wuyang
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W.man, love that first pic.
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The Russell will work the thickest of cover and into the smallest of places, its second nature to them, if there's the scent of a rabbit there she's in.....great little dog, had duck, pheasant, all sorts with her...great house dog too. The black lurcher is half border collie greyhound nearly 12 years old about 24/25 inch to the shoulder. The little sandy pup is now 22 months old she is 19.5 inch tts...dam bedlington whippet x sire collie/greyhound x whippet.
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Once you at the stage where he brings the rabbit to you don't take it off him straight away...stroke/ praise him etc for a couple of secs then take it off him.
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I with regards what with what to go with the bushing dog, how a about 1/4 bedlington 3/4 whippet......whippet or any small lurcher........1/2 bedlington whippet would be a nice addition, but may want to get in the bush along with the terriers.
I've always worked jack Russell's for bushing, just your average granny lap dog style jack russell, all seem to take to it like a duck to water, only had one that goes to ground for a quick look, but that rarely happens and if it does its usually down a rabbit hole. Bitch I'm working at the minute is ten years old and is a fantastic little worker....priceless to me.....just fits nicely into the rabbit runs.
One jack at the back has passed, but the little one at the front is the best russell I've owned.
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Definitely parvo? Just that seasonal canine disorder is knocking about.
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Hills science plan for pup and plenty of raw.....turned its nose up at chudleys puppy!
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I had the aigle without neoprene in my actual correct size.....great wellies...fitted well, tight to get off. Went and bought the same ones same size with the neoprene, I'm certain it's the same template they use size wise and then add the neoprene if that make sense......which made the wellie far too tight for me, ended up getting half a size bigger to allow for the width. If you have wide feet get half a size bigger. If you do some searching on ebay you may drop on a bargain, I got the neoprene ones for about seventy quid.
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Saw these advertised, probably make excellent daytime grafters.....with the potential for a bit of noise. Strangely things like this always appeal to me.
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Yes and inconsistent in size....all fact.....but if there good workers who cares, but my beef is he's flogging them as pure pedigree whippets when he's obviously added bull.
So after over 20 years breeding whippets all he has done is make them slower with thin skin?
I can see what your saying and I do like his dogs, but whippets have always been great underrated working dogs and credit where credit is due he's sold a lot of working whippets. But in my eyes he's just added the word working to a breed that already did and in general was much quicker and just as keen with better skin and that's a fact..I'll leave it at that.
Of course you are allowed your opinion.What mb has done in his breeding has made his whippets the great working dogs they are.
I'm allowed my opinion....which is mike brown has added bull blood and passes them off as 100% pedigree whippet....
Well yes whippets have always been game wee dogs.Bull blood has always been there,its not like mb reinvented the wheel.
Whippets have always been game. If anything i think the tendency for their skin to rip is worse now.
Wonder if the game nature is down to the terrier blood used well before mb was even born?Definitely got a dash of bull in mb whippets...stands out a mile. Someone's got one near me as a pet...nice, but Christ for a whippet it's slow.....don't be blinded by thinking mb whippets are the be and end all, whippets by there very nature are game little dogs that love to hunt, just get a pup off two good worked whippets.
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I can see what your saying and I do like his dogs, but whippets have always been great underrated working dogs and credit where credit is due he's sold a lot of working whippets. But in my eyes he's just added the word working to a breed that already did and in general was much quicker and just as keen with better skin and that's a fact..I'll leave it at that.
Of course you are allowed your opinion.What mb has done in his breeding has made his whippets the great working dogs they are.
I'm allowed my opinion....which is mike brown has added bull blood and passes them off as 100% pedigree whippet....
Well yes whippets have always been game wee dogs.Bull blood has always been there,its not like mb reinvented the wheel.
Whippets have always been game. If anything i think the tendency for their skin to rip is worse now.
Wonder if the game nature is down to the terrier blood used well before mb was even born?Definitely got a dash of bull in mb whippets...stands out a mile. Someone's got one near me as a pet...nice, but Christ for a whippet it's slow.....don't be blinded by thinking mb whippets are the be and end all, whippets by there very nature are game little dogs that love to hunt, just get a pup off two good worked whippets.
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Well yes whippets have always been game wee dogs.Bull blood has always been there,its not like mb reinvented the wheel.
Wonder if the game nature is down to the terrier blood used well before mb was even born?Definitely got a dash of bull in mb whippets...stands out a mile. Someone's got one near me as a pet...nice, but Christ for a whippet it's slow.....don't be blinded by thinking mb whippets are the be and end all, whippets by there very nature are game little dogs that love to hunt, just get a pup off two good worked whippets.
Whippets have always been game. If anything i think the tendency for their skin to rip is worse now.
I'm allowed my opinion....which is mike brown has added bull blood and passes them off as 100% pedigree whippet....
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Wonder if the game nature is down to the terrier blood used well before mb was even born?Definitely got a dash of bull in mb whippets...stands out a mile. Someone's got one near me as a pet...nice, but Christ for a whippet it's slow.....don't be blinded by thinking mb whippets are the be and end all, whippets by there very nature are game little dogs that love to hunt, just get a pup off two good worked whippets.
Whippets have always been game. If anything i think the tendency for their skin to rip is worse now.
