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[Keeps 403]

Went out ferreting yesterday for the first time in a few weeks for one reason and another. It had to be the coldest day in the year; it was windy and freezing cold, damp too. We did a new woods today, and the signs looked good, we saw a few rabbits about the place and had our first catch in the bag in minutes. But it was not to be, our old hob ferret was playing up, he went missing for ages. We noticed there were quite a few young around today, there weren't any the last time we were up, and maybe thats why, apart from the jills starting to come in season which might have been the other distraction We spent a lot of time standing around in the cold. It was noisy because of the wind in the trees and difficult to hear, or to distinguish my teeth chattering from the knocker box knocking

 

Indie also seemed distracted today, but Nuala is in season and they have been separated, oh the joys of spring Mr Keeps uttered the words today I never thought I would hear (and he never thought he would say) "we didnt half miss Nuala today

 

I took a few pics, not a lot, as today was very slow, and the conditions were not good

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We will the place a try some other day, you never know we might have better luck I was just glad to get back in the car in the warm didnt warm up the whole way home which takes us just over an hour

Edited March 17, 2008 by Keeps

[stubby 175]

nice pic's, I like the siloette one, looks almost wolf like

[Gin 498]

God your keen for a girl Keeps. I have trouble getting the lads out in the cold. Still you had a day out and did ok.

[andy s410c 59]

Good photos as usual Keeps are you breeding from Nuala?? iv,e missed her not being on your pictures she is a fine looking lurcher & a good working dog

[Keeps 403]

I wasnt so keen yesterday Gin I can tell you

 

No I'm not breeding from Nuala Andy, she is much too young and has a lot to do to prove herself yet

[IanB 0]

Nice one keeps, thanks for sharing

[whin 463]

is thet adeerhoundy lurcher what is she like on flushing roe hares etc nice stamp of a dog , shee s done well to snatch the rabbs ive ferreted areas like tha dogs have to be on there toes etc

[Keeps 403]

No he's a beardie x greyhound Whin, though he does look very deerhoundy. He didn't do so bad flushing hare and roe, in the days before the ban

 

Pics aren't so clever, a bit blurry - taken pre-ban in the days before i got a dslr

 

 

 

 

 

 

[whin 463]

nice stamp of a dog were did you get the beardie cross had them yrs ago home bre of a mate, and saw several ,i like the beardie but never saw many good ones for years ,i would say my old line of collie crosses have beardie some were as some of the pups have a bit fur on the back, i just bought a book from a shop on sun shows you working beardie types the photos range back from the early nineteen centurie total class and theyw ere all over country not just scotland

[whin 463]

i wouldnt min seeing your dog work i have quite a lot of permiss yrs since i saw agenuine beardie cross with not any merle in it etc just plain black how does he run on winter whaeat were the game realy flies etc, as i says i like the look of him whats his pace like etc

[Keeps 403]

i wouldnt min seeing your dog work i have quite a lot of permiss yrs since i saw agenuine beardie cross with not any merle in it etc just plain black how does he run on winter whaeat were the game realy flies etc, as i says i like the look of him whats his pace like etc

 

He's fast but isnt quite as fast as Nuala, who is a shade smaller (1/2 deer/grey) but he has a good strike, he's what you might call an opportunist

 

The beardie is from a dog called Findlay out of Remus.

Edited March 18, 2008 by Keeps

[Magpie 102]

I'm sure keeps you wouldn't mind if I elaborate on the lineage of Indie's Working Beardie blood line.

 

The Beardie blood in Indie is from the Tom Muirhead line of working Beardie. Virtually all working Beardies carry this line as the gene pool for genuine workers is very small. My own bitch that is half Beardie carries the same line although from an arm of the family that was used extensively on the outer hebs.

 

Tom with one or two others, namely Peter Wood and Brian Plummer did much to retain and strengthen the the working Beardie gene pool. It is one of these dogs bred by Plummer the is the grand sire to Indie and also the sire to my old Beardie half cross bitch, sister to Indie's dam.

 

There is a gentleman by the Name of Foster that also produced and worked Beardies in Worcestershire. It was in fact one of his line that Plummer used to produce Richard Jones, David Hancock's (please, no bitching) original Beardie x Border stud dog.

 

Not wishing to bore you any further I'll cut this post short by saying, you can find plenty of information on Tom's line on the net and in various books relating to the true working Beardie.

 

Heres just a few pics of my Beardie lurchers.

 

[Keeps 403]

I don't mind at all Magpie, its all very interesting stuff Your old bitch in the bottom pic pays more than a passing resemblance to Indies mother

[whin 463]

so who bred the pup or indie and what type of greyhound ,did hanckock breed it or was it home bred tom murehead etc lived only at dunsyre i no people with beardies from steel of denny and nobles from broughton area in scotland they have a few beardies mostly workers, in fact they are as they have 1000 sheep etc used to do the foxes on there land etc, long befor plummer etc we had beardies in scotland etc got pics of them f rom 1920sand30ts great to see there from a book about farming in the 20ts and 30ts good pics etc,i dont rate plummer and hanckock as genuine hunting men just breeders or profit breeders sauch is life , more to the piont is there anybody got working beardie crossesout side the hanckock stuff as an old freind bred a litt a good few yrs ago .i like them better than the border etc

[Keeps 403]

Indie was home bred out of a half x beardie/grey (hancock bred) to a track greyhound and the litter was bred for personal use (he kept a bitch). What I do know is that the person who bred him works all of his dogs to an extremely high standard on difficult terrain. The lad who bred him is a genuine hunting man; a true gent of the hunting world. I have no interest on whether Indie originates back to hancock/plummer etc etc - I really couldnt give a monkeys. At the end of the day its the dog that counts and if the dog works well then thats good enough for me, regardless of how he is bred.