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    I second what walshie says, and for me personally I really hate leaving any spent cases around. If I were you I'd handle a few different rifles and choose the one that feels best
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    Just realised I've put these in the wrong section, meant to be sunsets/rises Maybe a nice mod could move them for me please?
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    Probably most of the advice will work to some degree (with the odd, hopefully obvious exception!). But IMO pandering too much to a Pup can just be making a rod for your own back. I agree a Dog should be in a kennel, and so long as it's warm and dry it'll be fine. Bad behaviour, whining included, shouldn't be rewarded.
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    Two from yesterday, a few miles and minutes apart.
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    Wonder if anyones tried the 'rampant Rabbit' as a Fox lure? ........ The fishy smell might help too
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    This is my best (only!) pic of a Gos, though I've often watched them when they've approached the pens, and they've always landed outside and sat watching for anything up to half an hour before swooping down on a poult.
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    I can't say what the numbers are locally to you, but nationally Greys are increasing and spreading. Late Summer/early Autumn is actually the time when Greys (and many other animals and Birds) find food supplies at there most abundant and have to work less hard for it. Being largely omnivorous, Greys will exploit just about any available food source.just before and during harvest time they're usually travelling to fields of grain, maize etc hence more are seen crossing roads at this time. Then there's the years young spreading out as they become independant. This is when most pet control
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    Goshawks are worse than Buzzards and Spars together when they find a release pen (which is usually about 10 mins after the Birds have gone in!)
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    You'd be a while trying to strangle that though................. Never seen a Goshawk...glad we dont have them here, one less b*****d hook beak to worry about. I wonder if they'd eat Buzzards ? They'd have plenty to eat anyway if they did!!!............ I still have some birds on the rearing field and was catching some up last week and one got out. Went for a walk a few hours later and the dog found it dead under a tree. Buzzard had it and there 14 weeks old.............Obviously it was swooping down for a mouse and collided with the pheasant and decide to eat it out of sympathy!!!.
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    You'd be a while trying to strangle that though................. Never seen a Goshawk...glad we dont have them here, one less b*****d hook beak to worry about. I wonder if they'd eat Buzzards ?
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    Some of the falconry lads might be able to answer that best, but I'm it's definitely not just younger birds learning, and I think Sparrowhawks feet are designed more for catching and holding rather than puncturing and killing, therefore as soon as bigger prey is immobilised they start to eat it. Also why waste energy killing when it can eat it alive? And time spent on the ground with prey they can't lift, is time when they're most vulnerable to other predators? I've always just wondered why they do that and probably another reason i'm not to keen on them. Have they got any predators really?
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    Some of the falconry lads might be able to answer that best, but I'm it's definitely not just younger birds learning, and I think Sparrowhawks feet are designed more for catching and holding rather than puncturing and killing, therefore as soon as bigger prey is immobilised they start to eat it. Also why waste energy killing when it can eat it alive? And time spent on the ground with prey they can't lift, is time when they're most vulnerable to other predators? I've always just wondered why they do that and probably another reason i'm not to keen on them. Have they got any predators really?
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    Some of the falconry lads might be able to answer that best, but I'm it's definitely not just younger birds learning, and I think Sparrowhawks feet are designed more for catching and holding rather than puncturing and killing, therefore as soon as bigger prey is immobilised they start to eat it. Also why waste energy killing when it can eat it alive? And time spent on the ground with prey they can't lift, is time when they're most vulnerable to other predators? I've always just wondered why they do that and probably another reason i'm not to keen on them. Have they got any predators really?
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    As dogs n natives said, it's probably to try up the price. It'd be interesting to see the faces of some of the breeders if you asked to see the 'eu' passport as proof
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    Some of the falconry lads might be able to answer that best, but I'm it's definitely not just younger birds learning, and I think Sparrowhawks feet are designed more for catching and holding rather than puncturing and killing, therefore as soon as bigger prey is immobilised they start to eat it. Also why waste energy killing when it can eat it alive? And time spent on the ground with prey they can't lift, is time when they're most vulnerable to other predators?
