Non traditional birds for training?

[Nulle]

We have tons of doves in our area and I do not hunt them with my dogs and it is just what I prefer to do and not the lay of the land so to speak. If ya want to use them go ahead but I don't.
Many trainers do use pigeons on their dogs with no problem but again I would never use starlings and sparrows on my dogs I got enough problems with them bumping them in the field when they are bored and no game birds in the area.

[fabsroman]

Originally Posted by Nulle

We have tons of doves in our area and I do not hunt them with my dogs and it is just what I prefer to do and not the lay of the land so to speak. If ya want to use them go ahead but I don't.
Many trainers do use pigeons on their dogs with no problem but again I would never use starlings and sparrows on my dogs I got enough problems with them bumping them in the field when they are bored and no game birds in the area.

Never thought about the dove issue. That, I can see as an issue because I have flushed them out of tall grass on several occassions. I think they were eating the seeds off of the tall grass. Never flushed crows or pigeons though.

If you train a pointing dog on pigeons or crows, will it point doves too? I can see the correlation between the pigeons and the doves since they are pretty similar.