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You are right mate, when you have singles, its usually fine. When we do bigger places, the dogs get plenty of action grabbing them in nets and running those that slip the nets or at this time of year (with the cover) explode out of missed bolt holes. To be fair though, i hate to miss rabbits if im there to clear them, so usually always use nets. When its for fun, its fine, and i got a great spot for it, with plenty of bunnys and woodland warrens, in reletivly clear woods. But down here, the dog needs to be on them as they leave the hole, as usually they are straight away throug
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Depends how old young is. But i'd say the dog wont learn much in the kennel.
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It's all well and good in theory but relies on the right ground. Also, its frustrating when the dog runs the first off across the field and another six trot out and feck off when the dogs busy.
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Brilliant read mate, thanks for sharing. Top looking hounds as well
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PJ - I was stood in the middle of the hedge and turned to JB and said " we need little eve". She would have been bloody handy in the middle of the hedge mate
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So the question is . . . . did you keep it or kill it? And was it handleable and friendly?
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She loves it mate. To be fair, she loves anything she can hols in her mouth while running about like a loon. Never had a dog with so much stamina. . . . shes mental
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Maybe its a good safe investment if you have got pots and pots of money. Maybe over the longterm the return is a good safe bet? Has land itself ever gone down in value longterm, I doubt it. Plus the value of the standing timber, grants etc. Old farmer by me always used to say 'buy land son. . . they aren't going to make any more"
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Has he read Woodland Way by Ben Law, lots in there about planning permission. His house was on Grand Designs a few year back aswell. Think he's met the bloke. He was all looking good until neighbours complained. . . . about nothing at all. Some miserable b*****d will usually throw a spanner in the works.
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Aye mate, she has started to flush pheasants now, when im out on the shoot dogging in. I've held her back to concentrate on the obediance, but am now letting her run places where there are a few. She flushed the first couple by accident, and then started following the line to them, and is now hunting them in ernest, running a line well, and following it through cover. Today for the first time i took her to a place with a few rabbits and from across the field i saw one run into a small copse, i took her over and let her run it through and she picked up the scent pretty quick and ran it to a
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I have a friend who has bout 50 acres of woodland and was intending to build a timber framed house from wood that he felled and milled there (hes a very talented woodsman), its been a fecking nightmare sorting the planning and he can only now build a timber framed barn for a bit of woodwork, not buisness, just personal stuff, and there are a lot of limitations on the building. I dont think the issue is so much the land or skill, its the pp thats often the problem. Just a sidenote, its the guy i have posted about before who has the bull x who was rescued from a carpark as a pup.
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I stuck all my lot back together the other day, so they keep each other pretty warm. Apart from that, a good bed of straw and make sure their water bowl isnt frozen. Also up their food now they are working.
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She's starting to get it now . . . . .
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im sure she will crack the ferreting and lamping game as she matures,your whippet sounds like he did well. atb. I think she will be a handy bitch Finn is steadying up nicely now that we have been back at it a bit, he's learnt his ferreting skills well from Johnnys old bitch, couldnt have a better teacher really
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Cheers all! Darbo - th young bitch did well today, she pinned a couple in nets, and generally respected the nets a bit more. She gets more focused everytime we go out. She's shaping up to be a good bitch, but shes fecking mental at times
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Went out today to meet up with a good friend and give him a hand clearing a tough hedge that bordered a field of newly planted grass on one of his permissions, that was getting a bit of attention from coneys. Got up early doors and did my round of the birds, which took longer than i had expected, went home, loaded the Mrs, the dog and a couple of ferrets into the car and went to pick up John, his step daughter Caitlin and his two dogs. After getting held up and a slow start, we were on our way, and soon enough (but some what late) we met up with Brian, and got to having a look at the hedge
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Aye, as long as you are catching rabbits and not making too much fuss, its obviously working, there is no ' one right way'. I hunted a lone for years, or with my old man, but simple fact these days, its nice to have company of someone you really click with. Knowing that they know what you are thinking and doing, and never having to check or question what they are doing. I still really enjoy hunting a lone, but i really would miss my ferreting partner! Especially when doing big places, long hedges etc. Sometimes we even go together to somewhere and split up. Just whatever works.
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I understand what you are saying mate, but i find that two teams of folk can do the same thing with different levels of fuss, depending on their experiance and how well they work as a team. We really try not to 'stamp about' When i say a terrier - we rarely use one, but it can be handy in very tight hedges, when you cant get to the purse netted rabbits quickly in the middle. Most of the time i have finn for that job and he ony runs about when one has bolted. Johnnyboy and i are pretty efficient (at least i think so), and we dont get too many digs, just the odd one or two each session,
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Albert64 makes some very good stop nets!
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We would do it like this. One man either side and one in/on hedge or if stupidly thick, a terrier in there. Dogs either side for the bolters that turn across the field. Net the whole hedge with purse nets, every hole you can, cut the cover back if you have to. Stop nets either end, and at intervals in the middle if its a long hedge, but making sure that one end was stop netted and purse netted like the hindenburg line. Then start at the opposite end of the hedge to your mesh hadrians wall, with plenty of ferrets for the task. Anything that crosses the field should be dead (dogs) or
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Ok . . . . see now you are sounding like a c**t. Trying to suggest i'm a nonce? f**k YOU. All i'm saying is that its a bit of a leap from, jimmy was a peado (which i dont doubt), to 'everyone at the bbc was in on it'. I'mnot sayingthat others didnt know? But who knows? I'm sure it will come out. Scott - i think its most likely that they found out after the fact and buried it - how bad publicity would that have been?
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Nice. Think all of the previous ferrets i have seen of yours have been very 'typey', lean, long albinos.
