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When you get over 50, you do look at things a bit diffrent.
BIRD
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Just wonderd how lurchers faird, before the saluki hybrids came a long?
Was their great lurchers, with famouse names , that took 5 out of 5 ect on the fens in Winter, without saluki in their make up?
Yes Frank, BEFORE saluki hybrids, the deerhoundxgreyxcolliexgrey. They were good hare dogs,
they were popular in the 70s. If you can get a good one , they will take anything.
In Ted Walsh book[ Lurchers and Longdogs] he rates the deerhoundxgreyxcolliexgrey
very highly. I saw one work day+night, good on hares, rabbits, and smashed foxes easy.
and a good deer dog pre ban. They were definitely the x before saluki hybrid.
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Right, its look of the draw with a bitsa. If you have say 5 breeds in there , it could could to either
one. I had a colliexgreyxwhippetxgrey bitch, she was 25ins and 55lb smooth brindle. She was my
best ever lurcher, she could do the lot.
A great catch dog, and would tackle anything .All you can do is try to get a pup from working parents, and most bitsa lurchers are.
My pup i have now is a 1x collie grey dog pup, the sire is a working border collie , the dam is a
1000 yard greyhound bitch, who as been run on the lamp for big and small stuff aswell.
As i said its look of the draw with any pup.
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Excellent video, well done.
Great
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Here in Eire, if your dog is seen in a feild with sheep, even if its not bothering the sheep, or cattle, it will be shot. I have also heard of farmers shooting lurchers that are out lamping without permision, with no, stock in the feilds...
They get away with it too, as most of the time, the guards (police) over here, are on their side... 
I doint think its worth a keeper or a farmer doing it, if no live stock as been killed or touched.
because some lads would give them megger shit [lack of birds] [no barbed wire fences]
it some times makes trigger happy people think twice?????????
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I know one thing, its dead easy to loose your permission on a golf course. A mate i know wayback
was ferretin the edge row, when a feckin squirrel dropped from a tree, and ran right across a
bunker where 4 golfer's [ two blokes +two women]. My mates salukixcolliegrey seen it , and
went like a rocket at it.My mate called it , but no feckin way
It got it and threw it upin the air. The women started feckin scream, the one bloke said to my mate, that he would
report it to the the club.
. My mate got back on there, :notworthy:but no dogs . he kept the ground just about. So you done well to get away with it BIRD
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At the end of the day, if a bloke wants sell is dog thats down to him. If anybody really wants
the dog, ask for a trial. Doint forget we all have differnt expectations of a dog. There's
only one way to find out.
BIRD
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well done joe
roy jones
differant kettle of fishIf joe did pull it off it would great, but roy jones will to strong for him.
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To be honest I think it's very more to do with the individual animal rather than the actual cross type. I think to say any particular cross is the best allrounder is a very sweeping statement indeed.
What quarry taken in your opinion would constitute a collie cross being an allrounder? Also in what regularity would said hound be expected to catch this array of quarry to be realistically mooted as "an allrounder" ?
I would say allrounder, would be pre ban deer,fox,rabbit, a colliexgrey would take them if
it is bred right. They can take the odd hare, but they are not really a hare dog.
The 1x collie grey is a good pot filler.
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patent pending . behave yourself, strong stuff makes them , there no difrent to his . i have two the same, they are very good though and strong. BIRD
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I find it funny how that farmer was Ranting on about their cuasing so much damege and costing so much money but if someone was to knock on his door and ask for permission to ferret his land he would be told to bugger off....just like a lot of the farmers moaning they want to make money out of it..
Spot on,
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Its another anti hunting progam, just look at the reporter's they use , it says it all
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they all differ so much a pup at 8 9 months should be showing deffo signs of willing to chase and hunt i think but this doesn`t mean it needs to be worked i wait usually till the pup is ready you will know.................
The big dog i mentioned hunts up, follows scent etc, but something tells me No not yet, like you say Royston you will know.
About 12months old, doint forget it will be its 1 season anyway. On the lamp just a 3 or 4 runs,
if it did catch a rabbit, take it back home. Try to finish on a High.
