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  1. Maximus Ferret
    Nice dog. I thought he'd be a bit woolly coated. (You should've got someone to water the plants while you were away though)
  2. Maximus Ferret
    Think I'll have to start early this coming season, running some early season bucks (rabbits). I'm getting square eyes and typists cramps with all this forum debating society bollox. Roll on August.?
  3. Maximus Ferret
    Sit on it's ass 'til it panics and makes a mistake.
  4. Maximus Ferret
    Lurcher lad, you don't really have to do everything there is all at once. You've got years ahead of you still and I wish I had. "Youth is wasted on the young".
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    I really enjoyed that vid mate. Mink are regarded as a pest here as they aren't native and they kill gamebirds, chickens etc. and they impact a bit on salmon and trout, especially on the spawning beds. People trap them but in spite of that I see them regularly. I like mustelids myself and I'm happy to see the pine martin back in this area now though I'm sure not many hunting people would agree with me on that.
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    I realised that but I feel that breeding pure sals, best to best, wouldn't have produced anything like todays coursing/fen dogs. Not yet anyway. They're just too different. Even a fast type saluki is a good bit different to a fast "up and att'em" type fen dog. People may disagree but that's my opinion.
  7. Maximus Ferret
    You only said the last bit, about Bill Doherty .
  8. Maximus Ferret
    Exactly, when they crossed their lurchers to salukis they must've had some good animals in every generation right up to today. If they'd only had salukis and greys it would have been a lot harder. In the same vein I reckon an F1 deer/grey would benefit from outcrossing to one of the deer/pit/grey strains being bred in Ireland ATM or to something like the pups Scottish hare hunter has bred from his dog to the deer/grey bitch. Even when better deerhounds were available than there are now, Bill Doherty himself said the mixed deerhound lurchers were better than the F1's or pures.
  9. Maximus Ferret
    And yet in spite of the dilution some of the best lines still have the woolly coat. Who knows what mental qualities might have carried down in the same way.
  10. Maximus Ferret
    Out of interest, does anyone think that the bedlington blood in the back pedigrees of most top strains of fendog or coursing dog makes them better than hounds with only saluki and greyhound in them? My own feeling is that it does because although testing and selection over generations has obviously been the primary factor the mixture of breeds provided the raw material to work on in the first place.
  11. Maximus Ferret
    In my case you'd be right. Some do use bowsaws but I consider the pruning saw to be an improvement.
  12. Maximus Ferret
    Not if you wanted a better bowsaw. Incidentally, I make part of my living doing tree work and all arborists and ntree surgeons do use handsaws as well as chainsaws.
  13. Maximus Ferret
    How about ending up with an improved bowsaw because you don't want a chainsaw? If you end up with a chainsaw the breeding program was a failure. (A chainsaw's way too heavy when you're hanging out the window)
  14. Maximus Ferret
    Your legs are more bull terrier than saluki then??
  15. Maximus Ferret
    Blitz variable with a lithium battery most of the time. In very windy conditions something with a slightly smaller dish. The LED ones could be good to leave in the car maybe?? I don't have an LED lamp but I do have a small but V. powerful LED Lenser I9R torch which is handy for taking walks where you don't want to be seen with a hunting light.
  16. Maximus Ferret
    I think most people who get first crosses just like this cross and are ready to accept whatever they CAN do workwise. Once you do have one you can always see it as a starting point and out cross to whatever suits you - smaller/gutsier/more intelligent etc.
  17. Maximus Ferret
    Or be prepared to switch to night shifts
  18. Maximus Ferret
    They're fine pups LL. If they've got the right drive they'll be strong enough for any sensible undertaking IMO. (Even any stupid undertaking given a bit of luck??)
  19. Maximus Ferret
    No good for a collie cross. It would soon jack.
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    ? thing is Bill, Hancocks are in it to make money and allways were. I very much doubt that they would still be in business if they had gone down the G/S grey route. I don't doubt though that he might have bred some good or better all round working/mouching dogs.
  21. Maximus Ferret
    I remember him breeding that litter. Plummer apparently was against it as he thought it might make people doubt the pure heritage of the collie crosses. Does anyone know if any of those (alsation crosses) did any good as workers??
  22. Maximus Ferret
    Here too. 27 degrees today. I get so dehydrated out working in it that I have to drink a load of beer each evening to rehydrate myself.
  23. Maximus Ferret
    I'd say they'll be mostly rough coated. Any that show rough coat now will be very rough and most of the smooth looking ones will end up broken coated. If I wasn't looking after four dogs already I'd be wanting one of these. They'd be cracking for what I do and one of the dogs, once proved would go nicely over my big bitch.?
  24. Maximus Ferret
    Sound mate and for running regular farm and estate land I'd pretty much agree. IMO a good sound fen dog or deer/grey might throw better feet and running style for wilder land though.
  25. Maximus Ferret
    If you don't want to fund crack'im then don't buy a TV licence. Under UK law you don't need to unless you watch live TV.
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