - Chance ran a big race and had no contacts. Trevor starting to open up more - no contacts.

Sam and Kane - Kane ran a huge shooting dog race, well to the front, no contacts. Sam ran a nice shooting dog/gun dog race - no contacts.

Primo and Buddy - Buddy ran a huge, hard handling all age race. Primo ran a big shooting dog race but handled well - Buddy and Primo both mishandled separate birds

Charlie and Tio - Tio ran a nice forward race - no contacts. Charlie was short and distracted - no contacts

Mali and Lucy - Mali ran a nice shooting dog race, handled well - no contacts. Lucy ran a nice hunting race - No contacts.

Keith - Posting from Under the Rusty Windmill

Great day working dogs

Well, even with a late start (been feeling poorly lately) we got out and worked braces of dogs on wild birds. Each brace had plenty of bird work and it was pretty awesome.

Rocky and Stubby - Rocky had one nice broke find, Stubby backed and had one broke find himself. They had nice forward races and handled well.

Dot and Gus - Dot ran a big shooting dog/All Age Race with 3 or 4 broke pieces of bird work. Gus had a back, and 4 puppy/derby finds

Knikki and Annie - Short to moderate shooting dog races. Knikki had 4 finds - 1 broke find and mishandled 3 finds - with corrections made. Annie had 2 derby finds, broke on the flush.

Mac and Jessie - Short to moderate shooting dog/gun dog races. Mac had 4 finds - 2 were broke - 2 were mishandled. Jessie had 4 finds - 2 were handled with broke manners - 2 finds she took steps.

Dolly and Jakey - Ran short to moderate gun dog races. Jakey had two broke finds, and a couple mishandled stop to flush. Dolly ran a nice shooting dog race - She had a stop to flush.

All in all it was a great day training.

Keith - Posting from Under the Rusty Windmill

Another day

Horseback dogs are coming along.

Tio and Amos - Points and backs on young pheasants - need some more range from Amos will come I think

Mali and Lucy - Find on pheasants and sharp tails - Mali handled hers like a pro - Lucy not so much so

Jessie and Dot - Dot had a broke find on pheasants, Jessie mishandled her birds

Chance and Trevor - Chance broke at shot - Trevor also but not bad for a couple of hunting dogs

Stub and Taz - Taz is pointing birds regularly and running well - Stub running well but still mishandles birds from time to time

JuJu - A few bird contacts, needs to develop more independence

Preston - Pointing birds and running well - good little dog - nice forward pattern

Duc - Running big and pointing, nice forward pattern

Callie - Finding birds needs more work, needs to run more

Buddy - Doing okay - needs lots of work

Gus - Runs great - no contacts with birds yet


Keith - Posting from Under the Rusty Windmill

Field Trial Dogs

This is Mac - Not sure what Chuck is gonna register him as - I like Whiterock Mac Windem (CH Arties Royal Mac X CH Teasel Windem) This is gonna be a great dog nice naturally forward race and good running style and pointing style - He beats his tail to death in the kennel and out on the prairie. He is potentially a better trial dog than Tanner or Knikki - only time will tell but we got to get him ready to run at Grand Junction for the AKC National Championship next spring. Hoping we can get him qualified to do so in the coming months.

Other dogs I am hoping to re-qualify or qualify

Whiterock Forever Knight

Whiterock Mali

Whiterock Cordite

Whiterock Hondo

Blackhawks Dot

Jessie

Duc



Keith - Posting from Under the Rusty Windmill

Great day working dogs

Well, we trailered over to another spot to work dogs this morning, we had 10 dogs on board and it was a great training day.

Charlie and Trevor - Trevor had a nice find on sharptails and a nice ground application and race making casts of between 50 and 200 yds. Charlie was slow to start and did not make any big moves she had a find near a wheat field on pheasant.

Mali and Sam - Mali had a broke piece of bird work on a hen pheasant, and a shorter than normal race. Sam made a few nice moves but generally stayed at a nice gun dog range.

Dot and Primo - Dot had a nice broke find on pheasants, I had to ride hard after her a couple times but did a nice forward reaching race. Primo had a find on pheasant and broke at the flush - a decent race and all in all did well for his first day of horseback work

Amos and Tio - Short to moderate race for Amos, he had a couple backs. Tio ran a decent race - needs to open up a bit - nice broke find on pheasant

Stub and Lucy - Lucy ran a nice race, flushed a pheasant, and pointed a group of sharptail and broke at flush - she ran a mostly forward race and did a nice job. Stub ran a nice big race with a find on sharp tails that he held to flush.

