I've started tracking with my year old pup and he is doing well with dragged, dead birds. My next step, I believe, will be to use a live pheasant or chukar to refine his skills for a NA test. My question is how to use a bird and not kill it after one track. Locally, pheasants are about $20 a piece, chukar run $10-$15 each. This makes for an expensive training day. Anyone have an idea how I can hobble a bird to get more than one track out of it?
Appreciate everything
Quailguy