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For those who train their dogs steady to wing and shot. When do you begin breaking your dogs? Either by age or what do you look for as far as maturity to know they’re ready? To the pro’s and trialers on here. What are you looking for?
I’ve done whoa post work with my Goldie and have recently transitioned to some flank collar work. Just trying to get her loosened up with the collar on her flank at this point. She has been real tight so far.
The process Ive used is the silent command system/huntsmith. Whoa post teaches that flank stimulation means stop and overlays to flank collar stim means stop, once they have that down introduce the verbal command with the stim. This teaches and enforces whoa. Then can begin taking the chase away with stim not verbal and advance on from there.
My Goldie hunts hard, she’s athletic, and
stands birds well, she’s naturally backed from early on. I’ve killed birds over her. My concern is taking any run out of her, she’s got a lot of check in and I want to let her independence fully develop. I think “snappy” would be the term for her run and I don’t want to pull her in at all.
Backing
Finds on her own
So this is where she’s at, you see I let her break when the birds go up. I’m in no rush but I just wanted some input and see what the trial crowd generally looks for before breaking a dog. Shes 15 months.
I’ve done whoa post work with my Goldie and have recently transitioned to some flank collar work. Just trying to get her loosened up with the collar on her flank at this point. She has been real tight so far.
The process Ive used is the silent command system/huntsmith. Whoa post teaches that flank stimulation means stop and overlays to flank collar stim means stop, once they have that down introduce the verbal command with the stim. This teaches and enforces whoa. Then can begin taking the chase away with stim not verbal and advance on from there.
My Goldie hunts hard, she’s athletic, and
stands birds well, she’s naturally backed from early on. I’ve killed birds over her. My concern is taking any run out of her, she’s got a lot of check in and I want to let her independence fully develop. I think “snappy” would be the term for her run and I don’t want to pull her in at all.
Backing
Finds on her own
So this is where she’s at, you see I let her break when the birds go up. I’m in no rush but I just wanted some input and see what the trial crowd generally looks for before breaking a dog. Shes 15 months.