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    So tell us what bull blood and when was it introduced by Mr Breay and Frank Buck ? Not all black terriers go back to certain breeders and not all strains have bull in them. IMO it's a myth that all smooth black terriers are a bull hybrid. Some of the best strains in this day and age (not the the 70s,80s or the 90s) have come from smooth coated, hard working fell lines going back to the 60s and 70s and bypassed certain well known breeders. Saying that certain breedings or ways of breeding is a myth is rubbish and a lot of so called facts seem to come from books and hearsay. Jealousy also pl
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    I'd say it's a carpet beater but it proves one thing.........this site is full of sadistic pervs, LOL.
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    I only fish buzzers if I have to but they are deadly. I use to fish a reservoir where bite indicators were banned so I'd put a booby on the point and fish 2 or 3 buzzers cloths line style using the booby as an indicator.
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    Nice. I've trapped plenty in larsens but never when there was an open fox trap with the same bait, only dead, a few yards away. Was that a vixen or a silly cub ?
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    My granny would have poleaxed that scumbag.
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    R.A.W. you wouldn't get more old school than that rough coated tri-colour. Many's a time, years ago, we crowned in on that type to see them fencing with their fox and when lifted out tail going at 100 miles an hour. Little characters.
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    Sorry AXUM but a battle cross is a cross made by putting two inbred families across one another. A four way cross is exactly that, a four way cross.
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    Yes, the new Animal Health and Welfare bill 2013 makes docking illegal but there's exemptions for some working breeds and docking can only be done by a vet. Where does animal health stand on bringing un-inoculated 6 day old pups into a vets surgery ?
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    Fair play Bryan, not the tightest of breeding but a bit of line breeding non the less. I was expecting to see Nijinsky in that pedigree, the horse that everyone told Vincent not to buy as he had 4 white feet, but he did and the rest as they say is history. One thing they do in the horse breeding industry and I've read that breeders of bulldogs and game fowl do too is that when they notice that two different families when crossed "click" they regularly repeat the cross. ie. when family A crossed over family B has a higher than average success rate they cross dogs, horses or chickens from fami
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    Beside my chickens I've a fox trap set with a dead grey crow as bait. About 10 yards from that I've a larson with a magpie as a call bird. This morning here's a vixen sitting in the larson on what's left of a grey crow that was already caught, she'd eaten most of it too. I've caught plenty of foxes in larsons but why did this vixen push into an already closed trap for a grey crow when she could have easily walked into an open trap for the same meal ? Was it because the grey crow was alive ?
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    Without a doubt R.A.W. they could have had the same wind on their back that blew all the sand up from the Sahara.
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    I was checking a larsen trap on a farm this morning when I seen my first Swallows of the year. The farmer told me they'd been around since Friday. We usually don't get them 'till around the 11th so they're quiet early this year. The same farmer also remarked that he'd noticed that the frogs had spawned in deeper than usual water this year. Are we going to have a warm, dry Spring and Summer ? Anyone else seen Swallows ?
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    Not being funny, this thread along wth your other one about killing everything in sight makes me think you see the countryside as nothing more than your playground to nip off into now and again to pop a few rabbits with the air gun.. People have to make a living off it, and that includes keeping pest numbers down and protecting investments. It inevitably means killing things. The countryside you know and enjoy is the way it is because of the way it's been managed, it's been the same for hundreds of years. Bear that in mind before having a pop at the people who manage the land, without them you
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    Whilst fully protected here in Ireland Pine Martens are becoming a big problem. Road kills are very common.
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    The scarring after myxi is usually black scars over the eyes and on top of the head and in the last few years I don't usually take out the myxy cases unless they're nearly dead as they might actually get over it. Thus carrying on resistance in the local population, in theory anyways. One thing I noticed while shooting last year was that in areas with myxy there was a lot of rabbits sitting out in cover far away from any burrows and even though the myxy was rampant there's still healthy rabbit populations there now. I'm more concerned about RHD than the myxy nowadays.
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    Would I be right in saying there's a heavy influence from the Blencathra in those hounds ?
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    Ah......the demon drink. It's a curse when it starts affecting the old memory.
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    I've seen that girls work too and IMO she's the best in Ireland.
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    In theory when the English Bull Terrier was introduced into any working lines it shouldn't have "clicked" as the EBT was never what many would call a tested type. But it did. It was introduced into the wheaten mainly through The Gallent Hendrix and The Red Hand of Ulster. It was introduced into some of the white workers years ago and these lines are still going strong and believe it or not some of the best known breeders of black terriers introduced miniature EBT into their lines to improve heads and jaw. But IMO it was the other side of these crosses that carried the EBT blood and IMO was
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    She must have a big mantlepiece for that baby.
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    All I see is a young lad out in the fresh air learning about life.
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    Then he should get a few drafts.
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    Looking at Burton Port at the moment @ 33/1 , but could change my mind. Owners won it twice. Horse gone from Hendersons yard to Jonjos (might be a hard luck story) and is very well handicapped.
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    No. Stew can often be nicer the next day so put 2lbs in for yourself and your guests and a pound for the next day, so that's 3lbs. Delicious.
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    YES, I was waiting for someone to ask that question. The subject is "old school" and I'm sure all these terriers earn their tripe there's not to many that look like what you used to see terrier men keeping of thirty years ago.
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