Corbinsbere Gundogs

16/01/2025

A great live game training day at Trigon yesterday, by kind permission of William Bill Beaumont, it is hugely valuable to have these opportunities for my clients and we are so grateful. 🐶🐦

Our third and final training day on Trigon this season and it was brilliant to see how the novice dogs (and handlers) have progressed so well, some great flushes and steady dogs. Working fab ground ideal for the spaniels, lots of variety - rhododendrons, bracken woodland and low cover crops made for a good day. January birds meant the dogs had to work that bit harder! Lovely to have a couple of new handlers join the day, learning the ropes and to gain experience flushing. 🌟🐶🐦

Thoroughly enjoyed the day, you all did so well and a pleasure to watch you work your dogs. 🐶 🌟 👏

A big thank you to Mrs C for looking after everything at home, so I can go and play ! 🐶🐦🥰

14/01/2025

Yesterday we ran another walked up/mini driven training day on The Bradley Shoot by kind permission of Mark Higgins and Peter Dix on the Maiden Bradley Estate.

What a fantastic day, a total of 4 guns and 7 handlers (including myself and Lindsey) to include 3 cockers and 4 springers. Excellent work from Nick with his lab Tilly picking up for me, covered those long retrieves and pricked birds, leaving birds for handlers and their dogs at the end of a couple of mini driven.

The ground offered a variety of cover with small copses, hedges, bramble banks, mustard and sedges. The dogs and handlers were certainly put through their paces as it was quite tough at times, yet the dogs worked brilliantly and getting into the thick to flush the birds. A mixed bag of game, 13 pheasant, 1 partridge, 2 Mallard and 1 Teal.

Today saw a few dogs out for the first time on a walked up shoot, to include Dewi and Clem, both did really well and coped with it all - not even bothered by the beaters wagon. It was also extra special today as we had 3 of Pidges progeny out together - Dewi, Clem and Snipe. All had some great first warm retrieves. 🐦🦆

The day was run professionally, the keepers and stops worked hard, it flowed well and it certainly gave the dogs new experiences they needed as well as enough shooting for our guns.

Big thank you to Lindsey who does just about everything to help with the day, we really appreciate it!! 🍩 🥰

Thank you to our guns Joanne Barnes Simon Fry Steven Hewkin Shaun Pennell for providing those birds, great shooting and great banter 🙏

We feel privileged to be able to run walked up training days working alongside Mark and Pete and their awesome team. We are looking forward to next season already! 🐶🐦💥

Thank you to everyone who made it possible. 🐶🐦👏

Tracy 🐦🐶🐦🐶

08/01/2025

The forecast being snow here at HQ for a couple of days I couldn’t resist looking at these photos of Ruddy “Corbinsbere Steadfast” (Sarges Sire not sure what happened there 🤔!) in the snow back in December 2022 when we had quite a covering! An opportunity to take advantage of the conditions and do bit of training before playtime!!! 🐶⛄️🐦🌟

Ruddy has such a deep red coat and the snow really brings out his gorgeous colour - handsome boy. 🐶 🥰

Crafty Doghouse Photography 🐶🌟📸

07/01/2025

Large Sarge “Corbinsbere Red Admiral “ a chunky boy and is the cousin of Weasel. A big personality to match with the softest temperament, yet hard as nails when working him! 💪🧡

Anyone else out there with the larger stamp of a working cocker! This chap has paws the size of dinner plates 😂

06/01/2025

Weasel “Corbinsbere Side By Side” whos out of my mr reliable Stomp aka “FTAW Dodging Bullets” and Lindseys Minnow “Corbinsbere Resolute”. Weasel is doing really well in her training, a whizzy little cocker, she has gained lots of experience this season on game and with an extra year of maturity we hope to push her a bit more next season.

Her face says it all, proper cheeky cocker. 😉🐶😍

31/12/2024

HAPPY NEW YEAR Everyone 🎉🍾🎉🍾

It’s been an absolute pleasure working with you all and I very much look forward to seeing you in 2025. As I look back through the year LOTS of goals have been achieved, I admire your commitment and dedication to your dogs, you all work so hard and to see your successes no matter how big or small makes me super proud of you all. I feel privileged and proud to be your trainer. 👏🌟🐶

A big thank you to each and everyone of you, you make Corbinsbere Gundogs possible and for that I am eternally grateful.

