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Getting Good Game Birds for Training Your Upland Dog

For most of us, the days of training a bird dog only on wild birds are long gone. The majority of today's bird dogs get their start on pen raised birds.

The first step in training a bird dog is finding good birds. Many of these pen raised birds tend to run instead of flying or in the worst case not moving at all, having been raised like "chickens" and only associating people with feeding time.

I have several good breeders in my area but I also have my own flight pen that I use to make the young birds strong and wary.

It is important to locate a game farm that understands what you are doing and raises its birds to be strong flyers and "afraid" of human and dog contact. A good source for locating birds in your general area is on the Quail Unlimited website.

Select your State and the Species that you need and you will find a list of folks in your area. The majority of these folks will sell you birds for a fee. Always be sure to buy from the folks that have their own shooting preserves and not the ones that only raise birds for restaurants. © 2013 GDS

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