Jump to content

neil cooney

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Content Count

    6,831

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    28

 Content Type 

Everything posted by neil cooney

  1. neil cooney
    I'd love to get the few call outs I have now done properly because they're folk who look after me and keep their stock right. It can be a struggle to get up at 5.30 but when you're out these mornings it's well worth it. To see the other wildlife and take in that early morning air is a reward in it's self. Hunting aside it's my favourite time of the year. With you all the way there mate! Not a sniff of fox all morning. Walked a lot, done a bit of calling when the breeze was right and not as much as a fresh scat. I did see a few rabbits with what I believe to be RHD in an area that used to
  2. neil cooney
    I know a lot do be lamp shy Neil. But you'd be surprised how fast they come to a call at first/last light. I've done it several times over the years here. Just not practical some methods with fields of young lambs. It can be to warm sometimes to drop a terrier, Hounds for me are a no no this time of year. All mine are stock broken but guaranteed fox will head straight through the middle of the young lambs. So daytime calling is an option I use a bit I agree 100%. The amount of messers who lamp at night because there's nothing on TV or they don't want to got to the pub has ensured that calli
  3. neil cooney
    I'd love to get the few call outs I have now done properly because they're folk who look after me and keep their stock right. It can be a struggle to get up at 5.30 but when you're out these mornings it's well worth it. To see the other wildlife and take in that early morning air is a reward in it's self. Hunting aside it's my favourite time of the year.
  4. neil cooney
    I'll be bringing the gun with me and just sneak around the furze and hopefully bump into him. It's big lamping country so the first fox I see will most likely be the culprit. Also because of all the lamping calling will probably be a waste of time. As for the badger killing lambs, I know damn well, but I did have a good look around the setts and I think the trouble is coming from the other end of the farm. I'm not long of the phone to a friend from county Carlow and he's been after a lamb killer for the last week or so. He says he shot her last night. A vixen, who'd killed 10 lambs and h
  5. neil cooney
    what sort of size is he ? he has a look of the old dogs sire about him , and really liked the bitch in the photo you sent He's the same size as the bitch in the picture and I hope he'll grow a wee bit more. He's 10 months and she's 4, so I hope he'll grow a bit. Not the end of the world if he doesn't. He's a handfull, good with other dogs mind but you can't take your eye of him. I was walking a few the other day and there was two tractors to my left ploughing. One of the tractors was turning on the headland and had the plough lifted. I looked over and here he was chasing the tractor
  6. neil cooney
    Hopefully. Have another farmer to visit in the morning who's loosing lambs and I've walked the land a bit recently. There's no sign at all on most of his land and there's a couple of deep occupied Badger setts so I reckon his Fox problem is coming from 40 or 50 acres of real rough land. It's just furze growing from between rock so it'll be interesting to see what it holds. There's an old abandoned portacabin in it that a few years ago hounds put one under and when I stuck a terrier in a brace and a half bolted. So there's a potential solution, LOL.
  7. neil cooney
    It's true that 30 + years ago the rifle and lamp was a serious fox killing combo but 10 years ago it was less effective. Once the door slamming, smoking, wind on their back brigade showed up the fox began to become cute to calling and lamping. They could even cop the red lense. I've seen a vixen take her cubs away from my call hence teaching them the danger. I was calling them in to fire a shot above their heads anyways, LOL, so no harm done. In the last few years the popularity of maize has been a big help to the fox in that it's not harvested till late October, early November and the lamp
  8. neil cooney
    Turns out the vixen killed on the road wasn't the culprit as the fox made another raid yesterday. So this morning as it was just bright I was sitting at the back of the farm yard with my lurcher. At 6.30 the fox walked straight towards me. He had the ditch 5 yards to his right but when he seen the lurcher heading for him he made for the open field. Bad move. Turns out it was a small dog, so between him and the barren vixen killed on the road I have no cubs to worry about. I'll tell they farmer this morning they can let the fowl out and hopefully they'll be safe, please God.
  9. neil cooney
    I've a funny feeling her goal was to have her own thread on THL. SCORE for her.
  10. neil cooney
    Things I'd love to ban, Barbed wire, Electric fencing, Night vision and those who think it's hunting, and the use of trail cameras as a hunting aid, But it aint going to happen. One thing we have in our favour in Ireland compared to ye in Britain is small farms. If you go to any large blocks of land in Ireland and go a few fields of the road the game is often a lot greener than that nearer the road. In Britain ye do a lot more lamping and hunting from quads and ATVs etc where as here you wouldn't get more than two or three fields with out having to go back to the road to co