There’s sooo many memories of this last year, I’ve added a few photos…what a year!! 🐶 📸

Bring On 2025!!! 👏🌟🐶🥳

Tracy, Lindsey and The Corbinsbere Team x
Lindsey Corbin

26/12/2024

Happy Boxing Day 🐶🎄🎅🎉

Our Traditional Boxing Day walk with this handsome bunch, we are completely biased but we have got some cracking springers and we adore them. 😍🐶🐶🐶🐶

“Pidge” OFTAW Steltella Silver Pigeon has done us proud with her litters, we kept Butler from the first and Dewi and Clem from her 2nd and final litter. All are such wonderful dogs to work, easy to train and are a pleasure to have by our sides. 🥰

24/12/2024

🎅🎄🐶🎅🎄🐶🎅🎄🐶🎅🎄🐶🎅🎄🐶🎅🎄Merry Christmas Everyone - sending much love and a big thank you for all your support it means a lot and we look forward to seeing you in The New Year 🎉🥳 From Myself, Lindsey and the Corbinsbere Pack ### . 🎅🐶🎄🎅🐶🎄🎅🐶🎄🎅🐶🎄🎅🐶🎄🎅🐶

09/12/2024

At STUD….

Working Cocker

Corbinsbere Steadfast
“Ruddy”

A fantastic cocker, great drive and stamina, soft mouth, quiet, excellent retrieve and has been very easy to train, a huge asset to the Corbinsbere team. A great working dog, happy on peg, picking up, beating and rough shooting.

Hereditary Clear for AMS, FN and PRA.
Tested Clear PP.
Proven.
Carries - Red, Golden, Lemon, Black, Liver and Tan points.
COI 10.9

Wiltshire.

For more information please pm or WhatsApp 07919484941 or email me on [email protected].
www.corbinsberegundogs.co.uk

21/11/2024

05/11/2024

A fantastic live game training day on Trigon Shoot in Dorset today by kind permission of William Bill Beaumont. We have been running these days for well over 10 years and they are perfect for introduction to game giving the dogs access to multiple flushes, testing the handlers training and the dogs steadiness. 🐶🐦

We worked 4 main drives through all types of cover, rhododendron woodland, bracken, white grass and cover crops, all had plenty of game for the spaniels. 🐦🐦🐦🐦 Everyone did brilliantly and all spaniels had flushes and that’s where you see “the penny drop” and the spaniels go up through the gears! It’s so satisfying as a trainer to be able offer all levels of Gundog training and to see the handlers and spaniels progress to working in the field. Well done! 👏

A big thank you to Bill who is so generous with his time, advice and of course for allowing us to chase his pheasants about the place!! 😁🐦 Can not wait for the next one!! 👏

Thank you to everyone who took photos 📸 🐶

Thank you Mrs C for looking after the funny farm, I couldn’t do these away days without your support - hope you liked your doggy bag 😁😁

I loved today….thanks all 🐶🙏🐦🕊️

02/11/2024

Today we ran our first walked up training day on the Bradley Shoot in Wiltshire by kind permission of keepers Mark Higgins and Peter Dix.

What a fantastic day, a total of 6 handlers with 4 spaniels and 2 retrievers throughout the day and 4 guns. The ground offered a variety of wild bird mix cover and set aside along side hedges…..and one particular hedge that just kept on giving! Perfect for the Novice dogs. Plenty of game to test the dogs steadiness including hares and deer, the bag at the end day was 23 pheasant and 1 partridge.

The day was run professionally, flowed well and it certainly gave the dogs the experience they needed as well as enough shooting for our guns.

Corbinsbere Gundogs is based in Wiltshire and feel privileged to be able to run walked up training days working alongside Mark and Pete and their awesome team. Looking forward to more days through the season. 🐶🐦💥

Thank you Lindsey of Crafty Doghouse Photography for capturing such a special day for us! 📸🐶

Thank you to everyone who made it possible. 🐶🐦👏

31/10/2024

Available at STUD
WILTSHIRE
KC Reg, “Butler” (Corbinsbere Silver Hawk) B/W Springer, this chap is truly a pleasure, easy to train, excellent picking up dog and lovely out rough shooting, hunts well in all types of cover.

A good all rounder, excellent retriever, sound temperament, good off switch and is a fantastic working dog. Showing all the attributes we love in a spaniel.

Butler is proven and is out of my bitch OFTAW/FTW Steltella Silver Pigeon and is Sired by FTAW Kilcurragh Pedro. He’s a Medium stocky build, 18kg
COI 6.1.
Tested CLEAR FUCO/PRA/FN/AMS/DM/PLP1/PFK/EIC. BVA Eye Cert Clear and Gonioscopy 0.(Only available to Springer Spaniels).

For more details. Please contact Tracy via WhatsApp 07919484941. Thank you.

25/10/2024

After running three assessments for the Kennel Club Working Gundog Certificate and being assessed by panel judges myself…

I am now a Qualified Primary Assessor for Kennel Club. 🤩 🐶 👏

14/10/2024

Sunday Group Training with Novice Spaniels in the morning and Novice Retrievers in the afternoon.

