Thread: Our English Setter arrives

When is she out of quarantine?

I believe it will be next Monday if all is good with her .

OK, fuck it...I'm in Brian... pick the right sire and, if you approve, I will take a dog pup... turning to the complete dark side...

Please can we have a really good foto, El B, please...this does her no justice at all...

Originally Posted by Ruff

OK, fuck it...I'm in Brian... pick the right sire and, if you approve, I will take a dog pup... turning to the complete dark side...

LOL She is such a pretty little bitch in the nicest way ! Inti failed at the clinic the other day so unless we do another semen take it wont be him .We started out with joy joy joy with the vet saying around an 85 percent motility only to be shot down after a freeze and a 30 or less survival .

Nothing there to stop a live mating if he has 85% motility at his age

I have already agreed with my partner to breed with his dog first which was a woody breeding which suits me .Woody was a hard running ,smart and talented bird dog so if Johns dog leaves a bit of Woody there Ill be more than happy .Inti -a good dog with hunger to hunt but also wasted due to lack of field use and training sadly -he could have been really good I believe ...but that is what could have been had I kept focus .If he can do the job I will definitely let him have his day

Someone mentioned import partners setter recently, reckons he is excellent

you have a good window to A.I her after 18mths to something if you wanted to widen the gene pool...... it's what i would do.

being a lazy SOB I am happy to listen to others that have good potential breeding advice .We will do the best we can to put soundly breed Setters on the ground to increase both our and others opportunities to own a great bird dog .The reason I did the import was you cannot buy a working registered Setter pup in NZ today -there are none I know of .I hope those that decide to run one of our Setters think like myself and John Pilcher and help continue this very pleasing breed by breeding more and more ......

I had an email from western Australia the other day from Ferrente Alverez de Toledo which was also quite exciting .... if your a Setter man I suppose LOL

Dear Brian,
I have a friend from Italy that might come to live in NZ near wellington in the next few month and will bring
along two good ES Father and daughter both excellent fast dogs even if only trained for hunting, very good in
scrub and rough terrain. Lets hope he will come and I will get him in touch with you.

Good one El B.
Will be very interesting to see how she goes. Especially re fetching and rangeing.
There are other sires out there though. Woody was a great dog but is not the end of the world.

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That would be cool.

Originally Posted by el borracho

I had an email from western Australia the other day from Ferrente Alverez de Toledo which was also quite exciting .... if your a Setter man I suppose LOL

Dear Brian,
I have a friend from Italy that might come to live in NZ near wellington in the next few month and will bring
along two good ES Father and daughter both excellent fast dogs even if only trained for hunting, very good in
scrub and rough terrain. Lets hope he will come and I will get him in touch with you.

I must admit Cmore I just haven't seen any other Setters other than Ian Hendrens dogs -I would love to see some others in the field for sure and do hope to meet you this season if you would like to have a hunt as I would very much like to see you dog work .I would like to keep a bitch from a breeding and have the bitches we produce -hopefully we have a few- go to other Setter enthusiasts to grow more dogs ..thats our little vision anyways