Just a word of warning regarding lending out snipped hobs, a good few years ago my hunting mate brought in a Jill from supposedly good working lines off a well thought of person, on picking it up he was told it had been left in season last season and was in season at the time, so he put his snipped hob in with it. The following season the same hob went over all his Jill's all of mine and various other Jill's, when the time came to breed some kits to keep a line he has had for 30+ years we lined 4 Jill's to 3 different hobs, all of which had produced kits previously, no kits were born that spri