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  1. David K
    What does it say on the official police document and reciept that the police issued when they confiscated your car? They must have reason to believe an offence has been commited to confiscate your car. Did they check out your insurance, licence and identity details at the roadside and did everything come back okay? If so, what was the reason you where given for the taking of your vehicle?
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    While not wishing to put the blame on anyone, the main reason the police confiscate your car at the roadside is no insurance. Not easy to get away with these days with number plate recognition cameras in most police traffic cars. The days of producing your documents in seven days are long gone. Still not to many of them here in Ireland,yet.
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    A young lad I know put his hob into the local vets for a vasectomy, making it clear to the vet that he wanted a vasectomy and not a castration. It has now come light that the hob was castrated and so can't be used to bring the jills out of season. The lad was going to be renting him out for a fiver a go as a little earner for himself so he can pay for the upkeep of his animals so he is gutted. Plus I was hoping to borrow him myself as I have two jills in season that need attention. I suppose we should all be glad the vet is not surgeon in hospital doing humans as the consequences could be
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    Used to have a Stafford that had a bit wayward ears as a pup, stuck them in position for a while with Copydex glue. When the glue had started to break down after a good few weeks his ears where perfect, no harm done if you use a non toxic glue. Wish my mum had done the same for me as a baby!
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    John Seymour's book is an excellent reference for all those things you need/want to be doing from growing your own veg to building your wind powered generator and everything inbetween. http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-New-Complete-Book-Self-Sufficiency/dp/1405345101/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1333154070&sr=1-1
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    I don't think they have made it compulsory for all girls to wear the muslim approved uniform, it's an option that allows girls to participate in the organisation that they would otherwise be unable to join and be with their friends due to religious restrictions. To say it's sacriledge or an erosion of anyones culture seems way over the top. It is just a way of allowing CHILDREN, who hopefully won't be carrying the burden of a parents racist views, to socialise with their peers.
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    Is there a shortage of ferrets in your area? It does seem a little irresponsible to be producing so many kits that are going to have to be homed, some of which will end up abandoned or dumped in rescue centres. Plus do you not think it may have been better to find out if you need to separate the jills with kits BEFORE you decided put a hob in with them all?
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    Plenty being caught on the Atlantic surf beaches in Cork, Ireland, usual baits of crab and big lug. I think the water should be plenty warm enough for them to be patrolling the shallows on most of their usual beaches.
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    It takes about a week in the bin for the initial fermentation, I then bottle my beer with a teaspoon of sugar to secondary ferment and give the beer some fizz. I leave the bottles in a warm place for a week then into the shed outside for at least another week to settle. You can start to drink them then but it does get better as the weeks progress, the last bottle of a brew is the best and I do wish I could leave them as long a possible. I suppose the secret is to do consecutive brews then there is always some matured stuff to drink. I don't do lagers or lighter beers but I do think you need t
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    I have been brewing for a few years just using the kits and produce a tasty brew even if I do say so myself. There are suppliers out there who will do you the whole set up, fermenter, thermometer, hydrometer, paddle, sterilizer, barrel/bottles for an all in price or you could just find a suitable fermenting bucket and recycle some bottles, buy the kit, add sugar and you're a home brewer! My own kit comprises of a 33ltr fermenting bucket with lid, long plastic mixing paddle, VWP cleaner/sterilizer, syphon tube and 24 glass 1ltr bottles(old Bulmers bottles) for the finished product. I tend to u
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    I wouldn't worry too much about how it looks if you fancy making your own. The important thing is the "bee space" which is about 3/8 of an inch between the frames, they need enough room to move around the hive but give them too much and they will fill it with comb and thus making it very difficult to lift out frames for inspection. Other than that it needs to waterproof and draughtproof. if you look at many beekeepers collection of brood boxes and supers they are usually a mish mash of different timbers and repairs. I make all my hives apart from the frames and don't worry how it looks but
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    That looks pretty far gone to me, if you have the timber lying around a can repair or make a new box yourself then thats what I would do. You have a template to work from with the rotten box and it will save you some money. The frames inside are probably not rotten due to the bee wax and propolis on them but it would probably be best practice to cut out the old wax, clean up the frames and put in some new wax foundation. The last thing you want is a new colony picking up a disease from the previous inhabitants. Try Thornes for all your materials and info.
