Thread: Deer dogs in the roar

With people out shooting at brown animal shapes does anyone blaze up their pooch?

Originally Posted by Spook

Give the dog a big feed at road end and then share your food with dog...watching your dog eat half your rations will improve your hunting ten fold...dog can easily go 5 days without a major meal...a hungry hunter will hunt all day...a well fed one will hunt for a couple of hours morning and afternoon...be nothing worse than running out of your own food and having to share dog biscuits.

exercising a dog on a full guts can be risky to a dog and a hungry dog will soon start to scavange or find something to eat like old 1080'd coon frames that rolled under a log.
they don't need a major meal but they do require a feeding to keep some gas in the tank.

Originally Posted by kawhia

exercising a dog on a full guts can be risky to a dog and a hungry dog will soon start to scavange or find something to eat like old 1080'd coon frames that rolled under a log.
they don't need a major meal but they do require a feeding to keep some gas in the tank.

Oh well, I have always had lab x's and they can put away a decent feed..."walking in" on a five day hunt is hardly exercising your dog...if you are hunting in an area that there is the possibility of 1080'd possum bodies then you would be a fool not to muzzle your dog and who the hell hunts in areas that have been 1080'd anyway?...And I did say one could share your own food with the mutt.

I'm with you kawhia on the exercise after eating . I personally know two continental that are toes up because of that . ,especially with deep chested dogs , which he is . I will take as much food as I can practically carry . He doesn't hold condition as a rule so will put him on two and three feeds a day

What sort of food Munsey?

No way Ill be taking the great dane lab cross then, he would eat more than me !

I would say the annoying camp possum for food on the go. Haha

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

No way Ill be taking the great dane lab cross then, he would eat more than me !

There's a pack horse on its own...take it. Just make sure he is not carrying your food in case he does a runner.

Originally Posted by Wirehunt

What sort of food Munsey?

Don't no yet , never tried the mighty mix dry ( only frozen ) do you use it Wirehunt ?. It should have read I will try feed him 3 times a dayover the next week , not going to feed him that when away

Go see your local butcher and try get some good fatty trim. By far and away the best thing for lean dogs.

I used to get big fatty strips of mutton and whack them in the dehydrator. you can take a heap and they weigh f all.

Snacked on a few myself when the supplies were getting low.

Brisket bones work as well

Originally Posted by oneipete

I used to get big fatty strips of mutton and whack them in the dehydrator. you can take a heap and they weigh f all.

Snacked on a few myself when the supplies were getting low.

That's thinking ! Don't have a dehydrator though . Are they worth getting ?

Originally Posted by Munsey

That's thinking ! Don't have a dehydrator though . Are they worth getting ?

I have heard of people just using a box with a lightbulb - http://www.pennilessparenting.com/20...ade-dehydrator.

Originally Posted by Munsey

That's thinking ! Don't have a dehydrator though . Are they worth getting ?

depends if you are going to use it or not really. I make my own fruit rollups and meat jerky and wouldnt be without one. 10kg of meat makes 3 kilo of jerky ,same nutrition and amount of meat,more taste but it weighs less.Saves a fortunes on buying the same crap from the shops all dripping in sugar and preservatives. The dog loved the stuff almost as much as I do.

oven on dead low with door open a crack and blower on does the same thing but slower.

I use an old clothesdryer,disconnected the belt so it wouldn't spin but still dried stuff, plenty of stuffed ones around for free.An old wire rack inside and your away..

stuff buying one for a few hundy


All you are doing is reducing the moisture content really so the bacteria wont rot it.