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  1. beast
    no he doesnt as they are usually smooth coated and dont sell well. this is a shame as i have seen and heard about a few dogs of this breeding which were pure class
  2. beast
    peroxide might work but not too strong! otherwise diluted iodine couple of times a day and quick wipe with cotton bud or similar
  3. beast
    nah, pink bling all the way
  4. beast
    they wont shed their antlers till next spring and its very rare to find any from wild deer. best bet is to contact a deer park and offer to pay for a few, they will probably let you have them for nothing. sounds like you are sorted now anyway, but let me know if you dont get enough and i may be able to help you out
  5. beast
    yep, certainly is a good feeling. did she retrieve it or was there the lap of honour most youngsters do? she's retrieved a few daytime no problem but yes ...she gave herself a lap of honour i could hear it screaming anti clockwise ha ha ..she came good though ...live to hand .. brilliant. be a decent dog i reckon
  6. beast
    how many digs has it had?
  7. beast
    yep, certainly is a good feeling. did she retrieve it or was there the lap of honour most youngsters do?
  8. beast
    yeah its impossible to say really. i had a collie cross still lamping well at 13, but not big bags (5-10) whereas i've known other dogs fading fast by 7 or 8
  9. beast
    had a collie x deer/grey which was a real pleasure to own in every way. also a beardie/border/grey mix which was calm, relaxed, "nice" from the off. but also had collie crosses which were very hard work to make into sensible, calm dogs
  10. beast
    i have had lurchers for over 30 years. i have had some poor, most reasonably good, and a couple of real first class dogs, but even those i have never bred from, even though i feel they would have added to the quality of the general gene pool. the reason i have never bred a litter is because personally i believe it would be my responsibility to find permanent homes for every pup, and good homes at that 9working or not wouldn't necessarily be my priority, better a good pet home than a crap working one). i would not be able to sleep nights if i had any doubt about where a pup had ended, in fact i
  11. beast
    Birddog's already given a rundown of the dog's qualities, drive being one of them, I think the dog sounds a very good worker and definitely worth putting into a line of lurchers. And I don't think a 40% failure rate would happen, depending on what type of work the resulting pups would be worked at. If people are talking about fox, 40% failure rate sounds about average to me i know birddog said about drive, but i meant specifically PREY drive. a lot of dogs show a high level of drive, but not necessarily hunting. even so i agree with you, i would use the dog myself
  12. beast
    the only question to my mind is whether this dog has high prey drive? herding is of course just a form of hunting, so a dog which is keen to herd is demonstrating prey drive. then again, a cross to a grey should put plenty of drive into the pups anyway. i would use this dog for lurcher breeding myself, but as has already been said a lot of it boils down to chance (but NOT all of it!!!)
  13. beast
    i wanna move to livingston county and run yotes.........
  14. beast
    Does it make a difference if you use 'herry up'... or 'hurry up' ... Good post .... very important to say herry or hurry at the right stage. if you get it wrong then the pup will run upstairs and shit on your bed.......
  15. beast
    i have used this method for years, and always have pups toilet trained in a matter of days. perhaps just luck, but i like the method first, when i get a new pup i take a couple of weeks off work. second, i keep the pup in a crate if i'm not about or for it to rest. third, EVERY TIME it wakes up i take it out immediately, and wait for it to empty. this might take a minute or an hour, i simply wait. if it is the sort of pup that gets distracted as soon as it gets out so forgets to empty, i keep it on a lead and walk up and down, up and down, slowly until it goes. fourthly, as i see the pup s
  16. beast
    last year was a real bumper year for foxes round here, but very few and far between this year.
  17. beast
    looks pretty good to me. i use the rubber mats too, good insulation and easy to clean. to make a decent ferret run since they are inside you could just put up four walls of ply board, only got to be about 2 feet high as long as it is smooth so they cant get a grip to climb it.
  18. beast
    can't beat the feeling of getting a "first" of any type. and you obviously have a great deal of respect for your quarry. well done and, your english is much better than my hungarian gratulálok
  19. beast
    i used to use a dried meat (cant remember the brand) if a dog wasnt holding weight well when in hard work. i would give it half a cupful twice daily as well as its normal meat ration. you could almost see the flesh coming back on i think the stuff i had was about 70% protein. i would use the same again if i had the same problem.
  20. beast
    if that is down to the sinew then you probably ought to get him to the vets
  21. beast
    good advice here. one thing that might be worth a try - when you neck a bunny in a net, quickly tease the dog with it while its still twitching, might just trigger it to take an interest. keep trying, it will come good
  22. beast
    i remember reading some of this story in the past, but its nice to hear the whole tale. well done sandy and best of luck to young finn
  23. beast
    i never seen one, but an old retired keeper i once knew said that he had one in the 70s which was the best dog he ever owned, said it was like a rough coated greyhound but tougher and more wind. he took one litter off it to a mixed breed lurcher and said there was everything in the litter from 19" to 29"!
  24. beast
    unbelievable. dont know whether to laugh or cry when i hear stuff like that . socks, perhaps your legal rep could put in a case against the police for some sort of public health issues as well?
  25. beast
    i hav eused both factory built and hme-made versions, and in my opinion they are a vital part of the tool kit. obviously site selection is the key, especially in regard to wind. i have a litltle machan-type affair made from an old pallet which was constantly threatening to get me good shots but the deer kept refusing to come to the right spot. after walking the area with a dog a few times i got to realise from the dogs behaviour that the wind at that spot often eddied round strangely and took the airflow down a gulley straight to the deer. by moving the platform six feet higher and twenty yard
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