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    Its not blended its exactly how it came out of the camera - the branches in front of it are the trees in my back garden Shame you didnt see it lurchergrrl, especially when you went out and made the effort
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    As it was the first time this has happened for 400 years, I thought I'd better get a snap of it..Took this morning, hand held so not the sharpest or best of photos, just before it disappeared behind the rooftops
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    Shes aged a bit since you saw her a few years ago Macker - these photos of her taken around this time last year.. still young at heart though
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    half hearted and idle they most definitely are not, not the ones I have known or had. My old first x in her younger days, photos not so great back then, 29" tts, and not a problem catching rabbits. These are old photos & obviously are pre-ban. my younger deerhound greyhound (24"), whom I have bred a pup from, again not at all lacking in heart/drive, she has very good stamina, drive, speed and agility. I like the cross, and will always have a bit of deerhound in my dogs, though recently I have crossed this to beardie blood, producing a muc
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    I dunno... those rattly old Nikon lenses... Never had a problem with zoom noise frightening any animals although the other half's D700 shutter sounds like a machine gun going off sometimes! Lovely pics LG, he's a fine looking animal never had a problem with mine spooking animals, but I do switch off the focusing "beep"
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    What beardie blood did you use Romany? As you know I have recently crossed beardie with deer/grey.
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    Welcome from a fellow "Durhamer" :welcomeani:
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    I have only the one straight beardie x greyhound, Indie, who sired Magpie's pup Delta, pictured above. I bred him to my deer/grey/collie 18 months ago and have a bitch out of him, who looks very much like Delta.
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    lad I know might be putting his deer/grey dog over a greyhound in the near future, the dog is litter brother to my bitch Nuala and is very well worked in Northumberland, mostly lamping. He's not a first x though, his sire was a first x bred by Bill, dam is many generations deer/grey.
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    SNOW

    Keeps replied to paulhodge's topic in General Talk

    plenty of snow here - took me an hour and a half to get to work in blizzards this morning :wacko:
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    Very true Jeffers
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    Cow hocked is where the back legs turn outwards. If you look at the dog from the back if the dog is cow hocked its legs will curve outwards.
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    Good pos NikB, hit the nail on the head It is my understanding that there will be scholarships/additional help for less well off students, where Universities decide to charge above the capped rate set by the Government.
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    What most people don't realise is that it was the Labour government that set the ball rolling to bring this about. The Higher Education Funding Council for England (known as HEFCE) have always "topped up" the student fees to cover the real teaching costs involved for each University student. In March 2010 (whilst labour were still in power pretending that they supported Education - remember B LIARS "Education Education Education" promise) it was announced that this funding was to be withdrawn - Universities and Further Education Colleges have been in a panic about it since then, offering v
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    She's a year old, 23" tts and roughly quarter deerhound (her dam is roughly half deer x grey, but there is some collie a few generations back).
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    1/4 collie 3/4 grey "Indie" with his daughter she is collie/grey x deer/grey/collie "Inca"
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    thank you, shes getting on now but still likes to stretch her legs, and still as alert as ever
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    Lurchers used for bushing don't have to be restricted only to small dogs. The type of land our dogs bush on is exactly as you describe, woodland and disused railway lines (or it was till they started using the bloody thing again for steam trains ) One of the best lurchers I have for this kind of work is my 29" deer x. Shes very agile for her size and is more than a match for the smaller lurchers I keep (deer x's and collie x between 23 and 25" tts) when it comes to bushing and regularly puts something in the bag, along with her terrier mates In her younger days she was excellent, s
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    We use ours sometimes to do the bits we can't do easily with lurchers - there are some steep wooded areas on our land, that hold a fair few rabbits, but even standing up on some of them is hard, its difficult to net up and totally unsuitable (dangerous) for running dogs. Retrieving too
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    How to choose from those three beauties Magpie..... The one on the far right looks very much like his sire, but the one in the middle is definitely an eye catcher, someone is going to bag themselves a lovely pup Their sire
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    A lot of our hunting land has large dense wooded areas, some of it very steep but thats where the rabbits live, so thats where the majority of our time is spent - I would much rather run them out in the open, but its not often possible. A lot of our land is like this - it looks much worse than it is - once you get accustomed to it it doesnt seem so bad most of it is impossible to net, and the dogs don't do so bad considering we don't use them sometimes I just have to close my eyes... always happy to get them safely home at the end of the day
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    Thank you, she's very promising, just starting out this season & uses her nose very well, more than you might expect from predominantly sighthound dog. I am pleased with her progress so far Very well put
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    They aren't all huge, this one is only 23" tts at 11 months, her dam is just under 24" (deer/grey x collie/grey)
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    Smudge and his apprentice Gin, Saturday was a good day, Sunday not so good..
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