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    Still no luck? If they're not going in your trap or taking your free offerings then, as is being said, the foxes are feeding elswhere. Maybe find that place?.Move the trap? Something we used to do when I was Keepering was to leave the trap closed but put a fresh bait in every few days. Once we felt something was about we'd set the trap. Bit like when a fox checks out a chicken hut every night ,just waiting for the night the owner is late shutting the door. Often an instantaneous result. Good luck
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    Ah but even a lot of split cane rods were actually rubbish foreign imports -even Woolies sold a split-cane fly rod in the sixties.! Get hold of a good one and its very different. Sure ,if you want to fish to the modern style you'll need modern tackle and not everyone actually has a suitably "organic" mentality for fishing the old way. The control you get from direct contact with a fish via a cane rod and centre -pin is amazing -not to mention the new skills aquired such as using your hand as a clutch,your arms as extensions of the rod and different styles of casting. Great write -up MC
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    Comanche is an idiot and sad fool who has to leave his own comments .He is also smelly!

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    Thanks (A bit belated ,sorry ) for that advice. Old thing went straight through the MOT but the free play was an "advisory" .Your instructions make perfect sense .Thanks very much!
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    Try squirrel for bait and use a few dead ones as groundbait. They are a tough ,snatchable bait .Foxes can be very confident in taking them .My theory is that they get used to snatching road casualties up obviously have to do it quick to avoid being run-over themselves.
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    Havin re-read the post I think Foxdropper might well be worth paying heed to. Those birds pictured have been eaten after death .Is excessive feather -pecking or bullying is going on between the live birds?. If so you have a management problem. Managment problems aside,(and they will always increase the risk of disease ) If only the dead birds have been eaten you may , as FDropper warns, have a disease problem .In which case giving them an early release to relieve stress must be balenced against the need to diagnose and treat possible disease lest it take hold in your healthy stock or f
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    The bigger the run the more places they will poo.It's like marking their territory .
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    I've been told that it is possible to reduce free play in my steering box and have what appears to be an adjuster and lock-nut . Is this true and any tips most welcome ?
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    Please don't chase the hunters from abroad away to their own forums!. I'm really interested in the foreign way of doing things and I expect others are too. I know that laws and hunting styles are different in many places but like it says on the packet ,"as long as the practices are legal in the relevent country etc... etc." and this is made obvious in the post there is a lot of information and entertainment to be had from multi-national forums.
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    Don't forget grit.Very important, especially once they discover that each others arses are an alternative source of "vitamins and calcium". your pen might have held 600 birdsin the past but I'll bet the conditions inside it have changed since then . It might well be worth contacting anyone you know who had birds from the same source,or even the supplier ,just in case there has been a health problem .Good luck Ps have you changed food recently ,maybe bringing in corn to replace the pellets might have triggered a need for protein.
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    Yeh ,the new Star trek locators will pick up your fred up to 16feet (with a tail wind ,rider naked ,lying flat on the tank ) ,but... Being diplomatic I would say that if you have an old grey box locator that works and you know how to use it don't bother bother buying a "Mk111 Hi Viz,all-singin,take me to your leader, where the *** is my ferret?,2 foot down ,no 4ft down ...all dancin,If you have epilepsy do not look into the lights, will it still work in 25 years time like the old type?, etc "Locator .. A lot of people ,including me, are using the old type of grey box locator with
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    One of my Dad's friend Ron -a chap well into his 70's-has recently revived his interest in air-rifle shooting,mainly to deal with the squirrels that are wrecking bird feeders and nibbling his soffets. Sensible guy .His garden slopes steeply uphill,retained at the bottom by a 5or 6 foot high wall . All his squirrel shooting and target shooting is done from an upstairs window down towards the base of the wall. A neighbour from a house diagonally behind the guy's garden sent the police round claiming that Ron had hit one of their downstairs upvc window frames causing a crack
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    Weimaraners carry the long haired gene, its not some "strains" it IS the same breed, they can be produced in almost any kennel with the right breeding. They breed pretty true .Guy on my old Shoot used to breed and work only the long-haired ones .He reckoned they had a different temperament too .That might have been due to his selective breeding though. A lady picker-up favoured them over the smooth temperament -wise . I never even suggested they were a separate breed so I wonder why you raise the point? This is about the guy's mystery pup and i was only making a passing sugges
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    Jolly interesting post. Could run n run.. Did'nt realise some BT's had Weinemarer blood in them .If that is true ---(and I know sweet Fanny Adams about BT's )--- just to add a new dimension to the discussion, some strains of Weinermarer are long-haired.
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    Or does it count as feral because it was probably dumped on the verge by a couple of council workers?
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    The Jaspers have kicked off big time over the last couple of weeks here in Sussex.Doing more per day than I was last year at this time . Only darkness stops play! Hopefully It'll all be happening for you chaps and chapessess a bit further North soon . .Those big German-thingies are jolly spitefull too this year,Lots more nests in shrubs than usual. Does'nt help if you have a customer of the overly helpfull sort. She decided to save money by beating the nest in her cherry-tree to death with a broom.She was stung.Lots. Next day she called me but not before she'd attacked the n
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    Of course .Silly me .I Remember now.Back in he 12th Century their skins were used to make the robes worn by monks
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    My flower book is 'nt the best but I think this Broad-leavd Helliborine.?
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    They now have legs an things .
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    Here i am about two weeks behind on the thread (bl**dy work n that ).Rabbits can mate with some large insects .You get Bugs Bunny Don't know what cross you use to get Pubic Hare Sorry for that but yes pheasants can cross with bantams .They're called Phantoms by the way .I know this becauseI've bred them myself .
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    Here i am about two weeks behind on the thread (bl**dy work n that ).Rabbits can mate with some large insects .You get Bugs Bunny Don't know what cross you use to get Pubic Hare Sorry for that but yes pheasants can cross with bantams .They're called Phantoms by the way .I know this becauseI've bred them myself .
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    Thanks all.At moment time is against me catching up with the links hence this post at an unGodley hour .Thanks again.
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    Apparently when I was born one of Dad's workmates gave him a bar of nut chocolate," for the baby!". Possibly tradition of giving a silver-spoon or coin whilst invoking good luck also has practical purpose.Silver is an easily crafted,widely accepted metal that can be traded within or between cultures. In other words the child is being given something that might well tide it over in times of hardship...Then there is the fact that silver is a good conductor of electricity ,heat and perhaps more spiritual energy.. My parents did'nt even save a single square of the chocol
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    Step down and hold Democratic elections and hopefully get voted back in --and have re-count if we don't....Zieg F*cking Heil
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