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  1. Clouds N Silver Linings?

    in Bushing Dogs

    Posted · Edited by dogs-n-natives

    They are right up my street them like... they wont ever want for stamina thats for sure, I bet their bulletproof regarding injury and illness etc Keep us updated, it would be great to see more pics of them.

     

    Cheers

     

    DnN

     

    Edit: Are you going to put one back to a coursing type in the future?

  6. Scotland..west Coast..

    in General Talk

    Posted

    Ive lived and worked on the west coast of Argyll and the islands for a few years now, love it up here, the midge's keep the tourists at bay for the summer, the rain does it for the rest of the year!

     

    Have a nice trip Byron.

    DnN

  11. German Wire Haired Or Smooth ?

    in Gundogs & Retrievers

    Posted

    having shot over spaniels all my life i ve decided to take a step into the hpr prefarably a german pointer with me leaning slightly to wards the wire haired having no experience with pointers i just like to hear some opinions from lads that do own and work them and hear some of the pro s and cons of the breed s

    Dee, I went the same way, always had spaniels mate when I was a gamekeeper but I left keepering, now im usually out covering land walked up style, and for me the pointers or setters are the better dogs for that style of hunting. If its just birds and general hunting ,pointing, retiieving, any of the pointer or setter breeds will be excellent,

    I went for the wirehaired, from good stock, and she has been a grand bird-dog, but I also go foxing, digging, boar hunting, whatever and she is never left in the kennel, great temperament on mine, sound with other dogs, work all day and then some. For me, the coat was the deciding factor, just prefer the wire jacket as its all spruce and gorse up by me

     

    I would not rule out the performance bred shorthaireds, German Kurzhaar types are in the UK and Ireland though here we rarely register new stock with the German Kurzhaar (shorthaired) or Drahthaar (wirehaired) with the German working clubs.

     

    Im happy with the choice I made for what I do, and in the future if I tried another breed it would be the English I reckon, but Im deffo sticking with the wirehaired.

     

    DnN

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  12. Sniffly Chicks

    in Fowl & Feather Talk

    Posted

    They can get from any wild birds its bacterial so treatment isnt a proper cure but antibiotics are whats used.

    The snicking that your describing now may develop over the next two three weeks to swollen eyes lack of feed conversion leading to wasting. I was a keeper for years its very common in gamebirds as well as poultry.

  14. Terrier Inbreeding

    in Earthdogs & Working Terriers

    Posted

    Fair play Bryan, not the tightest of breeding but a bit of line breeding non the less. I was expecting to see Nijinsky in that pedigree, the horse that everyone told Vincent not to buy as he had 4 white feet, but he did and the rest as they say is history.

    One thing they do in the horse breeding industry and I've read that breeders of bulldogs and game fowl do too is that when they notice that two different families when crossed "click" they regularly repeat the cross.

    ie. when family A crossed over family B has a higher than average success rate they cross dogs, horses or chickens from family A to B again and again while keeping family A bred tight and family B tight. The chicken men call it a battle cross and when results are looked back at time and time again it's a recipe for success.

    Got to agree with that...

  15. The £60,000 Puppy.

    in General Talk

    Posted

    Surely part of being into working dogs is the skill of breeding a good line, and entering the pups, well I guess times change, but I dont think many will go down the route of cloning, no matter how good the individual dog.

  19. How Long Before The Dogs Ready To Work

    in Gundogs & Retrievers

    Posted

    Hiya Hily mate,

     

    As you know I used to work spaniels, now Im the forst to admit, that my training plan, isnt much of a plan, and my standard in comparison to a field trial dog would be laughable. but I worked my spaniels to rat and fox, as much as partridge and rabbit and everything in between, so I always just kept my head down and did things my own way. I dont think you have much to learn about training spaniels, as the ones I seen were very good dogs under the gun.

     

    A few fleeting thoughts on lurchers and terriers...

     

    Ive had a few lurchers, and a bunch of terriers... but I find them hard to compare to the training of gun-dogs, as apart from general obedience, their work is done alone, and relies heavily on a natural instinct that usually manifests from careful breeding, (as it does in spaniels too) but I feel that, as spaniels have to be kept constantly 'under the thumb' while working, a terrier, when working, MUST be the most bone headed, stubborn and determined critter going! Similarly when a lurcher is in pursuit of its prey, no amount of training will make it catch that prey, but certainly good rearing with good food will give it the best of chances.

     

    I hope your young one is shaping up nicely Hily...

     

    All the best

     

    DnN

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  23. Stud Dogs

    in Earthdogs & Working Terriers

    Posted

    A good friend and terrierman put his russell dog Brock up on here, and out of 75 folk, he lined only about 2 bitches, the rest were turned away... Nowadays its mates only, who has the time to trawl through the shite to help out one or two genuine terrier folk?

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