Travel Plans

Well, it looks like we will be leaving on Tuesday to head south to Texas. For those that live in the Ft Worth area - we will probably stop at Cabelas in Ft Worth to unload the horses and get the dogs out into the kennels to stretch their legs a bit - anticipating about 2-4 hours there. If it would be convenient for owners in the Ft Worth area you can pick up your dogs there. I am gonna try to keep everyone appraised of our progress via Facebook so the meet can be made if you wish.

Still working dogs - we introduced 12 ga shotgun to all the younger dogs - in prep for hunting seasons - progress continues with all the dogs.

Keith - Posting from Under the Rusty Windmill

Starting to pack up now

Well, we start breaking down camp and getting ready to go home - we have a week or so yet - but getting things packed up and ready to go is going on at a leisurely pace - Hopefully, I will get to a trial in Great Falls next weekend and Daniel with continue to work on stuff - either way - hoping to be on the road 3rd or 4th of October.

Dogs are doing well, and I am pleased with the work that has been accomplished.

Keith - Posting from Under the Rusty Windmill

10 days left

Working young dogs and pups on pen raised birds that last couple days. Progress coming along slowly. But, it is at least progress in the right direction

everyone doing great

We have been running the younger dogs lately. They are making good progress.

Red and Duc - Had multiple contacts with birds - Red had some blanks fired and his confidence is growing - Duc ran all over and handled well.

Stub and Taz - Again multiple contacts with birds. Stub had 5 finds that he stood steady to wing and shot. Taz pointed and knocked 4 birds himself.

Trevor and Kane - Ran all over - but were not able to find any birds. Nice dogs.

Chip and Kona - Ran well, Kona had a couple contacts pointed until flush. Chip had no contacts - he is very athletic and I am not sure why he has any problem finding birds.

Lucy and Charlie - Ran well and had no finds.

Mali and Dot - Multiple broke finds and good races - they can be counted on to find birds every time.

Jessie and Juju - Had good finds and nice races - it was awesome to watch them go.

Callie and Annie - Running well - finding and pointing birds - Annie still wants to break at the shot - working on that - Callie breaks at the flush but finds lots of birds.

Keith - Posting from Under the Rusty Windmill

Howdy All

I have been remiss in my postings and I apologize - I have had some serious chest pains and fatigue and that is my only excuse.

Preston, Callie, JuJu and Taz - 3 littermates and one of similar age. These dogs are doing super - they have each had probably close to 500 birds flushing near them, probably pointed over 200 birds each and knocked a bunch more.

Charlie and Sam - Roading well, Sam had a nice derby broke find on pheasants in tough conditions today - Charlie still running short but pointing birds when she finds them

Dot, Primo and Jessie - All broke on their birds, they are hunting intelligently and finding birds on a daily basis

Annie - Super nice dog - still need to work on her steadiness to shot - but finding birds good

Chance - Had several finds today and I am pretty happy with how he is running and handling.

Trevor - Running very well, and finding and holding birds very well

Chip - Yard work good, running hard but wild bird work is not so advanced

Kona - Multiple finds on wild birds - holding to the flush - but running much shorter since we started working on manners

Mike and Millie - Running and exercising - Millie bird work is good

Kane and Dolly - Both running great, both having multiple broke finds on outings and I am pleased with them.

Jake - Nice run, multiple broke finds and handling great

We had to quit running most of the girls for a time - as all 9 of them were in heat at virtually the same time - now starting to run them more.

Keith - Posting from Under the Rusty Windmill

Birds are getting hard to come by for the young dogs

Well, the last couple days we have been running working the young dogs - birds are getting scarce now - most have moved into corn fields where we can't work them - but we are getting some work done.

We are also working more pen raised birds now than in the past - controlling the contacts and really working on getting the young dogs steady to flush.

Another day on the prairie

Mali and Lucy - Ran well, searching well - no birds

Dot and Dolly - Ran very well, multiple finds and stop to flush on numerous pheasants each - very nice work.

Jessie and JuJu - Juju ran a nice sweeping pattern knocked a bunch of sharp tails and chased - and had a divided find with Jessie on a pheasant - Jessie ran a very nice race and had a divided find with JuJu on pheasant. Nice brace

Callie and Annie - Ran beautiful races - Callie pointed and knocked a few birds - Annie had a find she mishandled but ran well and had a great time

Keith - Posting from Under the Rusty Windmill

Well another day training is almost done

We worked a bunch of male dogs today - some had birds, some didn't

Chance and Chip - Chance had a broke find on sharp tail, Chip pointed and knocked another bunch

Primo and Stub - Stub had a nice piece of broke bird work. Primo had two broke finds and both did a really nice job

Jake, Kona and Gus - We ran these dogs together - they ran great but had no bird work at all - just was getting hot and we had no wind.

Red and Kane - Ran well, Red had a find on sharp tail - Kane had a non productive - but a very nice hunting pattern.

Keith - Posting from Under the Rusty Windmill

Well, we worked the females today

We took several females out to work on pheasants, it was a cool windy day. We had good/great work from several of the girls.

Dot - She had 4 finds, 2 stop to flush and a far reaching shooting dog or all age race. She looked very good on her birds.

Charlie - Ran much shorter than her bracemate but still managed to have 2 finds

Mali - Ran a very nice gun dog race - she had 3 or 4 broke finds and a non productive but all in all it was pretty nice.

Callie - Had finds and knocked a bunch of birds - she ran very well and bigger than Mali on most occasions

Juju - Getting very independent and found a bunch of birds - this little girls attitude had a major change over the summer - from very clingy to very independent

Annie - Had two derby broke finds and a easy handling shooting dog race (a bit shorter than I like but a great job anyhow)

Rocky - Only male we ran. Braced with Juju - He had 3 very nice broke finds and a nice gun dog race.

Dolly - Nice big running race with no finds - Dolly has been bred to Jake and we should have pups around the end of October

Jessie - Ran well, 2 nice finds - Good race - not as far reaching as normally.

Keith - Posting from Under the Rusty Windmill