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That is a lovely picture of the Red Beddy,..he really does look beautiful. Personally,..we always used related dogs when breeding our lurchers, mostly because it was easier to use the Boy/girl next door than to travel all over the UK... I was once a village Boy and nobody I knew had a car...and to us, the Fens, the Moors and the Dales, were as remote as another country. So, we played safe,..rarely improved on our cur dogs and were blissfully happy in our ignorance. When I could get about, I used dogs from all over, bred loads,..won a few, and definitely lost a few...?

Bruce has been line bred 40 years of breeding in him another from the same line but had it 30years ago the blue one on the left of the collie type

it was instant as far as our own stuff in my area was concerned, it gives a coolness to the offspring, take a f1 for example straight away you kill the raw aggressive almost reckless pace from the greyhound, and adds the calmness of the saluki giving a dog straight away that is more difficult for a hare to deal with. a flight animal can deal with a dog coming at it fast trying to out pace it, a dog that steady's when it gets there and watches and reacts to the hares movement is a different proposition altogether, when I watched dogs running, I watched it all. some times talking to a mate after

Bruce just went.over his mother no long back and his uncle went over his sister to produce these pups

My Sealyham x Russell caught his first rabbit today bushing, he’s 8 months and hunting well,he’s been retrieving shot rabbits & birds but this is his first catch,he caught it tucked up in long grass,I was impressed how he winded it as it was well tucked away.

That’s my line bred bitch her line was started in 1985 from f1 collie/greyhound to a f1 deerhound greyhound then to a whippet greyhound on both sides of the family tree there all related all through to my bitch 5 gens on each side I out crossed my bitch to a bedlington greyhound to drop a hit of base blood back in there I’ve done 2 matings to the same stud I’ll be taking a dog pup out the best bitch from the first mating when she’s bred from to put back in to my bitch so it’ll be nephew to aunt breeding then see what happens from there

Machines been driving over a scaffold board all morn I lifted it and found these

dont mean to be morbid but a good mate of mine ,and a farmer that gave me lots of permission and introduced to lots of other farmers died 2 days ago,,he was a sheep farmer that worked like a beast most of his life and retired 2 years ago......2 years ffs..he didnt enjoy much of his happy life ...f**k work ...live and try enjoy what you have

Leave it. It'll help sort the migrant crisis

If you want to be really bad swap the foxes for squid it's evil.

I have just the dog if there was no ban Sadly there is so he has had to lower his expectations plus having me as an owner is quite a hindrance

Explains a lot

Got offered a couple line breed collie greyhounds Last year no for me but was thinking putting one over my we bitch next year for a pup

3year back I had about 100 rabbits in the big chest freezer....was away in spain for 3 weeks ....we have a pre.pay elecy........wich we forgot to put enough money on..... oh my god.....

If they was no ban I'd still have the same dog's I've got now, Saluki whippet x Bedlington whippet, bedlington greyhound fl, and my terrier. None of them world beaters but they do me and we have plenty of fun, atb

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Starting to give them a little bit of trotting every other day and on the beach as well she is staring to shape up very nice

Forget you have a rabbit in your net bag ........ https://youtu.be/CeP0ZqKV8gs

When I will be haveing my next litter I will be breeding half sister to half brother both with same sire and al be keeping a bitch back of them and then put something back over that with the same grand sire as that's sire ...then I have sperm frozen from my old dog witch the will be line bred from and al insemate a bitch down the line to keep it as tight as I can

Any chance you could remind ones elf to change this into Morse code so I can understand it.

My new motto

We had a woman move in next to our shoot and all of a sudden our ducks (500) started using her pond , we caught her putting feed out for them and when we pulled her she said if there on my land there mine and under no circumstances were we allowed on ....and as much as we could do they still wandered up to her pond ...they weren’t a problem all summer but by December they had trashed her garden , the pond stunk and the whole place was a mud and shite tip ...she soon had a change of heart about pushing them of on Shoot days ...following years she was a changed woman , so much so she got into pi

It serves him right, nothing worse than people sticking there nose into something they know nothing about, if he doesn’t like how the countryside works then why move there a few years ago I used to do work for taxi lads and they were buggers for not paying so our favourite trick was to pull a door card off and put tuna in the door also milk in the carpet under the seat does the job ?

