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I been passing a small holding in Suffolk for a fair while now looking at his rare breeds of pigs that are free range unlike the eu subsidised pig farms ,,, these are happy English free range , and thinking to meself I got to get some of that ,any old rd I got me a shoulder of Oxford sandy black I guess you could say I been looking forward to eating this for over a yr lol and now it’s sizzling in the oven ??????? Last wk I had a few roasted bits of Norfolk large black pig chops got to say the best pork I’ve ever eaten ? so ther i aIn am here sitting 2ft waiting for the pig to get out a

Was out on a shoot this morning and due to the sun shining and a wind to dry anything out we didn't really expect to find but we showed willing and you don't find feck all sat at home with dogs sat bored in kennels,so we set off and as we checked and walked many places and hedge rows and blanked.Well we had one final place to check and we'd had one out of there a month or so back and yep that was empty as well,but you don't just check the holes you know and i let my old( 12 1/2 years old) plummer bitch work the rest of the hedge row and she squeezed into a tight little place and settled at a m

I don't for one second think you don't already know, the legend is a dog IMO that just wants to graft no matter what. Maybe he (or she) is already sore but needs must and you've got a job to do and this particular animal will go and go regardless. Perhaps it's the old faithful that puts a dig right time after time when others have failed. Perhaps it's the terrier that finds the game when it's given the other the runaround for a few hours and it's dug itself in tight. We've all got our own ideas of what makes the perfect terrier, the best way I could say it is you'll know it when you se

If it was as easy a 2+2 = 4 we'd all have a yard of legends, it's all a gamble, you're just shortening the odds in your favour. I've had the privilege of owning some fantastic terriers over the years, some that outshone their siblings and anything else on the bank. I've found in this line ( the only one I've got experience of ) there's no 100% guarantee that you'll get the best from the best. Perhaps that's a poor way of putting it but without writing a book I'll have to keep it simple. I've had two or three examples in my lifetime where the lesser of the two siblings ended up being t

Mother and daughter lying on the couch ..... god forbid that with the rambo ,s of the world on here ???

anyway 5 foot dig today and i'm off to wash the mud off

It’s not until you read posts like the last half dozen or so that you start to think about those terriers you never bred which maybe should of had a chance but all too late now .Good steady digging dogs ain’t mediocre either ,they are what we strive for .Those that supposedly shine ,probably do so for other reasons than digging ie just a good dog to have around ,breed decent stuff but we subconsciously link it all to digging .If it stays to be dug to time after time ,then any dog shines in my book .

When I said average digging dog, I don’t mean it in any bad way, the dog is still being dug regular but his brother outshines him for some reason? You must surely see it in your own dogs? Say you have 2 or 3 digging dogs in your kennels now, I’ll bet you have a favourite but the others are still good at their job, it doesn’t mean you won’t breed from the others does it? Or put it another way, if you and your mate have 2 brothers, yours is the superstar and your mates is JUST a genuine, honest worker, but he is the best dog in your mates kennel, then surely he would use him over a bitch?

yep all over by 9.30 wind in my face squeaked the bitch in from About 250 and shot it at ranged 135 frlggin cold again Atb lads

He's now affiliated himself with UKIP in a advisory role so he is moving more in that direction of politicising a movement, things aren't going to happen overnight and it has to be much bigger than just one man . I don't see anyone else out there putting the work in like Tommy he's pretty much all there is at the moment. I'm not sure there's better alternative at this point in time?

Fuuk off powers yeah lurcher peddling cuut ?

About £500

Lost a bitch 4 seasons ago at 7 year old that should have been bred from, realised it the day I lost her and have been kicking myself ever since. Was one of those terriers you kind of take for granted and went about her business without much fuss, not a superstar by any means but just a good honest reliable terrier that should have been given a chance to pass those traits on. One of the biggest mistakes I’ve made from I started out in dogs.

Depends on the ground your working, a big dog will never dig on in some places, and those big dogs are of no use to lads in those areas. day off work ? hardly compares though does it. If your ill you can’t work, especially if it’s a taxing job. We are talking about animals here not machines, if you don’t have them in good health they won’t work hard forever. If my dog was to walk the first thing I would look at is myself, have I missed something that’s a bit off with the dog. If I’m confident that he is fit for the job, I’ll take him out again and keep a close eye on him. If it reoccurs I’d sa

A very keen pup watching on ,it finished in the dark

Rhumour has it after emptying his nuts in her he rolled over 3 times and was still on top of her.

Great minds GL......a nice lump of one of my Old Spots form last year......

Hope it's something quite substantive and produces a massive anti-BBC backlash.

And many a good dog pts due to a fit of rage from a pissed of owner could counter that, for showing off in front of their mates. Ya will know a jacker from a stumble

Sorry bill couldn't understand a word of that could you retype it in your normal language mucker

Whippets great, BUT ferreting whippets can feel the damp rain wind if stood for long periods. I’d go collie x greyhound/ whippet or collie lurcher x whippet. Wouldn’t touch a first cross bed x whippet for ferreting personally. or just go small lurcher around 21 inch x another small lurcher that’s proven. BE CAREFULL MOST LURCHERS BREEDERS ARE FULL OF SHIT.

