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Everything posted by morton
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You bite like a bitch on crack,put the skid away mucker.
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Good shout,youv,e got me there.
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Why don,t you two just meet up,have a kiss and cuddle,share the knowledge you have betwixt both of you,write it on the back of a stamp and send each other a late valentine.
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I feel sorry for her kid being born in that environment,let her come home and then there will be another fecking fish sniffer sponging off the dole.The next time she rings home,off her isis funded mobile,send the drones in and do the world a fecking favour.
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Finding a home for shot game
morton replied to Jarvis's topic in Gamekeeping, Conservation & Shoot Management
Don,t make use of it then don,t fecking shoot it. -
Hilda Ogden has more savvy than most of the feckwits that have more ego than hunting nous.
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Totally agree,the inmates took over the asylum years ago.
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Why?,the vast majority of stud dogs are of the same ilk.
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Wash your mouth out with soap,its bad enough walking about with a bedlington and suffering fools and ridicule,i could,nt cope with being a Whippet owner as well.
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Back in my halcyon days i bred them to level out at about 25" bitches and dogs a tad taller,i did far more bunny bashing then and it was basically edible fur and feather,at that time i put far,far more into the dogs and my time in the field.As the bunny faze held far less importance to me and the years went by i found that the extra inch or 4, at times,possibly made up for the little less i gradually put into my charges,id not breed them smaller now as i find the extra height and strength serves me better at this time in my lifes hunting cycle,it was a tad small back then.
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Ive been out with a couple of Teckles a few years ago,i was impressed enough with their work rate and nose,the thing that put me off them was their inability to cover ground and obstacles at a speed that kept them up to the chase,especially over walls and fences that other terriers took in their stride.
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The best lurcher of this breeding ive ever owned was a 25" bitch,caught more with her than ive ever done with anything ive owned since.When i stopped hunting rabbits as my main source of interest i stepped up the height with my lurchers and now prefer a Bitch at 27" and dogs a tad higher,when percentages come into the equation the extra height and weight certainly assists at times.
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Do your homework and source a lurcher to lurcher bred ferreting type lurcher that as the ability to step up a level if needed.The mutt will be in your family for a decade or more so don,t rush into an hasty mistake.You want a rabbit dog and that type will give you and your family more sport and enjoyment than many others.Source something thats a bit of an Heinz bred lurcherwith a few generations of hunting and sociability behind it,id steer well clear of bull and saluki infused lurchers and would,nt want much more than a tad of whippet in the mix.Again do your homework and the chances are tha
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obviously i keep Bedlingtons.
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You read and either fail to understand ,or wish not to.You read a few posts and get them all mixed up and out of context,i never stated that dog killed his fox,you did.That dog is closely related to the father to most of mine,which i still own,as mine are,nt worth breeding from why would a dog heavily related to them be any different?.
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I know a Beddy dog thats been dug to over 60 times,an out and out baying terrier that rarely gets bit,id use that dog before an awful lot of others on the right bitch.That dog suits the location it works in,around here they need to bay and bolt,or make contact and finish a reluctant fox.Again certain spots you throw a terrier in its impossible to dig.The Bedlington was bred to work in undiggable places,what would be the point in breeding one type of working terrier?.Its always been the case that some want a digging dog,some a bolter and many a bit of both or two of each.
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If you know your terriers,over a few seasons you usually have a good understanding of how they graft,i know mine bolt fox and also kill fox,over a few seasons they earn your trust.With certain terriers you know if they have made contact and the fox did not bolt then its dead.It certainly happens that some prefer to believe something that portrays the mutt more favourably than they should.If you start to doubt the terrier you start to doubt yourself.
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Ill warrant that most of the terrierfok you have met will all do things in their own fashion,to suit their hunting lifestyle and in a manner that their charges allow them.All folk are different and the terriers the same.Id not put a specialised and bred digging terrier in rocks that cannot be easily accessed,suicide.Rock working terriers were once the norm and i firmly believe are as scarce as hens teeth now.It takes a certain type of terrier to adapt to rocks and do the same over seasons,it takes a certain type of terrier that will stay and graft whilst the shovels at work,some terriers will
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Not at all,they are a good size for fox work,it was more of a chain of events that you would not encounter in many a year that befell him in a short space of time.The mother and grandmother to these terriers never had a problem in over 10 seasons in rocks,between them,then the father to the pups got stuck twice in a season and his main dog then needed a digger to rescue him,that finished him with the places we,d worked for years,he,d just had his lurcher killed whilst in pursuit and it was the final straw with that type of terrier work,if he,d have lost that terrier i believe he,d have packed
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Thats the one that died,had it a week,took it for its usual walk and the pups were bouncing about and full of mischief,fed them and bedded them down,in the morning mine was dead.never showed any sign of ill health,full of life and strong,a total mystery.The lad who lost one to his terrier got another,that bitch is doing more than its sisters to date.My lad spends a few days on the Fells with the same crowd,part of the reason he took one of the pups on,he,s hoping to put his big Deerhoundy over the Wheaten,if the bitch fulfils its breeding.
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One of the terriers is possibly the most useful,for its age,that ive had the very good fortune to own,the other is a poor busher and would be better worked off a leash.My lads Wheaten lurcher hunts and marks with an older dogs aptitude,she,s lacks a yard of pace for what id like and was a tad slow at entering at the start of the season,she is far more committed now and is becoming a valued part of his team.
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I took a lurcher off him,the terriers are about 14 months now.
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The first stage of stock control is leashing a dog and walking it amongst stock,in no time at all,with nothing more than a raised voice and a gentle yank on the leash,the mutt will have learnt the first step in stock control.An awful lot of folk believe that they now own a stock controlled dog.The next step is to have the dog free amongst the sheep and being able to control the dog at all times.A flock of sheep gently milling about is no test of a dogs control,only when sheep/lambs are running past and away from the dog will you know how well stock broken the dog is and its then time to throw
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A small pack local to me thrash about as keen as any other busher,early starters and more than useful.As with any mutt the way they are educated and entered is an indication of their working value.
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I own 2 of its sisters that have thrown more to the Beddy.One of them is going to be a useful addition to the team and will most likely end up with my lad as it will be better tested on fox.Ive not seen the Black and tan since it was 6 weeks old,at some time this season ill be out with it,nice to compare siblings educated in different kennels.