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Its a pup , it does not need any thing, just let it play in the garden.
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well said skycat, couldn't agree more.
Spot on, with any dog .
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Top stuff Phil
Great, nice one
nice pup is there any bull in it.
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Hopkins tried every trick in the book to con the judges but luckily the truth prevailed.I had Hopkins winning round 1 by a 10-8 then he won round 3 and round 9.How the f*ck can a man going backwards landing less than 10 punches a round win the fight FFS.Joe adapted as many said he couldn't and did the job,i had it 117- 111 Calzaghe.The so called low blow was shown to be on the waistband,and even when confronted by the video replay Hopkins couldn't speak the truth.I ranked Hopkins very highly but his dirty tricks and lack of humility have changed my mind,he was beat hands down,yet still whined about the result and thought he won the fight comfortably He'd obviously been watching "Fraudley" reruns Well done Joe,i thought you did a number on Bernard tonight,not vintage Calzaghe,but what can a man do when his opponent grabs and holds for 2.30 of every round.As i predicted Cortez showed himself to be a fraud,in the Hatton fight he stopped Hatton fighting inside at every opportunity,yet tonight he alllowed Hopkins to use his head and elbows at will,without punishment,and all credit to Joe he never once complained.
WELL DONE JOE!! and never mind the knockers,you did what you had to do.
Edited to add.
Final PunchStat Report
Punches Landed / Thrown
Total Punches Jabs Power Punches
Hopkins 127 / 468 11 / 93 116 / 375
27% 12% 31%
Calzaghe 232 / 707 45 / 224 187 / 483
33% 20% 39%
Spot on, joe done just enough to win, feckin close.
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WHAT TIME DOES THE FIGHT START,
hope it ant feckin 3am BIRD
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Lovely looking bitch youv'e got there lurcher#1.How old is she?Annoying isn't it!Personally i would turn the lamp off after a miss and stick to that routine,get her back on the slip even if it means whistling or whatever and putting the rest of the field down.She's got to learn lamp off/return and it will cost you a few bunnys to get it sunk into her.Iv'e found hunting up on the lamp happens more on light nights and if you could take her out on a realy dark night somewhere unfamiliar to her you might just find her pleased to come back to you after a miss and the lamps gone out and theres a start.You will overdo youre pup if you illuminate the next bunny in the field after a miss and so on,in the space of two minutes she may have ran up to half a dozen bunnys.Some good folk on here that will give you some better advice
Spot on, with a pup get the recall 100%, then think about rabbits. Doint forget its a pup,
next season you will see a differnce.
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nice dog mate who bred him
Hi mate, he is home bred, a working border collie, and greyhound bitch which as been
on the lamp. Craig bred him from the cannock staffordshire area, both good working parents.
He should make a good dog, with a bit of luck.
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Looks good Ray, pleased with him?
Yes Simoman, he is great he jumps well , he is very obedient, he retrieves but he likes to hold
on to what he as got. He marks great, he as a fair pace for a 1x , he will be ok for rabbits.
I think he will make 25ins and 55lb, he will be strong enough for anything
He is home bred,from a working collie and a working greyhound bitch , that will tackle any thing.
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Bryn at 8 months old 1st x collie greyhound, 24 ins 52lb, nice strong pup.
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If these cruel buggers wanted to steal your dogs then nothing would stop them, not even a vicious looking guard dog, espcially when you live out in the country. Think about it, all the need is a silenced weapon. I would invest in some other sort of protection, not a dog.
Spot on, if you did get one, which want make no differnce to these kind people,
you may as well get a shepherd, they are very loud, aggressive, and would scar a opportunist thief.
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Calzaghe v Hopkins, who you all rooting for and who you think will win.
Calzaghe in the First Round!!! ( i Hope)
Calzaghe should win, doint no about the first Round. He is [7] years younger.
BIRD
MY PUPPY LURCHER
in Lurchers & Running Dogs
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Ive seen him in the flesh, and he is great . you will get alot of stuff with him.
better than my colliex
ray BIRD