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  1. skycat
    Kelp tablets work very well on a lot of skin conditions as well: especially poor hair growth. Worked for me.
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    You wouldn't want to make an enemy of someone who owns one of those! LOL
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    They are definitely Parasols: totally delicious as long as you pick them while the gills are still white and crisp. Once they get older they can taste a bit dire: bitter tasting, but absolutely still edible. Pick them before the cap opens fully for the best flavour: cut into quarters, cutting out the woody middle where the stem joins on, and fry gently in butter and oil. In some parts of France they are known as the poor man's steak!
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    I think this is also a bad time of year for some people to get pups: they may have holidays arranged etc. Good luck with them: they look beautifully reared and if I didn't have so many already I'd have jumped at the chance. All the best with them.
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    A couple of pics of my pup> Dill. These two pics were taken towards the end of June: she's grown again since then. I'm beginning to think she'll be very like her sire in appearance. She NEVER stops hunting when she's off the lead, burrows into cover, nettles and brambles alike just like a little terrier does. Obviously got a good nose: can air scent a rabbit from a distance, and will follow scent to cover or ground. Smashing temperament, never put out, worried or anything negative at all. Very easy and biddable to live with, though she will hunt on too far if I let her. The trick is to on
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    Well all I can say is that people don't know when quality stares them in the face! I'd bite my hand off to have him if I didn't have enough dogs already: not often you see such a well shaped pup. And hats off to the breeder: he's in mint condition too.
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    My Dad and his 2 brothers fought in WW2, his youngest brother was killed in the D Day invasion: never got up the beach; he was only 21. The elder brother was badly injured there too, lost an eye and the use of his right arm. My Dad was a sniper in Holland and went through the whole war with not a scratch! He would never talk about the horrifying things he saw, but he was there when the allied troops entered Auschwitz. The best stories he told us, as little kids, about the war was once driving through an air raid in Holland to fetch a vet to save a farmer's cow! They were stationed on a f
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    Looks pretty good to me: plus I really like the idea of the hatch in the wire: presumably to just grab one ferret without the whole lot pouring out the door? We've got a board across our court doorway, but its 2 1/2 foot high and a pain to climb over sometimes when your'e in a hurry LOL
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    It is a shame that more attention isn't paid to good lines of lurchers, all round sort of dogs as opposed to coursing specialist: people that breed them can usually reel off generations back of ancestors, so why not 'ordinary' pot filling lurchers. There are a few lines of good working lurchers about the country, but a lot of people seem to be more interested in this or that cross, (feeling the need to know exactly what breeds are in their dog for some reason). I know a few people who have had the same lines for years: you don't hear much about them as they are usually the sort of people
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    No. Not this year: got puppies to keep me here LOL Well, still at the grub stage at the moment!
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    ....or probes where I come from.
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    I would add that if you feed nothing but rabbit you will need to add animal fat: lamb, beef or chicken fat as rabbits are low in fat: fat gives energy: works the same way as carbs work for humans. But I don't supose there's many people feeding only rabbit though!
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    cowhock

    skycat replied to a topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs

    NO------Cow-hocked is the condition in an animal where the back leg joints of the animal are set incorrectly. This term is used to describe when the back 'knee' on an animal is set inward, resulting in a splayed look in the back legs. This can result in the uneven wearing of paws(hooves)etc, which can end up in permanent lameness, and can prove to be a very serious condition. Permanent lameness usually results in the animal and the animal could not be used in breeding, as this trait would pass on. However, most animals will not have too serious a condition, and will walk with a splayed-leg lo
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    That is so true: she does have that 'eye' for a good shot. that sort of talent really should be encouraged: tell her well done.
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    Just because a bitch is standing i.e. holding her tail to one side, doesn't actually mean she's ready. A lot of bitches will do that before their insides are ready. Keep trying every day: some bitches are ready as late as 21 days into their season. An experienced dog once refused to mate one of my bitches until she was day 21: then straight on and job done. At a previous season an inexperienced dog mated her on days 13 and 15 and she didn't take. Not set in stone that the dog was fertile as he was a maiden, but both times she had litters she was mated on days 21 and 23. They all vary.
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    Very strange that pup hasn't gone: he would have been my choice, from the photo at any rate: he has that hard eyed bad ass look about him! LOL Or is it just the pic?
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    [ This maybe a daft question but have you had your dogs vaccinated? the only problem with the kennel cough vaccine, which is sprayed up the nostrils, is that the virus mutates all the time just like our common cold. Also, it is said that the vaccine lasts only six months or so, and when a different strain of the cough appears will be ineffective against it even if it (the vaccine) is still working.
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    That is really good news: did he disappear from your home or were you out digging when he disappeared? and did he come back home or was he found somewhere: just interested to hear how you got him back.
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    Just another point about mincing the veg......or not. I can't be bothered to mince just the veg if I'm feeding chicken carcases or breast of lamb so I just chuck bits of apple, carrot, sprouts, cabbage at the dogs when they've finished their meat. They all queue up and crunch up the veg like a load of borses! LOL And what comes out the other end is devoid of bits of carrot etc. So their systems must be grinding it down quite successfully all by themselves!
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    Like I said earlier, mine are not hard digging stock, they do a bit of everything, including beating on shoots, along with ratting etc, but once they've been dug to that first time they understand what they're supposed to do below ground. Someone once said 'slow to start, slow to finish', meaning that they'll go on a lot longer than some, not all of course, of the hot early flyers. I would never keep a dog that came away from its game once it knows what it's doing, once it's properly wed to its quarry, but that learning process is never one I'll hurry, and a one of my youngsters that's to gr
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    Excellent idea!
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    You don't need a mincer, even for small pups. Just use the back of a cleaver or a hatchet and smash the crap out of them (the bones, not the pups). As the pups get older, just smash less. I have had even toy breed pups on whole bones by seven or eight weeks old, no problems. that's what we do with just the odd rabbit: works a treat. The only reason we use a mincer is for a lot of rabbits, mixed in with about 10-15% lamb and beef fat and raw veg: the whole lot goes through together. Rabbits on their own don't contain enough fat for a hard working dog: don't forget we ask our dogs to
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    It's 3 WEEKS to kill worm cysts/eggs. Northern Tool sell both hand and electric mincers: the hand one is very hard work!http://www.northerntooluk.com/?cm_ven=Perf...northern%20tool
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    I would never in a million years claim that my terriers are fair dinkum hard digging stock, and they can take forever to enter properly: if someone wanted an early starter then I'd no way let them have one, but once they do start, sometimes as late as 2 1/2, they keep going and going for years and years. My old bitch who is now 11 would still work to ground if I let her, and her daughter who is 7 is still in her prime as far as earth work is concerned. They are'nt hard dogs, though they do start mixing it a bit in their second season. Shout at them, or worse still hit them and they fold up
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    I make a point of not eating anything with preservatives or colouring etc in it, so why would I give stuff like that to my dogs. Yes, for years I fed a complete food, but more as a filler than anything else. Always fed meat as well. Dogs looked fine on it, worked fine on it BUT I used to find that sometimes they'd get the sh*ts for no apparent reason. And if you use a high powered so called premium food then they'll get the sh*ts if you give them too much: goes straight through them. Their sh*t always stunk a lot worse too than when they are just on raw/natural food. Stinks worse if you f
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