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    I've no problem with people who have silly ideas that they believe might give them the edge over their opponent but with such a serious issue such as parvo it's sad that in this day and age there's still fools out there who wont inoculate. Let's face it ,through inoculation it's possible to make a disease extinct but when you have halting sites, puppy farms and those who are too miserable to spend a tenner per pup then terrible diseases like parvo will always be around. An uncle of mine was a top greyhound man in his day and he won many big races and coursing competitions. He also bred bitch
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    I did something similar years ago. Dug a white specimen and let it go for another day positive I'd bump into it again. Never did.
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    I'm usually slow to ridicule old wives tales because there can often be some truth to them ,but this one IMO is a load of shite. I know many lads who use dogs for different disciplines at top level and because they're responsible dogmen they inoculate. Doesn't stop them winning.
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    I hear ya FD, BUT in your opinion is there not more than a few lines of good working terriers out there that IF needed the same result could be got by using as an outcross ? OR, are you like some other good breeders out there, who, when they needed an outcross were too proud to ask another terrierman so used a bull type as a shortcut whilst also not having to say they used such and such's dog ? Genuine question , with no harm meant but I know of well known breeders who've done such.
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    What about the proper Jack Russell and Sealyham that's also in there too Smasher ? Going back to the Geronimo dogs is like comparing our black terriers of today to those of Buck and Breays, yes it's in the history but there's a hell of a lot work and breeding done since then. With your way of thinking we can assume that maybe 1/32 or 1/64 th EBT will keep a line of terrier going nice and steady ?????
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    You're talking about the trials, right ? There were EBTs that certified as sounders too and there was a lad who also qualified his beagles. I've seen breeds you wouldn't believe run a chute. Yes a couple of EBT's did leave there mark but if in todays climate you said that you have EBTs that are the real deal and that you'll put your money where your mouth is I would say that your phone would be hopping with offers.
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    In this day and age where the environment gets priority over everything else it's hard to believe but I was talking to a farmer recently and when he went to re-new his insurance he was asked had he any open holes of water on his land. He said Yes and was told he needed to fence it off. He fenced it off, at an expense of 9000, and rang his insurance company back. They said that he'd been given the wrong information and that he has to fill it in completely. Hard to believe in this green age. I'm raging as this particular quarry holds a few very good earths. Like I say, things might be
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    and that is a good working terrier.
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    Fair play to you for doing it. I don't know about Britain but here in Ireland having a body of water ie. a quarry, can affect your insurance big time.
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    One of my favourite things about the Greenfinch is the variations in colour and I'm talking about wild birds. To watch a flock of 20 or 30 Greenfinches you might see 3 or 4 different colour variations. As JD said they're notable by their absence. They're probably not sexy enough for our wildlife departments to help out.
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    That's the thing Len, a lot of lads think "if it's a bull type it MUST be game" and to use it is a short cut to getting gameness back into a terrier line. My advice to anyone who has a family of terriers that's gameness is going South is to shoot them all and start again. Like terriers most bull types are curs and to put a cur to a cur doesn't equal gameness in my book.
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    JMHO but they'd add to a terrier, size (maybe 25lbs or so) lack of nose and lack of gameness. I dare anyone to say different. The EBT is a showbred cur, that's the simple truth.
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    Ye don't need Santa to have a great Christmas, , well done.
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    That's amazing as my father lives an hour from Dublin and used to have anything up to 50 or so Greenies on his bird table, now only the odd one. Plenty of all the other finches around here but no Greenfinches and I mean none.
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    Come on JD and let me know is that an Irish hare ?? Do you need me to tell you that tut tut...... yes matey, it is. I've got quite a lump of photos of them, and coursing shots of them too..... I bet you have. Had the pleasure of seeing several yesterday morning including one that was so red in colour that I thought it was a fox at first. I blame the Coursing Clubs for mixing up the gene pool but there used to be several localised unusual colours in the Irish hare. For example in an area of North County Dublin there was an area where the hares were nearly yellow in colour. Prob
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    Otters

    neil cooney replied to frankel's topic in General Talk

    Yea an Otter will take a Mink if the opportunity arises, but he's only king in the water, and so only has an advantage over the mink in open water! Think about it! A Mink has any amount of nooks and cranny's to pop into, when out of the water! Places an Otter can't get to! Also, are they really in competition for the same Pray! The way i see it, Otter mainly feed on fish, with the odd bird, rabbit, frog thrown in! Mink mainly pray on frogs, rats, rabbit, with the odd fish thrown in! Otters hate Mink, that much is true, just like Mink hate Stoats! They see them as competition, and w
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    Come on JD and let me know is that an Irish hare ??
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    NOW, you're talking my language ,LOL. Had a dig on Friday and was wondering what was stopping my shovel, plastic was, a load of it dumped on an earth about two foot under the soil. Many years back two friends of mine, both dead now, were following a pack of Staghounds and to get a better view ran over to a pile of scrap and jumped onto it. They bolted a brace of foxes.
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    Otters

    neil cooney replied to frankel's topic in General Talk

    Eddie, I know Mink are your specialty so maybe I'm not qualified to argue, but I do think that the Otter does have an impact on the Mink population in SOME areas. I live in an area with one of the highest populations of Otters in Ireland, and they aint rare in Ireland, never were. I love tracking them. The Otter is every bit the opportunist that the Mink is and when fishing is hard the Otter wont starve. Wildfowl, domestic poultry and rabbits are all fair game. I know all the tiny streams that the Otters head up when the floods come and some of these streams are tiny and IMO the Otter eithe
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    God, I miss them. I can't remember when I seen a couple last, let alone a flock of them. Are they suffering in Britain the way they've suffered in Ireland from that bloody parasite ?
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    There's one get's into my feed bucket every morning when I'm opening the lock to my fowl pens. I always leave a bit out for him and the other birds but he always has to be first.
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    Irish ??? FUJI, I've heard of more leverets and hares boxing since my last post.
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    Foxbolter, here in Ireland the mounted harrier packs mostly use foxhounds and even a lot of the foot harrier packs use foxhounds and then the others tend to use Irish Harriers which are a different hound to your stud book harrier and believe me, young entry foxhounds will riot on hare if allowed.
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    Covered a lot of good ground yesterday for a few pheasants and put up maybe one Woodcock, didn't get a great I.D., but haven't seen many lately so they've definitely moved in land. Pigeons are in in their 1000s though and two friends had the first few Wigeon of the year during the week. That sounds real nice Bell, good luck.
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    I'm half embarrassed to say it, but I reckon the ONLY thing I haven't seen in the field is a pack of Beagles hunt to a successful conclusion. I've been very lucky and have seen hounds do what some say can't be done and I have good friends down South who hunt or follow some very good hounds and yet it's the one thing left on my hound bucket list, LOL. Some day.
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