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Outdoor Winter Work Vacancy... Borders
dogs-n-natives replied to dogs-n-natives's topic in General Talk
Cheers, actually the same chap also applied the last time I posted a place. But it had already gone to someone else off here. Ive also got a few other names down for future reference too, so it was well worth asking on here again. All the best DnN -
I hope to be in the UK next August, please count me in!
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Outdoor Winter Work Vacancy... Borders
dogs-n-natives replied to dogs-n-natives's topic in General Talk
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Like shooting the game during a hunt, and many other things that overseas have no bearing on hound work.
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Outdoor Winter Work Vacancy... Borders
dogs-n-natives replied to dogs-n-natives's topic in General Talk
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I think the tendency is for UK beagles to be well up on the leg, as we hunt beagles over open land for the brown hare mostly, and we frown upon the hare being shot mid-hunt. Over the pond, they hunt cottontail as well as white hares often in much tighter cover/woodland. They like the smaller types 12'' and under, for rabbits, and a faster type 13'' over (like the old patch type, more like the UK type) for the varying hare. But its hard to find beaglers over the pond, who dont hunt like a gun-pack. Saying that, I admire their style, many use hounds simply as a functional working dog to hu
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By the late Willet Randall, who started the (still very popular) 'Patch' line of beagles in up state New York. Its a good read, as much about living in the wild woods as the beagles themselves. Great knowledge of breeding. And he certainly churned out top quality stock for literally decades.
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Outdoor Winter Work Vacancy... Borders
dogs-n-natives replied to dogs-n-natives's topic in General Talk
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Outdoor Winter Work Vacancy... Borders
dogs-n-natives replied to dogs-n-natives's topic in General Talk
The crew is females and males, mostly Canadians, and they will all be making between 120 and 250 pounds each day, sometimes more. 1 million trees to plant. And each tree needs to be planted to a high standard. Which can be done in a second or two, with a bit of practice. DnN -
Outdoor Winter Work Vacancy... Borders
dogs-n-natives replied to dogs-n-natives's topic in General Talk
haha shit, planting yes! And if I find a decent grafter there will be loads of other, equally shitty, well paid forest and wildlife and habitat management work to follow on through Spring/Summer, UK and Canada. Dog(s) welcome! If your interested, message me. All the best DnN -
Hello My partner has a vacancy for a hard-working outdoorsy type person on her crew. The job is tough, but the harder you work the more you get paid. You will be self employed. All training provided. There is accommodation available with the crew. A work vehicle of your own would be handy, lots of rough forest track driving. Otherwise driving license essential. The ideal applicant should be FIT and healthy, and able to push themselves physically. It often comes down to mental attitude, and the will to push on in all weathers. Only frost or snow covering the site will stop work, so
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I wish I could hunt down there more often, I love the open scrub type of land, you often get a nice viewing or two, a rare thing up here. You have the mountains, forests, and desert scrub, all fairly close together in Eastern Spain, its a cracking area in my opinion.
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Pure Saluki X Bearded Collie Greyhound
dogs-n-natives replied to Hareydave's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
you dont get stamina or good feet from greyhounds, should be a great cross for many folks needs, in my opinion. -
Slowly but surely, my 'bushing' dogs got bigger. I dont know if the term 'bushing dog' still applies if they weigh 30 kg + and stand 24'' +, and are not hammering brambles and gorse, but instead hunting through sitka spruce, heather, rocks and crags? 10 years ago, my needs ( as a keeper and pest controller) were purely pest control, and mostly foxes at that. I hunted covers, such as wooded ravines, bracken covered crags, hardwood and forestry blocks, reshes, heathery fells, any odd spots of cover where the fox's lay up. If I had mates out, the cover would be worked like a small drive, oth
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I used my cocker, instead of my springer. I got a heap of foxes back then, and though my old springer would hunt/mark them, and bay one up if it was winged, the cocker was more driven, and would kill one without hesitation, he got a bit too keen on fox (with hindsight), I had to dig to him a few times, and he eventually died hunting a fox over a road. Either of the spaniels would have been fine though. The terrier was a straight crossbred russell/fell, bred out of 2 good local lines we keep for digging mostly. Cocker Springer The terrier, she was our most useful digging terrier f
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I owned spaniels and terriers before I got into lurchers and other hunting dogs. I kept the terriers for earth work, but they went ratting and obviously they came in useful tracking vermin along the river or in walls or cover from time to time. I dont like dogs being idle in kennels. Like has been said, spaniels suit beating almost perfectly, or short-range flushing to the shot-gun or lurcher. Terriers, being bred to be single minded earth dogs will feck clean off on a scent and are understandably more selfish, and can be aggressive too especially around the kill. They would also be undergro
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Id opt for one of the proven line-bred coursing dogs, over a modern greyhound for adding the longdog element. Just my opinion
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I started this year, got myself a recurve bow, and the practice is paying off. I grew up using various guns/rifles as the norm, but the feeling of hunting with a bow takes you straight back to cave-man! And the field craft that goes with it. I have some very good venues in Europe if you ever wanted a hunt, feel free to drop me a message. DnN
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I agree, pretty much any dog will get the swing of marking trees, but I reckon the purpose-bred dogs, that have had many generations of careful breeding put into them, will be head and shoulders ahead of the average mutt. Ive got mates with tree dogs, and they say that they are born looking up into the branches, they know the score without learning, its ingrained in them. A dog bred like this will be pretty much guaranteed, a treeing dog.
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Ive got ULG visiting in the near future, going to be hunting all weekend no doubt. Reds should be rutting by then. Its a nice time to be about on the hill, and in the forest.
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Definition Of A Terriers Job?
dogs-n-natives replied to Ggib's topic in Earthdogs & Working Terriers
I keep terriers for digging, but they get to hunt big stuff above ground, like boar and deer. Ive not ruined one yet. Had a few headaches, but its all good fun. -
Never heard of anyone breeding dogs specially for treeing in the UK, but the amount of grey squirrels in some parts, maybe someone should! The best Ive had was a collie. Also the lurchers were decent tree markers, but by no means specialists! My GWP is getting better and better at holding a tree mark, and certainly her time in Canada helped with this as she was none stop squirrel/chipmunk hunting. Raccoons are good fun too. In the states many strains of hound have also been developed for marking tree game. All the best
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Very nice litter!
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When a plan comes together like that the satisfaction is tremendous... happy days. Well done to the dogs an all. DnN
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SS makes good 3 or 5 ply webbing collars, made to measure, as wide as you want. No tusk will go through them, though he wont endorse them as cut collars. I had one for the old bull cross and it lasted his lifetime.