Holding Or Not ?

[Squirrel_Basher 17,102]

Because they are poles apart mate like cat and dog .

[Squirrel_Basher 17,102]

Because they are poles apart mate like cat and dog .

[sam 72]

Anything is possible

[Dabhand 887]

Are second litters possible?

Ive never seen dog and vixen tied during the summer months and the amount of time it take for a vixen to rear cubs I wouldn't think there would be enough time bitches and pups are different the pups are from the bitch at 6 7 0r 8 weeks

cubs are with a vixen a lot lot longer

 

just my opinion I could be wrong

[neil cooney 10,416]

 

Right, nice to see. It's not too often you'll see foxes enlarging an earth at this time of year as they're usually lying in the corn etc. and that digging is fresh.

What size was the cub ?

A second litter perhaps ?

Have second litters ever been proven mate ,personally i dont think it happens .

 

Good question and I'm not sure of the answer but plenty of times I've seen new cubs after a previous litter has moved on.

I killed a cub last week that was definitely out of a different litter than the cub I killed the previous week in the same field.

Maybe not a second litter but surely another litter from the same family ?

I wouldn't put anything past the foxes ability to swell their numbers and this year they seem to be thriving.

[snizle06 202]

I would say it could be possible if the cubs died or were killed as very young cubs. She could have time to go back in cub if she had the first litter very early and there was a plentiful food supply

[dillydog 8,523]

I'd be in very short supply of digging if I didn't drop in to sandy earth's. Most of the digging close to home is sand but you've got to go down through gravel to get to the bands of sand.

Second litters ? IMO I couldn't see it happening, it takes to long to rear the first litter.

Edited August 4, 2015 by dillydog

[MIK 4,763]

Have to agree with above most of my digging has similar kick out as where I stay is geographicaly a big sand dune and the tubes are found under harder stuff in seems of sand

[neil cooney 10,416]

There's sand and then there's running sand which I dread.

[dillydog 8,523]

I know what you mean Neil and I wouldn't use my terriers if I didn't know they were diggable.

Even the sand around here can be almost to the point of turning to sandstone, and most of it will be under real bad gravel.

[Zilverhaze 1,627]

For me it's dig in sand earths what haven't been dug before or don't dig

[Zilverhaze 1,627]

That's funny you say that dillydog a lot of the time my diggings quiet easy in the sand thank god but as I get to the last .5 Thers usually stone mixed in like the stuff in the bottom of a fish tank some times it's real hard to get threw it and when you have cleared out the dig you can see the layer and quarry always seems to be just underneath it in the fluffy stuff

[fireman 11,422]

That's funny you say that dillydog a lot of the time my diggings quiet easy in the sand thank god but as I get to the last .5 Thers usually stone mixed in like the stuff in the bottom of a fish tank some times it's real hard to get threw it and when you have cleared out the dig you can see the layer and quarry always seems to be just underneath it in the fluffy stuff

Same as it with most of the digging i do,soil then sand then gravel and back to sand where the quarry will be 99% of the time,but geographicaly that's how most of the digging is in East Anglia seeing as it's all land grabbed back from the sea. ,got to love that big orange pile of sand to show you where thngs are though

[Accip74 7,112]

 

That's funny you say that dillydog a lot of the time my diggings quiet easy in the sand thank god but as I get to the last .5 Thers usually stone mixed in like the stuff in the bottom of a fish tank some times it's real hard to get threw it and when you have cleared out the dig you can see the layer and quarry always seems to be just underneath it in the fluffy stuff

 

Same as it with most of the digging i do,soil then sand then gravel and back to sand where the quarry will be 99% of the time,but geographicaly that's how most of the digging is in East Anglia seeing as it's all land grabbed back from the sea. ,got to love that big orange pile of sand to show you where thngs are though

Used to do quite a bit in the Woodbridge area years ago, all sand, & some nasty deep ones too.......but more local to me was often sticky clay......

[fireman 11,422]

I do a bit close to there on a couple of shooting estates Accip and they can go deep for sure and all are sandy ,you maybe have been towards Essex direction for the clay then? and that stuff can be hard fecking work at the best of times eh