Transform Your Dog's Behavior
Obedience: All Breeds Welcome
Gun Dogs (Duck & Upland Hunting Retrievers)
Gun Dogs (Duck & Upland Hunting Retrievers)
Teach your dog basic commands like sit, stay, come, and heel with our obedience training programs. We use positive reinforcement techniques to make learning fun for your dog.
A bit more advanced?
Choose to take your dog's obedience skills to the next level as our trainers teach your dog more complex commands
and behaviors, mastering
off-
Teach your dog basic commands like sit, stay, come, and heel with our obedience training programs. We use positive reinforcement techniques to make learning fun for your dog.
A bit more advanced?
Choose to take your dog's obedience skills to the next level as our trainers teach your dog more complex commands
and behaviors, mastering
off- leash training and recall.
All training programs are tailored to the needs of the owner and dog,
typically between 4-6 weeks.
Covering All The Basics & More:
- Basic Obedience
- Socialization & Social Issues
- Mild Aggression
- Experience working with Owners and
Dogs with Physical Limitations
Gun Dogs (Duck & Upland Hunting Retrievers)
Gun Dogs (Duck & Upland Hunting Retrievers)
Gun Dogs (Duck & Upland Hunting Retrievers)
Building off the strong foundation in obedience lays the groundwork for advanced hunting skills.
Your dog is introduced to scent recognition, teaching it to identify and track specific scents associated with game.
Gradual exposure to simulated hunting scenarios refines the dog's field skills, honing its ability to locate, point, and retr
Building off the strong foundation in obedience lays the groundwork for advanced hunting skills.
Your dog is introduced to scent recognition, teaching it to identify and track specific scents associated with game.
Gradual exposure to simulated hunting scenarios refines the dog's field skills, honing its ability to locate, point, and retrieve.
Additionally, trainers focus on reinforcing discipline, ensuring the hunting dog responds promptly to commands even in the excitement of a hunt.
Grand Hunting Retriever Placements (AKC,HRC)
Gun Dogs (Duck & Upland Hunting Retrievers)
Grand Hunting Retriever Placements (AKC,HRC)
Is your dog a natural performer?
Our competition training programs can help your dog excel in events like agility, obedience, and conformation.
Taking only ten dogs each hunt test season, our trainers will create a custom training plan to help your dog reach their full potential,
and bring home those ribbons.
Meet Your Trainers
Trent Huffman
Tracy Hayes
Tracy Hayes has lived a lifetime with gun dogs. His first two dogs were a gift from a family friend he received when he was 9 years old. Coming from a birddog family, his youth was filled with pointing dogs, quail, grouse and pointing dog field trials. In his early twenties, after graduating from Virginia Tech, he acquired his first lab and it’s been a life-long affair.
For nearly twenty years, agriculture was his vocation but retrievers were his passion. In 1990, he saw a sign that said NAHRA hunt tests. He stopped and watched Charlie Jurney, Allen Pleasants and a few other hunt test trainers and his life was never the same. He co-founded Big Elkin Creek Waterfowl and Retrievers in 1993. Over the next several years, with the help of Charlie Jurney, he learned the art and skill of training retrievers. In the late nineties, he started training professionally and founded Quail Hill Farm Kennels—the rest is history.
In 2024, Hayes is dedicating ten spots for the most qualified dogs to travel to Hunt Tests, including The HRC Grand.