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  1. Neil Cooney.
    I've that book myself, very good.
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    Good to see most agree, put the big ones back. And JD I agree, strike immediately. The biggest I had was when I missed a run on a dead bait roach for a pike. I reeled in and all that was left was the head and guts. My daughter was roach fishing and got a tangle so I just flung the roach head and guts into the shallows while I helped my daughter. I got a bite which resulted in an eel just short of 4 lbs. Brilliant. Can't understand why some anglers hate them. A friend of mine last year had an eel cooked for him in cider by an English man. Anyone know this recipe?
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    Uphilldoc, you lost ???? LOL The hound cross has been tried over the years always to try and get a new cross to excel at a certain type of hunting. Years ago here in Ireland when the hare coursing men wanted a cross with endless stamina they used the beagle or harrier cross. And it was quiet good for it's time. As far as I remember J.K.s bitch "Chorus" was very well known for killing hares. She was a beagle cross. But the Saluki came along and lets face it the Saluki is a running dog with the required stamina. It was the same with the foxhound cross to kill foxes, the bull cross stopped th
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    Yeh gotta agree, I also release any eels I catch nowadays even though they're nice to eat. I've had good size eels while dead baiting for pike and worms works too. A dark wet night is hard to beat. The eel bobbin was made out of thick darning wool threaded though worms and about six foot long. Looped in half and repeated 'till about a foot long and looks like rabbit guts. And does work. But as a big eel could be a century old the big ones should be put back. Two friends of mine used to long line them at night and regularly earned £1000 a night and that was a few years back.
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    Vit B12 is used to help a body regulate itself whilst recovering from illness etc. It helps hormones etc. stabilize. Injected into terriers to make them keener is a new one to me. Believe me there's nothing that comes in a bottle or syringe can make an animal do what it doesn't want to do. The anti's would love that, "the drug crazed, steroid injected terriers." As Don Mayfield said "I was the first to use steroids and the first to stop."
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    Would I be right in saying that in Britain you can bring a young child to a chemists and get it's ears pierced. Thats more cosmetic than docking a pups tail.
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    LMAO is this the same Skeet who posted on Swedish Badger Hunting? Just that over there he tried to seem like an expert and here he is makeing mistakes and asking questions like a beginner.
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    Yes, I'd imagine anyone using steroids is using them to aid the breathing and bloodflow of the dog. Is it anaerobic they call them.? I'd imagine some of the steroids used by asthma sufferers would be used. It's as competitive as any sport so of course there's lads trying to get the upper hand. I don't keep coursing dogs myself.
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    Thanks Rolfe. Whilst the young are still suckling wouldn't the litter still be together hence when you find the drey you get the whole lot. Or does the squirrel seperate them like the hare? Good observation on your part.
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    Benzyl benzoate is good stuff. If you think it could be stress a shot of vit B.12 might help the terriers body regulate itself.
  11. Neil Cooney.
    You learn something new every day, I didn't know that. Are you sure?
  12. Neil Cooney.
    why is sheep dog trails different neil? is that not the same thing, herding sheep?? even more so i would of thought, as todays border collies, are for ever herding.? Good question, Have you ever seen a collie try to turn a cow with a calf or take 300 sheep of a mountain. I'm not knocking sheep trials by any means (I'm not qualified to do so) but in a trial a dog is disqualified for biting and a trial involves six sheep for a few minutes. Those sheep have no lambs and are not on their own patch. I love trials and really admire the expertise of the handlers. But I've worked with colli
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    Fellow has two pet monkeys, both die so he decides to bring them to the taxidermist, taxidermist looks at them and says "so you want them mounted", "no, holding hands will do," says yer man.
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    I'd have him done and make an example of him. Then I'd go to him and explain to him that the magpies he released would have been killed (murdered, battered even) by the resident population. Just so he feels good.
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    The fact you spent 2 hours looking for the jay would have kept rats away. Your ferrets will be fine. But why did you spend 2 hours looking for a bird to feed to ferrets, I thought you were going to say it was to be mounted. A lovely bird mounted.
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    Two of my fathers uncles were cattle drovers who used to walk cattle as much as forty miles from Dublin into the docks in Dublin. They used Collie X Labradors as they needed a strong, heavy type to turn the cattle on a long journey. Wasn't the original lurcher a drovers dog? The greyhound being added to feed drover and dogs on the journey. According to the old stories the Wheaten was once a herding dog. I would well believe this as years ago the poor farmers of Ireland tended to keep one dog to do all jobs instead of many. A Wheaten was both a sporting dog and a farm dog. It wasan't untill t
  18. Neil Cooney.
    There's the Mid Antrim. But I believe you'll only get in if your an out and out digging/hunting man, LOL.
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    The decision you'll read about in the paper is a smokescreen. The year they declared that 30,000 badgers were to be snared in Offaly and Monaghan where I live in Co. Meath was done too. This wasn't declared.
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    As I found out.
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    Killemall you must learn about full stops but you're absolutely right. One thing that bothers me about the badger slaughter by the Irish goverment (F.F and the GREEN party) is that there's no close season. Sows snared leaving cubs to starve. Unbelievable.
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    I had a Jack Russell bitch that started taking fits when under pressure ie. long walks, hot day etc. at around the age of nine. I didn't bother with the vet and just put up with it. When she took a fit we just made sure she was safe and waited 'till the fit took it's course. She lived to be 17.
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    If a butchers caugth with venison in his fridge he's in big trouble unless he has a game liscence and receipts. When I was an apprentice we often got hotel orders for sirlions and if we didn't have any well hung beef we'd leave the sirlions hanging in the heat for a couple of days. Then trim the outside of them and send them of their way. Believe me, whilst not politically correct (or legal) this beef would be beautifully tender. We never had any complaints. So if you shot a beast in the morning say, hang it covered from flies and check it that evening. In warm weather it would be the equiva
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    Your right, everybody has a right to protect their livelyhood. Thats why most of us on here do some pest control of some sort or another. But when a professional sets a snare on a Friday and checks it on the Monday (or Tuesday in the case of a bank holiday) then even the farmers are sickened. If the farmers asks me to do the job quickly and efficiently I have to say "no, it's illegal". This is the same government snareing badgers that has John Gormless as Minister of the Enviroment. The same minister who wants hunting and coursing banned and gave full protection to the magpie and greycrow.
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    There one and only time a pup ever died on me was this year to a lung worm infestation. It brought on pneumonia and the whole cavity of the pup filled with blood and the pup died. Not a pretty sight. I had been routinely using Parazole for other internal worms in the pup. 300 euro and finally an autopsy later the vet informed me that I should have used Parazole to worm her. I said I did and she said I probably wasn't using enough. If you suspect lung worm get to work on it straight away.
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