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  2. Working Cocker Bloodlines

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    Chudleys is a dog food brand. I've never heard of Chudley gundog or the like, do they have a website?

     

     

    Modern cockers these days are very closely bred. For what your going to pay for a trialing dog (one that has alot of red in the pedigree) you will pay for a reqular working dog but heres the thing, the majority of them all come from the same trialing ancestry.

     

    If you get a pup that has FTCH Dander Druid, FTCH Darnell Dealer, FTCH Maesydderwen Scimitar, FTCH Mallowdale Zander, you'll do alright. The majority of cockers have those dogs once or twice in there pedigree.

  4. A Bit Of Training Yesterday Evening

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    A short video of a bit of training with my golden retriever dog and cocker bitch. Both valuable members of the shooting team.

     

     

     

     

    My young Golden Retriever bitch nearly 9 months old, she's just getting to the stage where we can start progressing onto long marked/memory retrieves to teach her to run a straight line.

     

    Hope you enjoy

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  9. Pointer Or Springer

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    Thanks guys! Do any of you think you'd shoot more over either?

    At the end of the day you can only bag what you can hit. Pointer or springer they will never be able to present the quarry exactly how you want it. Once they've found it the rest is up to the person with the gun.

    Pointers come into there own in large open areas and spaniels are generally better in thick cover

  10. Vote Ukip

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    Don't believe the lies that other party's such as Labour and Conservative and media are saying about UKIP. From now until election day (Thursday 7th May) UKIP will be releasing video's stating there policies and reasons why you should vote them in. If you only ever vote once in your life but you want change, this is the year for you to vote and vote UKIP for your local council, UKIP for you parliamentary candidate and UKIP for your government. Don't miss you opportunity to create Great British history.

     

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  19. Raw Feeding A Gun Dog?

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    If the dog has any respect for the handler they wouldn't crush the bird they are given you, I would never keep one and I hate to see it when it happens. You may think you can stop a dog from crushing game but the dog is hunting for themselves. Get rid is what I say, never had one do it, my mates dog does it and its a race to get the retrieve first!!

    I agree with you there to a point, I don't use my lab for picking up any more. If I thought she was good enough to sort out I would, but unfortunately she's better at keeping my son entertained.

     

    Hard mouth isn't about respect for the handler. Hard mouth is caused by two things that I know of. 1. Hereditary 2. Induced by the handler's own anxiety to make a dog retrieve the way they want it to.

  20. Raw Feeding A Gun Dog?

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    I feed mine raw during the working months. They have far more stamina and work in them, seem to be a bit sharper all round. Careful what you feed raw though. I tend to leave rabbit and hare frozen for about 4 months before I feed that raw just to kill parasite and I don't feed any pig product.

     

    Usually I feed raw eggs, venison, lamb, pheasant, partridge, duck, goose, chicken, pigeon, rabbit, hare, beef, it's made up of all the off-cuts that I don't want.

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