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08-08-2007, 12:51 PM
| | Active Member | | Join Date: Aug 2007
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| | | Hello From a Gamekeeper
Hi All,
My name's James, I'm a gamekeeper from Gloucestershire. I've been 'lurking' for a while now, and it's very refreshing to find a forum where drastically opposing views seem to be treated in an adult, respectful way.
I look forward to participating (Although probably not all that often as I'm very busy at this time of year.)
Cheers, James |
08-08-2007, 02:03 PM
|  | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: West Oxfordshire.
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Welcome James, Yes generally this site is very grown up just check the animal pub names and wildlife music treads. Have the recent floods caused you more work?
Enjoy the site when you get time
BWD
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08-08-2007, 02:48 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Derbyshire
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Hello James!
A big welcome from little me!! 
jen xxx |
08-08-2007, 03:42 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Ijmuiden, Holland
Posts: 1,932
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Hello James, welcome. I hope work doesn't keep you too busy to join in and start posting! I look forward to you contribution - have fun and enjoy the site . |
08-08-2007, 03:47 PM
| | Active Member | | Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 63
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Thanks for all the welcomes!
The floods didnt affect me too much, but the general wet weather has caused me a lot of trouble, I had to keep my birds back on the rearing field for a few weeks after they were due to go to wood, meaning they didnt have much chance to get used to the release pen before they worked out they could get out of it! Therefore they're all over the place, and my little dog and me are working hard trying to keep them on the estate!
Cheers, James |
08-08-2007, 04:51 PM
|  | Member of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 381
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Hello James. Welcome to WAB, it's a great site, very friendly. Look forward to reading your posts, if you're not too busy! |
08-08-2007, 05:14 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Lancashire.
Posts: 1,011
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Hi James,
A warm welcome to WAB, looking forward to your posts.
Carol.
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08-08-2007, 05:21 PM
|  | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: North Lincolnshire
Posts: 6,413
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Welcome aboard James. Hope you get time to join us now and then with your busy schedule.
Roger |
08-08-2007, 05:29 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Somerset, UK
Posts: 1,063
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Hello James 
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08-08-2007, 05:39 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Lancashire
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Hello James and welcome to WAB. |
08-08-2007, 05:56 PM
|  | Member of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Oxfordshire
Posts: 317
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Hi James, Welcome to WAB. Its a great site with a lot of friendly people. |
08-08-2007, 07:34 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: N.E. Derbyshire
Posts: 1,311
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Hi James
welcome , hope you enjoy the site.
neil |
08-08-2007, 07:44 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: New Milton, Hampshire
Posts: 2,946
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Hi James. |
09-08-2007, 07:44 AM
|  | Member of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Dinnington, S Yorks
Posts: 318
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Welcome James
I'm sure there is more to gamekeeping than just keeping the poachers at bay  , so look forward to hearing of your observations on nature, wildlife, Joe public, and as mentioned earlier, how the weather affects your job.
Les
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09-08-2007, 03:16 PM
| | Active Member | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Kent
Posts: 91
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Hi James Looking forward to reading your posts. You must get to see alot of wildlife in your job.
Oseor |
10-08-2007, 09:28 PM
|  | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Blackpool, Lancashire
Posts: 690
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Interesting job
Welcome to the site |
15-08-2007, 11:36 AM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Central Scotland
Posts: 1,970
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Welcome to the forum James. It will be very interesting to get the views of a gamekeeper on wildlife issues such as foxes, Badgers and birds of prey etc, in relation to farming and estates.
Could make for some interesting discussions |
16-08-2007, 07:22 PM
| | Wild Member | | Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 213
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welcome,do you by any chance have a saluki,whippet or cross between the two?guess how i worked that out!i have a lovely female lurcher,with whippet and possibly saluki blood too. (sorry about that,i just love lurchers) anyway,a very warm welcome,i hope to see you around the site!(yes,i say that to everyone,but it's true!)have a great time! |
16-08-2007, 07:26 PM
| | Frozen | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: march, cambridgeshire
Posts: 2,176
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hi james welcome to wab. |
16-08-2007, 08:07 PM
| | New Member | | Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 9
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Hello to you.
Just what is a "Saluki"? |
16-08-2007, 08:29 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Bewdley
Posts: 2,958
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Hi James glad you have joined. I don't know that much on game keeping so i will be interested to learn. My Mind is like the universe always expanding just wish my wages would do the same |
17-08-2007, 08:27 AM
| | Active Member | | Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 63
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Thanks for all the welcomes.
Yeah I've got a gypsy bred lurcher bitch, mostly saluki x whippet, shes 24" to the shoulder and 35lb hard weight. I got her at 3 1/2 months from gypsies, they'd never let her out of the shed she was born in, she was full of worms, fleas and conjunctivitis  , hid under the TV table for a week. Now she works all legal quarry, works with ferrets, beats, hunts up, and lamps Really proud of her, hence my username!
A saluki is a desert bred coursing hound, bred for running antelope. Their stamina is outstanding, as an example, a typical greyhound course (Pre-ban) would be expected to last 2 minutes tops, a saluki course would have lasted around 4-5 minutes.There will be loads on google I would imagine.
James |
17-08-2007, 01:18 PM
| | Wild Member | | Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 213
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that's great! unfortunately,apart from the occasional squirrel or Rabbit,our dog (also about 24 inches!)has a bit of an easy life,she's still young,and we don't work her.she is absolutely gorgeous ,though,as most lurchers are! if we let her,she'd lie in bed all day,she's so lazy.your dog sounds a nice type,nice to meet another lurcher owner!again, a warm welcome to the site |
23-08-2007, 07:52 PM
| | New Member | | Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 10
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I'm another new member. We also have lurchers and a couple of terriers, god help us. Hope to hear more from you. Only a couple of weeks to go now. |
24-08-2007, 08:56 AM
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Hi Phil, and welcome!
Do you work your dogs? What breeding are they? I know, season will be here before we know it!
James | | |
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