Bob White Quail

Alchemist2

Anyone know where a man might get a few bob whites for training purposes?

dicky82

http://www.gumtree.ie/dublin/34/54316634.html

Alchemist2

Thanks dicky82

EastTyrone

what way do you train a dog with them?

Alchemist2

just place em in a cage bring em out to a rushy moor or beet ground anywhere really the dog cant see em and walk the dog downwind of the cage, a wee bamboo stick helps as a locator incase you forget where you left it:D..anyhoo if the dog aint too steady a long rope is your man sure you know the rest im sure

irish setter

Alchemist2 wrote: »

just place em in a cage bring em out to a rushy moor or beet ground anywhere really the dog cant see em and walk the dog downwind of the cage, a wee bamboo stick helps as a locator incase you forget where you left it:D..anyhoo if the dog aint too steady a long rope is your man sure you know the rest im sure

any quail would do that job. the reason you want bob whites is you take them out to suitable ground with a release pen, thats a pen that will let the birds in but not out. some of the birds are released but one or two are kept in the pen. the birds spread around and you bring your dog to hunt them. they will fly when flushed by the dog so it's as close to the real deal as you will get and teaches the dog to keep his distance. in the evening the birds left in the pen will call the free birds back to the them and they will enter the pen ready to be picked up. the quail must be trained and fit for this type of work. the bob whites are hard to get and i don't think that place on the link does them

Alchemist2

i'll not argue with that irish setter but as the sayin goes every dog has his own way of p*ssin... i did read an article backin up what you just said;).. the reason why i am lookin bob whites is because i have seen a couple of europes top hpr men using em without the aforementioned release pen they just keep em in wee pens 5x6 or there abouts and they take em out when required. thats all but thanks for the info.. am not in a position to build a pen at the min but maybe in the near future:)

irish setter

if you don't have a release pen there is easier ways to do the same thing your planing. go to a site called glencuan pointers and click on the glencuan way and he describes how he uses pigeons. bob whites are fierce hard to come by and you'd want to get the full use out of them