Sugar Creek English SettersOkay, don’t try to pronounce that, just call him Finn! More about that in a moment. Finn is a male pup we purchased from Classic Setters of Hartsburg, Missouri a little more than 4 months ago. He is now just past 6 months old, and doing great. All the good puppy things have…
Ryman-Type Setters
Grey CreekHello everyone! At Grey Creek we had our first litter whelped since joining with other Ryman type setter breeders here at RymanSetters.com. This litter is out of our 5 year old female, Grey Creek’s Jenny Wren, sired by Hafrafell’s Mori, the Icelandic sire imported by Classic Setters in Hartsburg Missouri. (See Classic Setters’…
Walt Lesser
We thought readers would be interested to see these recently re-surfaced pedigrees, with their accompanying photos of Rymans born in 1950. Walt and Lisa
October Setters
We toyed with the idea of getting gps collars for years but never followed through. Now that we’re using them I thought sharing our experience might be useful for others who are considering it. OLD EARS Neither of us can hear as well as we used to and that’s what led to our…
Firelight SettersThis comment was made on my earlier post about breedings I have been doing. So today when I was running one of my pups in the grouse woods I took a couple of short videos: videos cannot be shared within a reply so I had to create this new post as my…
Classic SettersWe are happy to announce a new litter by our imported stud dog from Iceland, Hafrafells Mori, and our linebred female, Classic Fiona’s Blue Bebee. Both parents can be seen in the pictures below after some successful hunts last fall. Beebe whelped 10 pups and all are doing well. The puppies are a…
This is from my blog titled Firelight Reflections, shared here as part of RS members sharing recent hunting and breedings. For years breeders have been breeding their Ryman-types to Ryman-types, feeling it was perpetuating a good thing. But genetic regression to the mean has resulted in common opinions in the bird dog world of Rymanssuch…