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Think of a generational farm with a couple of younger next gen farmers or father - adult son (or daughter) looking to expand. Cash rent becomes the only viable option ? Some of the land price escalation is due to investment groups buying land. … Similar to what is going on with single...

Maybe one option for new pointing dog owners is to attend a weekend workshop. Smith Brothers travel the US. They have been training Britts for a very long time

I agree Britts are pretty soft tempered with people and you can certainly make them timid or reluctant with aggressive or forced training methods. Do not equate that behavior with their intense ability to hunt and find birds.

My current youngest Brittany learned to whoa on walks. Learned it well after just a week (walking almost daily). Sometimes I have 3 Britts on the walk ... say whoa ... they all still freeze. My 15-year-old sometimes looks at me "saying" what are we doing ? They hold whoa until I release...

Wow - sorry to hear this. Glad they caught it early.

Side note: Dog in the photos above is still alive at 15 years old. Retired her after her 12 years old season.

Grand Rapids and Iron Range area. Wolves displace bears. Bears also get hunted ... wolves ... not so much legally anyways. Locals in the Arrowhead region ... I am pretty sure abide by the don't ask don't tell.

I tend to believe your vet on NexGard. I may see a tick or two on my dog on the way home and pick them off and toss them out the window, but I have never seen more than a few. Rarely if ever do I see a tick on them in the house and if there is a rogue tick in the house it more likely came of...

My dogs had ticks on them in March. Deer ticks in MN get active on the first warm spell. Tick pill works extraordinarily well for the dogs.

I hunted Kansas once about 20 years ago. We had very good success hunting WIHAs. Interestingly the farm we had permission to hunt on put most of his better "turkey" land into that WIHA program. We were amazed at the large number of birds seen from the road driving/scouting around ...

We usually hunt later season in MN and WI and do quite well. Fewer birds, pressured birds by that time of the year. If you are confident in your calling they still come in. I have found that a pair or trio of Toms will be more aggressive in coming in than a single gobbler during these...

I have killed more than one gobbler by pissing off his hen enough that she comes in to shut me up and he follows her in.

80% lean (undrained) hamburger provides our bird dogs with that extra protein and fat and also that extra incentive to eat when exhausted. I can crumble up a pound or two and keep in a baggie in a cooler on trips. I have fed IAMs to all my bird dogs. Lamb and rice to bird dogs and senior...

They only will hear "eto" and "aeve". You should be good.

I always try to have two dogs of hunting age at all times. Often own three dogs (puppy, retired dog, etc). I rarely hunt the two dogs together. One dog with one, two or maybe on occasion three hunters is all that is really needed. I like to rotate dogs because it keeps them fresh.