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  1. morton
    Id not breed from the Greyhound in the first instance,thats when the lottery begins and its not worth the effort unless yo are in for the bigger picture and are willing to take a step back and are breeding for future progress.Seriously source yourself a decent pup,they are about if you sift through the dross,in that way you will have a better lurcher and won,t need to enter the minefield of breeding and putting up with nuggets.
  2. morton
    Apologies for spoiling your thread mucker,the best advice i can offer is to source what you wish and on the day the bitch is ready to receive the stud-shoot it.
  3. morton
    The thing with lurchers is the fact that an assortment of mongrel bred honesty of varying description and breeding is responsible for the production of centuries of honest hunting companions that suit a diversity of hunting options and individuals.Another fact is the matter that for centuries all of these hunting jukels where bred with a little consideration for what the progeny would be capable of achieving in the field and trial and error was the main reason error was taken out of the equation.Now error encourages the ego,s that pollute lurchers,now error makes dosh and error is the main rea
  4. morton
    you won,t get a 3/16th from a 1/4 or 3/8th bred to a grey,you will get a lottery and as we all know very few folk win owt worth winning on a lottery.Id not take a chance on a 3/16th bred mutt but thats just my outlook on lottery breeding.Id rather put my dosh on better odds and as soon as you take pot luck in breeding then its fecking wrong on to many levels,well to me anyhows.
  5. morton
    Or you are honest!
  6. morton
    You don,t have a clue what you are doing so id not breed another litter of dross,anybody that offers you a line is as irresponsible as yourself.Why would anybody want to put a 1/4 or 3/8th bred bull/grey to a grey?.
  7. morton
    The more they catch the more adept they become,the mutt is learning its trade and it will make its own mistakes as it progresses,id not be to bothered about the odd spilt catch and release,it will soon adapt and learn as it catches another,then another.Ive gone down the ratting route and its a quick and effective easy fix,it certainly works,it all depends on the bruising you wish to see in a retrieved bunny.
  8. morton
    It won,t last long.
  9. morton
    Im always picking up the odd hunting book,auctions,car boots and house clearances etc.,the majority of them i can usually shift easily enough,ive a Frain book collecting dust on a shelf thats been looking for an owner for years,even the nuggets won,t buy or be gifted his scribblings,its easier to shift Glovers destruction of credibility than Frains.
  10. morton
    Another waffling gobshite from Keighley
  11. morton
    30 odd years ago i kept company with some useful lurcher owners with useful mutts and managed to pick up the odd pup bred from dogs that where better than my own in the field and i was grateful for them.As the years have passed and the lads have found other interests in life,mainly earning a wage,its become far more difficult to easily source proper lurchers, today,s standards are generally far,far,less exacting than they where in the not to distant past and dross that was readily found out a few years ago,mutts then made their name in the field,are bred from now because of the reputation they
  12. morton
    Get somebody to walk the mutts for you mucker,not always possible or practical at times but if you can get the mutts walked the odd day or 3 and throw them on a treadmill in between then id go that route.
  13. morton
    Some of the finest lurchers i owned never made 6 years of age.In an ideal world id put a litter through a bitch when she,s 5 years old,far younger for a bitch thats been forced into early retirement and a pup is needed to replace her.It boils my piss that folk would rather breed from what they own rather than source a better pup from elsewhere,many a fool cannot see beyond their kennel blindness and live with the romance that their ego,ignorance and greed bestows upon them.Its naive to believe that the younger generation are responsible for the lurcher production line,they may have a lot of ca
  14. morton
    No
  15. morton
    A fox will utilise every part of a pile and will be found at different levels at different times,its impossible to know how a pile works until you put a terrier in.The majority of the piles we work now have often a very rich history of terriermen that have visited them over many a decade and many of us learned the workings of certain locations from some of our learned elders.At other times we will have no clue as to how a terrier entered will do and then its a case of trial and error.Some workings id not enter a terrier to now because they are just known death traps.In the end it boils down to
  16. morton
    The lad you talked to must have had terrible smelling breath.Lurcher marks,all the terriers mark.Its easy enough to get carried away at times,especially when facts become mixed up with reality,the reality of rocks is that a rock pile that extends over a vast area is different to a rock pile that does not.We owned 2 terriers that worked rocks for years,a Beddy bitch and a red Fell bitch,never got stuck and worked major rock piles all over Yorkshire,never had a collar on either as ill not have one on a dog in rocks,a dog bred from the Beddy bitch was worked in the same rocks as his mother and go
  17. morton
    Id rather work rock than sandy spots,i know of a moor above Littleborough where hounds have been lost in mine shafts.The majority of rock piles have working terrier history,folk that worked them before you often have the best advice on where to enter and when to give grace.Rock working terriers are now as scarce as the owner capable of working them,thats a fecking shame and an embarrasment to some of the breeds that own their ancestry to rock.
  18. morton
    Some of the Bradford and Lancashire lads will remember the rock piles between Denholme and Cullingworth,the Grippon quarry.That place was worked for many a decade by many a terrierman,the different rock holding spots in that location where named after the times the terriers where stuck in them,2 day hold,10 day hold,5 day hold etc.Many a terrier was lost in that location and many more earnt their crust doing what they where bred for.Its all covered,apart from a couple of piles,with landfill now,the odd tunnel showing in shallow muck is not evidence of the danger below,few folk visit the site n
  19. morton
    They are as easily marked in rocks as in earths,the terrier just has to work a tad harder,many a modernish terrier cannot navigate the rocks to find its mark.
  20. morton
    I find the same,i can walk from earth to earth and its often difficult to find them occupied,especially when other terrier folk are at them over the season,the rocks have an habit of holding more than earths are allowed to,you pass an opportunity or grasp the occasion.
  21. morton
    The decline in the Lakeland was when they went into digging and show kennels,their working outlook and physical conformation changed from a rock working terrier, than had a century or more of graft behind its evolution, to then fade into a boxy mute show and digging mongrel that had little in comparison to its Lake and Fell roots. The Lakey was bred for rock work in rock country and only the Bedlington was capable of working to the same standard in the area they were bred to work in,perchance.When the Lakeland,because of its superior hunting ethos,its looks and characterr,became popular away f
  22. morton
    The pinnacle of lurcher breeding,it went down hill when folk stopped hunting and pursued their ego,s.
  23. morton
    The way that pup is bred will make for a more than honest hunting companion.The major problem with folk and their charges is some have an habit of putting more in front of the mutt than its breeding is capable of handling.Keep it honest and that lively looking fecker will give you years of satisfaction,i like the mutt and the way its bred.
  24. morton
    When you enter an hunting site rudeness is the least offensive of attributes that i take the average hunter to be,id be pissed off if i met a fellow hunter that was not less than diplomatic in nature.
  25. morton
    You know more than me and i took him at his intention.
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