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Everything posted by foxhound45
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I say fiver a rabbit, sold rabbits only a few days ago to find they are now all going for £7 a rabbit here in N.I. with the greyhound men!
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It depends on the quarry, the ground and if you want your dog coming back on recall pretty quick!! -
Lurcherman887 don't worry lad, you have respect for what you hunt and it is normal. Deer stalkers have real respect for what they shoot and this is where placing grass in the deers mouth as a sign of respect for the last meal. When you think about it, if it wasn't for hunters controlling foxes we would have really low numbers of ground nesting birds such as Snipe, Woodcock, Lapwing and even now we see leveret numbers at an all time low due to high fox numbers. If people didnt hunt and shoot there would be less need for woodland areas, closed season and predators would be at an all t
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Lads, lethal photos! I have a 1 year old Bull Russell and had him working for the first time last week.........absolute demon! I will get a few photos up asap but since I am working far from home I just won't get a chance until the weekend to throw up some good pics. Keep em coming and "Terryd", definitely bull in that dog!
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Flippin hell lad!!!! We get a fiver a rabbit here, so that one day would be the best part of a Bellman and Flint collar and box paid off!
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Thanks a million Danny lad! I am bringing a small staff russell cross on at the moment, can't wait til it gets going. Had it up a chute for 1 min, did class but it isnt seeing any big stuff till it is a bit more mature. Just coming into 1 year old now. Don't wanna ruin it, so that 1 min has it busting for another go!
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My Saluki X Greyhound Just Turned 12 Months.
foxhound45 replied to Tomftm's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
Ah ya will always get that. Sometimes its you they are waiting on getting over or if you are over they just don't like you staring and sometimes I am convinced they like you to get over first, maybe to test it, it can take the smallest of things to hold them up a few seconds. Like barbed wire on the top, electric fencing if they have been zapped before or a fence on top of a mound. I would just walk on and they are are over before you know it. -
Hey Scudd! Yes the Airedale can be a great water dog, though you know yourself, with the right foundation in entering. I once made a mistake with a dog (not an Airedale) in picking it up and throwing it into water on a blistering hot day. The dog was a year old and still the water caused enough shock that it grew up hating water., Would cross it, swim through it no problem if it had to, even jumped into streams but voluntarily for a retrieve?.....oh no! It came to it that I had to accept it I ruined the dog. Even after months of trying to rehabilitate the dog and reverse this new
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Ian that is beautiful pack of dogs. Tell me this, do you work your dogs as a flushing pack, or do you have dogs in particular that you work singularly? I may have a bit of breakthrough as I believe there is someone on here called Captain from Co. Sligo (Ireland) that has traditional working Airedales. My plan is to run a pack of about 6 of them like a hound pack, basically increasing the number and genetic diversity if the ones I originally hold. I have had an Airedale breeder from Co. Antrim discuss stud but it is looking at about £500 which to me says dog breeder, so I will hold
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Are you in sandy ground or large warrens with a large network of burrows. I find that in sandy ground rabbits dig for the sake of digging. I had a field on the shore of Lough Neagh here in N.I. and there were rabbits everywhere but in this field if I ferreted all day and got 1 or two rabbits that was a good day. Many holes even though they were kicked out to high heavens never held rabbits. As for large warrens, I recently did a warren by myself on sheep grazed grass. Laying nets was like onto carpet the grass was so tidy and the warren was at least a decade old, probably a few deca
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By the way, what dogs are ya's all working, do you have any photos to share and how do they work or what do they work?
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The Airedale is a completely different dog than the German Wire-haired Pointer, both brilliant in their own separate ways. The German Wire-haired Pointer, Dutch Drathaar and Korthals Griffon; all pointing breeds are more generally associated with shooting sports, game and deer stalking. They are highly specialised at going on point, air-scenting, tracking and the Dutch Drathaar in particular having high aggression although in the right hands all have amazing prey drive. Of these three breeds I have only had the fortune at observing German Wire-Hairs work and after seeing one work in thic
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Well Artful, talk to me, converse a little, the first question you could have gotten from the internet so are you testing me perhaps? Are you interested in working Airedales?
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Brilliant, thanks a million for that lad!
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Hey Penny, I just picked up on your question about the Redline and Traditional Airedale nose, as to which is better. Both are brilliant! It depends on which dog is lucky enough to be at the front of the pack or has the most experience. You have given me an easy question but one that I find very difficult to answer, the reason being that we know when an Airedale picks up on scent but not when it misses scent (unless an artificial track or a fox was seen running along a pad with dog on track). I find that in hot days on heather, if searching for wounded deer, the scent is at its h
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Does anyone have photos of Stafforshire Bull Terrier x Jack Russell terrier cross?
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Hey Hawki, I would really hope anyone working Irish Terriers could answer this. I can only speculate but to tell you the truth I have never seen them being worked in the field. The Airedale would be much larger with a larger muzzle, but I would think the Airedale as being more dog friendly in the field. Truthfully only an Irish terrier handler who works them hard could answer.
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I think I have covered all questions and for Spindolero, I do plan to breed a litter next year and 2 the year after. I will be keeping a few to widen the pack and any that I will be letting go will only go to working homes, after all it is important that working Airedales pups remain in the working Airedale world. But that is not until next year.
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None of my dogs have papers, this was not planned it just is how it is. I have my own view on KC registered dogs: Yes, there are KC lines that show less of the raw hunting instincts that we require in the hunting field. But you must remember with Airedales in particular, developed in the turn of the 1900's, are not like many other breeds which have had hundreds of years of competitive breeding in order to produce a purely aesthetic animal. I honestly believe we have to be very careful about this phrase "KC dogs can't work". KC Airedale terriers were all produced from working l
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This Post is to clarify that Airedales are being worked in the field today here in Northern Ireland and I aim to outline their function within the pack. In N.I./R.O.I. the "Working Airedale" is closely guarded and the physical form and mentality differs completely from the Kennel Club dogs you now mostly see. The name An Táin (The Raid) comes from a famous cattle raid in Celtic Ulster, and continues to work Airedales "alongside" lurchers, terriers and hounds as a unique pack. Their diversity, stamina and ability to range confidently away from the hunter handling them are a reason this
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In Northern Ireland here I am using two Airedale bitches and a redline male. Great dogs. They can work confidently for hours away from me, have good recall and the bitch on the left can dispatch foxes very quickly. They are dog friendly in the field unlike some large terrier breeds and will push through any cover. The important thing to remember is these dogs are used to compliment harriers we run, they do not bay like hounds but only yelp constantly when on the rear end of a fox. They stand totally quiet at a hole when digging, will try to push down any hole, luckily they are too
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That Irish Lad is me.
