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...found it! There's a section in Richard Prior's "The Roe Deer: Conservation of a Native Species." It says it's usually older does and that the antlers are usually small. Even has a photo of one which had kids every year until developing male characteristics in old age. I've heard of some female birds and reptiles changing sex if there was a lack of males around but maybe some mammals do it for the same reason too. Though there are plenty of bucks around here too.
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No, definitely a roe. I'd seen it several times during the summer with the kid but it was only recently recently I'd seen it through the binoculars. I'll see if I can find the book where I read about does with antlers...
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I get a lot of deer near me. Initially just roe but, during the last year, I've also seen a fallow buck, a pair of sika and a gradually growing population of muntjac. During the last two weeks I've noticed that one particular roe (with a kid of c. seven months old) has what appears to be antlers. I was initially surprised simply because of the time of year; I've seen a couple of individuals with the big buttons appearing, but these are so small that they're only visible through the binoculars. However, this individual (the one with the kid) has definite antlers. But...they're tiny things.
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I've got two drawers in the freezer with enough space for 44 packs of about 450g each. Because of that I can't really buy in bulk so I get whatever is cheapest/best value at my local Jolleys (I can never remember if it's Jolleys or Jollyes). I think mine is over £2 for a pack so I'll have to research the link from earlier as that'd halve my dog food bill. I've fed raw for about 27 years I think, but my youngest kelpie is on mainly Skinners dry as she went through a phase as a pup of shitting through the eye of a needle on raw...which is ironic as all my other dog normally do that on
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I expect it was the latter as all the flatcoats I've met have been VERY friendly. I once heard them referred to as the Peter Pan of the dog world. There's a lovely one in my local wood but she's too friendly for me. I've met several curly coated retrievers recently and they had lovely calm/aloof temperaments.
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I was told the same thing once by a breeder of racing whippets. She told me that all her pure whippets had excellent feet and the only ones with feet problems were those with some greyhound blood. I had a pup from one of her 3/4 whippet 1/4 greyhounds mated to a collie and she had the worst feet I've ever had on a dog. Forever going lame. Enjoyable thread. I almost bought a first cross lab x grey back in the early 90s but when I went to see the litter and asked about the sire (lab) I was told he lived nearby but that the owners didn't know he'd sired the pups. I was still tempted bu
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Wow! I looked it up and you're right. I'm surprised Billy Mackenzie of the Associates wasn't on the list that I found. He had an amazing voice with a huge range. I think he did an opera once with one of the women from Propaganda.
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When my wife got one of those Alexa thingys I added a "favourites" playlist to it. I was surprised to find after a couple of days of adding different tracks that they were all Classical. Once I'd realised this I started another one of non-classical. Mine is almost exclusively 70s and 80s. All time favourites would be Madness, The Specials, Depeche Mode, Japan, Talk Talk, Blancmange...basically either 2Tone or New Wave. Without a shadow of doubt, my all time favourite vocalist would be David Sylvian. I'm transported to another place when I hear his voice. Seen him live a few tim
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While trying to do a bit more research on the beardie sire to add to this thread (for other people's information) I found the pedigree for the collie lurcher dam. Very impressive. Off the top of my head, the names I can remember are Hancock's Rufus, Sharpe's Moss (who was great grand-sire to my last lurcher), Hancock's Katie (who was grand-dam to my collie x whippet) and a dog I've read about on here called Arri. On the other side was whippet blood from Sooty Sam via Zorro. While reading all that I had the feeling I'd read it before somewhere. Then I found it in one of my Phil Lloyd books
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Yeah, I've been reading about her in the bushing thread.
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Yeah, my wife bought me a copy a few years ago. It's a good book but I don't completely agree with his kelpie/German shepherd connection theory. In my opinion, a better book for kelpie origins and history is "Origins Of The Australian Kelpie" by Bill Robertson. Very well thought out book with a lot of miles put in to conduct his research. On a slightly related subject: my current two kelpies will be my last. When I got my first everybody said I was mad and kelpies are such hard work but I kept saying all the naysayers were wrong as mine was a piece of cake. Then I got three more (the last
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Must just be a coincidence because of the colouring and build. No, not a pup from Ed; I'd never even heard of him until you mentioned him.
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Do you mean in the same sense that in New Zealand they call them "big game indicating dogs"?
