Thread: the cover your dog hunts

There is often much debate about the range of the EB in the breed community...he has a natural inclination to vary his range depending on the cover...not all do of course, but I have found with mine that because our hunting is generally in rough close cover they tend to work close unless on hares on open farmland, obviously. However, my bitch's sire and dam have had numerous occasions on the steep chukar country in the South Island and prove that range for those exposed to it can extend to many hundreds of metres. Watching the pup I sent to Australia working on the stubble after that fantastic stubble quail, again the range can be great. When you consider that the breed hails from a country of woodland and pasture etc his hunting range was never that vast unlike the moors for instance ranged by the ES and the EP.

This is the sort of country I hunt my dogs on...



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