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    It produces very little syrup by the time you extract all the water, which makes it so expensive to buy.
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    It makes a decent wine, need to age it a bit but it's drinkable enough.
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    I think ferret rescue would be wanting to fully castrate/neuter rather than request a vasectomy.
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    I'm in Ireland as well Steven, I couldn't find any suppliers over here at all. I emailed Agouti twice to try and get postage costs but received no reply from them, perhaps they don't deliver over here at all but it would be nice to get a reply. In the end I ordered twine, rings, braid and a needle from Bridport nets and had it delivered to a relative in the UK and I picked it all up on my last visit. Sorry to be of no help in finding net materials over here, if you know someone who travels over to the UK perhaps you could get them to bring some stuff back for you. I'm not going mysel
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    I have only got into the feretting recently so I have been making nets and a box but I aim to keep myself busy out of season doing my beekeeping. The bees are busy and need inspecting every week during the summer and hopefully a honey harvest in early Autumn but then they settle down for the winter just in time for the ferreting to start. I can also wander down to the River Sullane that runs through our town and fish for the wild brownies on the fly. The aim to keep the family supplied with fruit and veg grown on our land really fills the day. We already have some chickens for eggs and plan to
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    I think you would need to compost fresh pigeon droppings down for a while as they would be very rich in nitogen which may be a little too rich if used neat on seedlings etc. As for toms, like you I use ordinary potting compost but I mix some of the well rotted compost I make from all the household veg waste. Had a great crop of toms last year until the blight wiped out the lot.
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    Seems to me, with my limited experience I must add, that all you are doing is training ferrets to retrieve kits and not training for "lay up prevention" like the title of your topic suggests. Of what practical use is a ferret that thinks it's job is to find kits, turn around and take one back to it's box and leaving the rest of a warren unexplored? With your all year round breeding rabbits this is going to be a pain in the ass and your going to need an army of retrieving ferrets to do each warren. I think the standard way of feeding ferrets before hunting and trying to breed a good w
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    Not too much in the way of edible shrooms around at the moment but an easy starter for you would be wild garlic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramsons. You usually smell them before you see them, they are likely to be growing in damp woody areas with the bluebells. Leaves are a great mild garlic addition to cooking and are used raw in salads. I will be tapping the birch trees soon for the sap which i use to make wine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birch_syrup I would reccomend richard mabey's book as well, lots of edible plants in there but get a more comprehensive mushroom book.
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    Fed my two hives today, used a couple of pots of last years set honey. With the winter being so mild they will have used more of their winter stores than usual and I don't want to lose them through starvation. The advice from my local association is feed fondant now and syrup solution in march. I prefer to feed honey if I have it as its easier and quicker for the bees to use it. Happy with the condition of the hives after a very quick look in, plenty of lively bees and I only got stung once on my knee while bending down.
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    Thanks for the replies lads, just need to get some collars now. €68 euro is the cheapest I can find new, hopefully something secondhand will turn up.
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    I have a plot at the bottom the garden about 30ft x 150ft where over the last few years I have managed to keep the family in veg. I also have three 8ft x4ft raised beds up near the house. The only real failure has been potatoes because of the blight, the early new potatoes where great but anything after that just gets hit with deadly stuff. So this year I am not going to bother with the main crop potatoes at all and avoid the dissapointment and wasted effort in planting them. I have sowed leeks, broad beans, parsnips, peas, beetroot and some salad leaves in the greenhouse, maybe too early but
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    I have two hives, started with bees late 2010 and have just kept it to the two so far. This year I am going to expand and create as many as possible from my existing colonies. Going to try and raise my own queens and split the hives up into as many 5 frame nucleui as possible. I have a few people willing to let me set up apiaries on their land so if it all works out I should be producing plenty of honey in a few seasons. I make my own hives from floor joists and 12mm ply, just buy frames, wax, excluders etc. from suppliers. The best thing I ever did was join the local bee keeping association,
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    I have managed to get hold of Deben locater, no collars with it so I need to know which to buy to use for ferreting. It's the older MK3 without the dial on the back and It says Terrier finder on the front it but am I correct in that these are the same receivers as the ferret finder branded ones? I know some of you guys out there will know the answer, thanks in advance.
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