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dog still missing owner gutted any info pm me cheers .red and white dog feathered
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any of darcys running dog books you will do ok. great reads plus loads of others on market depending what you want google lurcher or running dog books .
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BRING BACK FOXHUNTING IS RUN BY ANTIS! no mate it aint but theres a nobhead of a anti on there who when anyone new joins predends he is one of the mods and says it is an anti site .it is actually a very good hunting site plenty of dog boys and girls on there as well cheers .the anti on there is stu cambell ive had run in s with him .
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some cracking looking lurchers on this post .i had a real good bitch of dave a few years ago ended up real classy bitch top class on bunnies and longears day and night got to know dave and joe very well we used to meet up quite often gaffer if your talking to him tell him john from wales with rio was asking about him cheers .
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your right i couldnt.
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plenty of loopholes in it to exploit . be aware of the old saying be careful what you wish for .because if they go for it and fail whos to say they willnot close the loopholes then we will be up the creek without a paddle .
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bred a litter about 8 or 9 year ago out of my platt deerhound greyhound to j bradfords match dog made tidy dogs the ones i kept in touch with but the dogs ended up a tad to big but the bitches all levelled out around 25 tts .
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ok boyo mate ill do it tomorrow .around canon pyon up through tillington ,weobley and on it used to be alive with rabbits and extras .lol in the old days me trevor and mod used to haunt it .from pontrilas right up through hereford and beyond ross on wye and shobdon all over it was rotten with game .now its fecked . i remember madley airdrome you could count forty plus hares on there playing and they would be running up and down the lanes there used to be that many about there . we would go to the lug meadows on a sunday morning and suckers and a few others would be having a match or two on the
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very nice indeed gaffer fair play to you .
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got some permision around canon pyon myself but dead nothing around on the permission itself .now a few years back it was alive .brookie give me a ring got that dvd you wanted ring or text and ille drop it down for you .
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Ye cheers mate I often do graet hunting there and always a warm welcome :-) yeah you certainly do get a hot welcome lol. mind you not as hot a welcome as around oxford area daytime now that place is a warm welcome .pmsl. Have you hunted around Banbury not to far from Oxford that used to be great sport over there till they started to get range rover 4x4 cop vecheils. Permission or not they came over even before the ban yes been escorted back to the m4 many a time way before the ban came out .tbh they were always ok as long as we were polite and sensible and we only ever walked never drov
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Ye cheers mate I often do graet hunting there and always a warm welcome :-) yeah you certainly do get a hot welcome lol. mind you not as hot a welcome as around oxford area daytime now that place is a warm welcome .pmsl.
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This was in relation to the caring for a litter, if you want to expand on the care of your working dog be my guest hedz i was replying to above post.
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good post agree 100% :thumbs:
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when i breed a litter it starts before they are born always worm the bitch out and make sure she is clean inside and out i also always put in a new bed in the kennel and cleanse kennel right through. when the pups are born there is always a heat lamp for them and the bitch.the pups are dewclawed at 2 to 3 days and wormed at 2 and 4 weeks and every 3 weeks untill they are ready to go.the bitch is fed 3 times a day on best meal and meat with milk and cereal every morning along vith vit c .plus multi vit in the evening meal . from 2 weeks old the pups are held and fed milky slops by finger rubbin
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in my eyes good stockmanship is someone who no matter what he is looking after they always look in top nick and fine fettle and a good stockman will always get anything to look its best .they are one of the few who can make a silk purse out of a pigs ear and tbh a real top stockman is quite rare these days as most people havnt got the time to take what it needs to be one ,
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here's the thing though you keep them for work but the reality is that thats your hobby I would not keep 1 spaniel if I didnt' do this job. dan its more a way of life than a hobby with me ive had them since i was born other than for a short time . way back in the seventies i packed a well paid job in and was working them flat out and beleive me there wasnt a running dog in the country that was worked harder than mine during this period.i have worked my dogs all., over the uk and met loads of good freinds through running the dogs,so to me its much more than a hobby. in my eyes anyway.out of
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dan mine are also kept just for work and also have the best of everything they are worked very hard and if not up to scratch then i dont keep them in fact the pup i reared got seriously injured start of week and i have a massive vets bill to pay but hoping she will fully recover.as she did it trying her guts out for me.as anyone who knows me will tell you i run my dogs hard and often .but feel there should be a bit of compassion involved in something that you have reared and spent time and money rearing up.the easy and cheap option would have been to have her put down but afraid thats not m
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danw i do keep a fair dog so when i breed one of mine i dont have trouble selling them when i advertised the pups that were not spoken for or sold i could have sold another six if i had had them and had people asking months later about them. tbh if i had to think about killing any healthy pups i bred i wouldnt bother breeding a litter and we can all beat about the bush fannying it up calling it culling but what it boils down to is killing a perfectly healthy pup that the person has bred.and me personally i wouldnt feel right doing that but at the end of the day thats only my personal opinion
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dont know what happened to above post lol. dan w ime 57 had lurchers all my life and bred quite a few litters but only when i want a new dog for myself and without sounding off yes i can do a litter very very good.and although i havnt got all the answers i know the differance between doing a litter properly and not doing it properly . what are you saying because ime not a prolific breeder and pushing puppies out year in year out i dont know hoew to rear a litter of lurcher pups properly. and i stick by my statement if you ddo the bitch and litter properly and put the time andexpense in they ca
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dan w ime 57 had dogs all my life and have bred q
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If only every one thought like this the well being of the bitch should always come before that of the pups a proper stock man can see when the number of pups is pulling the bitch and litter down and act appropriately there aint nothing big or hard about it, it is-just stockmanship a skill sadly lacking in most. Wouldn't a good "stockman" ensure that the bitch has ample food and care to compensate for what the pups take out of them? If you see the difference in a litter of say 6 pups as opposed to 11 has on a bitch and the litter then you would know that food aint gonna make the dif
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cant see why anyone would want to cull a perfectly healthy pup .yes if its sickly or poor fair enough but no other reason. and the old cabbage about to big a litter and pulling the bitch down bullshit .if you havnt got the time money or inclination to do the bitch and litter properly then simple dont breed to start with.last two litters ive bred 10 year ago and 18 months ago there were 11 in the one litter and 10 in the last litter and all were healthy and well done as were the dams themselves. no matter how many in the litter if you feed properly and put the hours in to the pups .ie start the
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always loads about in the summer locally but come winter they have all died off myxi wiped them right out over the last month or two dont see a rabbit aboutanymore .
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i use a blitz but bought the new self contained cluelite on offer at the midlands. tbh ok for spotting or in small feilds but crap campared to lightforce as abovegreat for gatehopping to save theproper lamps .