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Don't know how much truth is in this, it could be a load of rubbish, but I was reading about raw food and somewhere it mentioned you get a more even growth rate with fewer growth spurts as compared to feeding a complete.....like I said could be codswallop.
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i dont know anything about mike brown whippets
is he another hancock or are his dogs worked ?
Cross between the two
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It's funny, whenever someone asks or talks about Mike Browns whippets. . . . . . there are always the same folk desperate to point out that they are not the be all and end all, that there are other good lines etc out there. Isn't that pretty damn obvious? Same as any breed or x of dog, there are always more than one person, who can manage to breed some handy specimens of that breed or x.
As for speed, size, weight etc. While some folk may not like the bigger whippets, they suit others down to the ground. I know that my dog is bigger than a lot of whippets, and probably slower than a lot as well. However, he's fast enough to catch any quarry that you can (or could pre-ban) run on British soil, and being perfectly honest, I would have been really dissapointed if he had come out 20" or below . . . . . or was any less heavy and thick set. Finn could eat a lot of the other whippets we see. . . . . .
There ARE other good lines of whippets out there, some which will do the same job as M.B's and others which are maybe more suited to other tasks (my lads probably not going to win a whippet race!). But you cant argue (as much as many would like to try - i'm sure they will be a long in a minute) that the man has produced some handy dogs, and some handy blood (perhaps he didnt produce it. . . . . just blended it) which has been used by other folk in their lines and dogs. And thus far, I've never met anyone who had a dog off him who had been disappointed. . . . . .
Just my two penneth worth. . . .
Pot kettle black!
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Definitely got a dash of bull in mb whippets...stands out a mile. Someone's got one near me as a pet...nice, but Christ for a whippet it's slow.....don't be blinded by thinking mb whippets are the be and end all, whippets by there very nature are game little dogs that love to hunt, just get a pup off two good worked whippets.
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Are you not tempted with a little lurcher?
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.Thanks all....appreciated. I think your right, sit back relax and use a bit of common sense. It does seem to be a subject that can get over complicated.
Ive taken it far too seriously before mate and it just becomes a headache. I used to weigh stuff, have a chart for what meat on what days and what carb source. It gets silly. Just feed the dog something decent and keep it varied.
My pup has just had tripe as its main food source for the last 3 days, but I arent concerned, she will probably get beef or chicken for the next 3. As said above im finding it easier to mash the biscuits into the meat than to get rice and veg in her, she just spits them out and eats the meat.
I am also giving her a drink of that LACTOL puppy milk every night before she goes to sleep. Not sure if its required or even does anything but it makes me feel better
Thanks your right it can become a headache, I'm sometimes terrible for over reading into things. When I look back to my first dog many years ago I just put his basic food down and that was that...he grew into a decent heathly dog. I definitely think I will be 75% raw from now on.
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If you want the basic % this has the answers, would'nt rear a pup on 17% myself but does suggest they don't need as much as is sometimes suggested.Protein in the Nutrition of the Growing Dog1C. F. Gessert2 and P. H. PhillipsDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, MadisonThe protein requirement for growth of young dogs was investigated by adding increments of casein to a basal diet which contained 10.6% of protein (N x 6.25), and was adequate in other nutrients. The other 4 diets contained 12.8, 15.0, 17.2 and 19.4% of crude protein respectively.The basal diet sustained health and a retarded rate of growth in the young dogs. There was a correlation between the comparative gains in body weight and the comparative protein contents of the diets from 12.8 to 17.2% of protein, beyond which point there was no further increase in growth rate caused by additional protein. Since the diet containing 17.2% of protein was adequate for the growth of the pups, their requirements for the 10 essential amino acids apparently do not exceed the amounts that it contained.The utilization of the basal diet was substantially improved by the addition of 2.5% of casein (2.2% "protein"), but more casein caused very little further improvement in this respect.A 5 -month-old pup which had been very retarded in growth for 4 months by a protein deficiency was still able to grow at a normal rate when his dietary protein was raised to 17.2%.
Cheers for that..very interesting.
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Thanks all....appreciated. I think your right, sit back relax and use a bit of common sense. It does seem to be a subject that can get over complicated.
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Having a new puppy and posting a question about raw a few days ago got me thinking,,,,,I know it's each to their own with regards what you feed. Obviously I got varying answers regarding positive for just raw and some preferencing of separate mix rotating raw and a complete feed with around 30% protein because puppies need high protein to grow to their full potential and without incorporating the complete puppy feed they feel they might not be getting the full amount of protein they need to grow to their full potential
Well no surprises the pup prefers minced chicken,red meat, fish etc and is not too keen on complete now she has tasted the good stuff. So how much protein does a growing puppy need to grow healthy....would if she had just a raw diet be missing out on extra protein she would receive through incorporating a puppy a complete puppy food. How much protein would a wild pup receive just eating raw? Hope that makes sense.....
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Yep, bet it'll work it's arse off given the chance.
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whippet/grey x springer a friend owns ...
Lovely looking.....decent worker?
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A Bit Of Background.
in Lurchers & Running Dogs
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I think a touch of good beardie blood makes them shine when it comes to daytime hunting/mooching over a straight border collie lurcher.......especially when there's not much about. I can't for the life of me understand why they're not more common.