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
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…
This 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…
We 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…
For several years a group of the breeder members from RymanSetters.com have been discussing the possibility of looking overseas for English setters that are hunted and would be a good compliment to Ryman-types. There are nice setters in a number of countries that might be a fit—some of the Italian setters, Turkey, maybe…
We have been travelling to Wisconsin to grouse and woodcock hunt and meet with fellow Ryman Setter breeders and friends since the 1980’s. In recent years we have combined this trip with a trip to South Dakota to hunt prairie grouse and pheasants. We pack up our setters and our Airstream trailer and…