Dog Health Questions: Bird dog training with ducks?

I am going to be buying live birds to help train my bird dog (english springer spaniel). My intentions are to pheasant hunt with my dog, but i cant find a pheasant hatchery that will sell me just a few. So could i just use ducks to train my dog or do i need pheasant?

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Recommended Answer:
You would be better off finding someone else with birds, perhap ina hunting dog club - different birds move differently, and ducks just run around. That's fine if you want to train a herding dog, but a flushing dog needs something that will actually flush, not take a left and keep on going.

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