Puppies doing well

Well, things are progressing with the puppies - some of the wheat field are being harvested and that has pushed birds into areas that the puppies are able to make contact with them.

All the youngsters are having multiple bird contacts per day and doing well.

Starting to work on "whoa" post with all the derbies and progress should be good judging from what we have done so far.

Keith -Posting from Under the Rusty Windmill

Evaluations and Introduction to Birds/Gun Fire going well

Well, the past week we have been concentrating on getting an idea of where the dogs are and what to do training to make it as best we can. We have been working on check cord and introduction to gun fire for the past week

Eleanor - Doing well, no issues

Cooper - Doing well, no issues - but a bit aggressive

Diamond - Doing really well, loves birds and quite a handful

Fuzzy - Getting better on his bird work

Woody - Doing really well with his birds and other work

Gunner - Nice little puppy -

Dosa - Pointing well, a bit low styled but nice other ways

Unna - Pointing well, no issues yet

Jack - Whiner - and he has really happy feet - might get better - but still hard to handle

Penny - Nice dog - working well - no issues

Keith - Posting from Under the Rusty Windmill

Evaluations going well

Well, we have spent the last two days evaluating the dogs to see where they are and evaluate what we must be doing to get the best out of the talent we have.

For simplicity we divided the dogs into two categories - setters and pointers

Pointers are obviously - Pointers, GSP's, GWP's and viszla's.

Setters are - llewellins, irish, english setters and one lone pudelpointer

Cooper - Will be working on "whoa" and pen raised birds.

Eleanor - Will be working more on birds - less on whoa

Okie - Graduated to the big dog string - will be run with our broke dogs

Pete - We are gonna work him on double set pigeons - flushing the far bird and firing while he is pointed focused on the the near bird - seems if the bird flushes close he lays down

Dosa - Whoa and pen raised birds

Unna - Whoa and pen raised birds

Jack - Whoa

Penny - Whoa and pen raised birds

Woody - Whoa and pen raised birds

Fuzzy - Running and letting him work birds

Keith - Posting from Under the Rusty Windmill

1st Day working pen birds

Well, we had a pleasant visit from Brian Graebe and worked pups this morning on pen raised birds - evaluation and see where they are

We worked

Sid - coming 3 yr old broke dog that we need to transfer some commands too and get her to stop cat walking - wild birds in order and corrections - looks like a great young dog and I am very hopeful she will get the training she needs and be a serious competitor

Callie - Need to work on getting this fine young dog broke on her birds, really awesome looking dog

Ellie - Super nice dog from Rhonda Berg's kennels - may be the star of the summer puppy program

Taz - Super nice dog - still needs to work on broke dog manners - but wild birds will fix this I am confident

Rick - Very nice young dog that is going to be a star I think too - He is doing well

Teeka - Mark Wick's young dog - coming along super nice - go and great nose

Brunie - Angie Arnolds young bitch - super nice bird dog - will be something to watch this summer

Hondo - Super nice young coming derby - very pleased with this dog

Gus - Needs a summer on wild birds with no pressure at all

Gunner - Ray Coopers nice little viszla puppy - did a nice job on his first bird contacts

Keith - Posting from Under the Rusty Windmill

1st Day roading

We started roading today - with 8 dogs in the harnesses and 3 pups free running nearby.It was warm about 70F but the dogs did well, we had no problems with any dogs balking at the harness or getting scared of the ATV

30th of June - Arrived in camp safely - much work to do - lots of damage to repair. Horses grazing on prairie grass and dogs enjoying the much cooler temps on the Plains. Took a walk on the prairies to a low hill near camp with some pups just to watch the sun rise - very happy to be back - working on getting camp organized is draining and busy work - but I will post when I can in the next week and more often once we really get working on the training program for all the young dogs Keith - Posting from Under the Rusty Windmill

Summer Camp is Coming

Summer Camp will be once again in and around Timber Lake, SD. I will leave the last week in June and returning between the 3rd week in Sept and the 1st week in October. Favorable conditions in the winter and fall has lead to potentially a great hatch and plenty of birds according to reports from my landowners up there. I have about 10 slots left so if you want to send a dog this year - please get in touch with me Keith - Posting from Under the Live Oaks