You can rat all year mate if ya can get it pheasant shoots normally end of shooting season and some times when all the poults have been released from pens
Off to a pheasant shoot for a day's ratting tomorrow terriers and smoker at the ready should be some action black stuff and white well looking forward to it
Yeah between me and be mates we ave 4 I trained 2 of those and have just got a new bitch pup can honestly say they are great bushers but in my experience you can't just get a pup and let it loose with terriers to learn or you are gonna have huge problems with control and speed of hunt
Jcm if you want a springer to Bush independently of you the 2 things I would train in are stop on whistle and return on whistle both as important as the other needless to say but I think you might get saw lips blowing the stop lol as bin said once a springer gets its head down feck they can be hard to stop especially if allowed to chase once quarry has bin flushed it is possible to get the dog to flush then stand I've found this easiest to do believe it or not by taking the dog lamping along side a lurcher slip the runner and when the springer wants to chase strongly discourage it atb
No mate not to late best to start after a good long walk once the pup has had some steam blown off it use your steadiest ferret put a little watered down milk or goats milk in a dish.and let em drink together if the pup shows to much interest in the ferret a good stern no should do the trick it also helps if the pup can see your ferrets in cage or mews all the time atb
In what way?Work wise, etc? I ask, cos I like the look of them dogs + the type I'm considering myself.Ta
every hancock dog I've worked with or seen worked have been capable in my opinion for what it's worth 3/4 cross is alot quicker than 5/8 3/8
Thing is with them is you have to put the time in whistle training once this is done you can keep em as close or as far from you as you want I just bin gifted a bitch pup the sire won't go more than 30 / 40 yards away unless sent out coz that's how he has bin trained like with all dogs they only do what's trains in or instinct better nose than any terrier
There is a farmer near me who will shoot ya dog at ya feet no fecking he found some travelers on his land looking for their dog he told em stay there I'll find it and came back with their dead lurcher and chucked it in the back of their truck and told em to feck off this farmer has NO live stock he's arable 2 weeks later his barn gets burnt to the floor still aint stopped him shooting dogs mostly coursing dogs
She wasn't joking.
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feck me there hundreds of these trees 20 ft from my house
We do the marsh on quads some times more end off season when they are getting lamp shy this dog will sit on the quad looking down the beam leap off while moving at around 30 course the rabbit catch it if poss and return and jump back on quad with his catch amazing to watch took a hole season to train him to do it