Amarillo Bird Dog Club

07/02/2024

ABDC VOTING
Voting for club officers end July 10th.
Ballot is a attachment emailed with application,the membership has been wanting a good way to vote, finally a good way to vote was worked out by officers & board. Thanks to Jason Ray for his work on the forms to vote. Support your club by voting.

06/28/2024

Snakes are looking for cool shady places this on was by conex ,he was headed underneath it.8 rattlers on this guy.
The pigeon pen is working great, birds are rehoming as usual.

06/22/2024

Thank you to Geoffrey Kohlmeyer, Jason Ray, Burnie Strokes,Kevin Hart,Kenneth Craig & Jimmy Walker for volunteering their
time this morning for the "work day".
Everyone worked hard & together to get the improvements to club done.
The grass was mowed&fence row trimmed.
the pigeon cage was was placed,loft modified, dirt added to pigeon pen.
Thanks again for the great job,gentlemen.

06/19/2024

REMINDER OF ABDC WORK DAY THIS SATURDAY 6/22.
MEMBERS THAT PLAN TO BE THERE NOTIFY ME BY MESSENGER, SO THAT WE WILL HAVE FOOD FOR LUNCH.
IF YOU DRILLS,SAWS,GRINDER BRI GS THOSE IN CASE WE NEED THEM.
SOON THE NEW APPLICATIONS FOR MEMBERS WILL BE E-MAILED TO MEMBERS ,
IF E-MAIL NOT AVAILABLE YOU WILL RECEIVE BY MAIL.
AN ATTACHMENT WILL BE WITH APPLICATION WHICH IS A VOTING BALLOT,IF YOU VOTE ON PRESENT OFFICERS JUST CLICK ON NAME, IF YALL WANT SOMEONE ELSE PUT THEIR NAME IN SPACE PROVIDED,WHEN YOU PRESS SEND IT WILL GO TO JASON.
DUES CAN BE PAID NOW, BY MAIL OR BY LEAVING IN PAY BOX .
THANK YOU.

06/11/2024

Scheduled work day for June 22nd@ 8:00, we have several things to try to get finished. Hopefully we can all pull together and get it done,need to work on pigeon pen,install windows & door,and work on the lento. With good attendance alot can be accomplished.
Members that will be able to attend PM me
so that we will have a head count for lunch.

Also this is a schedule for ABDC activities
Clinics:
July 20th -RECALL
Aug.17th -Backing
Aug.24th-Adrain Jackson Training
Sept.21st-Whoa Training
Sept. 28th & 29th - AKC HUNT TEST
More information to follow as we approach each event.

06/09/2024

Cool morning to exercise the boys

06/01/2024

Burnie here.
Just a shout out to those that helped with the Snake Avoidance training. We had a good turnout. It would have been nice to have more dogs, but hey 20 dogs is good.
Our club works on volunteer labor. Thanks to Terry, Mark, Jason, Geoffrey, John Locke, Kevin for helping us get going. And any others I missed. We couldn’t have done it without you. Seriously
Upcoming events include a work day in 2 weeks. That means physical strong backs. We have several projects. Training sessions, with club members mentoring younger members. Adrian Jackson doing a training seminar. Hunt Test and member fun hunts. I’ll let Mark get into details. Just know, It takes a village, and if you think you don’t know anything, heck even a village idiot can help. LOL Ask Mark what you can do. We’ll put you to work somewhere.
Thanks again guys and gals. We need you.

06/01/2024

Thanks to everyone for supporting the Amarillo Bird Dog Club by bringing you dogs out for the Snake Avoidance Training.
Had several different dogs breeds attend the training. Some participants drove in from New Mexico for their dogs to attend Avoidance Training.
Several comments were made by Dog owners how the Avoidance Training done previous had save their dogs from getting snake bit.
Thanks to all the members that volunteered their time to work this morning at the club.

05/03/2024

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05/03/2024

AMARILLO BIRD DOG CLUB
ANNUAL SNAKE AVOIDANCE WILL BE JUNE 1ST@ THE CLUB GROUNDS 671, FM 683 @8:00 am to12:00 .
All dogs are welcome to clinic, working dogs,hunting dogs,family pet.
Avoidance Training could save you your dogs and cut down on medical expense if they happen to get a bite from a snake.
Cost for training is $75.00 per dog,if your a ABDC member you get 1 dog done for free.

