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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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    Lovely pictures .Beautiful mill and pretty tench. Friend and I fished the Stour for the first time a couple of weeks back. We ducked on the barbel too (" should've been here last week ," or ,"bit early yet" according to which local we spoke to. ) but I had a 2 n half pound perch and an 11 lb pike on perch gear -4lb line ,centre-pin ,cane rod and lob-worm! . Luck rather than fishing skill I'll be the first to admit. Lovely river and I'll whisper this ,"prefered it to the Royalty. " Not as good as the Arun though.
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    Hello . Sounds to me like your next move might be to lay-off the retrieving (and playing with toys in a chase and retrieve fashion) for a few days . Concentrate on getting her to sit nicely and tight to you after every recall. Once she is doing this try a retrieve under controlled conditions such as a hall way. As soon as she "comes right up" make her sit(she should be doing this automaticly by now) just as you've taught her ,then take the dummy gently ,then praise her. Then do another completly different training exercise before you finish the training session with a romp or w
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    Do you mean she runs about or circles but won't bring the dummy right back to your hand? Or that she clamps on and won't release it ? . Others better qualified will be able to give you better advice but if your dog is circling it really indicates that you need to work on her recall in all circumstances and limit the retrieving to situations in which you have total control , even if it means using a long line to guide the pup gently toward you or confining retrieving to a narrow passage .Insisting on a consistent delivery ritual might help. Good luck . PS just had a re
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    Nice informative post Comanche Actualy,.the technical name for these hungry grubs,.is 'Headbangers'.... They 'tap,tap,tap,..to attract the adults,.... I've started doing that with the wife when I need feeding,. I've found 'clicking my fingers' to be far more successful than banging my head against the headboard,....mind you,..she is leaving me All the best,.CHALKWARREN... "The Germans are coming".... Tell you what. The Headbanging routine works! Gave the nest to the female grand child because "we are doing animals", at school. There was my daughter,
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    Hello . Jasper season is here and I'm being called to nests out of my chosen area which is West/Mid Sussex / part of Surrey . What with time restraints ,the price of fuel and the fact that I do try to keep to a basic " Green" ethos I was wondering if any PCs local to E Sussex/Kent would allow me to pass their number on to clients beyond my area. Can I stress that I am not expecting a reciprocal agreement .I'd just like to be of some use to callers even if I can't physically deal with their problem and maybe help put some trade someone's
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    Cats are quite clever at not being pecked bitten , kicked or clawed by their victims. One of the reasons cats sometimes seem to be playing with prey is to avoid injury .They tend to knock the victim about and claw at it in order to disorientate and disable it before the coup-de -grace with a well-placed bite.
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    Thanks for that Holland's Hope I'm sure I've read that references going back to Saxon times and even the Roman occupation indicate that hornets were more widespread over Britain. Mind you I believe that the late Saxon period was warmer than it was today. I think the most important climatic requirement is, as with most insects ,is a mild Spring . Something that struck me was the way the grubs all rasp their jaws down the insides of their cells almost in total unison. I'm guessing that it is to guide adults back to the nest with food. Only a guess so if anyone
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    Great action ...A little pocket movie camera would've been handy.
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    Had to go. Only a few feet from the house of an eccentric elderly couple(My parents ). Probably would've been ok until the shorter nights when the hornets would have started entering the house to buzz the lights. Don't worry I gave Mum a Senior Citizen discount Those Japanese hornets looked very impressive. Once did a bit of unscientific monitoring of a wasp's nest that was near a hornet's nest. The hornets definatly kept the wasps down and by the end of Summer the wasp nest was no bigger than an early season one. Short-staffed I expect! Anyone know how far North hornets are bei
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