Tom Dokken's Dead Fowl Trainer may be one of the best tools ever designed for training retrievers. Once my pups get old enough to carry them, I switch over to them for the majority of their work.

While you can't substitute using real ducks, the Dokken Ducks allow you to train with the natural weight and feel of a dead bird all the time. It can make a huge difference in your dog's attitude over time. My labs absolutely love them!

Transcript from Steve's Video :

This is a Dokken dead fowl mallard. This is one of my favorite products that we sell. Designed by Tom Dokken, this is the closest you can get to a real duck for your dog to retrieve. Dead fowl trainers are made of a foam that has the weight and the feel of a dead duck. It is designed for your dog to have the correct hold on a bird.

The dead fowl trainer has a hard head, has a foam body, has hard feet, and then the throw rope is included and it actually passes through the body. It's the same rope that attaches the head, so real secure.

The design with this, because of the foam, you can actually inject scent straight into the body. It's just designed to teach that dog to go for the middle of the bird. You will find, too, that if you have a dog that shakes, if he shakes the head is designed to actually give him a small correction. So it will stop dogs from shaking birds. Just a really neat device.



This is a great tool. It's a great way for your dog to get used to picking up birds. We start dogs on them as young as four or five months with the smaller teal, then we move them up to the mallard. Just a really great product. My dogs absolutely love them.

We occasionally run across a dog that once you move over to dead fowl trainers, they don't like to go back to dummies. They only want to pick up these and they want to pick up birds.

Dokken's Deadfowl Trainer Duck -- Mallard D-100

One of the best tools ever designed for training retrievers.

Mallard D-100 -- Dokken's Deadfowl Trainer Duck
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    • Please note: power throw ball shown in some product photos sold separately.
  • Deadfowl training dummy bodies are made of a soft natural-feel foam with free swinging hard plastic duck head / feet with a natural dead bird weight.
  • Dokken Dead Fowl Mallards encourage your retriever to make a proper pick up and hold while discouraging your water dog from shaking ducks.
  • Dokkens Dead Fowl Trainers float in water even when punctured
  • Retriever training scents may be injected directly into the duck's foam body for added realism.
  • For water training, Dokkens Mallard Dead Fowl Trainer has no equal when it comes to life-like appearance. You may choose the more visible (whiter) ducks: Pin Tail Deadfowl , Blue Bill Deadfowl trainer, or Red Head Dokken models for younger, less experienced dogs. Look at the less visible (darker) Dokken Mallard (d-100) or Black Duck Dead Fowl training models for the more experienced dogs.
  • A Pheasant Deadfowl Trainer is available for training upland dogs.

    Dead Fowl Trainer Internal Scent System (available separately):

    To internally scent your Dead Fowl Trainer: Inject the training scent into the middle of the foam duck body in six different locations using the Dokken's Dead Fowl Scent Injector or a syringe (not provided). The foam body is designed to hold the training scent whether using the dummy in or out of the water. 1/2 to 3/4 ounce of training scent is sufficient.

    How to Deodorize Your Dokken Deadfowl Trainer:

    Mix 1 qt. 3% hydrogen peroxide, 1/4 cup baking soda, a squirt dish soap, and enough warm water to cover your dummy (up to a 1/2 gallon if needed). Soak dummy overnight and rinse off the next day. Set out in the sun to dry.