Keith - Posting from Under the Rusty Windmill

First day of horseback work

Today was our first day of horseback work on wild birds - Daniel and I loaded (5 braces - 10 dogs) to work on a section of ground we have just received permission to run dogs on. It was a warm, humid day and we only ran the dogs for 30 min. Running an older dog with a derby or puppy. This worked out well.

Rocky and Gus - This father/son team was fun to watch. Rocky ran shorter than normal, but I am sure he will run bigger as summer progresses. Rocky had a find on sharptail and a non-productive - Gus knocked and chased the birds while Rocky stood steady to wing and shot.

Jessie and Chip - These dogs ran well mostly forward races - Jessie had a non productive early and Chip knocked a sharp tail and chased - it was fun to watch, Jessie was steady while I made flushing attempts and I think she will be fine as the summer progresses and starts to run bigger and find more birds.

Knikki and Annie - Ran nice mostly forward races - Knikki had a non productive and a back - Annie had a non productive - they ran well forward and handled well

Mac and Jakey - This was the best brace of the day - as far as application and forward races with some nice moves in them - Jakey had a no productive and Mac had a back - Both stood steady through the flushing attempt until released.

Chance and Dolly - Big hard handling race - no finds and we cut this brace short because the heat index was approaching 100F and we decided that it was best to stop.

Slide show of dogs

Here is a video that Daniel put together for all you owners to view and we sincerely hope you enjoy the video

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFzpDeHOVE4

Keith - Posting from Under the Rusty Windmill

Heat Indexes and T-Storms limiting work

Well, we are about into our 3rd full week of training. We have finished evaluating the dogs and have worked out a schedule so that each dog gets the type and frequency of work they need. Saturday and Yesterday we had heat indexes in the triple digits. This morning we had wanted to start horseback work but we had thunder and lightning all over the place and the last thing we want to be out on the prairie with lightning in the area - cows and haystacks get hit every storm.`

Preston - Having a great time - pointing birds and running around

Jewel - Running hard and pointing great

Red - Contacts with birds every day while free running of the ATV

Duc - Our best bird finder and mover of the puppies this year. Really fun to watch this dog.

Kona - Has had wild bird contacts and has pointed on a few occasions

Callie - Finding a few birds - have not seen her point yet

Taz - Finding birds and has pointed a few times

Buddy - Needs to be treated like a puppy - will not be broke this summer

Chance - He is doing well still has happy feet - we will work on this with wild birds

Stubby - Doing great - broke on pen raised birds - will work him more and more on wild birds

Charlie - Nice young female - She needs lots of work on steadiness

Sam - Will be trying to get him more steady on both wild and pen raised - flags alot which is sometimes a sign of pressure - will try making it fun for him again and see what happens

Kane - Getting in great shape

Dolly - pretty broke - need to reinforce it on wild birds

Jessie - Great little dog - still broke on pen raised birds - will continue to develop on wild birds

Dot - Beautiful female with great point and steadiness - we will have to work on wild birds

Primo - Nice dog - will work on steadiness as we go on both wild and pen raised birds

Annie - More pen and wild bird work - she still breaks hard - will work on that and think that being derby broke by the time the fall comes is very doable.

Trevor - Running better and we have seen some positive things from him - he is running better and he has pointed a few birds

Hondo - Runs big when he wants too - still not alot of bird work

Gus - Big running puppy - points level tail - but will be a fine hunting dog

Keith - Posting from Under the Rusty Windmill

Still evaluating and doing yard work

Well, we are almost done evaluating the dogs we have and have pretty much came up with a training plan for all of the.

Mac - Nice dog that needs a bit more yard work - but I am very confident he will be broke this summer.

Preston - Nice point, chase - no reaction to gunfire - and delivered the bird to hand

Charlie - Progressing on the "whoa" post

Kona - Making transition from "whoa" post to field training on "whoa"

Red - Still running and chasing birds

Gus - To immature to work steadiness - will continue running him in our puppy program

Sam - Progressing on the "whoa" post

Buddy - Needs more bird work

Jake - Running hard - gonna start working pen raised birds to reinforce some training problems that have cropped up

Annie - Progressing on the "whoa" post will transition to field training soon

Monday - We will start working horseback and wild birds with the dogs

Keith - Posting from Under the Rusty Windmill

Working pen raised birds now

Well, Daniel and I made the trip to ND and got birds and dog food yesterday. Today was our first day working birds. We worked pups and evaluated older dogs.

