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It’s easy to break a dog to chickens and it still hunt feather. However when ratting around release pens and flight ponds my dogs knew not to touch the chicken like pheasants and ducks in that situation but out hunting they did take gamebirds fairly regularly. On some terrain a lurcher will take gamebirds by pegging or on the rise which is no big deal and it isn’t surprising really when you think how many are taken by unsteady gundogs.
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It certainly made me laugh this morning ? Just when you think you’ve heard it all ? ?
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No not yet but I’m used to seeing this sort of thing on Falconry pages. It made a change from seeing posts about how Falconry is natural but other hunting is cruel ? you see that a lot.
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I like to keep my ferrets in big pens rather than hutches. I have the space and they are active in there running the pipes and climbing the mesh. Now I haven’t seen a difference in a ferrets working ability as such in regards to if it’s kept in a big pen or a good sized hutch but I’ve seen a well known Falconer this morning post that ferrets kept in big enclosures kill more rabbits below ground than ferrets kept in a hutch. I think it’s some kind of old wives tale but I could be wrong. Thoughts??????
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Except for the first cross I've seen a lot of pointer lurchers that looked like collie crosses.
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Same here, well the whole set up anyway with kennel block, concreted yard, hawk aviary and horse stable. When I worked a lurcher I was going to the dales 3/4 times a week at £15/£20 a time and a fiver spent most other days in the week to kill rats with them or a bit of lamping more local. Food has never cost much, vet bills have varied from nothing some years to a couple of grand. One year we had to shell out £5000 on a ponies treatment. I spent a few years travelling around Britain following hounds staying at B&Bs most weekends with a few full weeks away and those seasons Hunting cost
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Mine dropped her centre decks early March forcing me to end my season then nothing for over a month when she dropped several feathers in a week. It does seem a few people are experiencing slow moults this year going by the forums and Facebook pages. I don't give it much thought and always expect to be back out flying by the second week in September at the latest even if she isn't fit or all that keen. After researching feeding clover honey I couldn't find any definitive proof that it does anything to quicken the moult, same as the theory about feeding fox to moulting birds. Either way Septembe
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I'll be fishing until mid August when I start hunting again with my hawk. I'll be concentrating mostly on catfish and the British shark species but want to catch thirteen new species to take my overall tally to 120. I'm sure there'll also be a bit of ratting and mooching around to do in the summer months to keep my two GWP's ticking over.
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I never find rabbits sat out in the open like this when I've got the hawk with us.
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When I had a lurcher to work I nearly always took her ratting as well as my GWP day or night. I didn't find it made them more hard mouthed, they seemed to know what quarry bites back and rabbits were still brought back to hand alive.
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I haven't posted for a while but we've been getting out and about. I've had a slow season and maybe should have been doing more but I'm happy to go out and get a kill and feed my hawk up. We've been spending more time than previous seasons in little woods after squirrels but without much success even if the flights are exciting. My hawk caught a big rat yesterday, I thought it might be 20" long so brought it back with me but it wasn't. Still anything over 18" is pretty rare regardless of what people think and the daft super rat stories in the media. Just something a bit different to the usual
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My Lurcher Catching A Muskrat Flushed By My Mink
pointer replied to Minkenry's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
I watched the video a few days ago via Facebook. Lots of people have used lurchers and gundogs to work with hawks that catch and kill at other times. It seems dogs soon learn when they are required to catch and when they need to stand back. Several times I've had my hawk catch the first rat and then the dogs snap up another couple while she's busy on her kill. Dogs seem to just know how to behave around birds of prey and it looks like the same is true if brought up around a trained mink. Keep the videos coming. -
I've been spending far too much of my available hunting time trying to find squirrels which probably isn't the wisest thing to do because I don't have many woods to hunt through and the ones I do don't contain many squirrels. I should be going after rabbits but I can't help but want to hunt squirrels, the flights are fantastic and therefore utterly addictive even if they keep escaping down holes or reach an ivy covered tree. My hawk doesn't understand my new found obsession with bushytails and does catch other stuff like two pheasants yesterday. Our kill count is much lower than it could have
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We've been getting out taking the odd rabbit and pheasant with a few good hunts on squirrels even if most of them escape. Last night we were out with Fourtrak lamping, the hawk had a few long flights but didn't get to bag any rabbits. She did catch a rat and miss another. I really enjoyed it, thanks again FT
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I'd have come out with you but i was nursing a serious hangover lol
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Good luck mate, i look forward to reading about your progress with him.
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He's getting grey around the head but he's still useful at nine years old.
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I've had a few good hunts lately on squirrels but she hasn't managed to catch one. She's also had a few pheasants. The one in the little clip below was found in a boggy area after my hawk had flown after something unseen by me. I thought my dog was hunting a moorhen. I called the dog away and left the hen pheasant which looked a bit wet to live to fly another day. http://s240.photobucket.com/user/sportingdog001/media/Mobile%20Uploads/F8CF6F3E-5E3B-4EA4-8054-48E5CA82D862.mp4.html
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So sorry to hear that mate
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Cheers mate
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My pointer will go through just about any cover if he knows there's something in there so I don't think I'm missing out on too much but obviously a pointer won't be as good as a spaniel and the spaniels are smaller so work cover faster. Although I work heavy cover areas with my dog my mates got a small sprocker bitch which can only be of help and it's daft having it sat at home when we go out. I'd still take my pointer though he's just the job for hunting over the reed filled ponds and will mark a tree sometimes for a squirrel.
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Yep and you shouldn't trust a German lol
