A Refreshing Saturday
Fotos from Saturday 17th January.
A walk on the beach outside Strandhill, Co. Sligo.
Wind at our back.
The spray coming in off the Atlantic Ocean
Peter and Goliath taking a breather.
Flopsy a 3/4 bred beagle joins the fun, she is in training for barking through cover and is nearly fully trained.
its into the wind the whole way back to the car.
A reminder to readers my main website is www.freewebs.com/bailielands
my new integrated Irish Glen Blog is at http://www.anbrocairebui.webs.com/
and my new integrated Jack russell Blog & site is http://www.bailielandsminijacks.webs.com/
Thanks for visiting !
Friday, 30 January 2009
Thursday, 15 January 2009
Nach bhFuil Dha Cos Tirim Go hIontach
Aren't 2 dry feet wonderful!
Yesterday i had to buy a new pair of wellies, the treads were worn off, the soles were split and leaking like billio.
The new wellies are bliss......
Links to pics for you.
http://photobucket.com/friendsnglens
Where to put any glen pics you want to share, don't worry if they don't come up straight away, i have a veto on them, but i'm only taking off anything that might cause legal bother. Not that you guys would do anything like that :-) but we all know the very people who would like to see us sporting glen & jack lovers in hot water.
http://s324.photobucket.com/albums/k324/bailielands/GlenFiles/Sparky%20N%20Spaghetti/
More pics of Cailin's babies, the 2 likely lads, half brothers to Doozie in Minnesota.
http://s324.photobucket.com/albums/k324/bailielands/GlenFiles/Ballyclare%20Fionn/
More pics of lovely little Fionn at 5 weeks, grandson of Bailielands Bruce & Mc Geoghan Bran, Knockroe Poppy and Ballyfoyle Sky Blue, son of Sally's Wonder and Ballyclare Boy.
All together now, Ahhhhh
Thought you might like a few more pics.
Now don't be shy put your pics on friends & glens. Its all a bit of fun :-)
Actually speaking of fun, i'll be holding a glen meet & greet for all bailielands members who can make it, soon. Out here in Roscommon, we'll have a day of tea and sandwiches, walking out with the dogs, talking dogs and some sporting activities.
Contact me by email, lm.mcneill@gmail.com or fone 0863267058 if interested.
Yesterday i had to buy a new pair of wellies, the treads were worn off, the soles were split and leaking like billio.
The new wellies are bliss......
Links to pics for you.
http://photobucket.com/friendsnglens
Where to put any glen pics you want to share, don't worry if they don't come up straight away, i have a veto on them, but i'm only taking off anything that might cause legal bother. Not that you guys would do anything like that :-) but we all know the very people who would like to see us sporting glen & jack lovers in hot water.
http://s324.photobucket.com/albums/k324/bailielands/GlenFiles/Sparky%20N%20Spaghetti/
More pics of Cailin's babies, the 2 likely lads, half brothers to Doozie in Minnesota.
http://s324.photobucket.com/albums/k324/bailielands/GlenFiles/Ballyclare%20Fionn/
More pics of lovely little Fionn at 5 weeks, grandson of Bailielands Bruce & Mc Geoghan Bran, Knockroe Poppy and Ballyfoyle Sky Blue, son of Sally's Wonder and Ballyclare Boy.
All together now, Ahhhhh
Thought you might like a few more pics.
Now don't be shy put your pics on friends & glens. Its all a bit of fun :-)
Actually speaking of fun, i'll be holding a glen meet & greet for all bailielands members who can make it, soon. Out here in Roscommon, we'll have a day of tea and sandwiches, walking out with the dogs, talking dogs and some sporting activities.
Contact me by email, lm.mcneill@gmail.com or fone 0863267058 if interested.
Wednesday, 14 January 2009
Ta Tus Maith Leath Na hOibre
A GOOD START IS HALF THE WORK
i think i got that saying correct but i'm sure you get the gist of it.
My goodness last entry October 22 08 !
Isn't that a long time ?
Well since then christmas has come & gone and a new year begun, and begun very well for us here at bailielands.
Here's a quick catch up on the news.
Goliath our very large belgian import has turned out a very good foxing dog in cover.
He's the one in the back behind the parson's russell a fantastic bitch called Molly.
Bailielands Annie was mated to him around Christmas, we'll see how things develop.
Been busy doing a lot of training lately. Have a couple of sheep maulers in for rehab at he moment, amazing how well the ecollar works on that sort of a problem and to think the english KC is trying to actually ban them in the UK. It saves dog's lives. Have retrained over 15 dogs for stock worrying using the ecollar as part of the training and it works, otherwise said dogs be destroyed.