Charlie - Needs more experience with birds but seemed to have a good nose and style

Sam - Nice dog - shows a sensitivity to pressure that will need to worked on via putting him into more wild birds and letting the birds train him.

Red - Needs to run on lots and lots of wild birds

Duc - Shows good talent, runs big

Preston - Likes birds pointed briefly and had a nice delayed chase

Lucy - Seems to have nice talent and works fine - think we can get this one broke fine

Primo - Nice point and chase - no problems - think this one will make it fine

Kona - Nice point and retrieve

Buddy - This is a 3 yr old dog that acts like a 6 month old puppy when it comes to birds

Jewel - Nice point and chase

Trevor - Pointed, was steady to flush but too close to the chain for shot - has remembered his training and we will just run him on wild birds to increase his desire.

Keith - Posting from Under the Rusty Windmill

Puppies having a good time

I have started roading the dogs over eight miles now. All the dogs are running well, getting in shape and some are starting to muscle up.

Puppies are running well too.

Duke - Is by far the best pup in camp

Taz - Only pup that is regularly pointing birds

Callie - Needs to get more adventurous

Buddy - Although not a pup is doing well

Kona - Running well - a few contacts with birds

Red - Having contacts practically every day


We are working other dogs on the "whoa" post

Charlie - Doing great

Sam - Doing great but I have some concerns about sensitivity to loud noises

Stub - Ready to go

Buddy - Needs more time

Ti0 - Ready to go

Annie - Doing fine

Lucy - Doing well - but still trying to sit down

Keith - Posting from Under the Rusty Windmill

Working on Whoa

Well, we are roading the field trial dogs 8 miles now - the other conditioning and hunting dogs are still roading 6 miles - we will gradually increase the distance and vary the speed at which we road as the summer progresses. All the birds we are seeing are very young yet - but there is a wondrous variety - ducks, sharp tail and pheasants as well as some geese (which is pretty unusual).

Daniel and I are working on the "whoa" post daily now.

Sam - Doing well, and I am confident in his learning ability

Kona - Bit of a problem in that he wants to sit a lot, but we are working on it.

Duke - Taking to it well

Red - Working through some issues - likes to sit occasionally but working through that

Annie - a real trooper no problems so far

Buddy - Did well, I expected more of a rodeo with him

Lucy - Sitting is a problem with her - working on it and making slow progress

Stub - Just a refresher for him - we will probably be on the chain for about a week then worked through the rotation on wild and pen raised birds

Chip - Just some more repetitions are necessary for him - He is progressing well

We usually work dogs on the "Whoa" post for 2 week to a month - depending on their ability to absorb and apply the training and using a variety of stimuli until we are reasonably sure they are ready for pen raised birds and corrections - after that is accomplished then it is on to wild birds for final polish.

Keith - Posting from Under the Rusty Windmill

Well, we have most everything set up - I am roading 2 sets of dogs every day and running five to eight puppies every morning and one or two in the evenings.

Preston - Been adopted by Daniel spends his days when he is not out exploring or running on the prairies curled up on a chair or sleeping in Daniel's room.

Red - Free running him so he can get a few more contacts given his sensitivity issues

Gus - Big running and nice looking dog

Taz - Not running big yet and still not had an contacts

Jewel - Running big - and forward a few contacts

Chase - Big running and hard to catch - doesn't want to quit

Kona - Nice moving - mostly forward and attentive

Chip - Finding birds and running forward through the prairie

Duke - Having a great time - loves running and splashing through the water

For the big dogs we are roading 6 miles or about 1 hour. The dogs are powerful and getting into shape - and will get into much better shape as we go on through the summer.

Sam - Had an issue at first - took a few times roading for him to get with the whole program.

All of the other dogs are old pro's at it and working hard.

Keith - Posting from Under the Rusty Windmill

Starting to get dogs in shape

Well, I have been able to road a few dogs the last two days - I have obtained my training permit from the Standing Rock Sioux Game and Fish - so we have run a few pups around the place here.

Yesterday, while roading and in the harness Rocky decided to point - I got off the bike and went about 3 feet and out came a rooster pheasant. It was awesome.

Keith - Posting from Under the Rusty Windmill