Quail Recall Pen

Since the weather has been so crazy these past few weeks we have had to keep some of the quail we are raising in the garage to keep them warm. Below are some pictures of the recall pen we built this year. I’m really excited to see how this design works this year! One of the reasons we use bobwhite quail with this pen is if you will leave a few birds in the pen they will call back the quail that you used to train your bird dog with. This allows you to re-use them time and time again. My son Kobe likes to feed the birds as you can see.

We put the quail recall pen out on some property this past week. Were getting the birds flight conditioned and also getting them used to coming back to the cage (recalling). There a few tips to remember when setting up recall pen. 1 make sure the birds have lots of good water and feed.  2 Make sure that the recall slot is working properly I had a wire get jammed once and wouldn’t let the birds back in. 3 Make sure to leave a few of the quail in the pen to recall the others back home. 4 Get the birds flushing and flying well before working your dog on the birds, remember they will most likely run until they figure out that they can get away better if they fly.

Here my old man Fritz (12 yrs old) is getting some bird work in on our recall quail. It sure works good to give older dogs a quick tune up. The birds a planted with out any human scent. They fly away if the dog crowds them to much. Plus you get you use the same birds more than once.

Duke and Jake are 2 four month old German Shortahired Pointers that we took out to work some bobwhite quail from the recall pen today. This is the first time that either dog had smelled a bobwhite. They both did well finding a few birds each. They really got excited. Both dogs are real intense on point.

Here are few clips on how the quail recall pen works. One great thing is that your dogs get to work birds that will fly away if there is to much pressure. What I mean is it’s more like hunting wild birds. When hunting wild birds if a dog crowds the birds they will fly away before you can even get there.

Here are a few pictures of us building the pen we used 2×4 that we ripped in half for the frame. The frame is 48 inches wide 60 inches long and 24 inches tall. It sure makes it nice to move around with two people you can get it about any where.