I Know You Ryder - Keystone’s Red Rage x War Paint.
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#IKnowYouRyder #Setter #KeystonesRedRage #WarPaint #ChipsTorquato #RiversEdgeSadie #KeystonesRedRyder #TekoaMountainSunrise #GrouseRidgeBeen #TheNewSetter #TheOldSetterBlood #AlderForkSetters
Alder Fork Briar getting ready for her upcoming Derby season and some guided hunts this fall. She’s by Keystone’s Red Rage x War Paint.
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#AlderForkBriar #Setter #TheNewSetter #TheOldSetterBlood #AmericanFieldBredSetter #DogTraining #AlderForkSetters
Yard work season - teaching Sioux “heel” and “whoa” with the pigging string and whoa post. This is where she’s at after only 3 sessions. Next I’ll establish a point of contact around her belly with the e-collar before beginning the breaking process.
Notice me pick up her low head. Low means go. Read your dog and adapt accordingly.
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#ImSiouxToo #Setter #DogTraining #Whoa #Heel #LowMeansGo #ReadYourDog #ThinkLikeADog #BirdDogDevelopment #AlderForkSetters
Omashkooz.
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#Elk #DetroitDiesel #Wisconsin
Sassy on the pigeon pole. She’s from our most recent litter - CH Ponderosa Mac x Little Hawk. Katie mentioned you can hear her jaws snap in the video when she jumps to grab the bird.
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#Sassafrass #Setter #Pup #TheNewSetter #TheOldSetterBlood #PigeonPole #DogTraining #AlderForkSetters
Getting Z ready to defend her MGDA Spring Shooting Dog and John Hadaway Classic wins. We had just crossed the Fork and took a hard left to swing back to the truck when her bell stopped at 65 yards. Once I saw her I’m thinking Woodcock all the way - haven’t seen them return home yet but it should be any minute - and when she’s pointed with a lower tail like that it sometimes means she’s on top of a Woodcock.
But as you can see it was no Woody, but a big red drummer that had run around behind her at my approach. Notice how she turns her head as far back as she can once the bird goes. She knows he ran back around behind her. But an experienced Grouse dog also knows how to handle super spooky spring Ruffs. She’d dropped her tail a bit letting me know she wasn’t really in the scent cone but she absolutely knew that bird was near and if she so much as turned her body to get her nose in the cone again she likely would have put him to wing before I arrived to flush.
There are lots of cool tricks you can teach a dog, but being a careful wild bird dog that understands just how much pressure a spring Grouse will take isn’t one of them - they either figure it out or they don’t.
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#Kasida #BigRedDrummer #RuffedGrouse #TheAlderFork #Setter #WildBirds #TheNewSetter #TheOldSetterBlood #AlderForkSetters
Puppy walks with Duke. Such a smart little dude which makes him super easy to work with. Thank you for bringing him back to us to develop Joe! @joeleuman . Duke is out of our Derby of the Year Little Hawk, sired by the great Grouse CH Ponderosa Mac.
Developing pups through my puppy program is one of my strengths. It’s best for pups 12 weeks up to about 6 months. But I’ve also used it with dogs a year of age and even older if they haven’t been worked much. If you have a young dog or pup that needs a solid introduction to “learning how to learn” and to focus on bird dog tasks, give me a holler. The puppy program is 4 weeks long and I’m available all year for this type of work with the exception of October - guiding hunts every day - and January/February when I’m away from my kennel guiding in TX.
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#DukeOfAlderFork #PuppyDevelopment #Puppy #PuppyTraining #ImprintBehavior #Setter #BirdDogDevelopment #TheNewSetter #TheOldSetterBlood #AlderForkSetters
{ WILD BIRD SPRING TRAINING PROGRAM }
This is one of many Woodcock Z pointed during a very short workout. Our property has Grouse and Woodcock on it and it’s surrounded by many square miles of public land Grouse cover. We don’t even have to get in the truck to work dogs on wild birds.
Due to the fact that I have a lot of my own young dogs and pups to work, I’ll only be taking a small number of client dogs for spring training on all wild birds - Grouse and Woodcock. I’m planning to begin taking dogs on March 1.
Last fall I saw the most Grouse I’ve seen in 38 years of chasing them. Adding to that good news, it looks like the mild winter will carry over a lot of those birds and we should have a long, productive spring training season.
Message me for more details and to get your dog signed up.
Why send your dog to us:
- 37 years experience
- Abundant wild birds
- Individual climate controlled indoor/outdoor runs
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#WildBirdsOnly #SpringTraining #RuffedGrouse #Woodcock #DogTraining #PointingDogs #AlderForkSetters
I love this dog. I like to call him “Junior” because he reminds me of his momma Z.
Ernie is owned by @haydendobbins and @kait.dobbins . Hayden brought him down to south TX because he needed to get a better handle on him as he was starting to self-hunt and take off. So we taught him that he can run all he wants as long as he goes with us.
If you watch the video all the way through you’ll see Ernie’s stylish, happy way of going hard, scorching the ancient ocean beds of south TX, and how easy he handles now, even when he ranges out. In the video he hits about 300 yards before I start singing him back in.
