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I started off by saying that I reckon it was a brilliant idea, then realised I'd only read the first page LOL. My only thoughts on providing the amount of game you'd be looking for throughout the hunting season would be that the onus would be on you to manage the land and game properly. In other words: fix a minimum quota for a night's lamping,(for example) then go home when that has been reached regardless of how much more they want to run or whether their dogs are capable. You know you can only catch what is there and once it's gone it's gone! Maybe you could try letting them lamp
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Best not to feed weight bearing bones like legs: a lot harder than ribs etc. I stick to lamb ribs and chicken carcases.
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just wondered...what your thoughts are .
skycat replied to snoopdog's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
I had a little dog well known lines in the coursing world: he was as slow as a Labrador until he hit about 18 months old, then just got faster and faster until he was 2 years old, and he was only 23 ". It's not always about the size of the dog, and I know that some of the Salukified lines take a while to reach their top speed. Dogs obviously more so than bitches in many cases. -
Thats just brilliant
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It sounds like an injury that has just got worse and worse until you noticed it. Not having a go, but I'm always shocked at how many injuries I hadn't noticed the chiropractor picks up: from torn muscle to tendon damage. and I pride myself on noticing these things!! Dogs still work, run and catch with all sorts of injuries: I tend to notice things when a dog doesn't pick up when I think it should have, like doesn't strike and turn properly on one side, or misses a catch I would have thought to have been a sure thing. At the moment I have one groin strain, one dodgy shoulder, a torn muscl
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On raw carcases and bones mine never need their molars (back teeth) doing, but I find they still get a thin line of plaque along the top of their canines from time to time. I just scrape it off VERY carefully using an old blunt veg knife to prise it loose. Go from the gums down and use tiny movements, keeping the tension in your hand so the knife or deplaquer doesn't slip and go into the gum on the jaw below or above depending on whether your'e doing top or bottom teeth.
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From a recent visit to the Greyhound chiropractor it does sound similar to the damaged shoulder joint that one of mine has. Without seeing the bitch I reckon it could be one of several things, the first two that come to mind is stretched/ruptured tendons and ligaments. Shoulder joints in dogs are pretty weak as a structure: there is no collar bone like in humans to anchor the limb so extreme over extension/sideways stress of the leg can damage the tendons holding the joint in place. Muscle damage to the triceps is also very common in lurchers etc. Definitely get the dog looked at even if i
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Friend of mine did the same thing: from what I can gather he ripped the tendon from its mooring: where it attaches to the muscle. Can't remember the technical term for this tendon, but it bloody hurts I know: he collapsed on the floor at the time: then went on to walk all day! His calf went black and blue afterwards and the doctor told him to rest it completely: needless to say he didn't, but it still healed OK-ish.
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Don't forget to turn the eggs you are keeping for the broody: Lay them on their sides in a cool place and turn a half turn every day. Stops the membrane sticking to the shell.
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That old wives' tale!! Obviously they had no knowledge of biology! I reckon it goes back to a time when there were no actual pure pure breeds as we know them today, when a litter could produce a pup that had thrown back to a different type in the ancestors. Like a rough coat in an otherwise smooth line. It's a common fallacy amongst old timers in the Greyhound world as well. When people didn't really know how traits were inherited it must have been easy to go down this road with the 'tainted' theory! they even applied it to women!
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F*ckin hell: you can't get much unluckier than that: so sorry for your loss.
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I wonder just how close the bears would have got to the dogs if the dogs hadn't been chained up.
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I rescued a herd of goats many years ago, and learned as I went along with the help of some goat keeping friends. Generally speaking it is not a good idea to let a nanny rear more than 2 kids: look at her udder: just 2 teats: should tell you that maybe nature only intends for 2 kids to be born. If one kid is much smaller than the other 2 then maybe it would be best to get rid of it: it may never be 'right' and if you intend keeping them as pets, then possibly cost you a lot in vet bills throughout its life. That said, not a good idea to keep billy kids as pets unless you get them castrated:
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what problems can this cause ??? i only keep bitches and never knew this cheers Running hard, ie, twisting and turning on running game can result in ruptured muscles, damaged tendons. It's basically the same as working a dog hard when it's not fit. The whole of the body gets soft and loose, which is what it needs to do to a) carry a large litter and actually deliver the pups. Not to mention the fact that the bitch needs to lay down as much fat as possible for when she is laid up with the pups over the first few weeks. Before anyone says that wild animals don't get a lay off
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What do you feed the dog on?
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Very good reply there! Collie greys get bored easily: way too intelligent to spend all their lives in a kennel. You say you've only had the dog 3 weeks: what sort of life did it have before you got it? If it always lived inside then your'e bound to have a job to get it to settle outside. It can take a dog at least 3 months to settle into a new home, and how it settles will be largely down to you, the amount of exercise, training, playing and working you do with it. If you just expect to stick it a kennel in a strange place, what on earth do you expect!! Young dogs especially need a
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depends how far in season she is , but it can cause damage to the bitch , so id personally not bother mate I've sen plenty of bitches run through their seasons: the real danger time is from 4 to 12 weeks AFTER the season has finished: that's when the body lays down fat and the ligaments/muscles relax prior to whelping: happens in bitches not mated too: phantom pregnancy: quite normal. No hard work during that time and until she loses the fatty tissue round her teats.
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As I've said before: stunning dog: should do some serious damage to certain quarry.
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Those nutria are just like a giant rat aren't they........you can see why those teeth do serious damage to a dog: like chisels! Are they purely vegetarian and can you eat them or are they just vermin? More information please! Always good to see what folks are hunting in other countries.
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Wow! That dog should do some serious damage when its grown up. In lovely condition too.
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Do you mean PICARDY Greyhound cross? A bloke called Mark Treadwell breeds them: Picardy/Grey cross Beardie/Grey. We, or rather my OH, has 2: one from the first litter of this breeding, and a full sister from a later mating. Not the easiest dogs to train: headstrong, strong willed, touch as old boots and very keen, good noses and hunters: also very fast for what it essentially a first cross Collie type to Grey. Here's a pic of our's: the last pic is of a pure Picardy pup: originally used for herding and flock protection. PS Why is your mate getting rid of it?
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The problem is that once you give total protection to an animal, it then increases in numbers beyond all reason and sense, and it wasn't as if badgers were in danger of extinction anyway, unlike the otter. Unfortunately the powers that be and the do gooders are unable to see or realise that sometimes a cull is necessary: and what did happen to the proposed badger cull on the grounds of them spreading TB? I've heard nothing about that recently.
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simple aint it! Common sense will tell you if youre' feeding the dog too much or not enough.
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Confuscious he say: young man should listen to those with more years and experience! You are very sure of yourself young man, but take it from those who have been on this planet a damn sight longer than you there are things in this world which can survive a lot longer than 24 hours at -5 degrees. Research tells us that it can take up to 21 days freezing to kill tapeworm eggs in rabbits. If you think that worm eggs can survive in the ground for months, suffering extremes of dry, wet and heat and cold, it makes sense that 24 hours in a freezer aint gonna do the job! Off topic a bi
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I get them terrible in my thumbs during winter: a mixture of cold and damp causes it. The only thing I have found to really get rid of those cracks is what I put on the dogs' pads: Padsanol from the Greyhound Megastore. It works a treat: use several times a day until cracks are healed then once a day before you are likely to get cold/wet hands. http://209.85.129.104/search?q=cache:PEq5t...uk&ie=UTF-8