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No its an electric collar macster.
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I heard that Murton have got the right idea this year, they didnt charge entry at the gate but instead charged £2 for the first entry, meaning that all pups with docked tails could be legally shown
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Its hard work ferreting large woodland warrens little Lloyd - like you we used to net them, but its very often nigh on impossible. Hope the dogs ok.
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Good luck cramp
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By the sounds of it I'd better bring my wellies tomorrow then
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I have used Nustock to cure a different sort of mange (red mange) with good results, but for leather ear I don't think you need anything more than benzyl benzoate, its very cheap, available from the chemist for less than £1 and it works quickly and effectively.
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You don't have to go as far as Thailand to see them caught live
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A castrated hob does not change coat colour or smell strongly in the same way as an entire hob does when the jills are in season. Kept in clean conditions ferrets don't generally have much of a smell at all when not in season. My vet made a mistake with one of mine, and castrated him instead of vasectomising him a couple of years ago - I was very annoyed at the time as we carefully chose one we didnt particularly want to work or produce offspring and I still don't have a vasectomised hob
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what is the best bred of a lurcher for ferreting
Keeps replied to lurcher93's topic in Ferrets & Ferreting
I dont think theres any hard and fast rules over which type of dog is best for ferreting, it really depends on the type of land you work and the type of dog you prefer. Most lurchers will take to ferreting if they are brought up with it. We currently run a 1/4 beardie 3/4 grey and a 1/2 deer/grey, as the land we run our dogs on requires a robust type of dog. -
Benzyl benzoate usually works.
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Indie was home bred out of a half x beardie/grey (hancock bred) to a track greyhound and the litter was bred for personal use (he kept a bitch). What I do know is that the person who bred him works all of his dogs to an extremely high standard on difficult terrain. The lad who bred him is a genuine hunting man; a true gent of the hunting world. I have no interest on whether Indie originates back to hancock/plummer etc etc - I really couldnt give a monkeys. At the end of the day its the dog that counts and if the dog works well then thats good enough for me, regardless of how he is bred.
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I don't mind at all Magpie, its all very interesting stuff Your old bitch in the bottom pic pays more than a passing resemblance to Indies mother
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He's fast but isnt quite as fast as Nuala, who is a shade smaller (1/2 deer/grey) but he has a good strike, he's what you might call an opportunist The beardie is from a dog called Findlay out of Remus.
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No he's a beardie x greyhound Whin, though he does look very deerhoundy. He didn't do so bad flushing hare and roe, in the days before the ban Pics aren't so clever, a bit blurry - taken pre-ban in the days before i got a dslr
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I wasnt so keen yesterday Gin I can tell you No I'm not breeding from Nuala Andy, she is much too young and has a lot to do to prove herself yet
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Went out ferreting yesterday for the first time in a few weeks for one reason and another. It had to be the coldest day in the year; it was windy and freezing cold, damp too. We did a new woods today, and the signs looked good, we saw a few rabbits about the place and had our first catch in the bag in minutes. But it was not to be, our old hob ferret was playing up, he went missing for ages. We noticed there were quite a few young around today, there weren't any the last time we were up, and maybe thats why, apart from the jills starting to come in season which might have been the other d
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Very true, we had to ferret throughout the summer last year, finished about the beginning of July, had a few weeks off and started again in early September, because the land we work is keepered and the bunnies eat the newly planted game crops. If we didnt do it they would just shoot them and we would lose our permission. We expected to have to dig to a lot last year but it wasnt too bad, that said I'd much rather leave them alone in an ideal world, but its too good permission to lose The worst thing we found about ferreting in the summer was the bloody midges
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Let me know when my pic is ready Dotty as I'll need to find a small bit of space on the wall for it
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Find out more about them here, in a friendly unintimidating atmosphere - you will be made very welcome, plenty of genuine people who will be happy to advise http://www.workingplummerterrier.org.uk/plummer/forum
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The above dogs were bred by phil wright out of his plummer bitch weren't they? It was Phil's plummer bitch Jay that died in the drain wasn't it, I can remember when it happened.
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There was only a collar on the black dog, its an electric collar JD.
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the white dog is a plain old mongrelly russell - no known breeding, she's about 7 years old now
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Pups are fast approaching 6 weeks old now, it really does fly over
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We had an invite out ratting today with Mally to do some ratting for a pest control company, before he baited the farm. It wasnt the easiest of places lots of inaccessible bits, the rats certainly knew where to set up home, they had their own little fortress behind a stone wall/bank. The wall was smoked, quite heavily but the rats were reluctant to budge. We had more luck in other spots around the farm which were mostly dug. Floyd also came along with Fenn to join the team, along with Mally his son, the pest control man and a mate of Mallys. Plenty of laughs were had today, the
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is she a deer x? She looks very much like one of mine alrite keeps,she comes fromup coventry way mate.shes deerhound greyhound x bearded colie grey. very nice, should be a decent cross that