05/03/2024

ABDC 2024-2025
NEW BOARD MEMBERS WAS APPROVED,NEW BOARD MEMBERS: JOHN LOCKE,RICHARD BELOTT,& GEOFFREY KOHLMEYER.
THE FOLLOWING ACTIVITIES WERE APPROVED
WORK DAY FOR JUNE 15TH AT 8:00am TO FINISH PIGEON PEN.
AKC HUNT TEST SCHEDULED FOR SEPT. 28th &29th.
TRAINING CLINICSAS FOLLOWS
JULY20TH - WHOA CLINIC
AUG. 24TH-RECALL CLINIC
SEPT.21ST- BACKING CLINIC
A NEWS LETTER BY EMAIL WILL BE COMING TO MEMBERS SOON,ALL DATES WILL BE IN NEWS LETTER .
THE OFFICER VOTING BALLOT WILL BE AN ATTACHMENT FOR MEMBERS TO VOTE ,YOU WILL BE ABLE TO WRITE IN A CANDIDATE IF YOU WANT.
APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP IS BEING REVAMP,IT BE A EMAIL,RENEWEL AND NEW MEMBERS WILL NEED TO FILL OUT,SO THAT OUR INFORMATION IS UP TO DATE. DUES WILL REMAIN $135.00 ,WHICH IS DUE JUNE 1ST.

04/19/2024

Good training morning at the ABDC

03/03/2024

03/03/2024

CHUKARS AT CLUB
$12.00 EA.

03/02/2024

The Top O'Texas Quail Forever had a successful Mentor Hunt today. Don't have a head count ,but a bunch showed up to hunt. The young kids had a great time ,alot of first time people on their first time at upland game hunting, they loved the great dog work on birds.
The kids liked seeing all the birds in the pen, they petted and loved the dogs sitting in the side by sides,and enjoying being outdoors,some even played in the sand pile.
Thanks to the ABDC members that volunteered their time and dogs,to the MENTOR HUNT. Thanks to Top O' Texas Quail Forever chapter for making ABDC part of their hunt.
TPWD game warden Ryan Lewis talked group about gun safety,and explained what his job was as a game Warden, Thank you for coming out.
Boom a Veteran and 1st Resonder Organization as represented at hunt also,Thank yall for coming out.

02/28/2024

TOP O'TEXAS Quail Forever MENTOR HUNT IS STILL SCHEDULED FOR SATURDAY GROUNDS @ 8:00am

02/27/2024

Pigeons were added to loft for training,these pigeons have a RED band marking them. These birds need time to acculmate to loft & home back, if your training use the other pigeons till these will home back,thanks.

02/26/2024

02/15/2024

2ND ANNUAL QF MENTOR HUNT
March 2nd @8:00am,Top O'TEXAS QF will be hosting the 2nd Annual MENTOR HUNT@ Amarillo Bird Dog Club located @ 671 FM683.
The MENTOR HUNT provides an opportunity for youth as well adults who haven't had the experience of upland hunting with bird dogs.
Those interested in participating in the Hunt, go to Top O' Texas Quail Forever web site to sign up ,click on events to sign up
Hunt is limited to 20 participants .
The cost is $25.00, this includes birds & lunch. Participants don't have to be QF Members.
Birds will be planted in field by ABDC members,also members of ABDC will have their dogs available to guide participants in the Hunt.
Last year's MENTOR HUNT was great, everyone enjoyed the fellowship,the hunting,and the youth learned about upland hunting with bird dogs,and safety in the field around other hunters & the dogs .
There was was happy kids with big smiles when they got back to club house

ABDC members spread the word about the hunt.
ABDC members who would like to volunteer to be mentors at the Hunt to help future bird hunters enjoy a great experience ,PM me so we can know who will be at hunt.

02/02/2024

WARNING!!!!

WATCH OUT FOR SNAKES A
RATLLER WAS KILLED TODAY AT CLUB.

01/03/2024

Sooooo…… Now AKC has a fetch title. Any dog, any breed, any crossbred dog. So why are some breeds still requiring it for FT’s. Just asking for a friend.

01/01/2024

Thank you to Kevin Hart, Jason Ray , Shaun Heil ,for volunteering to clean out quail pen, we dug out old sand,spayed disinfect, spread lime ,and new sand cover .
Pigeon pen is next on list of improvements at the club.
Thanks to Burnie for a finishing porch on the club house.
Price of Quail has gone up like everything else, PRICE for quail is $9.00 each now at the club.
Wishing everyone a HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

12/31/2023

Bird banding party today (Sunday, December 31. 2023.) BYOB…. Bring your own body.
The pen was cleaned out yesterday, so new birds today. All invited!

12/28/2023

Excellent day of training yesterday. Thanks J R Patterson and Jimmy II for the invite and hospitality. Great dog work and excellent hunting. We had to stop training several times because we got into some wild birds. Nothing like wild birds to train a dog. Good fun, good food and fellowship had by all.

12/28/2023

Well,looks like the weather this Saturday12/30 will be fairly nice,any members that can volunteer a few hours we will be cleaning bird pen, & try to fix pigeon pen so the club will have more pigeons to train with.
Short notice I've been watching the weather closely for a decent day to work on pens.We can start about 9:30,the more that volunteer the faster we can get done.
Thank you members.

12/22/2023

Got a friend looking to cook some pheasants for his anniversary on New Year’s Eve. He needs 2.