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  1. Dan McDonough
    Or...you could get one of the good stag-men to send a bunch of straws of semen off of a good stud. That would take some organizing but may be cheaper. You just need a good middleman.
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    I think you guys have it figured out. The dogs aren't all that different, at least where it concerns their makeup. It simply comes down to the way they are used. The fact that they are not a part of any of the KC's has helped them stay as good old hard working dogs. There are a few people that would like to get some of that over there but the cost is prohibitive for one man to do it. The thing is, if one guy does it, he'll have to take that dog out and prove that dog to everyone before he'll be able to recoup his costs in stid fees. Now, if a group of men got together and pooled thei
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    That would feed my pack for about 3 days. I go through a cow every two weeks. 12 Leopard Hounds, 3 terriers, 2 Stags, 2 whippets and a batch of 7 collie lurchers and my wifes mutt.
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    Here's the test that went with the photo: Wow what a country. Fields smoother then their roads. Arrived just before dark caught one. The next day we caught 10 ,we had two doubles and dint miss one unlike the following day. Didn't get started real early went to some new country/caught 6 but we dumped alot more then that but tall grass and brush got in the way. The snow was crusty and the dogs were showing signs of fatigue. The last day we went in the morning for a bit caught 5 but my truck was threatening to break down(tranny trouble) called it good went hom
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    Ideation- Here is a recently posted picture off of one of the few places that you can get regular information about Stags. It's from a couple of guys just North of the boarder in Sascatchewan, Canada. I think this is the take for three days of hunting. They had five more from the last day but did not put them on the pile.
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    That's the pupil test, there is a whole other thing with the iris. The iris has two color bands. In pigeons, the more contrast between the inner and outer band the better and also the little spikes that go from the inner iris to into the outer color band of the iris give an indication of how good a reproducer a dog will be. I'm not 100% sold on that one because I have to have a longer time to determine if it works in the dogs I have. The farther those spikes go out the better (and the more of them the better)...or so "they" say. It's one to keep in the back of your mind. All I'm doin
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    I'm in line with that one. I like the long back. We don't have races here but that drive to fox or coyote needs some speed...they run very fast and can hold it for quite some time. I don't need that for bobcat but I'm more concerned with the brains when it comes to cats. I've got some bobcat gland scent in the fridge and I'm going to put it on a rag and see who notices it first and who wants it worse. That'll be as good a sign as any. Good one on the first born. If you have been looking at the USA Lurchers post, it's the black faced male. I regularly pick the largest female in a lit
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    I can pick you out a fantastic pup out of my hounds. I've been with the same line for generations and when I have a litter of pups I have a good idea of which pup will turn out like which dog of the past. I know all of the old wives tales about moles and how many hairs on them, knowledge bumps, cowlick placement, eye color, etc... What I don't know is lurchers. I have my first litter of American Staghoud X Boarder Collie pups and I'm pulling my hair out as to which two pups to keep for myself. I'm going to apply some of the general tricks to them but I would love to hear about some of lit
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    FoxPro callers. They have good wireless range and it takes the focus off of you. The sounds are first rate and the sound quality is first rate also. There is a good variety of sounds also. The old standards like the cottontail scream, but there are fox fights, fox pups getting harassed, etc. The choices of call sounds are nearly endless. There's not much you can't call with this thing. http://ads.midwayusa.com/find?sortby=1&itemsperpage=24&dimensionids=4294845669&newcategorydimensionid=13505&cm_mmc=ps_bing-_-Bing_Search_Desktop_Alpha_Predator_Hunting-_-foxpro-_-{adpos
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    At this point I'm with you on that one. My wife likes the funny looking one (2nd). I like something about all of them but they'll start separating themselves pretty quick. Usually you can get a good look at what their adult body proportions will be at around 10 weeks. I'll be looking for the longest body. I figure that will likely be the pup with the most staghound body on it. I've got this crazy little book that has intelligence tests that you can give to dogs to see what level they can function at and it really gives you a good idea of which pup has got the smarts. I've used it for a
  11. Dan McDonough
    Here they are on 9-2-13:
  12. Dan McDonough
    I'll be doing a Jagdterrier put to a large (24") whippet. It's not done yet but I'll bet it breaks the mold.