The Novice spaniels hunted in a line through the woods, the cover can be challenging in parts and is boggy underfoot, with plenty of scent to keep the spaniels hunting well.
We worked on the marked retrieve, blinds and multiple retrieves in an area. All spaniel groups are channelled for working, this particular class have mainly handlers wishing to work in the beating line. The top field of HQ offers white grass and sedges, which holds plenty of scent and the odd pheasant which on this occasion caught out a cheeky cocker! Re - lined and hunt on! 😁 Finishing with steadiness and desensitisation around the pheasants. 🐶🌟

I had a little shadow that joined me, tasks were particularly hard for her as she had to be more patient than usual and had to watch whilst I set up handlers retrieves - she did brilliantly 🐶🌟

The Novice Retrievers, a full group today meant I could split the group in two giving an opportunity some challenging retrieves. Concentrating on crossovers, blind retrieves, dummy launcher and marked retrieves with multiple shots. One side would line out to the blinds and the others to the marks. After the first task we talked about seeing through commands, responding quicker when needed and reading when not to interfere. It was good to see the difference when the groups swapped disciplines and moving to the next task, how responding accordingly the handlers achieved better results from their dogs. We finished with relay, where dogs were sent to an area and on its return, the next dog was sent, passing one another to pick the retrieves. It can be quite testing for some dogs, focus on the job is key despite all kinds of distractions including other dogs working.

Well done everyone great sessions 🐶👏

02/10/2024

A shootover session at HQ on partridge, with some lovely flushes from the sedges and great work from Del Bower with Lucy and Gill Carpenter with Mojo - very proud of the dogs and some awesome retrieves. The ground works perfectly offering some great challenges and tests the dogs ability to mark.

The sessions in pairs offers plenty of time to train, achieve what we hoped and give the dogs a break whilst they watch the other dogs turn.

A massive thank you to our cracking shot Samuel Percy, you were brilliant! Looking forward to next time. Tracy 🔥🐦

01/10/2024

Happy Pheasant season! 🐦

We have been busy at Corbinsbere HQ through September with all things Gundogs 🐶 and Game 🐦 prepping for the season ahead, from introduction to game, Walked Up Training on Partridge, Cold Game Training and individual shootover sessions.

We have also run some great training days starting with fur/feather dummies progressing to cold game retrieves by the end of the day - ideal for first introductions.

Our new game pen is proving to be a huge asset, a big thank you to all who helped with this! 🙏

Lastly walked up live game training days in Wiltshire and Dorset will be available from November through to January - so excited for this! 🐶🐦🌟

If any of the above training days are of interest to you we will be running regular days through the winter, please get in touch on here, pm me or WhatsApp me on 07919484941. Thanks Tracy.

10/09/2024

Weasel, Dewi and Clem were all shot over yesterday for the first time on partridge, all did really well. I love seeing the dots start to join in training, sit to flush, shoot and retrieve. 🐦🐶🔫

All dogs reacted differently, some more confident than others, whilst highlighting strengths and weaknesses in their training, which can be worked on before working them in the field or competing in trials.

Weasel - she initially was a little confused by a walking gun and had to be encouraged to boost her confidence, once she started to flow she had a flush quite quickly. 👏 Her first flush she was quite excited and wanted to chase, but with a reminder through voice from me and stop command she stopped. Her second flush was to perfection, bird shot and she was sent - held lovely but couldn’t quite find it in the heavy sieves, so again with encouragement and me allowing her to work it out she found it and delivered beautifully. Two birds shot for her and that was enough for her. Very smartly done Weasel! 🐦🐦

Dewi - well what a super star, initially a bit sticky in his hunting, then he scented a bird and he started to go through the gears - a bounce on the flush to try to mark and bird shot behind. Dewi didn’t quite mark it, Lindsey tried handling to start, then pulled him over to line in to the wind where he picked beautifully. Second and third bird flushed out of sieves, both he marked well, straight out picked beautifully and delivered nicely. No dramas! 🐦🐦🐦

Clem - well what a little sweetheart, didn’t take any notice of the walking gun and hunted nicely. First flush I hit the whistle as didn’t think she was going to sit, bird shot and she marked well I then sent her on “Pidge” 🙈 AND in fairness to her she didn’t move! Once I remembered who I had with me 😂 and sent her on “Clem” she went straight out, but something they have to get used to is a bird flapping, this put her off so I went straight over picked the bird up and gave her a few retrieves and she picked everytime. She went on to have another couple of flushes, one more bird shot and delivered back no problems. 🐦🐦

I wanted to do a write up as it doesn’t always go to plan and it doesn’t have to be perfect but it’s down to us to turn it around - long as you can refer to your training, make it fun, ensure the dog succeeds and boost confidence you’ll get there. I was so pleased with all three. 🐶🐶🐶

Dewi looking pretty chilled after his achievements, well done Lindsey 🐶🐦🥰