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  1. comanche
    Hope you didn't share your beer with him;if only to avoid the obvious joke:)
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    They'll be long gone . The images are 25 years old. I would imagine the main reason to use a tame cock pheasant is that it will be calmer around people. my cock pheasant was wild caught.I had the impression that once he was in breeding condition and the joys of spring kicked-in he wasn't particularly fussy what he mated. I've actually seen a cock pheasant mounting a road-kill hen!
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    I bred some by running a cock pheasant in a mixed pen of pheasant hens and little red bantams. The chicks were bigger and stronger than pheasant chicks straight from the egg even though the bantam hens were smaller than the pheasant hens. The phantom chicks were more advanced from the start and also more wild. They turned out quite leggy and speckly and though they could fly ,tended to run a lot. In fact they became known as the Roadrunners and eventually spurned our little Shoot for the big woods over the boundary Eventually one of the Keepers on the neighbouring land shot one
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    That's in general, ie you don't need to have reasonable justification to carry one to those specifications. Anything bigger or locking then you need to be able to prove that whatever activity you're doing warrants it, as long as it's not something illegal like a flick knife or butterfly knife. That's about it. As Malt says, as long as you have justifiable use for the blade you have nothing to worry about. Fishermen,butchers,hunters and a host of tradesmen use knives habitually and legally. My mate's son is in the army and has been known to carry a ceremonial sword from Sussex to Edinburgh o
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    Any chance a tawny owl- possibly with young in tow- could have found its way in? . They will take quite big poults and often single out the funny coloured ones. Talon marks on the back and decapitation are the trade marks but if the pen is covered by fine mesh its unlikely. You could spread some smooth sand round the pen and look for tracks. Having just googled "Polecats IOM" it seems Manx polecats are descended from escaped ferrets. Even so, if it looks like a polecat, smells like a polecat;best assume it is protected like polecat.
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    Having done a fair bit of scouting about when I was looking for a vehicle and having read forum comments and reviews it seems that there are several good little generic 4x4s available .They all have their loyal following . If you like the jeep-look it seems hard to get a fag-paper between the Pinon ,Vitara and half a dozen others as far as performance and reliability are concerned. In fact you could probably mix up the badges on some of them em and nobody would know the difference . With so many well-rated ones to choose from , the question" What's the best little 4X4?" is perhaps not the be
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    It will certainly help me look more cleverer when I show people:) Thank you.
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    I ran a 1997 Vitara for the last seven or eight years. It had 40,00 on the clock when I bought it and only started showing its age with emission problems at 150,000miles plus. It cost me nothing but consumables like plugs oil-changes,tyres,brake pads and half an exhaust.MOTs were never traumatic. I only had to replace the clutch because the diaphragm had worn; the original plate at 140,00 miles had tons of wear left. Good enough off road for anyone not into the serious "let's go off-roading" assault course stuff even with road tyres. The trouble is that most of the old type Vitaras are all get
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    Still busy with jaspers so I could have done without helping a mate clear out his shed this afternoon. On the plus side he insisted that any scrap money from the "useful" bits of metal that had been cluttering up the place was mine. Hence having found myself £12 richer for having deposited the remains of a Yamaha frame and some bits of copper pipe on the scales I obviously questioned the need to risk life and limb in the wasp's nest business. They are a friendly lot at our local Metal Recycling establishment and I am a tolerated spuddler in their bins so I wasn't surprised when one of the
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    I think you are correct in your assumptions and are missing nothing. I think its us that are missing out on the chance to find out from you about hunting things with mink. What do you hunt and why use a mink?. Are there legal restrictions on using ferrets? Hope you don't think I'm being nosey(no pun intended considering the topic) . I'm a bit fascinated.
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    What is the breeding on that pup if I may ask? It's a good looking little pup! He's a mongrel:) Yeah, I kind of assumed that. Do you know what breeds he is mixed with? Mum was a collie ,Dad was a stray lurcher of unknown breeding. The owners of the collie were not best pleased:) He was ferreting at ten months but he was one of those old head on young shoulders dogs.
