 Welcome to the channel guys. I'm Titus, Mid Valley Mercenaries, and I'm super excited to bring you guys this video today. Something very cool that I've wanted to document and we've been talking about this for years, finally happening. Rocky, as you guys all know, my duck dog, if you don't already, bred with one of my friend's black labs. And they're on their second litter and my friend Nathaniel and their family, he's buying the dog. Like he worked all summer long, saved up his money, and he wants a hunting dog and he's getting a female from Rocky's litter. So I want to document this journey. I want to take it and take you guys with us, not just through him picking it out and seeing him as pups, which you're going to see here in just a minute, them at only four or five days old up to two weeks and three weeks and four weeks and keep documenting all this and take you guys with us on this journey, but also when he finally picks his pup out and then the training process and the procedure that he's going to go through all the way up until she actually starts hunting. So we're super excited. Rocky's right over here in the backyard. I'm getting ready to go look at the pups right now. So stay with us and stay on this journey. There's going to be several videos to this series. Probably I'm thinking maybe 15 to 20 total because it's going to go from the puppies at the littlest stage that we're going to see them today. I think they're five days old to when she's actually out hunting in the field. So it's going to be, I think, an amazing thing to document and to be part of. I'm excited that I get to film it and also see Rocky's offspring. If you haven't seen any videos of Rocky hunting, check them out on our channel here. You can go back and see his training videos, but you can also see the hunt that he's been on, the experience that he has and what an amazing duck dog Rocky has turned out to be if you don't know of him already. So let's get started and let the journey begin. Can you bring him inside? Yeah. You think? You want to pick one of them up? Yeah. Just be careful with his front feet because he had to do close up. It's fat little things, huh? Yeah, they're gaining weight, leaps and bounds. How are you feeling right now? Excited. Excited. Have you picked a name out yet? Yeah, I think we're going to name a Kelly. I can't believe how fat they've gotten since... It's insane how fast they grow. You're like giant gopers, huh? You're already a spoiled brat. I'm not spoiled at all. He tries to get up, she's like bambi on the ice. It feels too good. Let's take a little power nap. He said she's like... She looks like a ball player. She takes a power nap and then she's rammed and goes... There's one thing about the yellow ones, you can see they're like face better. Yeah, right. Yeah, the details. The details of it? Yeah. It's not like her hair. Can't get up there? She loves that stuff. I apologize, I'm doing a voice over now because my audio was not working on these next clips I'm about to show you. She is at seven and a half weeks. Love this photo right here. And she's just a beautiful looking pup. But anyways, here's the photo. Here's the video correction that I did not have any audio on so I'm really bummed out about that. But what we're doing here is just getting her some exposure to birds. And she's just having a good old time, messing around with some cinnamon teal. Some green wing teal. And he just threw her a couple. I don't suggest doing this without a lead or a leash so she don't take off with it. What we buy in Nathaniel is going to buy is a 30 foot floating lead. You can get those on Amazon and they float in the water. But anyways, the last thing you want is your pup even at this age to run off with it. But we're just kind of seeing her mouth strength. She picks up those birds really good honestly for her age, I can't believe it. But yeah, she's running around here a little bit, which is no big deal. But I wouldn't do that no more. I was telling Nathaniel and kind of that's what I was saying in this video. But unfortunately cut out. But what we do is get the little two inch bumpers you guys can grab with your pup. What he's going to have with her. And that was just getting her some exposure to birds. And biggest thing is at this age, you don't want to steady him. You don't want to not let him run as soon as you throw something. If it's a tennis ball, I suggest a tennis ball. That's like the best thing you can let him go. But only do it like once a day or once every couple of days at this age. You don't need to do that. Don't wear them out. You want to leave them wanting. You want to leave it where they want to do more. People always get puppies and they just throw it and throw it and throw it. And then after four or five tosses, they don't want to get into more. And then they're freaked out. So don't overdo it. Right here, what I'm doing is I'm showing how to stop them from biting. So put your thumb in their mouth on their tongue and clamp down. And puppies want to bite and it really hurts and can cut you. So just do that. Put it in their mouth. Hold it down basically until they start pulling away from you. Like they don't like anymore. They're most gagging and that will actually get them to stop biting you. I learned that from an older gentleman. Show me that. Food amounts for during this time really not a lot. A cup a day. I know that doesn't sound like a lot, but they're a puppy. You can just kind of go off their body size and wait. They're getting chubby. You can lay it back. Some people just let them free feed. I'm kind of more strategic in my feeding. Check out guys, our podcast, the MVM show. I do a lot of this. We'll be talking about this stuff on there and you can get a lot of tips and tricks. You can find on any platform and just get the pup out as much as possible. Let them have fun and stay tuned. We're going to have more on this in upcoming videos.