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    Those are some great pics. That's about how I'm doing, minus the ferrets. I can catch about one every three days and it's tough going though I'm watching my whippet Mikey get smarter and smarter about where he's putting himself in the race. At first he would swing out on a rabbit laying up near the edge of the woods. Now he's starting to try and blast himself inbetween the rabbit and the woods in order to keep him in the open. The more he does this the more I think he's going to catch. He sure is trying hard. He's not as fast as my younger dog but he corners better and will pound the br
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    Well, not to sound like a stick in the mud...we can't hunt with ferrets last I looked. I was going to research that and see if it's alright. I know when I lived in Minnesota, ferrets were illegal to hunt with. I'm not 100% sure about Wisconsin. In all my years of hunting, I've never run into one person that has done it around here. As close to it as I've seen is when people take terriers out and push game out of long piles and holes. There aren't very many people that do that either but there are a few more. I've only known a handful that have a lurcher about when they hunt with terrier
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    Get out at night with a lamp. Bunny will travel further out to feed at night. Ideally get between them and the bushes they head for Any daytime tricks? No night hunting with lights here.
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    So, I have not been running rabbits with my whippets for very long as they are 14 months and 8 1/2 months old. Sirius' second picture (above) shows the most common set up around my place. How in the heck is the dog suppose to snap that one up? My older whippet gets awfully close some times. He can keep bumping them through the bush but my place is cut out of a large forest/swamp. It seems like a waste of time for him to work them like a beagle so I call him out and back to hand after it goes in the bush. I think he's getting the idea. After about a month of resisting me, he's coming back
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    This wound discussion is getting boring. All anyone has to do is ask someone who hunts a lot what they do. There are a bunch of different ways to do it.
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    10-4 Mickey, the leopards are pretty good about leaving them alone but the terriers give them what for over and over again! I'm not sure how easy the lurchers will be to break off of them but I've got the hot wire set up all around the yard and I'm going to hang a porcupine gift basket up for them early on. That seems to work the best for getting the idea out of their heads young. I only had two porky run-ins last year and one skunk. All 1-2 year olds starting to think on their own.
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    Antibiotics are for emergency use only. Antibiotics actually suppress the immune system while they work and open the dog up to being vulnerable to other problems. I only use them as a last course of action. I also used to give them right away, now the only time I give them automatically is if a dog gets into a porcupine really bad, that's a guaranteed infection coming around the corner.
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    Show the young ones some young ones and they will have all of this sorted out long before it can cause problems. I have a friend that was close with the man who brought the first jagdterriers over here to the US. He was an old German at the time. He took that friend aside and said that a pup should be taken out by itself at three months and put into a barrel with a kitten and the lid should be put on the barrel. When the noise stops you should take the lid back off and from then on the pup will hunt for you. Of course this story is just what the fags will start crying about but it's o
  21. Dan McDonough
    No big deal Mickey, your still my closest lurcher friend! I'm going to try out the salt wash. I've got salt on my radar for curing all sorts of things but I have not taken the time to do the research yet. That's the only thing holding me back on that one. Thanks for the tip.
  22. Dan McDonough
    I take a syringe with a needle on it and inject it into the muscle around the wound site. It's slow but it heals completely with all of that oxygen and contrary to the advice of the doctors the end result is fantastic. Some small amount of tissue is killed with the infusion of the high oxygen content but the effects on the site that are good, far outweigh the tiny amount of tissue that is destroyed at the initial contact. There are quicker ways but this does work for nearly nothing.
  23. Dan McDonough
    A rabbit with claws!!! I've never thought of it that way but that's right on the mark. There are those few that can deal out a lot of damage but most of them are just that. The kreepy thing is that my brain has been connecting cat pee with fun for so long that I really like the smell now. I'm sure there's an equally kreepy website devoted to people who squirt it all over themselves and do weird things, HA!
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    I wish you would have ran into me here when that happened. Sorry to hear that about your dog. I dress a few cat caused wounds here each year along with a few bear wounds also. Our bobcats average around 35 pounds and I catch 40+ pounders every year. I have caught one cat several times over the last five years that goes over fifty but the dogs have never had to fight him. I've put him in a tree twice and a log pile once and had to pick the dogs up two other times for various reasons. There have to be three dogs in there on those bigger cats to hold them down or at least one of the dogs is
  25. Dan McDonough
    If you put hydrogen peroxide in a syringe and squirt it into the tooth holes three times a day for three days, that won't happen.
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