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Mickeydredd

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  1. You will need good land and game to make a good GSP.
  2. A nice finish to the doe season, well done. I took a couple of Roe this week too, a nice bit of freezer top-up.
  3. Mickeydredd

    Snow ?

    No snow in East Ayrshire, been a cracking day here.
  4. So 97.99% of the Scottish population is white....how are his assertions surprising or indeed an issue? White Scottish people make up the largest portion of the population at 88.09%. White British (7.38%), other Whites (1.54%), White Irish (0.98%), Pakistani (0.63%), Chinese (0.32%), Indian (0.30%), Mixed (0.25%), other South Asian (0.12%), African (0.10%), Bangladeshi (0.04%), Caribbean (0.04%) Black Scottish or other Black (0.02%).
  5. Do they not have 5 years/60,000 as standard? My last 2 have (2016 and 2018 models)
  6. It isn't the stats that will be used negatively, as the factual reality will show that far more people are killed by kitchen knives etc, it is the rhetoric from the media and MPs who want to make a name for themselves.
  7. The total number of homicides involving firearms in 2021 was 36 , of which 26 were as a result of handguns and sawn-off shotguns - which I believe can't be held legally in the UK so assume are illegally held. The total number of homicides for the same period was 594, of which 39 were those people found smuggled in the back of the lorry in Essex. That suggests that, even including all illegally-held firearms, you are more likely to die in the back of a lorry being smuggled than by being shot. On a risk-based approach, why would (should) firearms legislation be impacted by the occasional/rare firearms-related death at the hands of a legally-held firearm? The stats are that you have less than a 1 in a million chance of being killed by a firearm in the UK.
  8. I think that officer needs re-training at the very least and probably retired at most!
  9. Ham is really nice done in Coca Cola
  10. I have posted this pic before but this is what our lab line looks like, father furthest away in pic and 2 sons from different litters. Proper labs.
  11. ok, my apologies, but in my defence you stated you researched and bought from reputable breeders. That suggested the parents would have had low hip scores. The fact that 7 out of 8 pups you have bought have had bad hips therefore suggested that it was a training issue rather than genetics as it is always one or the other of these reasons. Where both parents have low hip scores it generally follows that the pups will, all things being equal, reflect a similar score. You will always get the odd one that may have an issue even from such pairings. The guy who came to us wanted his dogs in the beating line in their first year, and its my belief that is the cause of many bad hip scores in dogs from low hip score lines.
  12. It is very difficult to choose a pup, certainly to choose one for some perceived view that it will be the "best" in the litter for the job. Usually something just catches your eye with a pup and that makes the decision for you. Regarding having almost all your labs having bad hip scores despite selection from different breeders, this is clearly a result of your training methods, probably doing too much with them too soon, especially jumping them. We had a guy recommended to us to have one of our lab pups who picked up 5 days per week. He told us upon arrival that he had had about 8 pups from well known breeders and all of them had bad hips. When he opened the back of his pickup we could see why, absolute sh%thole and we wanted to take the pup back, really never forgave ourselves. For me, the main criteria is seeing the parents, knowing what work they have done and how they go about it, temperament and the look of a chunky loved dog. feeding pups well is a very important requirement, I would never buy a lab pup that didnt look chunky. Runts of the litter are generally more prone to health issues during their life. A pic of a couple of pups from one of our litters, I still have one in my kennels.
  13. we won't though, that is why the Courts generally impose a custodial sentence for any perceived vigilante action - they use it as a deterrent.
  14. wow, I take it that it is all downhill.....😉
  15. I have a Falcon FN19 pcp FAC that I used to use on rats, squirrel and magpie if that is of any use to you. Been sitting unused in the cabinet for a while now and probably will be going forward.
  16. But is it not being labelled queue-jumping because the receptionist or manager were not aware of the individuals' status when they enquired? If the woman had stated at the start they were Ukrainian refugees and needed to register then the offer would most likely have been made right away as presumably that would be part of the charitable offer to accomodate them as refugees in the country.
  17. The Ukrainian refugees didn't arrive illegally in the UK via boats across the Channel, they were invited and welcomed with open arms and under relocation schemes by the UK government and citizens. Surely as part of that process, we can allow them to register for healthcare without resorting to derogatory accusations of queue-jumping.
  18. The phone screenshot is from the telemetry fitted to the falcon.
  19. The big money is in breeding Peregrine and Gyr, plus a hybrid of the two, for export to the Gulf where the newest version of "falconry" is timed races. The prize money is huge.
  20. peregrine x lanner - adds a bit of oomph to the lanner at much less cost and has less "over-oomph" than a pure peregrine. If used for landfill, then it doesn't need to be a full-blown peregrine or Gyr and they would be very expensive birds to risk for the job. female gyr x saker - puts a bit of size into the relatively small saker, again at significantly less money than a pure Gyr. Sakers used to be very easy to come by, peregrine and Gyr less so and also at hugely more expensive prices, so breeders used to create the hybrid as a filler for those without the funds to buy the real thing. It was also cheaper for breeders to buy breeding stock (or Gyr or Pere semen) for AI so they could breed a number of falcons for reasonable cost.
  21. Not any more sadly, used to fly a female Gos.
  22. looks like a juvenile peregrine, won't be a Gyr in Egypt and assumed wild so won't be a cross.
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