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    What is the breeding on that pup if I may ask? It's a good looking little pup! He's a mongrel:)
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    If the dog is calm enough to given a bit of free rein and is showing an interest in hidden dummies or game or sniffing certain holes in preference to others its worth testing its instincts. It must be a great confidence boost for a young dog to see its mark rewarded with a catch. And probably no greater disappointment for it than to have its handler dismiss its instinct as puppyish enthusiasm and walk on. Within reason if a young dog is marking a difficult or un-nettable place I'll ferret it. Even if the quarry disappears over the horizon it has to be done for the sake of building
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    Myxi is not a man made disease. Its a natural disease of the South American rabbit, an animal which interestingly also displays a level of immunity to the disease. European rabbits taken to South America lacked this immunity and died . This gave the boffins food for thought and ,yes, they did experiment with different strains and we all know the result. But, the spread of myxomatosis proved the old saying that "less is more". The first strains of the virus were simply too virulent and killed rabbits before they lived long enough to spread the disease. Milder strains were the answer th
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    Part of it is probably because after a flurry of mating and territory defence from late winter into early summer rabbits settle down into a more sociable lifestyle for a few weeks in the hotter months . At this time the bucks become less sexually aggressive because of the high-daylight conditions which affects their hormone levels. Despite the high population all is sweetness and light for a while. Then as the days shorten and nights draw-in there is a period when light-levels are just right to stimulate the bucks to start mating again in late summer /early autumn. Myxoma
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    If its bladder stones the cystitis will keep reoccurring despite anti biotics..and the dog will be in bl**dy agony!
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    That's put paid to your application to build a housing estate then. Unless of course you have plenty of brown envelopes or wear a goatskin apron. Haha, I wish mate. The only Brown envelopes I have normally say Final Demand in big red letters on them. Are those newts in an aquarium? Always amazes me what people have as hobbies. Is there anyone else on here who keeps newts (or anything else for that matter ) to release back into the wild I have loads of newts in my pond ,mostly common smooth ones but the odd palmate and a few alpines . A few years ago I kept a couple of smooth newts
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    On the newt theme. Mummy Daddy Mummy popping out an egg Half a baby Baby!
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    That's put paid to your application to build a housing estate then. Unless of course you have plenty of brown envelopes or wear a goatskin apron.
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    No. I was wearing goggles and ear-muffs and so perhaps was not quite as aware of things as I might have been. I saw the side come off the nest and maybe because a wasp nest up close is no big deal it took a second or to for me to react. Only one actually landed a blow for Waspkind-just above the goggles. How dare you suggest that I ran! No ,I merely blundered backwards going"F***,s****,b****er," in a dignified manner.
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    From Monday morning until Tuesday lunch-time I fitted in 14 wasp's nests. Each job required decisions about PPE,suitable approach and appartatus. Other than jaspers no wildlife was harmed . Pets ,clients ,passers-by and myself went unscathed. So come Tuesday afternoon I'm helping a neighbour cut their hedge and guess who put a hedge trimmer through a wasp's nest.
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    Could well be. Little clicky, clicky chewing noises? Look outside for a flightpath . Or stick a chocolate biscuit -hang on -half a chocolate biscuit up there and see if it goes .
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    Our council actually took pest control back "in house" a few years ago. I guess it realised there was money to be made .
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    The usual way of releasing partridges is in groups leaked from small sectional pens with a net on top, containing food,water and some sort of shelter. Ideally each pen would have an electric fence round it . If you intend to release a lot of birds from several pens the initial outlay could be considerable. Another option, if you just want a few birds is to site a covered pen within a pheasant release pen so it benefits from the security and doubles-up on the use of the electric fence. The partridges can be leaked out with the pheasants . The obvious danger of mixing species is that of d
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