neil cooney
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Is that Jake Sam ?
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Alive ? You wish, LOL. You probably would have ended up standing there watching your dogs go up the far bank after him. Mind you, I would love to have seen them when they retrieved the shot fox back to you.
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Trying to listen to as much of these boys as possible, can't believe they've been around for years.
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Used to be flocks of them around here at times of the year. Rare now. Beautiful bird, especially in their Summer plumage.
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Sounds like the farmer was OK about it. Coursing is when a dog hunts using it's sight.
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That impressed me. The pull from the current on a waterlogged bird nearly as big itself would have made a lot of dogs give up. One of the first men I ever hunted with had a very inbred line of Russells and he always gave them Irish names. He had one bitch ,Uisce (Gaelic for water) who was great at retrieving ducks. If I remember correctly (it was a long time ago) Uisce once bolted a brace of foxes, both were shot, and retrieved a brace of Mallard on the same day. Well done.
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Irish General Election Pro Hunting Parties.
neil cooney replied to jiggy's topic in Earthdogs & Working Terriers
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They often don't spot me or my air rifle lol I do call them in myself but you wont shoot to many by walking to a spot in full vision of them. They'll find a single egg in the middle of a field of grass.
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I'd agree with Lab, they miss nothing and sight is a magpie's greatest tool.
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Not being one to spread rumours, BUT, I heard it was a white German Sheppard and the dog it killed was a Black Labrador.
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Use to Steve, 15 or 16 years ago. I was only using him as an example. There's plenty in this game churning out pups who know damn well that the pups have feck all chance of being any good. But as long as there's ques of lads with fists full of readies then there'll be your peddlers and I've never heard of a peddler yet in the terrier world who was consistently producing good workers. When the pup doesn't work out they'll blame everything bar the breeding. I recently heard of a lad doing a repeat mating even though he knows the first litter were useless. I kid you not. The same fellow ha
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I said that in my post. But unfortunately in the few years of churning out pups the original breeders name goes on them. I know well that the line is in good hands.
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As someone said they are your terriers to do what you want with.BUT, ask yourself this......if your breed of that young dog and next Winter when you have 6 or 7 month old pups of him and he is no good, what do you do ? Would the same scenario not apply to a 5 or 6 year old dog? Maybe you're right Mary, we should wait 'till they're dead before breeding from them !!!!!!! Now now Neil, calm down with them exclamation marks, you'll hurt your finger. You asked about the pups on the ground the following winter when the stud has jacked, regardless of age the sire will always be know as a jacker, t
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Possibly, but there's not a feather out of place otherwise and it looks solid.
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As someone said they are your terriers to do what you want with.BUT, ask yourself this......if your breed of that young dog and next Winter when you have 6 or 7 month old pups of him and he is no good, what do you do ? Would the same scenario not apply to a 5 or 6 year old dog? Maybe you're right Mary, we should wait 'till they're dead before breeding from them !!!!!!!
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They're a stunning bird. Feeding the fowl every morning I've got Yellowhammers, 3 Dunnocks, Sparrows, Blackbirds and 2 Robins ,who'll come within a few inches of my hand to eat the soaked dogfood I give the fowl (funny, I don't feed it to my dogs) and 2 Buzzards keeping watch on everything. Paulus, is that a growth on the top of the Goldies head in the first two photos. That's worrying. I hope Goldfinches don't start suffering like out Greenfinches do. I was with a farmer a few days ago who was loosing chickens to a fox. While standing talking in the yard I noticed some Greenfinches
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Make sure you fill in every hole, some of those male nudists might decide to sunbath on their bellies, you'd have a lawsuit on your hands (and he'd have a trap on his tool).
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As someone said they are your terriers to do what you want with. BUT, ask yourself this......if your breed of that young dog and next Winter when you have 6 or 7 month old pups of him and he is no good, what do you do ?
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Thanks Peter. I love all bird life and get distracted every morning by a large flock of Yellow Hammers that live around my poultry pens. A good mate of mine is a very respected breeder of Mules and Hybrids. He's that obsessed with birds that he only drinks The Famous Grouse whiskey or Finches orange, LOL, funny but true.
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Weather they did or they didnt , you must agree we wouldnt have a pot to piss in without the old boys today neil, thats why this generation is as good as what you say, and fair play to them ,things usualy get better not worse after time. As someone said ,theres good and bad in every generation,theres always messers . Not all the old lads were flutes ,some of them knew a bit. With the trials , a badger was let loose out of a bag in the middle of cork city one night ,that was the begining of the end of the trials. I dont agree with ya on the old boys makin legends of themselves though , the g
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Well done that girl.
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I'd love to see that.
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That's my main argument. Most folk agree that one thing we don't have to do nowadays is lie on the ground listening. It's not rocket science. You hoped there was no wind and you lay on the ground listening. The spot where the terrier was loudest was where you started. Am I wrong ? Unless a previous dig at the same place had told you that sound travels then you went in where you could hear the terrier was loudest. As you went down you made adjustments using the bar or your hearing. The lads of yesteryear tell us that it might take hours before you even got a mark. I have my own opinion
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camcorders killed the job in 70s neil, along with the knobheads that used them atb. Did they ? I've never seen home footage of digging from the 70s. The big trials that were held in Ireland were held in the 80s and there isn't even footage of them. Badger digging was outlawed in Eire in the mid 70s and eventually in Britain in 81. It was because of the old methods, simple as that. There was no facebook, no undercover journalists (they came in the late 80s) no i-phones and lurchers were rarely seen on digs. It was the methods used pure and simple. My posts look like I'm being disrespec
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When you see the Goldie, the Bully and the Chaffie up close like that they're as nice as any of the so called foreign finches IMO.