Rob 58 rang the other day needed a fox or two and I’ve seen a couple around the chicken pen so set up the bait and string with a pheasant as bait ! shot the first one at 5:10am , second one at 6:am and the third at 6:02 am ....don’t know what you old boys are messing about with ..? And you look closely at the window frame you can see why I never had four ..?

Cracks me up when you see these middle aged gormless looking ugly c**ts walking along with their little thai bride all proud to have finally started their own little family do they think we dont know the only way they could get a bird was by buying one out of a catalogue !

Could be said that to find your best producers you need to breed ,test then breed some more .Once the ingredience are there then it’s time to breed selectively and with a goal in mind .Which brings us back to good mates and trust ,an issue that seems greater than just breeding the right stuff .

One of kg ,s I snapped few yrs back

Unfortunately that comes with the game it's a game of its and buts what I can't stand is the boys breeding for money and using this excuse """o well his brother is bred the same way so it should prosper " the way I see it breed your best dogs in the yard ya can't do any better than that.

the dog in my avater would kill foxes for fun he had a knack of breaking there bottom jaw and ripping there throats out he wasnt everbodys cup of tea as he was a nasty b***%*d but i liked him and he done me well died to ground in the end , ive a dog here now real gently sort of dog but show him a fox and its a dead fox , we were in Wiltshire yesterday doing a bit of ratting had 143 rats then ended up digging as dog had gone to ground ended up with 4 from 2 digs tidy day in the end

Sorry about the claret but i ain't washing a head shot fox , the russell on the left who accounted for this fella is totaly blind but can still do a shift...

BRAMBLING

I do indeed unstand you R.H and I am positive I come across a one minded dope on here because I can barely understand myself at times if I'm real honest with myself my oldest bitch was bred the way you have stated and I do sure have a favourite but with the little breeding I do I probably only breed from my favourite/best dog and the others will be worked till they can work no more but I wouldn't be breeding so much to give them a look in unless god forbid something happens. I'll just enjoy them and be glad they where put together the right way and do what there bred ta do.

I have a dog there this season he started to hard for his own good his first couple of digs were shaky he was rolling around trying to bully the game making mistakes nearly forcing the shift but he dug a couple and failed a couple and I wasn’t impressed by him I put him in a spot that was maybe to big a test just because I wanted to see what he was about and he showed after 1hr beat up and exhausted I made my mind up in my head he was finished only my digging partner convinced me to try him one more time so I healed him and gave him another go and he used his voice for the first time and has u

jeasus ,some smashing ladies (i hope) on this site ,just stumbled across it ,im happily married(shes happy ,im married )AsianCharm......so i checked the site out for research purposes only of course and it seems these girls(i hope ) are not exactly looking for marriage lol...then i think to meself ...bit early for this kind of stuff ....so back to the lurcher section ,which is a bit safer (i hope )

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Nice looking pup but I’d like a bit more meat on it for 15 weeks old .. it’s got plenty of time to look like a lurcher when it’s an adult ......

8pm tonight on FB

Also you’ll see a pattern in a dog that’s about to jack small things that’ll make you think then out they’ll come and let face it it’s nothing to do with human error when they don’t want it. it’s curtains

Hey Guy’s hope all is well. Was out again today with Mathew , who I met via social media ,he has been in Australia for about 7 years and hadn’t been ferreting in all that time, anyway long story short , Mathew stayed at my place, and in the morning we were out and about with the stinkers , and dogs, we managed to bag a few, Mathew went home with a feed of bunnies and a great day was had. PS video incoming

But do they? Just because a dog is a world beater, never missed a beat type dog, doesn’t mean that he’ll re-produce himself. How many times has it been the case that the superstar from a litter produces bugger all and his brother who’s an honest average digging dog has produced worker after worker?

Aye, it’s funny what you stumble across while innocently browsing the net Jiggy eh ?

nowt like rubbing a bit of salt in Dave come on stavross put a bit of effort in!! lol

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/y7mi8qobkteksi0/AACwceGsSjvnUjlsGLCFKwrka?dl=0 so I’ve got a pair of buzzards on some land I shoot and I’ve managed to catch them on the trail camera, I’ve been putting birds down for them and they seem to be getting more confident, so with any luck and if I ever get some time off I’ll be down there with the camera ?

Your right mate. Problem is if half the folk that keep running dogs have to work in bed they'd rather sleep on the floor. It's the truth unfortunately. That's why they sell they're dogs cause theyre scruffy cxxts that would rather have a night on the beer than keep they're dog.

There in lays the problem mate ... cheap dry food from Aldi will never put muscle on a dog compared to raw meat ... get raw chicken beef lamb down the pup with veg mixed in ... you will see a world of difference in weight and in the future with muscle mass .....

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