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i see alot of wisdom in your words ditch puppies whine for no reason it's part an parcel of the job. keep the worming and food up, and as much human contact as possible, grab any kids ya can find. culling some of the litter might have helped the bitch with rearing and made finding good hunting homes easier, but most planned litters have new homes waiting{in an ideal world}. least ya half way through mate
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first question why? second question why? third question why? after all that hard work the german hunters put into the breed to get it to the working stage it is now if ya feel the breed is too headstrong or too much dog for you why not just get a lab and be done with it, leave the breeding up to the guys that have the breeds longterm intrest at heart, dumping a load of x pups on the market on a whim breeding is not really responsible, having said that i have seen a few lab/gwp crosses, looked like grissly labs and made rough and ready bird dogs, some pointed some didn't but all loved the wat
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totally agree mate, lamb brisket is the best tucker ya can get, all our dogs live on it or we just kill our dog tucker sheep and feed them that, offal is fine but only in small lots apart from heart which is great. fresh fish is good to keep the coat clean and they really enjoy chewing on them
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how much are the europeon scopes over in the uk, swaroski,kahles zeiss etc. looking for a vary power.
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Please dont read this if you dont want to feel sad
kiwi replied to RatSnatcher's topic in General Talk
had a scare with my own daughter a few months back, same shit. sad to hear the sad news for the whanau, kia kaha!! RIP tane iti -
so wots that work out in metric :11: how many litres to the 100kms. been thinking of ditching the mitsi triton for a 3lt turbo nissan narava 2004 model. or a hilux, the toyota is very good off road but they cost heaps in nz. the farm has a brand new one goes like a cut cat but not the same off road as the old hilux, think the nissan has better road manners.
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is that for petrol or diesel?????????? turbo diesel??????
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bit of a mystery the bull arab, it's history seems to be like ned kelly, heard all sorts of stories. grey /pointer/bull where the breeds mentioned, some i have seen pic's of have english pointer and some have gsp blood, i like the look of he english pointer stuff myself, very easy to spot, and a dog i rekon could handle hunting in nz's bush.
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bit of change eh? mate of mine has got a gwp, good pointer/retreiver but not quite quick enough for much english quarry. do you find them quick enough for what you hunt? don't think have been breed to course game, would be of no use to me having a gwp that bolted after game, they should be steady on all game, as an indicator/pointer. i allow my gwp's to hunt pigs but only once they are steady on birds and deer, easy as i have the land to train them on both. they make great pigdogs, fast strong with a wicked nose.
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have only one dog left out of that litter now, and he's off to a new home soon.they tend to hold more than bail. running a different pack thats made up of a pair of pups and a grey/lab/dane/working dog and a greyx. had to make room as i plan on training and just running my gwps next winter.
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find-bail-hold, have no room for dogs that can't do all three.
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why use a cross? why not a springer or cocker or lab? is the price of his future gundog an issue
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:11: ya did too mate, sorry bro. if it's the scene i think it is i think there is like six dogs bailing that pig, so plenty of time to duck out for a quick shit
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:11: when ya gotta go ya gotta go. using bailing dogs is not as impressive as watching a dog go hard out for the hold, but there is alot more to keeping a bailed pig in one place while the hunter makes his way there, can take up to an hour to get through some bush to a boar sometimes if they pull him up ages away from where they first found him, tracking gear has made the job alot easier. if ya class the boars as tame ya just haven't a clue on how a pack of dogs can contain an animal for that amount of time, the boar is actually stumped and is thinking his next move he knows that if he bolts
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different countries, different hunting, nz is hills, mountains, ice cold rivers and heavy wet rainforest, pine forests,we hunt on foot or horseback in some inhospitable places and carry our pigs out on our backs, wild pork is a valuable food source to most kiwi's. aussie is a land of extremes but alot of hunting is done off the back of a 4x4 ute in flat country, alot of aussies hunt in tropical rain forest as well similar to how we do it in nz. we do it alot harder over here :11: just get hold of an aussie dvd and a kiwi dvd and the difference is easy to see.
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shit stabs that poor bitch needs a few weeks on beef brisket and put back with her pups sure she'll look awesome at a better weight, nice head.
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gee thanks mate, sure jason and brendon deserve a pat on the back for showing how it's done here. i've done a bit in aussie and to be honest it's not really my cup of tea.
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yeah the scott is the leggy version, i am no expert on the bred or lines, i do own a ambull but he's a hybrid johnsonxscott. most of the ambulls we have in aussie and nz are johnson line or type, why the johnson has become so popular is over my head, a working pigdog in my eyes must be able to run and the johnson is just a big oversized pile of muscle that has no place in the nz bush great pets though. the working scott ambull is a handy looking dog, the movie homeward bound sold me on the breed. i think the johnson line was bred to look more like a bulldog where as the scott line has not ch
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yeah i have used a number of boxers on pigs, all bitches though, the bitch i have here has seen enough pigs to know they are great fun to catch, she is worth to much as a breeding bitch to continue as a pigdog to me, i have a mate who paid alot of money for a bitch that was killed in action as well. only biting the sleave is not really a problem as the pigs ears is [bANNED TEXT] a good holding dog will grab hold of anyway. the boxers jaw really is the weak spot but some lines of boxers have bigger muzzles than others, my jade has a hard bite that she has passed on to her pups. the scott line a
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so the boxer was a working bulldog then.
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as far as i knew the modern day boxer was a butchers dog, the white boxer is a legacy of the introduction of the english bulldog "tom". a well bred boxer is far from stupid and lazy. they do have a bloody good nose though, strange for a breed that has an undershot jaw.
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i'd be following the germans and be usings using jagd's and a rifle,they have been hunting wild boar for centuries. with the way hunting is under the spotlite in the uk, hunting boar with large dogs and knives like they do in other parts of the world is only gonna give the anti's boxes of ammo to use against you guys. but in saying that it's blooding good fun. after a few run in's with good boars sooner or later ya dogs are gonna get ripped and i'm sure ya local vet is gonna ask questions. dave wallace's dogs are boxer/lab/grey simoman.
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it's actually the lab that brings more to the type of pigdog we where after in that cross a bit more leg and even temprament is [bANNED TEXT] the boxer added, the pure bred lab has been used for years over here, most hunters do a bit of everything and the old lab always made a rough and ready pigdog in the backblocks of nz.it was a very common cross back in the days before pitbulls and other newer breeds.
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i'm far from an expert but here's my two cents. pure breds first... any dog no matter [bANNED TEXT] the breeding so long as the breed or breeds are suitable physiclly for the work will give a good account of itself on wild pigs if it's trained the right way. to say all purebreds apart from a dogo are only show dogs is a crock of shit, most purebred terriers,gundogs and stockdogs will give it a go if entered the right way and by a hunter that regularly catches pork. the pratice of crossbreeding dogs suitable for pighunting has gone on for centuries but the purebred dog still is out there doing