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You will never beat your own fresh eggs As young ones wed eat any eggs we found ducks geese gulls plovers were the best and it used to be legal to take peewits eggs before the 14th of april as theyd not done all the ploughing back then and there was loads of peewits about dont know if that law still stands but as theres not many green plovers about now i doubt it atb.
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Did you blanch it trappa or just grow it normal Wonderfull stuff rhubarb i use the leaves in the water butt to help keep the cabbge whites off my brassicas and always put a bit of leaf under their roots when i plant them to help with the clubroot atb.
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love the old staghound types good feet and brilliant at wind scenting is what i remember most from the dogs of the seventies in the uk be good to see a genine stag come over here they have some presence about them and i reckon theyd suit if you were aiming at larger quarry but theres more than america australian has some corking looking stags too bred for roos would they be quicker or not. .atb
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Nice one trappa and footu be good to bounce ideas off each other If you use your head a bit theres still enough about especially if you marked the plants before the frost took them i always mark the best burdock spots and the horseradish i kick up a few nodules this time of year and replant them a bit nearer to home. But what is and always has been at this time of year is eggs and eggs and cress [hairy bittercress] is on the menu at ours for the next few weeks. You could just imagine having lived through a winter years ago finding your first duck or goose nest with all that runny prot
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Yep mate wild garlic had a scrounge round last week for a few leaves flowers are just coming out here had my first wild salad of the year with that and some sorrel and hairy bittercress [better than cress lol] got a few jews ears too will get the mrs to get some volovant cases for them atb
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Cant believe hes not been sold looks a tidy pup mate
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Must be i have hit them with a catty as a young one but no sport not like walking them up if thats your sport. Just thought id share what ive done dont bother now but still whistle the old pheasants up but thats another story perhaps welsh pheasants wouldnt understand an english whistle S! atb
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They start about an an hour before dark near me and in numbers all on the main drags of pinewoods the whisle gives you plenty of notice and they are not flying fast if you stick out on the road so they can see you and listen for the call its not hard to shoot them. As they fly over if youve not had a shot listen and they make a croaking sound must be an alarm call thing only feathered friend i like to see me. lol As kids if we found a nest they went in the pan big eggs for a little bird.
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Heres two good links i used to learn from vids on the second one come as the season progresses you wont be sorry youve decided to grow your own everything tastes loads better atb. http://www.allotment.org.uk/garden_month.php http://www.thegrowyourownchannel.tv/
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Dont bother with minced carcasses as its probably mostly bone as most of the meat will have been removed try your local supermarket thighs and drumsticks for us is cheaper there than pet food, Ive fed chicken carcasses for thirty five years with brown bred and veg the dogs never go the vets for anything but jabs and bad accidents never had skin trouble or loss of condition frozen when bought and defrosted night before they get it personally id change the vet atb.
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Running away with er tail in the air (fumin!!!)
blacktabs replied to Sully's topic in Working Dog Health & Training Talk
As Poacher said running in the opposite direction works but like blackpack i use jennels and tight spaces for retrieving taining first then in the fields and do the send back find thats better than throwing dummys. Also as grown dogs if there not working then they are keeping fit with the ball all dogs love ballwork and retrieving is part and parcel of the game plus it learns pups to strike and open their mouths do it as often as possible better ten minutes with a ball than a walk round the block atb. -
As it says folks what foods are you finding in the wild now i know its early yet but birch sap not be long and ramsons are poking through just be carefull that they are ramsons though as lilly of the valley and lords and ladys are both coming through now ramsons smell of garlic so not hard to distinguish.
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Easiest way to shoot woodcocks is when their roading [navigating woods by the roads] they give a whistle as they see you giving plenty of time for a shot atb.
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Makes you mad as hell just watching those vids Anyone whos been cleared out of stock knows how hard this is to bear keep them secret keep them safe and i hope and pray Jimmy Dingle meets his match one night atb.
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Here you go Lord Orford kept a larger kennel, as many as 100 dogs. He also experimented with crossing the Greyhound with other breeds. He crossed the Greyhound with the English bulldog (which then was more like today's terrier). The result was far from successful, but seven generations later Lord Orford obtained Greyhounds with “small ears, rat tails and skin almost without hair, together with the innate courage found in the Bulldog breed that never gives in…rather to die than relinquish the chase.†Lord Orford's Greyhounds are the ancestors to our modern-day Greyhounds. Lord Orford is
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Ive found hares smaller on damp ground the biggest ive seen were out of woods and round experimental farms atb
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We learnt together Mick they were used to the longnets daytime and knew not to touch once theyd hit the net. Then i took them on pit stacks and walled fields where the hares where using the gates to make the job easier for them.
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A bit of both mate never had anyone show me so we learnt together i never let them touch a net years back and they were well used to the longnets daytime ferting and learnt to gatenet on walled fields and off pit stacks or rabbit netted fields where the hares had to use the gates.
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Just bitsas collie deerhound types mother and daughter used them on gate nets at first then went onto pegging with them handy on ground you couldnt drag with a line.
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We always took a lurcher birding or netting trained to walk just in front about fifty yards saved our bacon a time or two a good dog will tell you if theres anyone about or someones sneaking up in the wood only had a couple that could work the nets but would not be without a dog at my side at night on keeperd land
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Walsh was right not to glorify the deer game imo and spot on about the chase done my share of this type of hunting as a young un started 74 seen lads leave carcasses as there dogs would kill in the wood and not backtrack poaching was rife back then and the pit strikes took it to even more of a level going in pens made the job easier but it was not sport just buisness so the time was equivalant to the crime imho. There was more than GB at it plenty more just they didnt feel the need to write about it educating the masses about certain types of dog work is never a good thing atb
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If the breedings there go for it mate seen it too many times a strain thats done you proud and your down to the last of the line risk waiting till its four or five dont think so im lucky if they make four or five lost a few good breeding animals over the years and been put back to start more than once, If its what you desire get it done as long as your not peddling for cash and know what your doing no problems imo beter to keep a line than lose it atb.
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They have been used no doubt about that but whos going to admit it on here or educate folks where moneys involved matching and betting in comps. Lets be honest if you were gambling how many of you would consider giving the dog a bit of an edge atb.
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vets had my eyes owt wat should i use
blacktabs replied to big bad john's topic in Working Dog Health & Training Talk
Sorry for not replying sooner forgot about this thread. Hows the dog now is it any better you mentioned shes hot on the bald bit is there any pustules septic spots or is it just red atb.