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i always hold the top strand down or put a coat over the fence if i can for the gundogs to get over if im there in time, i have a little lurcher who has been opened up by wire a few times so i try and avoid it, but it is a hazard of the job, labs right teach it to jump its going too anyway
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Ive had mine since august spent a season on the grouse moor no probs then started shooting and they have holes everywhere now from climbing fences and beating through felled forestry. I like them as there easy to put on and warm but its back to boots im afraid maybe keep a pair for dog walking
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My labradoodle sometimes gets a bit on his legs but for some reason yesterday he was free of snow! The fields had about 4 inches on them the woods less but it was a fecking hard day for not a lot, slept for 12 hours last night and i feel trashed this morning had the dogs out for an hour this morning and i had to keep stopping for a rest. The big lad is fine though but he makes me smile the way he knows im not quite right and waits for me to catch up whilst the younger dogs are racing about. Vaseline works if you smear it on legs but it also marks your carpets if your dogs come indoors like
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just an update a lad from this site is picking it up in a couple of weeks when he is up this way picking some pigeons up
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Cheers Andy i will let you know if she doesnt get a home.
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I dont think so mate, my lot get it more during the summer hunting up rape. I hope i can offer a bit of advice and you wont take offence but i would take your time doing too much with a pup at 9 months spaniels can learn a lot of bad habits early and need to mature a bit and have the basics of obedience well and truly ingrained in their habits other wise they go deaf and end up doing what they want rather than what you want.
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What can i use to get rid of stubborn carbon deposits from the slide of my franchi, ive used 009 and its took a bit off but i dont want to start with wire wool incase i damage the stainless steel? Love the gun but trying to keep it clean is a nightmare -
I am getting soft Darkwood, i will probably end up keeping her, the last time i had her out i almost did shoot her but couldnt bring myself to do it! Sods law my best jill got shot that day by total fluke i was gutted why couldnt it have been the crap worker!!
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my mother in law has a couple of spaniels that bumble about the fields with their nose down, but your pup could pick up a lot if given the oppurtunity to work. After all i have a labradoodle gundog and he does ok
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Dont just use him on a shooting day but get him sorted by training every day. Sit and stay is easy starting in the house at feeding time get him to wait while you put his food down. Get him to sit and stay at the garden gate and at field/park gates. Retrieving, get him to sit and stay while you pick up the retrieve. 3 minutes is all a spaniel needs to pick up bad habits never mind 3 years. But a gentle consistent approach will sort it out.
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No worries mate, she is a bonny little thing
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my dogs suffer with hair loss around the eyes when they are hunting through rape in the summer so it could be the same thing
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i have a small sandy jill coming up 3 years old, that is a useless worker she is tiny and i beleive she wont mix it with the bunnies iv had her from 8 weeks old and have no use for her as i wont be breeding this year. So she has to go as i currently have 4 hobs. i could keep her seperate but whats the point? if someone wants a pet or a breeding ferret she will do, other wise i may have to end her days sad as that is. I know this a hunting site so why advertise a non hunting ferret but i know thst a lot of lads on here think a lot of their animals and might just have a space for her. Im
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a full on breed mate a good one is brilliant a bad one is usually in the next county
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i dont know anyone wildfowling with one mate, but they are certainly capable of the job but i would suspect it would take a bit of training to get them to settle down to long waits As for picking game up they will retrieve everything you want them too.
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Bonny dog mate nice and fit
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Willum the reason janos isnt docked is so that people who bought the pups from his litter could show them if they wanted too as the kennel club wont accept docked dogs now. I havent had any tail problems yet (Touch wood)but then again he isnt like my mates GWP whose tail never stops wagging. Time will tell i suppose
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I like the labs mate it is one of my favourite breeds, we look after a lot of pet labs (Home boarding and day care) unfortunately about % of them are overweight and usually ball obsessive and i know a lot of shooting lads with labs and i have a labradoodle or 3 sitting in front of me as i type ( The vizsla is trying to get on my knee)and a good lab is hard to beat.
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There is a keeper from the Raby estate Swampy who works his mothers smooth vizsla and has a collection of GWPs and GWP x smooth vizslas. The smooth is a lovely dog but she does suffer on the moor with the wet hence the cross. Janos hit the water fairly young at 5 or 6 months old i think with the help of a water mad dog he doesnt love it but equally isnt bothered by it either. Ive done a bit of retrieving from water but i will leave it until the warm weather before i do anymore. He is a rough and ready sort of dog nothing really daunts him. There is a smooth on the syndicate i shoot on she is a
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he struggled with the pheasant Dave but he will be fine i hid the 3 birds in the field and had him working the ground he has a lot of drive and determination
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Rearing pheasant without pens?
stroller replied to stroller's topic in Gamekeeping, Conservation & Shoot Management
ex layers dont tend to hang about my experience of them is they are released and gone! The chap im talking about gets poults at 9 weeks puts them down and feeds well he loses a few but he says they keep together really well. it sounds too good to be true if it worked so well why isnt everyone doing it? he doesnt have a big shoot either -
used a couple of birds from yesterdays shoot to introduce the pup to cold game, The wood cock being a small relatively scentless bird was easy for him and he treat it as a dummy With the much larger pheasant it was a different matter after he barked at it a few times he eventually picked it up Some more pictures just for the hell of it
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I spoke to a lad who doesnt use pens to rear his birds, gets them at a certain age and drops them in the wood with plenty of feed and he says they "Commune" better and that he gets an excellent return. Does anyone have experience of this method as i would be interested to learn more?
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You will be lucky mate your lass wont let it out of her sight spaniel pups are just too cute
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Shes looking Good Dave, i havent had a point yet but it will come as he matures. He is a bloody big dog and too be honest i didnt want a big dog but thats the way he is so i will get over it. They definately arent labs but they are still easy, like you with the dark nights and the shooting season i havent spent a concerted effort on any proper training but i will start asking more of him soon enough. i dont know what yours is like but this bugger bounces on the spot like tigger i often get my eyes washed which at 5.30am walking across muddy fields isnt nice and ive had the game on with him
