neil cooney
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A good post Mosby but your breeding from a bitch that's done a season. Not a non working, untried terrier. I'm with you on the bit about the birds but remember it's possible to see what you want to see in a lot of birds in a single afteroon but with the terriers it takes time and keeping a big number of terriers IMO would take a serious amount of time to try, test and make your mind up about. I've always been suspicious of lads who keep a load of terriers and say they're all tried and tested. I do realise this can be done with lads who dig seperatly but keep the lines the same.
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Thanks Nick, If that's a 34 pounder in one of those photos then the man holding it is a 7' foot 30 stone giant. It also mentions a 44 pounder shot in the 60s near London. The Guinness book recognised fieldsports up to the 80s. Like I said the record was 28lbs. They should have went for the record. Like I said, big pinches of salt. LOL,we mock anglers for their tall tails but when they claim a specimen they must have certified scales and witnesses. Foxhunters just need a photo and a vivid imagination.
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I don't doubt you for a second Latchy and that's why I found the first post disrespectful.
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That really is a beuty and well taken pics too. Hope you had the mask done.
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My mate has just bought some hounds that are from a man called Chipper Smith. Your words. Now in last post you say they are from someone who got their hounds of off Chipper. So they are or are not from Chipper? And you are or are not telling lies? And learn how to use a full stop, please.
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As far as I'm aware the slug can infect your dog with lungworm through the trail of slime it leaves behind it. So slugs going through your dogs bowls at night is a real danger. I doubt a dog eating a slug and dieing as quick as two days had lung worm, but I could be wrong. I lost a pup 3 years ago to lung worm and at the time vets hardly knew of it in dogs so when I brought my pup in they treated her for pneumonia as that looked like the cause. From first signs to death was about 4 days I'd say.
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Ask your mate as I'm sure he did his research before he bought the pups. I'm sure then that he met the man, seen the parents and liked what he saw before parting with his hard earned. I'm sure your mate wouldn't be stupid enough to buy the pups first and then get his mate to come on the web and ask "are they any good?" Only a fool would do this and in a way it's insulting to the man he bought the pups off. What if everyone replied to your question that the pups will be shite ???? Does your mate sell them on or look for his money back?
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JMHO but a terrier being a good worker is not enough reason to breed from him. He should be from a litter of good workers. This proves a breeding has clicked and that the individual is not a fluke. There's been many a case of a litter producing an ace whilst the other 4,5,6 or 7 were curs. When the ace was bred from he threw curs. It happens. So what I'm saying is if you lost the good one then if he was good enough to breed from you should know of his siblings ability and whereabouts. If he has a non working or untried brother then it's a big gamble and you might be better of going back t
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I'm no expert but the first thing I'd be looking at is the quality of the land. For example, some highland ground you might be able to graze 3 or 4 sheep to the acre, but on good rich lowaland pasture you might graze 10 to 15 to the acre. Just using sheep as an example but sheep, cattle or crops they all rely on your soil and how good it is.
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Don't get me wrong I've had bigger than the 18lber. I weighed him because he looked so big. I once had 3 in a hole. 2 dogs @ 21 lbs each and a 18 lb vixen. 3 big foxes in the same earth. But as far as monsters go ?? I think 30 pounders most times can be taken with a big pinch of salt. I think the average dog fox is around the 15 or 16 lb mark with vixens a pound or two lighter. That's according to our scientific friends. So IMO guessing weights can be weight of the mark. As for weighting being only for anglers, otter hunters regularly used to weight their tally after a successful hunt in
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Don't get me wrong I've had bigger than the 18lber. I weighed him because he looked so big. I once had 3 in a hole. 2 dogs @ 21 lbs each and a 18 lb vixen. 3 big foxes in the same earth. But as far as monsters go ?? I think 30 pounders most times can be taken with a big pinch of salt. I think the average dog fox is around the 15 or 16 lb mark with vixens a pound or two lighter. That's according to our scientific friends. So IMO guessing weights can be weight of the mark. As for weighting being only for anglers, otter hunters regularly used to weight their tally after a successful hunt in
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When the Guinness book of records did have the balls to have a chapter on fieldsports the world record for a fox was 28lbs. Shot in Gloustershire, I think but I could be wrong. I used to weight a lot of the foxes I caught. Last year I snared a problem fox who looked like a monster. I weighed him. 18 and a half pounds. Not as big as he looked.
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increasing population
neil cooney replied to fieldsportsman's topic in Gamekeeping, Conservation & Shoot Management
Habitat management, predator control and stocking when possible. -
LOL, we train them before we release them and they know where to go. Happy Christmas.
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No Fat Man, I released him. Might slow you boys down, LOL.
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Just be careful folks on the subject of non target species. The subject is raised by the anti's every year. Make sure you learn all about keeping non target species from entering your traps. Since the hard weather started I've closed all my rat, squirrell and mink traps for that very reason. And it's a bummer because I have rat problem around my fowl.
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IMO the secret to using a pure greyhound is to take it on as a young pup and rear and train it as lurcher. People take on a retired tracker and wonder why when they let it off that it dissapears. I've seen a couple reared like this and they were average. I've seen plenty of greyhounds take all quarry successfully though.
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There's only one way to find out.........and that's why there's so much rubbish out there and dogs homes are full of lurchers. Think about the question for a second????????????? To breed a worker properly you first need working parents. Where do you find a working Kerry Blue? Don't fool yourself, there's none. Once upon a time they were fiery, gamey (I didn't say game) jack of all trades. But not now. The Irish terrier was the same and that cross was popular and successful. But not nowadays. 15 or 16 years ago I seen a Kerry Blue cross that could catch a few rabbits on the lamp until it b
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absolutely, great read, thank you. cheers, emirelfaruk- can't remember where i lifted it... bianka kerrydom henry melenzee http://www.kerryblue...?g2_itemId=1528 Imagine feeding that bag of shite. LOL,
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Very nice indeed. Nice job.
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Are you sticking to the ban on woodpigeon ?
neil cooney replied to shotgunny's topic in General Talk
I see the ban has been extended to and including Dec. 30th. I'm sure most sportsmen will know it's right but I hate the fact that this ban is brought in by that prick Gormley. The Greens must be rubbing their hands. Pity that the shooters can't enforce it themselves and tell the Greens to mind their own business. -
Best of luck with the pups Busher, I think your right D, 11" X 11" for sounders.
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Are you sticking to the ban on woodpigeon ?
neil cooney replied to shotgunny's topic in General Talk
Yes I'm sticking to the ban but I have to agree that I've seen massive flocks of pigeons on the rape. And watching the greycrows and magpies killing all around them is also annoying in that there's nothing I can do about them. But I think if you were to fire more than a shot or two you'd be caught because every one seems to be aware of the ban. It ends today but was to be reveiwed, has anyone heard if it's extended again? Anyways I took 16 pigeon breasts out of the freezer the other day, lovely, and still have 3 teal and a couple of trout left. I had to close all my rat, squirrell and mink -
I'm with you now Busher. With foxhounds they could easily be well in front of you when they mark and by the time you get to the mark there could be a hound well in trying to get to it's fox but yes your right. They can be stopped from getting to ground if your with them. A lot of folk don't realise how big a dog can get to ground. I've dug to a 60 lb lurcher that was with it's game. In the days of the trials the chute for the strongdog was 11" X 11" and this was often travelled by 40lb staffs and wheatens. Incidentally, I'm told that in the 80s somebody entered a couple of pure beagles in a
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Sorry Busher but I don't really make sence of your post. Could you clarify?