Also training up some young terriers in cover at the moment in preparation for next season's ground work.
Here's a smasher of a pup, grandson of Bailielands Bruce, named Ballyclare Fionn, bred by Enda Buckley, look at the head and shoulders and paws, he is only 5 wks in this picture.
Recession is biting hard here in Ireland and we've gone all self sufficienty.
Cranberry & Sauce the turkeys were delicious, we had Sauce she was fabulous and gave Cranberry to friends for Christmas. it was simply the most delicious turkey we had ever eaten, so tender, juicy and full of flavour. We weren't sure we could go through with actually getting them done in & eating them until the very end, we surprised ourselves.
We're growing our own again next year, but this time i'm buying in some bronze or wild turkey eggs for hatching and rear em from scratch.
Following hat success, one of the French Copper Black Marans has started to lay, here's one of her eggs with a creamy tinted and a normal brown egg.
That was the first maran egg and a little pale compared to the ones that followed.
These three are 2 maran eggs on the left and a normal ISA Brown egg on the lower right, note the difference in yolk colour and they were Yum!
Now in preparation for hatching the maran eggs when both hens get into their stride, i have practised using some ISA Brown X eggs, we plan to fatten and eat the cockerels and see how the hens turn out for eggs.
Also we have bought a pair of meat rabbits, New Zealand x Californians, a doe and a buck and they are distressingly cute, so i wonder how this experiment in self sufficiency will turn out :-)
Here's a pic of 2 of my own little darlings, Sparky & Spaghetti, Cailin's sons by Setanta, now 8 weeks old.
Little horrors that's my son they're eating!
That's a start on the goss for the new year anyway. Plenty more to come with much to do this new year bringing on Sandybanks Siobhan, now 8 months and Bailebroc Ziggy now 4 months old.
Remember keep it Irish, keep it Original, keep it Working ;-)
i think i got that saying correct but i'm sure you get the gist of it.
My goodness last entry October 22 08 !
Isn't that a long time ?
Well since then christmas has come & gone and a new year begun, and begun very well for us here at bailielands.
Here's a quick catch up on the news.
Goliath our very large belgian import has turned out a very good foxing dog in cover.
He's the one in the back behind the parson's russell a fantastic bitch called Molly.
Bailielands Annie was mated to him around Christmas, we'll see how things develop.
Been busy doing a lot of training lately. Have a couple of sheep maulers in for rehab at he moment, amazing how well the ecollar works on that sort of a problem and to think the english KC is trying to actually ban them in the UK. It saves dog's lives. Have retrained over 15 dogs for stock worrying using the ecollar as part of the training and it works, otherwise said dogs be destroyed.
Also training up some young terriers in cover at the moment in preparation for next season's ground work.
Here's a smasher of a pup, grandson of Bailielands Bruce, named Ballyclare Fionn, bred by Enda Buckley, look at the head and shoulders and paws, he is only 5 wks in this picture.
Recession is biting hard here in Ireland and we've gone all self sufficienty.
Cranberry & Sauce the turkeys were delicious, we had Sauce she was fabulous and gave Cranberry to friends for Christmas. it was simply the most delicious turkey we had ever eaten, so tender, juicy and full of flavour. We weren't sure we could go through with actually getting them done in & eating them until the very end, we surprised ourselves.
We're growing our own again next year, but this time i'm buying in some bronze or wild turkey eggs for hatching and rear em from scratch.
Following hat success, one of the French Copper Black Marans has started to lay, here's one of her eggs with a creamy tinted and a normal brown egg.
That was the first maran egg and a little pale compared to the ones that followed.
These three are 2 maran eggs on the left and a normal ISA Brown egg on the lower right, note the difference in yolk colour and they were Yum!
Now in preparation for hatching the maran eggs when both hens get into their stride, i have practised using some ISA Brown X eggs, we plan to fatten and eat the cockerels and see how the hens turn out for eggs.
Also we have bought a pair of meat rabbits, New Zealand x Californians, a doe and a buck and they are distressingly cute, so i wonder how this experiment in self sufficiency will turn out :-)
Here's a pic of 2 of my own little darlings, Sparky & Spaghetti, Cailin's sons by Setanta, now 8 weeks old.
Little horrors that's my son they're eating!
That's a start on the goss for the new year anyway. Plenty more to come with much to do this new year bringing on Sandybanks Siobhan, now 8 months and Bailebroc Ziggy now 4 months old.
Remember keep it Irish, keep it Original, keep it Working ;-)
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