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    A local butcher will usually take a few gutless ones for£1(like Ditchshxxter says ,same as 30 yrs ago!)£1.50 skinned.If Itake in toomany I have to skin em because his "Boy" gets peed off coz it's his job to undress them and they also have a problem with waste disposal regulations (so they say anyway)with regards to the skins. Similar deal with a farm shop/game dealer.He'll take bunnies on a Sunday and he is only a5minute drive from my mates' ferreting ground .He sells to the public&restaurant trade at £3.50 a rabbit .We get £1.50 skinned but he supplies a room to do it in ,knive
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    Do they show the dogs working? Slike everyone says .Dogs get judged for conformation ;ie they look like they should be good ,fit doggies &physicallyup to the rigours of the hunting field..Everyone else stands about moaning about the judge ,lying or havin a laugh.Poor old judge gets some stick but the fact that the same dogs get placed over again in different shows under different judges tells the real tale ,ie some folk have a knack of choosing a sound pup ,conditioning it and showing it at its' best.Fair play to em. Lots of shows also have lurcher racing ,obedience ,high-jump
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    There are linked physical ,hormonal and mental changes that can affect bitch's behaviour,performance and concentration.Sometimes the first inkling that a bitch may be coming "in"occurs a couple of weeks before the show of blood with subtle changes in behaviour ,even a degree of "naughtyness".A fit bitch would certainly technically be capable of continuing some work but her mental state may not be completely "on the job".Only you know your own bitch. Perhaps the main reason for not working an "in" bitch is social responsability.To take a sexually alluring bitch onto the streets,into the cou
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    Trouble with brindles is that their colouring makes them easy prey for ducklingsThis one came from nowhere and wrestled my bitch to the ground!
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    Here's my dear old girl,Been in the Happy huntin ground a few years now but still missed.
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    Phil Drabble,Ted Walsh;theirs' were the books that helped set me on the road !Met TW at a show back when i was a shy lad.My Mum ,bless her ,had knowing that he was judging ,pinched my copy of lurchers and longdogs from my room .Cunningly engaging him in conversation about her whippet ,in a move worthy of Paul Daniels(who he ?you youngsters ask )she produced the book and had him sign it.Apparently he commented that it was a very early copy and was really pleased that it showed evidence of being read over and over again! . A Gentleman.
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    Hello .If you feel competent and are not too heavy -handed try carefully easing the circuit board out of the box.give the whole thing,including the speaker a gentle dusting .Then get some white-spirit ,meths or mild solvent on a cotton-bud and wipe -over the circuitry.Remember though, that when these devices were designedthe airways were'nt so polluted with signals from mobile phones,e-mail and computer hunting forums!
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    "Best" catches are not always the biggest.On some ground we ,working in team of two or three,with lots of purse-nets a long-net and couple o dogs been known catch 40 to 60 rabbits.On the other hand some of the buries in heavy Sussex clay don't give much away at all.For me the "best" days are when I stick ten of my lightest nets in a pocket , jill into a bag(rigid ,secure,ventilated, well padded and kept only for this ultra-mobile ferreting I will add before someone gives me stick) and dog at heel ....Dog marks,I net up the easy holes(or not),in with the ferret.Quick,no-pressure ,fun ferret
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    Sure someone will put me right but is there not some ambiguous legal wording regarding" smooth-bore .22 rim-fire shotguns" and the 24 inch barrel requirements?
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    Can anyone tell me more about these marks on a 1930,s(I think)Belgian,Leige-marked.410? I think the 12 over "c" mark means 2 1/2 "chambers but does the "cloud" signify smokeless ,or am I on the wrong track completly?.Many thanks.
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    The belief is that the guy(retired civil servant) died after picking it up on his feet from puddles round a swimmin pool where rats had been seen at night. Your Post might literally save someone's life!
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    Incredably WELL SAID! Much as I try to operate a minimal poison policy It's minimal exposure policyfor me when it comes to rats.Traps= exposure( every time I handle,rebait and do dailychecks etc )to real danger and the fact that a trapping campaign tends to continue longer than a poisioning attack extends the risk .ElfnSafety demands minimal exposure to risk not parlour games with bits of bent metal.If I sound a bit "straight",sorry ,but a mate of me Dad died of Weils before Christmas.