  11. neil cooney
    They'd have lovely kids.
  12. neil cooney
    got a vixen last week on permission. She didn't have cubs or wasn't in cub either. Thought it strange The one I picked up of the road was a barren vixen. They don't all have cubs, nor do they need to have cubs to worry stock.
  13. neil cooney
    Bet you brought the body up to the farmer,and claimed it. I cut the brush of it and showed the brush to the farmer later in the morning and said what happened. I was talking to the farmer an hour ago and they told me their neighbour had seen me picking something of the road that morning. That's why I always tell the truth, you just wont get away with lies.
  14. neil cooney
    IMO it's a step to far. It's one thing controlling foxes by taking out the potential trouble makers but these gadgets could potentially make the fox a rare species. Sadly the days where field craft was needed to set a snare or work a terrier or to be in the right place to get a fox are now being replaced by boys with toys. There's a lad near me who got a large lump from a claim and is now bored with his mini motor bike and other toys and has now got himself a rifle and lamp. One of his first nights out involved him shooting a fox a few feet from a house and the police getting involved. Boi
  15. neil cooney
    Thanks for that Glyn, glad you got them . General, those photos are of interest to you too. He's 10 months in the pics, and a walking b*****d.
  16. neil cooney
    Three call outs in the last few days, two for lamb killers and one for a poultry thief. Circumstances mean I'll have to sort all three with the gun or lurcher. Was out a few mornings ago looking for a chicken killer for about two hours after dawn with no success. When I got back to my van here was a vixen dead on the road about 100 yards away. Someone had done it for me.
  17. neil cooney
    Seen in the paper where a fellow got bitten on his tool by an Adder. He asked the doctor to get rid of the pain but leave the swelling.
  18. neil cooney
    scatter bred according to WEDGEY who ive never met in my life... and the man who has a secret crush on me... Neil Attenborough...david attenborough knew his stuff well stop end.dont be given cooney a big head thinking he is anything like attenborough Maybe you're right Undertaker but one thing David Attenborough and I have in common is we know an amoeba when we see one.no cooney you are the parasite that trolls this shite talking pure and uther shite Young man, re read your post. There are several things wrong with it. Your spelling , your lack of capitals and your knowledge of biology i
  19. neil cooney
    scatter bred according to WEDGEY who ive never met in my life... and the man who has a secret crush on me... Neil Attenborough... It's no secret that I'd crush you. LOL... listen big trunks the last thing you broke was the toilet seat when you fell on it there 2 weeks ago when you had the gout and went in to get a shite full of port ffs, now away way ye... mad4 yes she would be drenched with Corks finest. Sorry fellas for posting it seems the topic has swayed to a Cooney stop.end thl call out... Neil... I know youd bate me BIG man as we all know your BI! .. your the king!
  20. neil cooney
    scatter bred according to WEDGEY who ive never met in my life... and the man who has a secret crush on me... Neil Attenborough...david attenborough knew his stuff well stop end.dont be given cooney a big head thinking he is anything like attenborough Maybe you're right Undertaker but one thing David Attenborough and I have in common is we know an amoeba when we see one.
  21. neil cooney
    scatter bred according to WEDGEY who ive never met in my life... and the man who has a secret crush on me... Neil Attenborough... It's no secret that I'd crush you.
  22. neil cooney
    No straight up. I'm not trying to sound like a hard man but I've often sent pics of mine to folk and they felt it looked to big to fit into any hole. If I took a more honest photo and sent it to folk they might give me an invite because they'd think mine might suit their holes.
  23. neil cooney
    Very interesting. So tell me, if I wanted my terrier to actually look 6 inches longer, and maybe a wider girth, what angle would you suggest I put the camera at ? I'm talking terriers here, obviously.
  24. neil cooney
    It's shocking, whether you agree or not, that that wasn't even on other European news bulletins.
  25. neil cooney
    My sister was a secondary school teacher in South Korea and her students told her that growing up mam or dad often came home with puppies that would be like pets to them until they went missing. She said that the restaurants that served up dog smelt like the kennels at home and to make matters worse in Korea it's customary for your host to choose your menu for you so she ate dog meat a few times. She said it's alright but the smell coming from the kitchen wasn't nice. Personally, I'd be rude and decline.
×
×
  • Create New...