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    that's not the point of the thread, I'm not arsed what I call it to be honest because to me it's a stinker! the point of the thread was that I've always done what lots of other people have done on here and dismissed them as bog standard ferrets. Every other ferret I've ever had has either been a normal polecat coloured ferret or an albino and bar one or two minor personality differences they've all had exactly the same traits and have acted and looked exactly the same. This is a very dark coloured one that acts completely differently. I'm sure 99% of the people on here (myself included
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    Genentially identical... yes.... so are dogs and wolves, but your not going to breed your purpose-bred working dog with a wolf, and hope to improve anything. Its no easy business perfecting a working animal, its an ongoing process just to keep standards decent, why loose it all in an instant??? These are things I found out through trial and error, not off the net lol I made the mistakes myself. As for most lines having pure wild polecat in them, even as close as a few gens back.... not true, not even slightly, Id say the vast majority of lines are tons of generations away from any pure wil
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    Sounds about right, mind mine never bit me... Saying all that, Ive a mate who has some of the darkest ferrets Ive ever seen, but they are not wild crosses, not even close, just super dark ferrets, and they work and act just like any other domestic working bred ferret. I feel a fair ammount of these are being sold as wild polecats, even though you are buying a genuine domestic ferret, that would behave and work great... for some reason the dark ones are attracting folk like flies round shit? and if a 'breeder' throws in the words 'wild polecat' he can add an extra few ££ This is the h
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    Genentially identical... yes.... so are dogs and wolves, but your not going to breed your purpose-bred working dog with a wolf, and hope to improve anything. Its no easy business perfecting a working animal, its an ongoing process just to keep standards decent, why loose it all in an instant??? These are things I found out through trial and error, not off the net lol I made the mistakes myself. As for most lines having pure wild polecat in them, even as close as a few gens back.... not true, not even slightly, Id say the vast majority of lines are tons of generations away from any pure wil
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    that's not the point of the thread, I'm not arsed what I call it to be honest because to me it's a stinker! the point of the thread was that I've always done what lots of other people have done on here and dismissed them as bog standard ferrets. Every other ferret I've ever had has either been a normal polecat coloured ferret or an albino and bar one or two minor personality differences they've all had exactly the same traits and have acted and looked exactly the same. This is a very dark coloured one that acts completely differently. I'm sure 99% of the people on here (myself included
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    Good pics. And Bird feeders = Sparrowhawk heaven!
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    My simple take on this would be that all ferrets are simply domesticated Polecats, and some of the lines will have true wild Polecat in them from not so many generations ago. As with most animals, some domesticated/dark ferrets will show different behavioural trends to most others (and not always the ones with the most 'wild' Polecat blood). I often recieve photos, road casualty 'Polecats', or sometimes just a vague description of an animal, and am asked 'is it a true Polecat?', and often I can say that it definitely isn't, but I can never say that it definitely is. The truth being that Polec
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    I agree with you Wilf. I do a bit of everything, lurchers, terriers, keepering, beating, ferreting, hunting etc etc, there's bits I'm not keen on but I hope I'm reasonably accepting of others chosen persuits. But...... there not many days go by without the coursing lot clashing with shooters, terriermen clashing with shooters, keepers bitching about dogmen, stalkers moaning about the evils of deer coursing. I think everyone should be able to get on but there's too many passionately against other countrymen. I'm the same, and what you say pretty much sums up how I see it, except in ma
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    No name calling or derogatory comments, just my honest opinion - Using any sort of Dog regularly to ground for Rabbits will sooner rather than later result in a dead Dog, most likely from suffocation as you frantically try to dig to it after it's excitedly pushed on into a tight spot or roots. Where rabbits are concerned, stick to Dogs above ground, and Ferrets below
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    I can't say what the numbers are locally to you, but nationally Greys are increasing and spreading. Late Summer/early Autumn is actually the time when Greys (and many other animals and Birds) find food supplies at there most abundant and have to work less hard for it. Being largely omnivorous, Greys will exploit just about any available food source.just before and during harvest time they're usually travelling to fields of grain, maize etc hence more are seen crossing roads at this time. Then there's the years young spreading out as they become independant.
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