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    Bred down from afew generations, used mainly for digging out possums, 10 years old now and still going strong.
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    Parson russell out of the Minehead hunt kennel breeding.
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    He must of got hot digging in that clobber!
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    Svord peasant knife
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    How about this for terrier work filming?
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    Looking at purchasing a decent waterproof action camera for filming the dogs working, close up action to terriers on a dig and on open country hare coursing. Likely to be a gopro, but not sure if that can do both close-up and far away (lack of a zoom). Currently using a cheap fujifilm xps, but the zoom is loud as when watching on film. A bit of image stabilization would be good, what the the dogs moving quick. Also, quick question, can you take a still action shot from a video file? Say the point the lurcher connects to a hare on video? Cheers, G
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    Personally, I'll never castrate a dog again, a bitch, yes, but not a dog...unless its due to health reasons such as cancer. Having a bitch done didn't effect her working abilities, in fact it prolonged it as she wasn't coming into season every 6mths. Had my Russell dog castrated after about 18mths, he was a right b*****d when a bitch was on heat, he'd park his arse outside the bitches kennel and whine all bloody day/night, did my head in. Anyway, after getting his nackers loped off, he started piling on the weight, had to constantly watch what he ate and his prey-drive was reduced, probably du
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    I can see that, hes huge, that's a fair sized noggin hes got, is he fat or just heavily built?
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    That's abit bloody rotten, what a pack of losers, nice looking russells thou. Get after the buggers, get ya dogs back and dish out some justice on them. I'd heard a strong magnet will delete information on a micro-chip, sounds rubbish but possible. Good luck finding them and let us know if you do.
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    You guys mentioned feeding your dog 3-4 hours before heading out for a mornings ferretting, that would mean getting out of bed at 3, 4am in the morning to feed the dog, bugger that. Best give it supper the night before, just my opinion. As for abit of the night time activities, I'd just give the dog its normal evening meal at around 4-5pm and maybe a recovery meal on the return home, depending how hard the night was, but to be honest, my dogs are not that keen on a feed straight after a hunt, prefer a kip then a feed.
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    Just a quickie, how many of you guys feed your dogs before a hunt? I like the dogs to have abit of food in their stomach. Just curious.
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    Bugger, that's bloody sad news, life certainly throws the occasional curve ball. I know its early, but the best thing to do is get back on the horse and soldier on, just moments like this that make you think if its worth it, all the best.
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    One other thing, chicken frames are fecking cheap and heaps of meat on them, dogs love em and I've never had a problem with bones.
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    Bought mine fresh straight from the abattoir's backgate, took me fecking ages to hack up into edible pieces for the dogs, stunk to the high heavens, but man the dogs nearly took me hand off at feeding time, had to count my fingers make sure I hadn't lost any. Now I buy it in kilo bags, minced and in medallion's, a lot easy to handle, easy to defrost the night before and probably easier for the dogs to digest. All my dogs and ferrets did well on it, but I also buy decent dry food to supplement the tripe, the best thing about tripe is the small black dog shits on the lawn, less waste, so the do
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    Watch out if you keep chickens, I started losing OE game chicks, beaks chewed off, so waited one night and found it was two hedgehogs, quite vicious little b*****ds and me Russell gives em a hard time if I'm not quick enough. Nice to see them, but were overrun with them here and abit of a nuisance.
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    You need to think carefully before doing anything, how old are your whippet bitches, if this lurcher pup has the breeding background and turns out your one in a million, all time best dog, you'll kick yourself for getting him fixed. Me and a mate got a line of lurchers going but we did the mistake of getting one male fixed and leaving the other too long to breed from (too old now), so we've gone down the road of having semen frozen from the males, before castrating, in case we lose any on pigs or accidents ect.
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    Do you still have eddie chapmans real jack russell book? How much would you like for it, thanks
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    First off join ozziedoggers website, this will give you access to the sighthound forum, then just go from there, all the best and make sure to do a report with pictures, be interested to see how you get on.
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    If you are thinking of using lurchers on pigs (its done here in NZ and OZ but they call them staghounds) start savings ya dosh for future vet bills unless you take some stitching classes and you can stitch ya dogs back together in the field. Its a tough sport and hard on dogs, but bloody exciting and 100% a dogging sport, but likely to get banned if the spca gets its way.
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    Righty oh then, I've read afew lurcher and terrier books now and quite afew other hunting with dogs books, so heres a list of my favorites, non-instructional and abit of a laugh in places. In no particular order 1.The lurcher in field, fen, forest and scrub by Simon Fairclough Vol1. 2. The world of the lurcher by David hancock 3. To live for the bail by Murray Williams 4.Two dogs and a rifle by Ken Cuthbertson 5. Tell them I've gone pighunting by Terry Ngawhika 6. A passion for pighunting by Clive Mckenney And afew classics like Walshs Lurchers and Longdogs or Salmons Gazehounds and co
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    Pighunters over here feed pork to their dogs, although with my fussy lot, they'll turn their noses up to pork in favour of a nice possum. As the saying goes "Fresh is best". Back home in Stoke I fed dogs fresh tripe from the abattoirs, but man did it stink and you can get split pig heads from the butchers for $1, although that was a while ago. All in all, if the dogs do well on it and you have a regular worming regime, it can't hurt, better, healthier and probably cheaper than shop bought tucker, cheers, G
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    On the subject of lamping what do you guys use in the way of hardware, are you still using the old handheld and battery pack or are any of youse using headlights? Can you personally recommend any brands? Cheers. I'm using a laserlite, sealed gel battery and headlight for walking as well as a led lenser on my rifle scope.
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    Nice looking dog Bobba-fett, the reason I want a GWPxlab is I believe GWP's can be headstrong, so by crossing with a lab will improve biddability and retrieving capabilities. Just my thoughts and bear in mind this will be a second generation cross between two first cross parents, not that this would make much difference...would it?
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    Has anyone on this site owned/worked this type of wirehaired pointer and if so how did you get on. Also, does anyone know much about the VDD working tests for this breed? Cheers
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