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  1. on a big bit of open land if it pulls it goes, and it goes alone, not doubled up, there are some very good dogs that get slipped short, don't make them bad dogs, and some big name dogs are only average dogs slipped clever, and some are at another level altogether you wont here them bigged up or see them on you tube, you can only truly judge a dog when run single handed,

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  2. this is my 14 year old bitch she was a natural from the word go seemed to know what I wanted and almost trained her self, she has a big lump and is losing condition so time is short on a brighter note her great granddaughter who is also chocolate and tan is coming ready to start this season she would not touch a dummy yet retrieves dead cold game like she has been doing it years any one else had one like that.

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  3. I normally only look at the running dog section but have seen this, when I was 9/10 years old I got my first running dog and for the next thirty years I poached mostly with dogs but I used ferrets nets etc day and night I have been a bird catcher and taken game birds a night I must of been a pain at times but mostly I don't believe anyone knew I had been I had a great time and don't regret a one moment, I have and am on the other sid of the fence now I worked on a partridge shoot part time where I was releasing  10,000 partridges a year and running my beaters for 22 days a season, on my own, right in the middle of prime coursing country, I court lads went to them  explained the situation asked them to leave and they all ways did no greif, most lads just want some sport, and are not gangs of cutthroats lol just need to talk to them I remember being on permission with a chap and the next door keeper came to us mob handed and one of his hangers on kept saying ive got the car no over and over while we were trying to tell the keeper we had permission, that situation could of escalated very quick especialy when I told the keeper if that bloke don't shut up I will shove that bat up his arse lol, he shut up,  they came with totally the wrong approach.

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  4. the gene pool of cockers is small, and breeders don't improve this when they breed from popular trialling champs just to sell pups, when I breed I look for first of all a good picking up dog that puts in a full season, then his pedigree needs to have as few matches as possible, with my bitch, I don't look to see if a dog in that ped has an ancestor that was not a cocker, my  goal is to breed good working sound dogs, witch is what we all should do when we breed. we should be able to trust each other to put the breed first, but we cant, atb two crows.

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  5. 28 minutes ago, jiggy said:

    I heard the greyhound men talking about Ai and they said it works and  they will test the bitch and know the perfect day of the cycle to do it. Most of them go the natural route because of extra cost for storage etc when trying to run it as a business and some claimed that there was less pups in the litters when Ai was used. Is there a kennel club limit on the sires age?

    don't think there is only on bitches, the dogs sister is the bitch pups grand mother, I used a dog from different lines over her and then another over her doughter to get the young bitch both dogs had very little pedigree wise in common with the bitches and both very good dogs, to cross my dog's blood back in would be perfect but the bitch has to prove worthy first and there may not be time that's the thought behind a/I otherwise natural all the way.

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  6. the stop whistle is a wonerfull thing but the best dogs are always on the verge of going wrong lol. I know a shoot host who all ways flags up in front of some drives and if his dog starts to run in he pretends to send it, one of my cockers ran forward one day for a bird 200 yards ish no amount of whistle would stop it, my mate came on our private channel and said what a great retrieve on that runner it was I said it would of been if I f***ing  sent it lol, keep controle and don't get exited, enjoy.

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  7. On ‎01‎/‎10‎/‎2018 at 19:04, Mochastorm said:

    As I understand it, and this may well be incorrect.  Before there were distinct breeds they had hunting/flushing/retrieving spaniel like dogs.  They were used to ‘spring’ game (flush).  The smaller ones were favoured to get into tight places and shift Woodcock and they were called ‘cockers.’  From this they started to breed from the two types thus developing two distinct breeds. This is only what I’ve been told and I have no historical, documentary or scientific evidence to prove this.  So it’s only what I’ve heard from a mate which makes it a more reliable source than Wikipedia.

    as far as I know that is correct, so how can the dna of one be different from the other unless one or both were outcrossed to something else.

  8. heres some pic's of mine they be starting work on the 14th and go twice a week till the end my red dog is ten now and works like a dog half his age he is straight off openshaws druid and if I could find a bitch for him I would love a dog pup like him I haven't seen a better dog I have a bitch pup of my own breeding who is perfect for him on paper if she makes the grade but he will be to old by then I may look into a/I dose anyone know anything about that atb two crows

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  9. 7 hours ago, steve66 said:

    Omega and tales of a rat hunter where two good reads and the great game is worth alook 

    dave harcombe gave me a signed copy  of the great game for something I wrote in the earth dog running dog, it is a decent read but written by someone that spent a lifetime doing the job, not ten minuets.

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  10. I have access to a couple of old lakes in a wood, across the road is a disused Methodist chapel and its said the vicar used to fish for eels in there, some years later a mate of the owner was fishing late at night almost dark and an old bloke startled him and asked if he had any eels, he said yes and reached for the keep net, when he turned round the man had gone, I was fishing there one night a couple of years back on about my 10th last cast lol, and someone walked behind my truck and never came past I went to look and saw no one it was after that my mate said did you see the vicar, and told me the other story, the chapel has been empty for fifty years.

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  11. On ‎24‎/‎09‎/‎2018 at 19:16, Loton Moocher said:

    first x beddy/greys are so true to type all pups usually level out 21/25 ats nearly always born black most with white flash chests a lot of grey comes out in quite a few after a year and all this reguardless of what colour greyhound or beddy that is used ?

    the first cross saluki grey's I bred was off a saluki dog and very level 25  27, interestingly you never get a black and tan first cross or a feathered one don't know why.

  12. 4 hours ago, tomburras said:

    The buggers drive me mad that's so right! I do that too. I found often there's no second run tho after the a couple of hours of darkness?  I get twitchy runs mainly drop backs and then I Spend a lot of my time outide the bivvy waiting for the second run through the later hours of the night. The first couple of hours of darkness seem to get a better hook up's for some reason?! I'd love to know why! Very interesting to fish for and the mystery of them is half the fun. The stonfo discorger has been a godsend with easy hook removal with line cutting been only occasional since getting one.

    I think when they stop they turn it round and swallow head first, hence hook out the mouth use a baiting needle to thread from the tail end, and burst swim bladder I cant remember missing one.

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  13. 2 hours ago, Black neck said:

    So what are then crows saluki saturated 

    its not a question of what is better, but dogs with several doses of greyhound are seldom top draw, because greyhounds  as a pure breed posses to many weaknesses, bad feet, no wind, poor recovery, to much speed, nothing between the ears, would you really  risk breading one or more of those into some pups, I would not, and as for sal crosses f1 hybrids don't stay as well as line bred dogs and that is not because they have to much saluki in is it.

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  14. if you have a quality bitch in any form of lurcher work, and you want to breed, find a quality stud and good luck, but don't breed for breeding's sake, I am so glad I am not a green youngster starting out, and picking through the mine field of ill thought out litters, their are good litters about in any cross, its finding them that's the challenge, and some folk cant seem to grasp that more speed is not the answer, greyhound saturated dogs are seldom top class.

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