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  1. Stavross
    Ha ha, I know they are a good bunch and they have put in a good bit of graft this year, I shouldn’t complain about them, for a few of them it’s there first season shooting so they just want to be involved, so it makes mine and my mates life a bit easier
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    Cheers, another two or three weeks of dry sunny weather will do me until they are well settled in, but looking at the long distance weather I don’t think there’s much chance of that
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    More like to many cocks, I’ve already had one ring me telling me he is up there and do I want them to check the birds, I’ve sent him over the far side to cut rides out for the beaters, he seemed happy enough with that so one less job for me ?
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    I have the whistling problem with one of the lads that does a fair bit of feeding up, when they are swapping over onto the wheat we hand feed a bit around the pens and he’s a bugger for getting them to follow him around, a few years ago it always worked well because there was just a couple of us doing the work but we have a lot of new members now and they all want to be involved unlike the old lot who just wanted to turn up and shoot, this has been a help leading up to the birds arriving but it can be a bit of a problem once they are in as I keep getting phone calls from members saying “ I’m u
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    I’m very sorry to hear this and I wish you and your family my best wishes my nephew was born with two hole in his hart and was treated at the freeman, he will of underwent the same operation your granddaughter will be having, the doctors and staff at the Freeman are unbelievable, there was a few tough months after he had his operation but last week he celebrated his 10th birthday and now there is no stopping him, so I’m sure this little girl will receive the best of care and will soon be running rings round you all at home all the best stav
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    I like that, I haven’t seen many badges ?
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    He is normally quite good with us, two seasons ago he had a lot of problems so we got what we were given, I think he just got to big and couldn’t cope with the amount of birds he was producing they turned out to be a load of blacks and for whatever reason they didn’t want to fly, half way through the season we were taking dogs up flushing them towards flags a couple of days before we were shooting, teaching them to get up higher than head hight
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    Plenty of duck about and I’ve been watching the Canada’s and the lag working the grass fields, lined out like a forensic team grazing them off
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    The price of wheat this year it might work out cheaper to keep them on the pellet
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    They are ment to be ring necks, but time will tell, it wouldn’t be the first time the breeder has sent us whatever he had left, with us been a little shoot we are near the bottom of his list, hopefully they will be what he said this year
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    Yeah, I’m happy with them this year, they are a bit bigger with them been late going in and they are very quiet, even when I was in the pens the were just wandering about, not flighty at all, not like last year when after a couple of days they were all over the place
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    Yes we are getting to my favourite time of year, spoiled for choice, the pheasant and partridge will keep for a little later in the year, I’m thinking duck and geese for the near future ?
  13. Stavross
    Cracking result, the weather is definitely on the turn ?
  14. Stavross
    Well the birds have been in for a couple of days now ( a little bit later ) and all looking well, 400 in each pen, had a walk round, no dead and non outside the pens, they are taking feed and enjoying sunning themselves and generally doing pheasant stuff, now the proper work begins
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    Welcome fellow northerner ?
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    They are cracking boots, my mate got a pair and used them all season on the moor last year and had no problem with them at all, no leaks and very hard wearing even dragging them through the heather, I’ll be getting some once I’ve burned the meindl’s out
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    I will do mate, I haven’t forgot about you, I’ve got a couple of places over my way over winter if you fancy a day out ?
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    In that respect I think the wife would say I’m 100% Yorkshire man ?
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    That’s a very good idea to get them onto the wheat, I’ve had a bit of bother in the past getting them on the wheat, what I find works is scattering wheat on the floor and in straw to get them interested in it while there is still pellet in some of the feeders
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    I think you could be right, I’m not convinced it works as well as the keeper said but knowing my look if I put it in one of the pens I’ll go up to check on them and 800 will be in that pen ?
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    Not quite, if you were to ask me in the street I would say I’m from North Yorkshire, but I live in Stockton on tees, north of the river so I fall into Durham/Cleveland
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    Richmond, Yorkshire, it is a lovely place, fields as far as the eye can see
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    Got asked to go up to my mates sheep farm to thin the rabbits out, managed 27 for 31 shots and I would of thought if I walked it again I could of shot the same again, no pics this time as I’ve been told to leave them for the foxes as this is just a pest control exercise and to get up and sort the foxes out before lambing ?
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    I used it at the end of last season on the advice of a keeper to keep the birds in certain areas but it didn’t seem to make any difference, they use it right through the season as soon as they are off the pellet, I have two main pens that have 400 birds each so I think one area will be getting the puller and the other just wheat, it will be interesting to see if it holds the birds or if they do what they always do and spread out over the woodland
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    Had a wildcat on a .243 it looked like a Pringles can but did it’s job very well, it’s the one on my profile pic ?
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