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There is most likely an element of that mate. A silver fox program in Russia set out to breed calmer ,more easily handleable foxes that would also breed better, being more placid. That's when the pendent ears and collie marking came in. I don't know how it works exactly , but scientists found that the hormone , or whatever it was that causes the fear and nervousness in wild animals diminishes when you selectively breed for calmness. Now apparently this is also used in the assimilation of colour and other genes as well. I believe they also bred short legged foxes. That program was abandoned bec
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Right I'm not an expert, but I can tell you a few things. Put very simply, genes come in pairs,each pair are responsible for something or other, coat, colour, ear , or tail carriage and so on. Every dog or bitch has these pairs. The 2 genes in the pairs can be the same or they can be different. Perhaps the easiest pairs to demonstrate how they work is the sex gene,there are 2 types of sex gene , obviously male and female, the male gene being dominant, it over powers the female gene. So it works like this, each parent can only pass one gene from any given pair, these being passed at random. The
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There is most likely an element of that mate. A silver fox program in Russia set out to breed calmer ,more easily handleable foxes that would also breed better, being more placid. That's when the pendent ears and collie marking came in. I don't know how it works exactly , but scientists found that the hormone , or whatever it was that causes the fear and nervousness in wild animals diminishes when you selectively breed for calmness. Now apparently this is also used in the assimilation of colour and other genes as well. I believe they also bred short legged foxes. That program was abandoned bec
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There is most likely an element of that mate. A silver fox program in Russia set out to breed calmer ,more easily handleable foxes that would also breed better, being more placid. That's when the pendent ears and collie marking came in. I don't know how it works exactly , but scientists found that the hormone , or whatever it was that causes the fear and nervousness in wild animals diminishes when you selectively breed for calmness. Now apparently this is also used in the assimilation of colour and other genes as well. I believe they also bred short legged foxes. That program was abandoned bec
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And I love someone stuck in the past. Things change, knowledge improves. Or do you still feed milk and slops and snap teeth? Good answer droid, Well there has been a few posts about folk like tj claiming to have owned greyhound ferret bas no one has yet managed to put up a picture or give any real hard proof they did/do excistso if any person can prove it then please share it with the world because as i see it, it is only a myth and old codjers like tj thinking back to there youth and since that was alsong time ago his memory might be playing tricks. Nothing wrong wi
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I've trained plenty of lurchers, springers and a gsp, and I've had plenty of good terriers, but never tried to train one like a gun dog, but I don't doubt it could be done. I've just never seen one that's all. Plus it would take better than the average dog owner to do it .
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thats because you havent seen mine Stick a vid up then ,lets see it. wish i had a video of it but the dogs long dead , theres a lot of people to back up what ive said about the dog though. Would it stop to the whistle and drop to flush mate.
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thats because you havent seen mine Stick a vid up then ,lets see it.
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I've been in this game for 50yrs and I've yet to see any terrier stop to the whistle or drop to flush, something fairly easy to achieve with a spaniel.
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Spaniels every time , controllable, excellent in cover and don't spend half the day with their heads stuck down a rabbit hole. It's a no brainer.
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They are definitely a type and breed true, I bred them for a long time, about 30yrs ago. They were very stoat like in size and build. They were not runts and were very good workers on rat and rabbit. The original stock came from Abbot brothers in Norfolk and were albino, I introduced the polecat colour myself. I would still have them today except for the fact that one night I had all forty! animals stolen , which the police at the time thought highly amusing.
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I always handle daily from 3-4 weeks, get really tame then.
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I used to breed both white and polecat greyhounds .
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Hial Hitler.
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I generally find that it's the quiet, low profile one's that just get on with it, that are the most knowledgeable.
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Another one.
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Martin Simpson, Listen this.
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I just call mine dark polecats, simply no such thing as a black self ferret. Mind you ,you can get some very dark ones.
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With Harris hawks ,it's more like 10 days when the rings go on mate. If they're loose just leave another day or so. Have a look at the biggest one at about 8 days, then work from there.
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Really, a dog should catch first time out on the lamp, it's not about how good the dog is, it's about how good the dog man is.It's down to you to make sure the dog is ready, mature enough and conditions are spot on, and be very choosy about which slip you go for. The most important thing in making a good dog is early confidence. If you don,t catch first time out, the dog's not failed , you have!
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Ferret kits vary in size any way, so don't worry about the size. The eye thing could just be fluid, if so it will escape when the eyes start to open. Anyway the thing to do is put it back and let nature take its course , it may well be fine, just stop messing.
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In captivity you get white, pied, cinnamon, and I think blue.
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I can still remember the first time I went ferreting with my own ferret, I was 8 and only had one net that I'd found. Every time one bolted I moved the net to that hole thinking that's where the next one would come from, only to find the next one would bolt from where I'd just lifted the net. I ran round in circles, but eventually got lucky and went home the proudest kid in the village. That was nearly 51 yrs ago, I've kept ferrets ever since and believe it or not I loved the smell of that first ferret and still get a strange pleasure from the smell even today.
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Also, don't forget, poaching is not a lawful activity, If caught with a knife for gutting, it won't be accepted as a valid reason.
