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On The Hunting Life When You Should Be Doing Other Stuff
beast replied to David.evans's topic in General Talk
i've a chinese water deer hanging in the outhouse, guts are out but i should be jointing it really. but its fecking freezing out there! might just get up early in the morning and do it instead.... -
that is exactly the same as metacam, but cheaper! the active ingredient is meloxicam, which is the best stuff currently on the market for dogs
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thanks for the tip oof, we are pretty security conscious, but i will be extra careful.
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sounds as though all the pieces are there. i would try carrying a rabbit or squirrel in my pocket, and whilst you are out walking, dog on lead, and calm, just get her to mouth the body. not winding her up or getting excited, just a little verbal praise. just get her to understand that the fun doesnt stop just because you are involved in it. try a few retrieves in the garden, back to basic puppy stuff, to get her to engage with you. its not about being the alpha or anything else, its about the relationship between her and you. possibly the major issue has been caused by having another terri
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best of luck with her, but by the sounds of things you wont need it
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skinned and gutted, freeze for 3 days or more. one whole rabbit for a 50lb dog (roughly) and add more fat in cold weather or if the dog is in heavy work.
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rough guide: depending on the activity levels, between 2% and 4% of the dogs weight. thus, a 50lb dog in heavy work will ned approx 1 kg of flesh per day, a retired dog of the same weight would get about half this amount. more fat when it is cold. any animal fat will do.
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so what is she doing? just leaving the prey on the floor, running off with it, playing with it, or (horror of horrors!) trying to eat it?!! a dog which just leaves the prey is difficult to correct, i think you would have to force train a dog which tries to eat the quarry, god only knows what to do about that! but a dog which runs around with prey in its mouth is not a lost cause, you just have to get it to engage that kill/play grey area with you. i nearly ruined a superb lurcher bitch a few years ago because she would retrieve like a lab until about a year old, but then she learnt t
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decent collie. there are more genuine working farm collies about than you might think (and i dont mean those hyper agility types or some of the robotic trialling lines). one thing to consider if you are breeding is where the pups will go, and plenty of people are crying out for genuine collie Xs. and there are plenty of lurcher families/lines which would benefit from having a drop of collie blood, if any dog pups turn out to be decent enough for studs. not evrybody wants to go to hancocks!
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personally, i would keep him off the lamp and keep him away from the particular field where it happened too. you could even try getting some of the electric fence wire or ribbon , whichever type he had the accident with, and tie a few strips in the garden to try to get him used to it. as the men said, time. good luck.
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great stuff. will the dog be used for retrieving feathered game too, or will it be a deer specialist?
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nice pictures chaps
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what did you get K?
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menil, black and white are not domesticated colours, or produced deliberately, they are naturally occurring colour mutations, BUT it would be true to say that they have been ENCOURAGED by humans, either by selctive breeding or by selective culling. its not possible to artificially produce a colour (except possibly by some sort of genetic engineering in a lab!) but it IS possible to selectively breed these colours when they do occur
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Most Rabbits Locally (Walking Distance) On Lamp
beast replied to FERRETBOY's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
at one time you could walk round daytime and almost guarantee 5 or 6 rabbits within a mile of the house every day. the place was crawling with them, eating my garden, stripping the bark off my fruit trees. often had ten or fifteen in a couple of hours. used to hang them on trees and pick them up in the truck later (lazy b*****d). ever since that really wet summer a couple of years ago we barely see a rabbit round here. -
i did a rabbit clearance job for a woman a few years ago who was going to set up a rabbit farm, the whole thing was about finding a way to get planning for her daughter to build a house on her land. they just had to produce a business plan which if i recollect right, projected an annual income of something like £13 000 and as the land was already farmland they then just had to put up a few hutches and bobs your uncle. big scam.
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is that the one which is just a vw caddy with a different body? if so, then £50 is a real bargain
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testing kits etc will ensure that the correct hormones are active, but as you say gnasher that doesn't necessarily mean that the bitch is actually producing valid eggs. it is possible to ultrasound the ovaries and look at the eggs, state of development of them, whether ovulation has occurred recently etc, it is even possible to take an egg directly from the ovary and examine its structure. all this, however, is really specialist stuff and will cost LOTS!!! ( we had a cow looked at a couple of years ago, and they had to get the bloke over from germany, cost about £4000 as i recollect.) far mor
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agree with krawnden, timing is everything, muck up and you will make the problem worse or cause other problems. personally i prefer a light slip lead, and spend time on the heel work/leash work while the puppy is still quite little, so you dont need to get too heavy. a big, unruly badly trained dog might need some tougher handling, but you can generally sort them out in just a few minutes if you get it right
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the active drug in metacam is called meloxicam. there are other medicines which contain meloxicam, for example we use rheumocam. it is exactly the same but half the price, just like when you buy ibuprofen from tesco and it costs 50p, or if you buy with the brand name neurofen it costs £2. if you are going to go this route, just be very certain that you get the sam econcentration, this will be a figure like 1mg/ml so make sure you get the same mg/ml as on the prescription
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damn shame. rip tom
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Silken Windhound (Borzoi Whippet Line Bred)
beast replied to flynndog's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
i saw a couple of borzoi x greyhounds about 25 years ago, tall (30tts) very narrow fronted and as a result very unbalanced, reasonably quick in a straight line but turned awfully, half the time they would go over if they tried to turn at speed. thick as pigshit, and not particularly nice natured either. i would run a pure grey ahead of one of these, absolutely streets ahead. dont see any benefit from adding this blood to a working dog -
a few years ago i had three different permissions, all some miles apart, and for some reason one winter all 3 places held a number of rabbits with a white blaze or star on the forehead. never seen it before or since. very odd. i have caught black, blue, and sandy as well, all well away from human habitation. at one time the bank of the canal through regents park right beside london zoo had rabbits of every imaginable colour and pattern, supposedly some domestic rabbits had been released there. made a nice show when they were sitting out of an evening
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that citizen khant came on the other night when i was doing some paper work and i couldnt be arsed to get up and change channel so ended up watching some of it. suffice to say i did mange to get up after a little while to switch off, think i lasted about 6 minutes, what an awful show, badly written and poorly acted. any excuse from the bbc to continue the multi-cultural imposition