I like that but theres no like thingy can you give more details please.

they les likely to be closely related so widens the gene pool you can then cross back in with less risk of inbreeding, a bit like every one using the same stud sooner or later they all like brothers and sisters, (bit like here in the fens lol)

I agree with the two posts above but i sometimes ask myswlf why get/use dogs from the other end of the country when surely it makes more sense to use what is successful locally ?

Nosey f****r you kerny??

Will try and call in on you guys if you don't mind. I'm supposed to be at a three day family do come mini festival type of thing but its not that far away. Going to try and sneak off for a few hours. Cheers Arry

5.10 am

Now working both rats and rabbits a rare opportunity for someone

Whoa there, the football lads are talking mate.....pop back in when the topic turns to the subject of cheesy chips and half empty stadiums.

Irish wolfhound and hunt giant Irish elk. Go big or go home.???

Beddy bull grey for daytime foxing for me

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He Wantds to dig them.. Not suffocate the poor b*****ds by cutting off their oxygen supply with a f***ing plug ?

Thinking of stopping trapping magpies, and putting the Larson traps away for another year . Glad I didn’t do it sooner. Found this adult dog fox in this trap this morning. He wasn’t very happy to see me . I’ve been seeing a fox in this area but never when I’ve been shooting , so I was very pleased to see him ! I’ve had cubs in Larson traps before, but never an adult. Result!!

As many are "Town-ies" or City dwellers now, it is becoming rare that we process our own animals and foods. In a previous Thread I started I showed what we do with a half of a pig each year, this year I will show you the start of the task and what we do to prepare the pig for butchering and making our smallgoods. This part is not such a family affair as compared to the processing the next day. Previous links to other thread - http://www.thehuntinglife.com/forums/topic/374657-home-made-pork-sausages-by-my-italian-family/ In the beginning there was three fat piggie

Some folk will swear their dogs have took them single handed.....

I was going to get a bwra bitch as I really rate the whippet and it's xs, but I needed some thing bigger so bedy greyhound f1 pup as joined the team. Still want a whippet but I think the misses would kennel me and have dogs in house lol atb

That's sort of what i do as feck working my life away as it goes to quick to spend it earning just money,i go without some of the grander things in life but the time spent doing what i want to do without worry is fecking priceless.I earn until i have enough to see me through a few months then take time off and live my life,the family don't go without and the kids have all they want and when i'm bored of them all i go back to work..?

Got some cats need taking out, wife’s and neighbours ?

Same dogs and I'd still work them day and night ban makes no difference to me I never catch nout

Don't know if this is of any interest really early 60s. Me and mate decided we cycle to Buckfast only about 10 mile each way, but I never had a bike so used my sisters, bloody thing only had one gear. When I look at the photo now not one car, its wall to wall with them now there. Me with a synthetic leather jacket and my mate with his school gabardine coat, some of you older guys will remember them. Cheers Arry

Some of the BBQ pics. The best part of the day, fresh pork steak, liver, ribs a plenty etc etc We always cook up some of the sausage mix to taste and see if anything needs to be added, EACH lot of minced meat is cooked and tasted, once its in the skin, its too late. Soak a bit of lard grease into the bread - Yumo.. My favourite, the liver with bay leaf.... I was salivating, and swear I blissed out at the first bite. Pizza bread

BONUS material.... Using the blood from the pig. Different nationalities use blood, my heritage is German and they often use the blood in a 'blutwurst', my Italian family use it in sausage, pasta sauce, and fried as a cooked meal. It is first boiled to a thick dense block and then cooled and dried, then it is sliced thin and fried with onion, garlic, butter, salt, pepper and chili. I tried this fried blood, it is strong in flavour and VERY rich with texture and also filling. But 24hrs later you know that you ate it ! and if you ate a bit much you know for 48hrs..

I see this statement has ludicrous top men at there game,I'll say this ta ya fella the only top those types are of the plonkers tree when I ran hteeth preban they started when they ready and fa what it's worth some get confused with puppy exuberance ,fa what it's worth leaving mental damage to an otherwise good prospect his all two popular.,these animals never meet there full potential.atb bill

Tbh I didn't think twice.... I stopped nailing the mum, threw my mobile out of my pocket and jumped right in ? Jokes aside it really shook my head up. I was shaking for an hour or two afterwards. The daft mother was bashing on about how babies can breathe or hold their breath underwater ffs.. I kid you not, that child was under, she'd stepped off the sand shelf where it drops off really deep and the water is very murky. So even though she was only 6" under, you could barely see her bright blonde hair. No-one saw her except me, no noise nothing just one weird splash that caught my attentio