geting board with bay pen???

[Coady Curbow]

I let pups bay at a penned hog starting at six months, letting them see it about once a month until they are 10 months to a year.  Then, they go to the woods, depending on how mature I think the dog is.  Baying a penned hog means nothing when you want dogs to "find" hogs in the woods.

My older dogs won't notice a pig in a pen.

A hunting dog is going to hunt no matter what. Pen don't have anything to do with making a dog hunt or not hunt.

I agree with that, I just like to give a young dog an idea about what I want him to hunt.  He would just soon run a deer, rabbit,armadillo, coon, or the first thing he runs across.  A hunting dog don't make him a hog dog.

[Bama36502]

Well i took umm to tha woods yesterday turned a shoat loose gave emm bout 30 mins went an got them pups put um on emm they ran that sucker seem like forever. I was pretty happy. i belive they gona be aight.

[djhogdogger]

Two most common mistakes people make training woods dogs in a baypen, is using it more than a few times and leaving the pups in too long.

Let the pups bay a few minutes, then catch them and get them out right when they're the most fired up.  Makes them want it even more the next time.  Young pups get bored easily and boredom is never a good thing.

  I agree with this statement.  But you need to consider the hog you use also. Alway be sure to have a hog that will flip out when the dogs bay it because sometimes the hog gets used to the dogs also and it just stands there. You want to build their confidence and a hog that is either trying to get the heck out of there or fighting back will do this better. IMO