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  1. Brimmer
    Decided it was time to take out the jills. Took two experienced jills out, alongside two hobs (just for back up) today. I normally work hobs all the time, but thought it a bit cruel to not let them in on the work occasionally! Right from the word go, the normally peacefull boxing up of the hobs, turned into a circus with the jills instantly scrapping and squealing in the confined space of one of the carry boxes. I split the tempramental little critters up, so 1 hob, and 1 jill in each of the two boxes. Changing nothing at all, the squealing and carrying on continued. I waited for the o
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    Just a few piccies of our young dogs coming along today. These are collie grey x collie grey 4th generation, 26"tts
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    I like whippets, they are great little dogs, and a great the turn of speed and gut's. A lot of what has been said above though rings true to what i have experienced, i work twice a week, all day, in the dales during the season. I've seen collie greys we have bred from 3 generations of collie greys not make the grade, and carried off dogs with broken legs, smashed up feet, with the wobbles. We have had whippets as well, and witnessed one drop dead due to the workload on it's heart up there. The old guy's bred the crosses for a reason, just like there fathers did, and just like i will do. The
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    Collie grey, (I am a rabbit man mainly) Why change what the old boys with generations of experience and failure's taught them on the bunny's in the dales! A usefull dog across the board as well!
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    Have your's got bull in them Blue boy?
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    Caught quite a few with white collars this year, (usually get a few every season) but never seen one with blue eye's! Nice catch!
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    Get a dog crossed up with something, collie maybee. A good cross will have more stamina than a straight dog, and like has been said, take the knocks a bit more. If your going to do a lot of work with the dog on a good number of rabbits, on 'hard hilly ground', maybee consider a collie grey or something similar. A slightly bigger stronger dog will towards the end of the day, fair a litte better after many hours covering the ground hunting. (maybee covering approx 20 miles + in a day, and running the bunny's as well.)
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    His ferrets must not be a bunch of gay's like ours!
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    Yep exactly what Stubby has said. (apart from always wanting to do the last warren, i have to carry the buggers!) Get a locater as soon as you can, (and a spade). Anybody in there right mind would not want to leave a good ferret behind, or the bury's filled with corpses.
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    Think it will be a job trying to stop a terrier doing this anyhow, they seem intent on ratching around from a few months old! Give em the chance and they'll do it. (sometimes it's better to start them early as well, they learn not to keep running at rabbits they are never going to catch over the hill and far away!)
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    Cracking day out and picture's. Nice to see dogs that can run the hard ground!
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    Well in there, looks like a busy day!
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    Yep they will be fine now the breeding season is over, splitting them in the spring is an easy option if you have the space!
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    Shame for the critter, seen the eye's popped out before on the jills. Must have taken a huge uppercut from the legs of the bunny. A bunny can smack a ferret very hard with the hind legs, people think i'm daft when I only use hobs for work, seeing me digging all the time. It's for a reason, most jills are not up to shifting everything, only the best can stand up to a beating off something 4 times it's own weight. Seen jills on fire for a while untill they get this, then switch off in an instant. You can feel the slams from underground sometimes. Poor little bugger.
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    I'd say that's a cracking ferret, hit's anything he can get hold of, and stops it in it's tracks! With a little more experience you'll probably find he'll start making his way to the head end. (Easier that way) but found in the past, ferrets like this are good honest fellers, who will stick at it! Grabbing the most dangerous bit, top ferret!
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    Those bloody badgers! You wouldn't mind if they pulled the mole out of the trap and left it, but they have to take them 2 fields away and then pull them out, if your lucky you might find the odd trap! Then they get good at it, and every night, follow the fence lines, pulling any struck traps out! Would a fen trap buried with a mole on top cure the problem?
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    HAPPY BIRTHDAY

    Brimmer replied to a topic in General Talk

    Happy birthday! (Does he still use the spade as well?) Wish my old feller would!
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    Superb piccies, and well done!
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    Your getting out more than me young feller, wait while your collared up, can see the bags growing even bigger then!
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    We can but try! The bunnys have different plans though!
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    Set off this morning, all clear at home, as we got closer to the land, cars covered in snow started passing us coming the other way! Yep a little bit of the white stuff had fallen overnight! Really cold as well on the feet and hands! But did not bother the dogs one bit, just a normal day for them! Quite a bit of ferret work today, only used one of the young poley's alongside one of the older albino's. the poley hob which i'd written off a few weeks ago, has now redeemed himself completely by getting well and truly stuck in now! (not bad when all 4 young hobs from the same litter are looking
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    Been out today in the snow, only thing that got cold was me! Will put up piccies later! Yes some of the popholes were covered with snow and bunnys smashing there way out! Absolutely frozzing on the hands when digging!
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    Never seen any with the natural colour in them, always pure black! Could that line have come from a dropped rabbit? Always the blacks we have had have been pure black, then there's the collared dutch types, and the greys, but never one with the brown colouring in it! Well done anyhow feller, keep it up!
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    How does the collie shape up in the lamp? (on it's own that is! ) Don't write that dog off for the job!
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    Has the blacky got a bit of natural colouring in it's coat? can see it in the one to the left as well.
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