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  1. neil cooney
    Exactly what I'm talking about Paulus, they aint a black and white bird. There's a pure white Magpie a couple of miles from me that's now in it's 3rd year and there's a jackdaw visits my garden that get's whiter with every year and is now in it's 8th year and is probably 9/10ths white now. Yesterday I seen a jackdaw with white flight feathers with the white one so this trait does breed true. I'd love either specimen on my mantle piece, when their time comes of course.
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    And great singers too. I had a white one one time who could be heard singing from up the road.
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    Captured perfectly. Always said to myself if I was to get a corvid done, apart from the obvious Jay, I'd like two magpies. As long as the taxidermist could capture all the blues and greens that they have.
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    That takes me back, the Irish fancy being my favourite. Nice pictures.
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    Some folk put a couple of inches of newspaper under the dog in it's box to stop it.
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    Had the same happen recently and the trap was dragged around 4 feet to a hole. In fact the other rat was still feeding when I was checking them.
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    I once asked a farmer could I go across and check the earths. He said "yes, as long as you backfill correctly. The last lad who dug them let them sink in." I said "I haven't been here in 10 years." He said "so it was you." JMHO but with heavy machinery and breeds of cattle that were never so big to put a roof on a tube is a big NO. Also to allow for sinking always leave the backfill a foot or so higher than the surrounding sod. And if you ever find after backfilling that you have load of clay left over to dig another hole and bury it.
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    It's a common enough hobby and I think there was a very concise book written on the subject last year.
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    It's very unfortunate that this has happened and the anti's have got their hands on the story and are using it as much as they can. I don't know anything about this case and maybe the lads who owned the hounds were honest lads that just had some bad luck ,but, at the moment here in Ireland there are a lot of lads getting into hounds ,mostly for driving foxes out of covert, who have no idea or experience of hounds. They don't realise that if a shot is missed or a fox escapes unnoticed that hounds might hit that line and within minutes hounds are a mile or two from their handlers and if these
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    I rang up my local supplier asked if there was any tripe in they said no the polish have taken it all surley they don't eat this?they said they must do they've ask for some more For human consumption it get's washed and comes out as white as snow. I've eaten it raw and it's tasteless but cooked properly some people like it. When I was a butcher it was considered a poor persons dish and it was also considered a good remedy for stomach ailments. Nowaday's you see top chefs on TV cooking it as a delicacy. If I remember correctly the way a lot of our customers cooked it for their stomac
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    You lucky f****r, LOL. Best of grub. EU regulations and the export market means tripe is near impossible to get over here now.
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    OK, I see now, thanks for that.
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    Are they beef or lamb tripes Topper ? I used to pay £3 for a beef tripe over 20 years ago because everyone wanted them. Nowadays most abattoirs clean and bleach them and sell them to Poland.
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    What's the background behind the Huntaway and in your trials over there ,are they only for Huntaways ?
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    Sometimes ya gotta do what you gotta do. The two times I used creosote were not on rabbits but worked on another pest. One time was under a load of dumped metal and the other was under where a shed had collapsed. Both places were impossible to dig. My friend who used it for the trials needed a lot of rabbits above ground at the one time and got that result. Like I say, to 100 each time, hardly amateurish.
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    That's all well and good if the standard of work you expect is of a low standard. But if your standard is high then by rearing 2, 3 or even 4 pups together you've increased your chances of ending up with 1 or 2 good ones. A pup should know it's name and come when called before it enters a field and once in the field ,as a pup, it should be allowed to be a pup but still come when called. Once they start to become saplings they should start to knuckle down and concentrate on their work. JMHO.
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    It's a good question as we have a couple of good taxidermist's on here and it would be nice to get advice of them as to how to keep our trophy's tip top.
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    You'd get a better result using a ferret as IMO you could end up getting a face full of creosote smoke (a lot would depend on the wind blowing through the burrow) and let's face it there's smokers out there now for ratting. Whether they'd work on a larger rabbit burrow, I don't know ! I have however used creosote for other jobs and it does work. The best days terrierwork I ever had was as a result of using pine cones soaked in creosote. A friend too used to stink out rabbits using creosote for a fieldtrails and they averaged to 100 rabbits a day until my friend got peppered in the face and
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    There's an article on breeding the proper Basset in this months "Hounds" magazine. Haven't read it yet though as I only got it this morning.
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    They're all different and sometimes a terrier isn't interested in something that's not a threat to them. Hence carrying the rat around. My old boy Spike at 7 months accidentally went to ground on a vixen and I had to dig to him. At 9 months he wouldn't look at a rat.
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    What's worrying in that standard is that only the last quarter mentions work, briefly. As I said before, two of my fathers uncles were drovers and they crossed a collie with a labrador to give them a good strong dog to drive cattle. In those days the standard for a drovers dog was "must be able to turn a cow with calf at foot." With most farmers nowadays this is still the test for a cattle dog.
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    Sion, is the handle hollow in your fork ?
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    Arab guy "don't look now but I've stuck my dagger through my penis."
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    Might be no harm to put that post on the terrier and lurcher forums.
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    A friend of a friend culls the deer and rabbits on Lambay Island and I'm told the rabbits on it are immune to myxy (as they've tried it as a method of control) but the keeper is not allowed take live rabbits to the mainland.
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