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    I had hoped to use him over my bitch last year but unfortunatley for personal reasons he had to cancel the arrangement.
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    Problem where I am is it's a heavily woodlanded area, there are footpaths through fields but all small livestock fields where I can't let them have free roam, the farms here and all small and overlook their land so for the sake of not upsetting farmers and having dogs shot we walk in the public woodlands and go off the beaten tracks. I take pups in there soon as they can go outside so they learn about their surroundings from day one. If we get to a point where it's getting too frequent we stop walking places but it means there's a lot of nice woodlands round here I can no longer walk. An
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    I find most beddy lurchers just aren't tested enough or not seriously enough, most lurchers can catch the odd h,d,f but just doing it once or twice as well as ferreting on a weekend and a once a month lamping trip doesn't make it a tested dog in my opinion. I know one 3/8 beddy 5/8 grew then lamps for a keeper several times a week doing multiple a night, single or double he doesn't mind plus easily single handed fills the freezer, also draws alongside terriers. Very few if any beddy lurchers put in the graft that dog does and on top of that he's trained to gundog standards and easily out perfo
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    He's very unenthusiastic avout toys, dummies, balls etc. At most he will chase them and pick them up, might do a little circle with them then drops them to change the game. He's had 3 rabbits on lamp, first two he brought to me but only when I left the field and he followed, the third he caught close to me so didn't need retrieving. Hoping that he'll get the idea the more he lamps that the sooner he brings it back the sooner we find another run. The dam is a really decent retriever, not always live to hand but always comes back if she can carry it. Brings rabbits back over fences and gate
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    I have the dam here, easy answer is a bedlington lurcher, I did find out as much as possible about his last 6 or 7 generations of breeding which luckily is well documented so the serious answer is this as I sat down to work it all out recently
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    He does what he wants to do nothing more nothing less ?
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    Got a spindly light frames dog here no more than 19kg 22.5tts. He gets through woodlands like a ninja, he's incredibly agile but far too chancy and has had some really nasty injuries over the years. He can follow any quarry like a heat seeking missile but he's too light and lacks technique so rarely kills anything and tends to do more damage to himself than anything. Gets into all sorts of trouble trying though the little b@st@rd. On the other hand my heavy set 24.5tts bitch is fractionally slower due to her build she has to go steady and think her way through the trees but never gets those in
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    Where I go you need trackers on the dogs as you can't see more than 20-30 yards in places. You rarely even see the deer till they're on the ground. I've been out stalking with thermals and you'd have no idea if a deer was laying up in cover 20 yards away, we had a whole herd of maybe 30 fallow appear in the thermal that were no more than 60 yards away and they weren't visable to the naked eye. There aren't really paths apart from what I've trodden down over the years.
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    Both parents are beddy collie whippet deerhound greyhound He works out roughly 3/8 bedlington
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    Haven't been on here in ages, just thought I'd share a few recent pictures of my pup Simba as he approaching his 1st birthday, he's all stripped out for the summer and showing my plenty of promise of what's to come this season. He's just touching on 26tts now, bigger than I expected seeing as dam and sire were 24.5 and 24tts respectively. He's had a handful of rabbits on the lamp end of season to get an idea of what the game is about and has no trouble picking them up, he's already used his size to his advantage a couple of times and keeping the freezer full too. Really happy with him so far e
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    Regularly.
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    My bitch fractured her hock, was lame for months was told innitially it was a tendon injury till I went to a specialist. 6 months rest got her back to fitness and she came back better than ever
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    Looking really well
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    Got two here mother and son, bitch is 4 years old bred by @poxon and going into her 4th full seasons work, my old faithful. But excited to see what the pup can do, just about to turn a year old so be 15 months come september. Hope he's half as good as his mum.
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    Drop a pic of your pup in here. Going to try to get a few up to date ones of a couple others
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    Another of the bitches that I see quite regularly. Another very bedlington type pup.
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    White bitch and black dog pups that went together up country. Both big tanks of pups similar size and weight to mine.
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    One of the bitches of the litter, photo taken today. Looks really bedlington blooded
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    Just got a couple up
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    Having some trouble uploading. Will try again
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    Weighed the pup today, be 5 months old in 2 days time, he's weighing 19kg and standing bang on 23" tts. Really strong pup, finding his legs now. Had an afternoon on a warren recently pegging rabbits in long nets and had 2 afternoons on a local shoot taking in the sounds and sights of it all. Totally gun steady ? and a lot of drive. Can't wait to see what he'll be like this time next year. The dam Heidi is doing really well, been back in hard work for about a month now and ticking off new boxes as she goes.
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    Yep works out about 1/4 terrier blood in there, roughly 1/2 greyhound 1/8 deerhound 1/16 whippey 1/16 collie. Or thereabouts it is more complicated than that but that's the easiest guide
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    100% agree! I've had owners visit my pups over the past few weeks, for some its a 2-3 hour drive one way. One visited twice in the space of a week! It makes me happy to see the level of commitment to spend that amount of time and fuel to see the pups that I send them pics of daily anyway.
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    Yep almost spot on, nance can't work again, no more than a bit of ratting, heidi has a tendon injury that is a slow healer so made sense to breed her whilst she has time off
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    Sorry for late reply i don't come on here often, collar was made by Kev Bradder. Can't fault his work ?
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