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    If you have good,strong, stock with some "special" quality that cannot be bred into your strain from outside sources it might be allowable to mate close relatives.You'd have to be a good old-fashioned stockman though and be prepared to admit to faults and cull your stock ruthlessly ,possibly over the next few years,to make the exercise a positive one.Your bro+sis will be geneticly very similar .Mental and physical health strengths and weaknesses will be the same.In very simple terms any babes they have will get a double dose of any good bits but also a double load of BADbits.Depending on how s
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    It can be mate but there's a hell of a lot of genuine people down here also! According to my mum who is also my granny and my sister's twin brother my family are still owed royalties from that film. Enclosed is a picture of my sister!
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    Probably not quite that simple (,any sort of stress can cause the internal abortion thingy at any time of year)but whatever the cause it helps the survival of prime breeding does in times of adversity and saves them the time and energy involved in rearing unviable litters.Thanks for the kind comments.I'm off to put my anorak back on.
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    Thanks D. I'm not sure that winter young and embryos are that new anyway.I've been ferreting since the early 1970's and recall them .I keep a Game Book(a grand title for a scruffy collection of notes describing my forays with the ferrets and encounters with three inch perch!) and make notes of things like the weather and numbers and size of rabbits caught....I think the thing to remember is that the rabbit as a species,despite being here 900years, has yet to find a balenced enviromental niche in this country and probably never will.It has taken them 50years to recover from the first myxomato
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    Nowt to do with Global Warming .Bunnies breeding condition depends on light stimulation not temperature.Once we get past the longest night (21/22 Dec)the daylight increases.Laying snow can also effect the breeding cycle by effectivly increasing the light levels by reflection on bright clear nights.Round here we expect to see a few scuttlers around the end of Dec/New years day.These've been born about the begining of December ,hence concieved begining of November .In other words the babies you see after Christmas are late litters not early ones.... A s to the embryos found in Winter -caught
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    Lovely old tools ,full of character and history (Maybe not the modern adzes).My own trapping hammer's not so steeped in the sweat of long departed rustic hands.S'just a 50p boot-sale jobby with the claws cut off,a slot cut crossways with an angle- grinder and a wedge shaped blade (cut from an old S+J N.o3 ) welded into the slot.Same spade also provided a strip of steel to make ,with the addition of a big file handle and some sharpening, a crude but sturdy turf- knife for mole -catching.The remains of the spade with its' cut down handle and 3 !/2"wide blade is usefull too.It lives in the van
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    As some ferrets are a bit portly ,especially in Winter condition,and others are slim it obviously pays to experiment with collar width, design and tightness and practice fitting your collars at home making adjustments -extra holes etc before you actually find yourself in the field.Let the ferret wear the collar (without batteries)for a few hours in its hutch to become used to it.I'm pretty sure that the Mk3 "collars" are actually military watch straps.Some people trap a tuft of the ferrets fur in the buckle to help stop the collar slipping round on the neck too much(a sideways collar can a
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    When I started I did'nt know that nets had tohave pegs I was so naive!.Bit like my computer skills nowSomehow managed to post my message twice (heaven knows what I've done to have a banned text ) and no idea how to delete one of the posts.Sorry
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    Thanks to one of my regular mole-job clients having "a word" with her neighbour I was lucky enough to be given rabbiting permission on a new patch last week.Went on it first time with the ferrets yesterday and took 27 rabbits by lunch-time.Owner impressed..."Could I take out her children(boy+girl about 8,10) for an hour or two?",she asked...Took em out this morning on a sloping field next to their garden .With lovely warm woods(ripe for when the pheasant Season is over) nearby these burrows out in the bitter wind were never going to hold much but being only small looked ok for some quick acti
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    Thanks to one of my regular mole-job clients having "a word" with her neighbour I was lucky enough to be given rabbiting permission on a new patch last week.Went on it first time with the ferrets yesterday and took 27 rabbits by lunch-time.Owner impressed,me very pleased [bANNED TEXT] miself..."Could I take out her children(boy+girl about 8,10) for an hour or two?",she asked...Took em out this morning on a sloping field next to their garden .With lovely warm woods(ripe for when the pheasant Season is over) nearby these burrows out in the bitter wind were never going to hold much but being onl
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    The very fact that the market is divided on the Mk3 must be telling Deben something.Dunno if it's tru ebut someone told me the Mk3 was actually designed for finding blocked drains.Maybe that's why it works best if the ferret is absolutely motionless.Dunno if Deben 's MK1 patent is still sewn -up but I'm sure the Chinese could do something very competetive.
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