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I think so. Is the bitch related to yours by any chance? When I saw the dam in the photos she looked familiar and then I realised I was thinking of your red and tan. I was a tad tempted but I've got my name on a waiting list for a litter later this year.
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I know they're not everyone's cup of tea, but I'm sure I saw a thread on here earlier this year about somebody wanting a collie greyhound pup. While browsing for something completely different, I've found two dog pups that might interest some. The dam is a collie/greyhound (I think she's line bred with lines going back to the 80s so not a half bred). The sire is a working beardie. As I said, not everyone's cup of tea but they piqued my interest. The advert is on both Pets4Homes and Gundogs Direct. I think they're in Andover.
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I can't remember what year it was, but sometime in the mid 80s, my cousin and I were walking along the cliff walk from Charmouth to Lyme Regis (we were actually going to the Radio 1 Road Show with Gary Davies!) when we saw what we initially thought was a cloud. Within minutes this huge cloud became a swarm of millions of ladybirds coming over the sea and heading inland. An amazing sight.
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Crikey! I've got a locator with two collars that I've not used for several years that I keep thinking of selling. I've just looked on ebay and only found one and it was £225!
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I've often wondered if road kill is a good indication of what wildlife is in an area i.e. I've always assumed it is. My wife and I were talking recently about how we tend to see different things in different parts of the country. A couple of weekends ago we went to Appledore and saw mainly pheasant (on the way) but with an increasing number of badger the farther west we went. Last week we went to Highclere for her 50th birthday and saw mainly roe deer. Pheasant and fox are the main ones near us...and fly tipping.
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I opened this thread yesterday after not being on here for a week or so and thinking I must have misread the title. I read the first post, closed the computer down and went for a long walk up Windmill Hill. There was a hare at the top and I wondered if he believed in reincarnation. I only met Phil a handful of times, maybe a little more, but I learnt a lot on those few occasions, particularly when he once borrowed the two ferrets I had at the time to get one of his previous 'cur dogs' started (I think it might have been Dusty). However, despite his standing in the lurcher world, my o
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In my case I've come full circle. I got my first lurcher because I'd always been out and about watching wildlife and I thought I'd like a canine mate to enjoy it with. As I grew up with a garden full of working terriers and lurchers it was natural to pick a lurcher. However, over the years (particularly the last dozen or so years) I've found that I enjoy the watching more than the catching again. Just in the last couple of weeks I've enticed a pair of roe does in to within twenty feet and watched them browsing, cleaning (and weeing) for an hour with the dog sat beside me, watched a l
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Robin is definitely my favourite call (maybe because of nostalgia; reading The Secret garden when I was little etc). Second favourite, once again for reasons of nostalgia, is the blackbird. Another I like, both the bird itself and the call, is the dunnock; I think they're one of the most overlooked and undervalued birds in the UK. My favourite species is the wren but, although I like their call, it reminds me of those contestants on the Voice when they've only got a few seconds left and none of the judges chairs have turned so they throw everything at it and go a bit over the to
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My first kelpie was a bit like that. I've never bred a litter of pups or used one of my dogs at stud in my whole life. However, back in 2006, when my two were separated as Amber was in season, a friend asked if he could use Rusty on his kelpie/collie. We tried several times, and she was doing everything in her feminine power to get him interested, but he refused to serve her. I assumed that he simply wasn't interested in mating so let my two out together in the garden and he immediately jumped her so I had to pull him off and separate them again. I've always assumed that maybe he was monogamou
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I stopped using the app for a while as I found it was making a few mistakes. In my area it was mainly thinking that blackbirds were something else as their call is a bit "jazz." However, I still use it a lot for those times when you find yourself hearing something you can't remember.
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Bearded collie cross greyhound breeder
Neal replied to GeorgiaK96's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
To cut a very long story short(er): he was fine when I owned him (even though I bought him as an adult from an English lecturer at Cambridge University) but I had to rehome him myself when my ex-girlfriend and I split up as her family owned the cottage I was living in. To add insult to injury, they bought him off me! After that he became quite aggressive towards some males. Particularly the fish man who delivered every friday leading to him being locked up in the nursery whenever he visited. Apparently, one day, the fish man went upstairs to use the loo and someone let the dog out. He rus -
Good idea! It was good enough to fool me so I wonder if it can fool the app.
