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Ted walsh was another good author same era as drabble, lurchers and longdogs was good reading, still got the old original copy dating back to the 70s, priice 5 pounds 25 pence tideline books.
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i agree with what you say lurchers,alan used to be a slipper at pure deerhound coursing events, and he knew his stuff, but saying that he was well regarded within the pure deerhound commmunity, is he still alive remember him long time ago.
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going back a good few years now i used to buy deerx greys in the old and exchange and mart, 15 pounds a pup from john nuttall who was a brother to brian nuttall terrierman. they had blood in them called enterkine damn good stock but that was back in the very early 70s, sadly people like john and alan wilkinson another renowned deerhound man are history now, true dogmen.
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You got excellent bloodlines there mate,definetly with the doxhope blood,she should make a good all rounder,really sad day when bill doherty ceased the doxhope line that him and his father worked so hard at for years, dont think bill comes on this site these days, think he is more into his photography now, dont think he keeps running dogs now, another end of an era.
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very nice specimen, are many of the irish boys breeding them at the minute,how popular are they never seen one work , but heard good reports about them. atb
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What age is your deerhound bitch, if she got any coursing blood in her pedigree it will certainly help and she will work well for you, all the xs you mention about breeding her sound right to me, just my preference but i would stick to deerxgrey first cross. Just remember mate dont try and start her too young as deerhound and deerhound hybrids take a while to fully mature usually about 18 months before i used to give them a bit of proper work , but thats up to the individual that owns them, but saying that atb with her, what pedigree is in her breeding.
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yeah i know mac lol,worked and lived amongst for years ,north and south men,worked on the roads with them,worked hard played hard, but would give you their last, if you were really stuck, speak of people as i find them.
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Its getting harder to find good deerhound blood with proper working stock in it these days, almost non existent just like good working bedlington blood as rare as hens teeth, i always loved and kept deerhoundx greys, from the1970s, the ones that i would go for now and would give a try to would be the type that charts is keeping now like me the man well knows what to expect and the capabilities of the deerhound x.i would still be in the market if the right stuff came along, i believe some of the irish boys are still breeding them at at realistic prices instead of telephone numbers, good luck i
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Beddy whippet grey x collie whippet grey
grompz56 replied to Kalibrgun's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
beautiful strong litter of pups absolute stunners, areal credit to you mate, just wish id been a bit closer wouldnt have hesitated in having one,just lost my lurcher due to a seizure only a young dog, to say im gutted would be an understatement. atb with the pup you kept back a belter. -
They certainly look it mate,sounds too me like you got a good combination there, if i was a bit younger lol, theywould definetly be in my kennels and worked like they were bred for.
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The knowledge and dedication of phil and lurchers can never be replaced, he was old school moocher and learnt his trade the proper way out on the land, never met the man, butfelt as i knew him by his books and his very early days writing his weekly column lloyd on lurchers, in the old shooting news. sadly the likes of phil will neverbe seen again, the lurcher world is a much sadder place without him. hunt on with the jukels in the next world. rip phil,deepest condolences to his wife and family.
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superb specimens,absolute credit to you,hope they do all you want and more mate.
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you never heard of jason powells stud dog arthur, maybe your too young to remember when jason had him at stud and worked him threw some good stuff, like the look of him drover.
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looking well for her age, a credit to you mate, hope she does you well when you start working her properly.
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im not saying there isnt decent deerhounds lurchers out there, but it was a sad day when bill doherty packed up the dox hope kennels, didnt trevor cookland take them on , havent heard anything of him for a few years now,another bloke whose packed up now was andy barron from gisburn, believe he produced some reasonable stock.still got only one about me out of dave platts stuff does all i need these days.
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lets not forget anastasia noble,ardkinglass deerhounds, alan wilkinson who used to field some excellent deerhounds and deerhound xs, and john nuttal from holmes chapel,whou used to have an ad regular in old exchange and mart used to breed fom the enterkine strain of deerhounds, had a couple of him years ago price 15 pounds in late 70s.proper coursing strains of deerhound, sadly becoming a thing of the past,but i still rate them for what they are.
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Dhoona meaning black maiden, in gaelic lanuage,nice strong pup, atb.
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Me too , still got one about me now, only 3 yrs old, dont do so much these days but keeps me going now im retired
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really enjoy reading this thread about all these famous dogs years ago and present day and the lads and experts, that own them, even if lots get carried away and wreck a good topic.i have done a fair bit with coursing dogs when i was a younger man. one man that has not been mentioned but was up there with some of the best in his day andknew his dogs and how to condition them was Don Southerd had a cracking bitch lady and bred some good pups back in the 80s, used to be a keep fit fanatic, dead a good few years now mind, lot of you younger guys probably never even heard of him, reckon tats w
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a sad loss indeed,RIP dave, used to love getting the ed/rd every month a proper magazine which dave ajways did his best to get published on time, ive still got every issue from start to finish thankyou dave and may you rest easy.
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beautiful looking pup you got there mate, nice height and good strong feet with strong looking bone, dont see many good examples about these days, wish i could come across something like that cross again ,make good all rounders, had some great times when i had mine, do you know what strain of bedlington was used. hope it does well for you atb.
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Fred,just my opinion but i would definetly say that dogs and ferrets from a good few years were bred from proper working stock, that were bred by genuine working dog men that used the dogs on all sorts whether it was day light, lamping or coursing and wouldnt tolerate stock that couldnt do the job they wanted them to do, they bred good honest worker to worker including terriers and ferrets, and were not money orientated and pumping litter and litter out of non working stock , and charging telephone numbers for them. the genuine dog men would cull hard . and would gift there dogs to mates and
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i bet it will be somebody that knows your movements knows your kennel set up, or who has come to view any dogs or pups youve had up for sale,or somebody that knows how good a workers your dogs are, cast your mind back and look close to home ,somebody somewhere will know something just bide your time mate, bstards need there hands chopped off, hope you get them back soon atb .
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hope you find a good pup , with decent working bedlington in it, sadly very hard to find these days. i wuld have another tommorrrow if it was bred right, brilliant ferreting, lamping. and general mooching dogs atb in your search mate.
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Dont hear much of trevor cook these days, didnt he get most of bill dohertys doxhope deerhounds when he packed up a few yrs ago, used to go under cookland deerhounds, believe he bred some good stock, any body know if he still going or just breeds the occasional litter atb.
