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I thought it was just called 'The Poacher' made by BBC films (or may have been Channel 4 - I can't remember). It was filmed around North Norfolk and I thought it was quite good - when I first watched it! Watched it again recently and now I look at it in a different way. Crow
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Deker Paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 states that you must have 'written evidence' that you have permission for the use of dogs below ground ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 (1) The use of a dog below ground in the course of stalking or flushing out is in accordance with this paragraph if the conditions in this paragraph are satisfied. (2) The first condition is that the stalking or flushing out is undertaken for the purpose of preventing or reducing serious damage to game birds or wild birds (within the meaning of section 27 of
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Spot on Deker As you'll see from the above quote I pointed this out a year ago but nobody took any notice If we in the hunting fraternity misunderstand the requirements of 'the act' then we can't complain when our opponents do so too and we then suffer consequences! Crow
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Have a look around some of the suppliers on here sparky, ebay also. As for whether to go shaped or not then, in truth, it makes very little difference. Some like the extra bag near the rings, others think it's a waste. I only have shaped nets and I can't say I've seen them letting rabbits go - it's usually my sloppy laying of the net that's the problem Crow
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JD, yep, he's better looking and not as miserable Feeds on crickets, locusts, meal worms, wax worms, etc. Crow
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Thanks He's a Panther Chameleon (Furcifer pardalis) and comes from the Nosy-Be region of Madagascar. Normally he's a mid to dark green colour, but he can go anything from black (which means he's very stressed and about to die!) to a stunning cyan (which means he's excited). No, he doesn't go 'real tree' if you put him on a jacket (that is actually a urban myth, they change with mood and only to colours specific to the type). I've had a water dragon too which make good pets and I quite like the bearded dragons, they look like what most people would call a proper lizard. Crow
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Whats exotic? I've got a chameleon called Gilbert! Crow
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Best Lurcher Cross In Your Opinion .. ?
Crow replied to Dan_Jones's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
3/8 Collie 5/8 Greyhound -
www.thenetloft.net Great site - great bloke
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This challenge would prove nothing either way because there are too many variables in the mix (not least the competance of the lurcher owner for a start)! Gavmac, what would be a better thing to do is to breed yourself a pup from your own proven stock and purchase a pup from Hancock of the same age. Bring them on, enter them, work them and treat them both EXACTLY the same way and only then will you tell which is the best - out of those particular two anyway Crow
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Mendelian Genetics is generally considered to be the research that is used in today's genetics isn't it? Absolutely, that is why I keep on stressing 'mathematically'. As I've said before, maths and nature don't work hand in hand and there comes a point when 'probability' and 'mathematical chance' are at loggerheads. Albinos and silvers probably existed in the polecat long before domestication, the problem is that in the wild 'freaks' such as albinos (and silvers) don't last very long as not only is nature against them (the polecat is the colour it is for a reason) but everthing el
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I know absolutely nothing about eye colour in humans, but if the theory ties in and that is how you wish to understand it then go for it As you will know, when we use the term 'gene' to describe inheritance of the albino or polecat colour as I have above (i.e. "therefore only one gene is required to take an effect") we are actually using the term 'gene' in the wrong context. The gene actually holds two alleles, one being inherited from each parent and it is these that dictate colour, but using the term allele always brings the question 'I thought it was down to genes??' so it's easi
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Yes, no question about it. The albino gene (let's label it a) has an autosomal recessive pattern of inheritance meaning that two 'albino' genes are required to take effect. Therefore, mating an albino (aa) to another albino (aa) can only produce offspring of aa - there are no other genes 'in the pot' so to speak. Polecat coloured ferrets can (for want of a better word) be 'true' in as much as they carry two polecat colouration genes (let's label it P). Mating two 'true' polecats to each other (PP x PP) will only produce polecat coloured ferrets. However, the polecat colouring has an au
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It's simply because a lot of the polecat coloured ferrest are carrying the albino gene - ie. Pa as apposed to PP. They look the same until you breed off them!
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It is just that droid As you probably know albinos have an autosomal recessive pattern of inheritance therefore are the only ferret colour you can look at and know for sure it's genetic make-up.
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Don't you come back with threats of geno, pheno, hetero and homo or I'll have to start on autosomal dominance and recessive patterns of inheritance Crow
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Droid, I'm afraid you have that wrong. It is only mathematically possible to have a 1 in 4 chance of an albino if you start with two polecats each carrying the albino gene; if we show them as Pa, then mated together you will get (mathematically) 25%PP, 50% Pa, 25%aa. In Bigredbusa's case he started with a Pa and mated it to an aa, this will give him 50% albinos (aa) and 50% polecats (which are carrying the albino gene - Pa). Look at the Punnet square below: Also, to suggest that a certain gene is becoming dominant based on the outcome of one litter is, quite frankly, absurd! I
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No, both parents have to carry ONE albino gene to throw albinos (note, they can both be polecat marked!). Read this for an explaination as to why . . . Crow
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If she has thrown albino kits then she definitely carries the albino gene!
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Almost certainly not! It also carries a risk. You're best to mate a BEW with an albino (which still carries risks, but they are reduced in probability) and cross your fingers for a BEW kit!
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Bigredbusa: That's interesting, because it means that your polecat marked must carry an albino gene (or it wouldn't have thrown albinos) which leads us to the reasoning that it also holds a mutated polecat gene! Genetics - fascinating eh? And something which cannot be simplified as it really is more involved than rocket science
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The risks are the same as if you were breeding two polecat coloured together (or two albinos) and those risks have nothing to do with the colours! You will (if your polecat coloured is true polecat coloured) get only polecat coloured kits. However, if your polecat carries the albino gene (you won't know by looking at it) then you'll get albino kits too (mathmatically 50% of the kits, but mathmatics and nature don't work in the same way). Good luck with the kits if you do breed. Crow
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The silver and/or BEW gene are dominant over the albino gene! In fact, everything is dominant over the albino gene so does that mean we can't breed albino to albino? Erm, no is the answer! Genetics are far too complicated to simply say you should not breed one colour to another - for a start the colour of the ferret is determined by two genes, one of which may not be obvious
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The eyes of the albino are no different from any other ferret, they just haven't any colour pigment. However the ear canal is different (a quirk of the albino gene) which could result in hearing that is not so good as polecat coloured (for example). Taking it one stage further are silvers, black-eyed-whites and ferrets displaying symptoms of Waardenburg Syndrome which could (not always) be born deaf; again this is a result of the mutated gene. As for colour preference I'm not bothered either way, although it is easier to tell 4 polecats apart than it is 4 albinos! Crow