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It seemed to happen with my female ESS yesterday. This is her 2nd full season and I was getting a little concerned with her figuring out the wild rooster game. She's been great after the shot finding and retrieving birds, and locating cripples that would have normally been lost birds, and that...

I'm curious what others consider an acceptable loss rate, and what you actually count as a lost bird. Obviously we don't want to lose any birds, but it happens. This season I lost 3 of 25 birds for a loss percentage of 12%. These are birds that were knocked down, marked, but the dogs couldn't...

I just cleaned a rooster I shot yesterday and noticed a hard lump on one of the breast halves. I cut it open and out popped the lump of what I can only assume were old feathers and rotten flesh. It smelled horrible but was contained to that one area. Has anyone seen anything like this? The...