This is extremely tough ground. The best way to describe it is if you pressed your bare hands down anywhere they’d come back loaded with small stickers and any number of prickly things. It looks like a soft sandy prairie but the ground is anything but soft. You could never walk barefoot on it, but the dogs run barefoot on it as fast as they can go… or they don’t: the process of weeding out.
As you can see, Ernie powers across the terrain here like he’s floating on a magic carpet. That kind of grit, toughness and running power doesn’t come by accident. His sire and dam have it too. He’s by CH Woodville’s Yukon Cornelius x Kasida.
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#Junior #Ernesto #Setter #Quail #Texas #Pita #Mariposa #TheNewSetter #TheOldSetterBlood #AlderForkSetters
Little Hawk on her 4th covey rise of the day yesterday. She ranged out until birds stopped her, carding finds at 385, 417, 268 and 459 yards. I’m slightly biased but I ask you… is there a better looking pointed bird dog!? No way!
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#LittleHawk #PointingStyle #DerbyOfTheYear #Setter #Texas #Quail #TheNewSetter #TheOldSetterBlood #WorkingDog #OnYourLeft #CoveyRise #BrokeDogs #WildBirds #AlderForkSetters
Blaze putting shooters on top of them in the Rodeo.
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#WarPaint #Rodeo #Mariposa #Texas #Quail #Setter #AlderForkSetters
Big Gus sticking one along the fence line in the Santo Domingo this morning.
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#BigChungus #Setter #Quail #Texas #BrokeDogs #WildBirds #TheNewSetter #TheOldSetterBlood #Mariposa #SantoDomingo #AlderForkSetters
Broke dogs - wild birds. Little.
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#LittleHawk #TheNewSetter #TheOldSetterBlood #Setter #Quail #Texas #Caramayola #Mariposa #AlderForkSetters
Run run run…
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#Setter #Puppy #AlderForkSetters
Came across this video of Blaze on a covey a couple years ago in the Rodeo.
I have a singular focus - broke work on wild birds. And to be more specific, I want my dogs to excel in places where a lot of other dogs fail, where many Setters fail. This is one reason I love south Texas. Come look at the kennel - 60-70 dogs - maybe 15-20 Setters, eleven of them are mine. Running Setters in 95 degrees with 70+% humidity will sort them out real quick if the sand burrs don’t…
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#TheProcessOfWeedingOut #EnglishSetter #AmericanFieldBredSetter #WarPaint #CoveyRise #Mariposa #Rodeo #BobwhiteQuail #DeepSouthTexas #TheNewSetter #TheOldSetterBlood #AlderForkSetters
Blaze on her single Woodcock find in the Grand. You can’t win pointing the stinky worm eaters. But it was a great experience and privilege to be braced with Doc Holmes - a true dog man, great competitor and handler and the epitome of sportsmanship. He leaned in to me after this find whispering, “Beautiful piece of work.”
After this at about 55 minutes she made a big move to the left and hit a road which lead her out to the group of trucks and by then she was absent too long so I pulled the tracker.
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#WarPaint #GrandNationalGrouseChampionship #Gladwin #AlibiHall #AmericanWoodcock #AmericanFieldBredSetter #AlderForkSetters
Z sticks a pair deep on an Alder edge.
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#Kasida #RuffedGrouse #AmericanFieldBredSetter #GrouseDog #BareNovember #AlderForkSetters
Blaze taking a quick dip in the Alder Fork just before she had two Grouse finds. “Good giiiirrrl” I whispered, as she stood tall watching each bird take flight. I fired my blank gun and watched them bank away into the setting Sun…
“What was full, was not my creel but my memory…”.
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#WarPaint #AmericanFieldBredSetter #RuffedGrouse #TheAlderFork #AFishingIdyl #LiveALifeOfConservation #UpperStCroixRiverValley #AlderForkSetters
Gus at just under 7 months of age pointing Woodcock. He’s also pointed Pheasant already. He’s owned by Pat Cooke.
Pat is the breeder of our War Paint - Blaze. Since Blaze was a pup I’ve kept in contact with Pat, telling him how special she is, no doubt a direct result of her multiple wild bird Champion mother - River’s Edge Sadie who Pat proudly owned and sent to the Forman brothers to campaign. Sadie dominated the Grouse trial circuit for a while, winning 5 Championships.
When we knew this would be Blaze’s final litter, bred to a producer of fine wild bird dogs - Keystone’s Red Rage - and concentrating some of the old Setter blood, I advised Pat to take his pick of the litter. Without his breeding efforts in raising Blaze from the whelping box we would not have the current Setter power in our kennel - dogs that can win trials and put food on my table by consistently producing game on guided hunts.
We feel deeply blessed to watch this all come full circle and to see little Gus taking after his momma so well.
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#AmericanFieldBredSetter #WildBirdDog #EnglishSetter #Puppy #AmericanWoodcock #Woodcock #TheNewSetter #TheOldSetterBlood #AlderForkSetters
Just when you thought we were laying up…
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#Setter #Pointer #Kasida #NorthHollywoodShootout #Speedball #FindYourWeakness #MakeItYourStrength #BirdDogs #K9Athletes #TheNewSetter #TheOldSetterBlood #Roading #AlderForkSetters
