Deer Dog Ban.lead Poisoining Instead Or Lyme Desease

[blackgreyhound 206]

chakwarren.i must agree not worth catching .he caught the first one in a fir plantation.then the next week i was in more or less in the same spot when i thought oh no he has caught another one.i like to let the dog hunt up in woods but within sight this gsdxg was a very good tracker once on the scent he couldnt be called off he would go suddenly deaf.both of these small deer he pulled out of bushes they seemed to think if they froze he would not see them but his eyes did not find them. his scenting ability did they did not even get a chance to run snatched out of the form they laid up in

[BORDERSCOT 3,816]

That wee deer is hardly worth the killing,...wouldn't even make a half decent Jalfrezi..

 

Could eat both of them at one sitting wi tatties.........

[Phil Lloyd 10,738]

Only having the craic fellah,...

 

Personaly,..I leave folk to do, what they want to do,..and hunt, what they want to hunt...

 

It is a wee bit late now,..for me to ever get righteous,.. or condescending,.. about killing things....

[blackgreyhound 206]

borederscott.hot curry to disguise the taste would be nice

[low plains drifter 10,292]

beast your right about the fat on them .i put one up out of cover at a place called ledburn last spring it was huge and as fat as a pig .biggest chink i have ever seen it was kicking up the ploughing as it run.they are as you say far heavier than the exsperts say.i have even seen dik dik deer in woburn which are a bit bigger than a hare .tho the exsperts say they do not exist in the wild

That's the expert's for you,always thought a working dog with a good nose can get you closer to nature,than any written on paper degree

[Phil Lloyd 10,738]

True words,..nothing beats getting down and dirty, to receive a realistic education..

[low plains drifter 10,292]

Sometimes hard to believe where deer can end up,there is a red deer stag living in a horses field on a small nature reserve on tyneside,been there a few year now,and you would have to travel at least 50 or 60 miles at a guess to find the nearest herd of wild reds, also about 15 years ago there was a roe living in a small wooded area down on the fish quay,amazing how deer turn up like this

[FUJI 17,156]

Good thread folks...I've enjoyed it :-) a deer coursed by a dog eh? Now that's something I would of loved to have been able to see with my own eyes...didn't even know there was certain species mentioned roaming in the UK..

[low plains drifter 10,292]

Good thread folks...I've enjoyed it :-) a deer coursed by a dog eh? Now that's something I would of loved to have been able to see with my own eyes...didn't even know there was certain species mentioned roaming in the UK..

As pattinson says only make believe lurchers will take a deer,suppose he was another one of these experts what would we do without them

[beast 1,884]

 

beast your right about the fat on them .i put one up out of cover at a place called ledburn last spring it was huge and as fat as a pig .biggest chink i have ever seen it was kicking up the ploughing as it run.they are as you say far heavier than the exsperts say.i have even seen dik dik deer in woburn which are a bit bigger than a hare .tho the exsperts say they do not exist in the wild

They won't have been dik-dik....

 

correct

[beast 1,884]

 

good work to finish the poor bugger off b.greyhound.

 

pellets left in an animal usually form a capsule of tissue around them which in effect seals them off from the blood stream, lead poisoning is generally caused by eating it. every winter i find a few old water deer that have just lost too much condition over the cold months to survive, this year seems to have been particularly bad, i reckon i've picked up about 20 dead or dying. i know weve had a bit more warmth and a bit of grass growing in the last week or so but i reckon it was too little too late for that old boy.

 

heaviest buck i ever took was 51lb but when i dressed himout he had at least 15lb of hard fat in him, great feed for the dogs when it turns cold. he had been feeding on winter rape not far from woburn .fat bugger could barely run though he was so heavy, dog pulled him over before he had made 50 yards. wouldnt want to be running deer near woburn these days.....

We had a really fat one once, but this was a doe. There was nearly an inch of fat beneath her skin. Never went more than 150 yards: it was sinking in the soft soil it was so heavy. She was with another, smaller, male, thinner. That ran like the wind and gave the other dog a good course across a massive rape field before she got it.

 

took a lot of does which were really heavy, mostly didnt have young in where other does locally which were carrying were not near so heavy

[beast 1,884]

let's make this clear, neither woburn deer park nor the safari park have ever held pudu or dik dik, i dont know what you caught BG but i'm intrigued now!

[J Darcy 5,871]

let's make this clear, neither woburn deer park nor the safari park have ever held pudu or dik dik, i dont know what you caught BG but i'm intrigued now!

Maybe he'd been on the magic mushrooms?

[blackgreyhound 206]

jdarcy.if i ever catch another by accident ? i will take a picture of it.geoff

[torchey 1,301]

wasn,t one of these was it ?