game farms problems

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mustistuff

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while there have been any number of post of this subject, one as a maybe hunter and or dog lover, one should do whatever turns their crank. if you find a reason to go to a bird farm, go. the other day pastor john and me took his new mutt, gsp, now 9 mo. to one to get it into some birds and just possibly learn something. i also took my two along just to muddy up the water's a little. peyton, john's mutt did point a few birds on her first outing and they are still flying. the problem we, me, had was the birds not being very wild. torrey caught one, pointed another that ii just reached down and picked up by the head, while divot brought me back three still alive. you can just call me bring em' back alive spence. a couple did get in the air and shot. for my dogs to break on point, they would have had to see the bird try to run away which in the wild they don't get to see. anyway, some of the birds had a better time than others and the pup was happy.

cheers
 
I do the game farm thing now and then and once in a while have some of those things happen, but not with the frequency you did. I'm wondering if your hunting partner may have told the farm that he was bringing a relatively young/inexperienced pup, and if the farm may have dizzied the birds so they didn't fly off? That would explain how the birds acted. Otherwise I'm wondering if the birds just hadn't been that well taken care of.
 
The farm where I hunt has wild birds there ( released bird that escaped the gun) as well as the birds we buy.
If the operator dos a mass release the birds act completely different than when he dizzies them up and plants them as was already stated.

We tend to dizzy them them wait for 1 /2 hour or so, but on one bigger suite we hunt in a big coulee, we do a mass release right out of the boxes.
Sometimes our birds fly into other property or into inaccessible country, but for the most part it's all good!:)

In Alberta we are allowed only two roosters per day, 6 in possession and I have to drive 9 or more hours to hunt them, so I tend to hunt the game farms when i go south as well as hunt sharptails and Hungarian partridge as well as the wild birds and public release sites.
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I have had similar experiences with game farms. But I have also had some fun times on these farms. I tend to only visit a game farm twice a year. Once early before the season opens up just check the dogs out. Then I try to make it back to one after the season ends. In my experience the later hunts the birds act more wild for what ever reason (running ,flushing, not just sitting).
 
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