Yea I take my pups to a bay pen just to let them know what I want them to do. Them they never see it again. We just leased a 150 acre pen to train pups I think this is a whole different situation though. They will have to get out and hunt to find a hog.
ya thats what i was meaning... I dont have a pen, i introduce them to a hog in a 28ft cow trailer... after that they hit the woods with the big dogs at around 5 mths, they learn the hard way, and without being pampered, I loose alot of good young dogs that way, but i wont work one in a small pen. If i had a 150 acre bay pen now that would be great... but i got a scrappy little boar hog about 125lb with a limb tied to one back leg and a 10 min head start instead
start them young, then back off for a few months and see which ones still have a burning desire and which ones lost interest... it makes the good ones want it that much more, and by 9 or 10 months they will be out finding hogs instead of barking at one in a corner of a pen
