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    At last some one who has a bit of sense. TC Yip....kites are resigned to carrion. Only one talking sense here. Hold on here comes the bullshit train.....toot toot. Hm. I actually saw a red kite drop on a pigeon in a lane today. It started pulling it about ,when a car came round the corner and the kite flew off carrying the corpse with one foot. Not being a bird expert I'd always gone with the "little feet and scavenger" proselytists. I double checked a book and sure enough even the RSPB have no qualms about the red kites predatory ability. That doesn't mean Trapperman's poultry hav
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    and Tarzan always seemed to import his elephants from India as well.
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    Similar vein;just how many Robin Hood films show the hero wandering triumphantly about with a white-tail draped over his shoulders? That's Hollywood!
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    It pays to be suspicious. After a few funny phone calls and "odd feelings" I took to arranging to meet potential ferret buyers at a mate's house. They had their choice of kits out of a box and I like to think the sight of my mate's large ,tattooed-covered arms indicating his past as the vice-president of a moderately well-known motorcycle club might have cooled any plans of naughtiness. On the other hand I was once put through the third degree over the phone when I was looking for a pup. This led to a meeting on a garage forecourt where I was treated to the forth,fifth and sixth degree level
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    Almost too cute to actually use I have a couple of these Allcock spinners still on the card.
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    I worked "on the bench" at a high street jeweller's when I left school and salvaged some huge bits of brass from the doors of the nearby Woolworths shop when it was being refitted .Using my jewellery tools I cut and hammered out a load of shiny spoons up to ten inches long none of which I have left. They caught plenty of pike but nothing big. In fact some were little bigger than the lures! Nothing much has changed;)
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    My daughter's garden risks being declared an SSI for the numbers of slow-worms it harbours! There is a bit of tin on the compost heap and once a week the grandchildren are allowed a quick peep underneath.
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    JD . I had exactly the same jointed plug with the double hooks. It always amazed me that it was only held together with puny screw-eyes. It was a Christmas present when I was around 12 and somehow I managed to hang on to it for quite a while. On its last outing I had taken a mate and his little lads to a stretch of the Arun where at the time t chances of a few small pike were pretty much a certainty. I was retrieving the plug for the umpteenth time when something much bigger than the usual jack surged at the lure and sunk into the depths. It was certainly 15lb ,maybe even the magi
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    Before building can go ahead it is often preceded by a reptile and amphibian survey. Evidence of real rarities like sand lizards, crested newts or smooth snakes can scupper building plans . Other species can be caught and released elsewhere leaving the land free for development . You often see flimsy looking plastic barricades-so-called newt fences- around building land to prevent unwanted reptiles gaining access to the site once reptile surveying and any necessary relocation has been completed. Tin sheets hold warmth which attracts cold-blooded animals making the reptiles easy to
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    comanche replied to comanche's topic in Ferrets & Ferreting

    I decided to let nature take its course. I didn't poke about too much but think there were 23.There were certainly a couple of dwarfish ones that I guessed would disappear so decided to take the mummy knows best route and let nature take its course. After a couple of days it stabilised at 16 or 17 . Seem to be right mixture colour-wise.
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    comanche replied to comanche's topic in Ferrets & Ferreting

    One litter. The hob was a rescued stray and I only let him "do" one jill before finding him a home.My other jills are still in season and due for a visit from a vasectomised hob .
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    I think the problem is that we are losing our senses. Maybe calling them ghosts is just a convenient form of labelling for a brief hint of a sensory ability that along with many others are being lost to a reliance on technology ,conformist teaching and mental numbness. How many people-especially hunters-have acted on an immeasurable and untestable "sixth-sense" and profited? How many others have ignored it and thought "Bollxcks. I should have followed the funny feeling"?
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    comanche posted a topic in Ferrets & Ferreting

    And this morning's surprise was;
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    This topic has been done before and I contributed then. To all those who claim not to have seen a ghost I have one question; How do you know? As can be seen from people's stories they ain't all chain-rattling,attention-seeking zombies who appear for our benefit. More like ordinary folk going about their business without realising they have moved on. At least they probably don't have the bother of having to pay tax or go to the loo.
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    <what's the story with the tails?> The breed has naturally bald tails so they don't get mucky so the fly swats are left on.
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    Er yes ,the little hut. Its not the "Sussex Saxon Experience Activity Farm" . I'm just a bit soft These sheep were a bit of a bargain bunch from the farmer next door. Trouble is, when you buy ten sheep in a bunch you have to take em as they come . Er ,yes. Not the finest specimen but believe it or not this is him after just ten days on virgin grass and maybe the hut helped a bit . That was a while back.He's so beefy(that can't be right) now I call him Mick because he reminds me of an ovine version of Mick McManus the wrestler.
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    It wasn't me. The poor Girl who owns the place was emptying it onto the dung heap . As she said afterwards ;she knows better than to drive with the body up but needed to shake off some clinging muck. My plan was to unbolt the hitch and use the fore-loader to right the trailer but a lad with a Land Rover and big rope managed to pull it straight. And far from getting any stick -apart from the obligatory friendly banter- not one person has given her a hard time over it . Seems every local farmer has a similar tale to tell of their own or at least admits that "There but for the grace of
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    Too late! You are right it becomes almost a constant intrusion. With only ten sheep its not too bad but they always come second to the horses as the place is run as livery. The sheep get all the rough edges. They also pay their way clearing footpaths and act as "toppers" . Its a balancing act no commercial farmer would have time for due to the constant shuffling of electric fencing but it saves burning diesel to cut the grass down to a length palatable to the horses .
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    Over the last couple of years I've been lucky enough to go into partnership with the owner of one of my ferreting permissions and reared a few pigs and sheep. Piglets and lambs are so cute and they all have names(albeit "Sausage" "Bacon" "Braveheart" "Custer" etc; just to keep things in perspective ) They also get incredibly spoiled but their end is never in doubt . When we ate the first lambs we sort of thought that it was because we were biased that they tasted so good but everyone who bought meat from us also said they had never tasted lamb like it!. I've not bought so mu
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    Its all go down on the farm; Eldest grandchild waves goodbye as she is swallowed whole by a sheep. tractor has a mishap ! Sheep corner elderly gentleman and force him to feed them hazel leaves. And this one . Not the best picture but something atmospheric about it; taken by eldest grandchild (before the sheep ate her:))
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    I really don't like brawn but determined not to waste my pigs' heads I tried something else . It looks a bit "Lord of the Flies " in the preparatory stages but don't be put off. Cut close to the skull and jaw remove the mask. If you are feeling all medieval you can sew it back to shape,stuff it with mince and herbs, roast it and invite all the local barons to a feast. As I don't have enough friends to justify this rather extravagant course I cut the mask into squares and froze some for later use. The other bits I roasted . They make great golden crackling. I didn't fancy
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    One word of advice;"waste". You'll get lots of folk who will pay you to cut their lawns and, especially, hedges even though they are quite capable of doing it themselves. What they can't do is face endless trips to the tip with car-boots full of hedge clippings and bin bags full of mowings. Find out if your local tip takes commercial waste-they'll soon twig if you turn up day after day and try to pass yourself off as a domestic client. Some areas have composting and shredding facilities and charge by the cubic metre for organic waste. Otherwise you may find yourself doing a de
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    It does sound like an exercise in Dawinism but quite few folk used to fly fish by paddling out with a lorry inner tube tucked under their armpits ! I'm sure that it was the Taylors and their mates who did a lot of shark fishing back in the 60s or early70s from rubber dinghies .
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