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    Nell- some skin disorders are a side effect or symptom of something else internal.Like its been said ,try changing her diet to a lower protein or maize free food .Did the baldness coincide with her first heat ? Could be hormonal imbalance.Is she picked on by others as stress can also cause hair loss in many mammals, us included.Change the bedding type but use nothing dusty.If shes not bothered by it then its unlikely to be parasitic. Ps The vet plan diet has a similar conterpart called canine i/d made by Hills.This is a tinned food with no additives or preservatives with a protein content of
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    Top lot look a bit finchy but the nest is not lined properly for a finch.Number 4 looks like a garden warbler mate.
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    Can I have the jills on a months trial -tommorrow. Only then will I take the lot at 2 days old .Only joking mate .If your still stuck at weaning give me a pm .
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    Some beautiful countryside there mate.Quality day out by the sounds of it.
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    Nice answer mate .The dog needing the electrolyte is on the point of exaustion or past it .Know when to stop running the dog and not push it as this is when accidents happen..Energy boosts are in my opinion ,a bad idea too as they allow a dog to run through an injury.I think its best to let a dog run on natural reserves as he will pull up quicker when injured thus not damaging further .
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    Well said kye When are folk going to realise that all types of killing has some aspects of cruelty involved in it.If the person who is using the trap,snare,terrier,lurcher or what ever, is ok with there personal methods then thats fine by me. Nature in itself is unbelievably cruel,the world is cruel and people are cruel.I try my best to keep the suffering to minimum while using traps and snares but there is a certain amount of cruelty involved. The statement at the offset of this thread by Tomo that "we are all glad of the *** of leg hold traps etc" is quite ignorent.Do people on this site
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    Has Millt been caught with his pants down then?
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    Your a lucky man mik.
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    Steady on ,think of your blood pressure.I do work lurchers actually and in the past have taken my fair share with the dogs.These days I have to keep within the law ,job wise .I shoot roe as part of a management scheme and no longer hunt indiscriminately killing whatever is in the beam.Ive no objections to anyone doing this as we all have to start somewhere .You must be a proud man to have killed more deer than me .I dont pick at everybodies post ,just those that I feel need picking at ,like you say its up to me!.Ive seen several thousand heads displayed but never in velvet .Still, looks lik
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    The trouble with saying nothing to something you know is bollocks is that young readers take things at face value and think its the way to go.By putting forward an objection or statement to the contrary about a thread then at least the youngsters have a chioce to make.
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    The killing of cubs is necessary where the vixen is taking livestock or gamebirds to feed them.Some people carry on digging fox the whole year round whenever they come across them but they are only doing themselves out of sport later on .Years past we used to move cubs to a more suitable place :ph34r: ,where they were fed and nurtured but alas no more :ph34r: The only cubs I dig these days are those where the keeper/farmer has shot the vixen.This forum is exellent but its easy to take a topic out of context or too seriously .This is why I dont post pics.
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    During the foot and mouth situation,a lot of the killing was done with bolt humane killers as well as .32 pistols.I was on a couple of the culls and we had an inspection one day by the maff and local firearms dept. as they were concerned about the safety of the operators?Such was the panic about getting these beasts shot that licenses were seldom checked.The firearms officer did say that a firearms licence was needed to purchase the blanks for one of these contact pistols and the OWNER of it needed one too.A person could use it as part of his or her job without the license. Never used or seen
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    Having read these replies I feel I jumped in too early .Those of us that work their dogs regular and bring on pups probably do not realise we are training the dog as it comes second nature to encourage or chastise as it occurs.Ive been lucky in that I have a very good rapor with the dogs and need not do much shouting or encouraging .I believe the opening up starts in all dogs when they are frustrated at not being able to get up to their quarry.This is especially so with terriers and rabbits which outclass them on speed.Ive gotten to know what a dogs on by the sound its making ,either in cover
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    Excellent .No hard and fast rules on size in this country.As long as what you have does what you want it to do.
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    All I can say molly is that the terriers you associate with are worlds apart from the black stuff I work . If a TERRIER does not instintively throw tongue then I would instintively part company from that type molly. As to hunting cover properly,letting a pup run wild is what is done ,providing it has basic training and can be recalled .If its to work with a lurcher it will realise soon enough what the game is .Good luck with the- not to ground- training though.If its used to bush rabbits in cover then sooner or later it will want to follow one to ground ,in a big bramble thicket and out of s
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    Seriously now-To say he did more good than harm is a lie.Someone said before that at the time his books were being turned out ,we had little or nothing else to compare it to .As a young lad I WAS TAKEN IN BY IT AND THOUGHT WHAT A GREAT BLOKE THIS WAS .The basis of his stories were truth but broadened to fill a book and most were not of his own experiences.This was explained to me some years ago by a bloke who writes regular in E.D.R.D .Several of plummers aquaintances noticed snippets of there own hunting ventures in his books,which he blatantly denied ,and many distanced themselves from him
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    Cant believe what Im reading .Any terrier past its jabs will work cover and throw tongue if it gets excited . Try keeping any of mine out of cover, and keeping them quiet is a no hoper. Are we running out of topics or what .
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    A good bloke would know by the slots.
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    Jay its easy to say you wouldn't hand things over, I feel the same way...but the more sensible people consider the idea of this blokes got a knife in my face and he wants my mobile, is it worth my life???? Just give them the phone you can always buy another one, you can't buy another life... And you can buy a bigger knife later . :ph34r:
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    I expect you will have a lot of people confused here mate ,me included.I never knew there was a jab for dogs to bring them out of season.
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    not bad coming from somebody who thought that coursing greyhounds will piss all over lurchers on the lamp and will still be on there feet on a night long after a lurchers spent its self good post WHICH i HAVE APOLOGISED FOR ,ASSHOLE.
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    Sorry to rock the boat but-If someone puts 100% into their hunting ,takes it seriously and wants to do a good job of it ,sooner or later they will make a decision to specialise in a quarry. They need to own specialist dogs as no dog is the perfect all rounder as some would have you believe.The gamer breeds and crosses are a must for foxing, despite what the all rounders say.I agree that there are some twats about ,tatoos and bull dogs,boasting about their dogs BUT there are also a lot of people who dabble in it all but get good at nothing .Some of these think their dogs are excellent at the f
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    SIR-the night you describe is indeed the all round ,rabbit killing night -Lurchers,longnets and rifle. ps Hope the other pesters arnt put off by having you aboard.Certainly make them think before posting. foxdropper.
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