mart

a lot of the bulls i´ve seen have a very narrow lower jaw, so narrow that the bottom canines are on the inside of the upper teeth. My own mini bull have a straighter profile than most and a better bite/wider jaw. Do any of you find that a straighter profile gives a better bite/better jaw or is it coincidental?

could you put up a pic of your terrier/hound-mix and maybe tell us a little about him? my 3/4 terrier 1/4 hound stands at about 13 1/2 inches high ,very spannable ,he will hunt all quarry hard and fast with a lot of noise ,he has been to ground half a dozen times so far and has bolted very well,same again with a lot of noise,,he is yet to be dug to ,he also will work rock spots but as yet to find,great member of my team,few pics,, brilliant, thanks for sharing!

could you put up a pic of your terrier/hound-mix and maybe tell us a little about him?

did you remove your pic Wolfy?can´t see any spade.... my spade needs a new paintjob soon, good to see its wearing off though the badger on the spade is the ninth animal dug from that spot.

Hi Wolfy, all the best to you to.

to be honest bud ,my veg patch isnt the biggest ,but it takes a lot of looking after (keeping weeds down ,watering ect) ,and at the moment moment it gives me a lot of pleasure( as a hobby) ,i could in theory extend to 4x the size ,but then that brings other problems ,freezer aint going to be big enough for a start ,then just the work load alone would be so time consuming ,also because of the climate being so unpredictable and having such a short growing season you would be under pressure from the start , i would love to give it a real go ( i would need more land) but its just never going to ha

Do you have a picture of the spears you use?

i´m not talking about whats most efficient and i´m definatly not saying you have to kill everything you hunt. i did live-trapping for one season but i had such a hard time despatching them in the traps that i stopped, but yeah trapping is the most efficient way. the predator-population here is unnaturally large and should be hunted hard, if it was small and fragile i wouldnt hunt them.

on the green isles were you are hardly allowed to hunt foxes with dogs you prefer a dog that stays till dug, even when a fox in many cases can be bolted, you release foxes after a good dig and especially vixens are let run to secure your sport for next season. how do you think this looks to an outsider? what does this do to your image as gamekeepers? i love to shoot a fox in front of hounds, if they go to ground i´ll dig them out and shoot them, but only if they dont bolt. i´m especially glad if its a vixen that is shot or a sow that is dug out since this means fewer predators next year

Good read,made me want to get out tomorrow.

those are good sized badgers waz,wouldnt mind having a bitch like that;-)

Nice!i never find foxes to ground,unless theres a hound or two involved

just finished reading american beagling by old kickapoo, and i´m waiting for beagling by j.i. lloyd, hints on beagling by john pawle and the new beagle by a. and j.musladin. anybody read these or others on the subject? where do you buy books? mart

i´m hooked, got a small set up right now with a few koi-fish. gonna step it up a notch next spring in my greenhouse with trouts. just read sylvia bernsteins book, aquaponic gardening, very good book that seems to hold most of the answers. and about the fish waste, all agriculture is fueled by someones feces

lads, this is the terrierwork section, poodles belongs with the gundogs and retrievers. what did he do anyway?