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.
Thursday, 15 January 2009
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 ;-)
Wednesday, 22 October 2008
CEN BHEALACH ANOIS
What Way Now?
What way now for the Glen?
I urge you to think about this sincerely. If the direction of the Glen is to be influenced by the show winners, then you are putting the breed under the judgement of men & women who are merely generic show judges.
is it not enough to see how many breeds have been destroyed by the ongoing pressure of show driven breeding? Why does the glen an already rare breed have to be driven down further?
Please i urge you to start training & testing your dogs for the field, show champion or not and start selecting for the best workers, the hardest workers, the easily handled dogs at the dig, the fittest and healthiest dogs after a hard day in the damp and the chill.
it may show you something that ma transmute your breeding programme into a drive for health in the raw & vital sense, health of body & mind.
If you do not actively select for these traits it is pot luck if you get them. Work with terriers will help you select, you see how coat quality, dog aggression, size, build, agility, courage, inquisitiveness, obedience, stamina, hardiness and physical overall fitness affect a living breathing dog. Not one of many to be made up, please!
Don't think i live in an absolute vacuum. I have many serious show people mates & friends. That is their path, work & performance is mine. But show breeding degenerates a dog, body & mind, INEVITABLY. Please even if you show enthuasiastically consider selecting for performance.
None of us breeders, work or show or pet are perfect.
but please let us make every new generation of glens better than the last, body & mind.
What way now for the Glen?
I urge you to think about this sincerely. If the direction of the Glen is to be influenced by the show winners, then you are putting the breed under the judgement of men & women who are merely generic show judges.
is it not enough to see how many breeds have been destroyed by the ongoing pressure of show driven breeding? Why does the glen an already rare breed have to be driven down further?
Please i urge you to start training & testing your dogs for the field, show champion or not and start selecting for the best workers, the hardest workers, the easily handled dogs at the dig, the fittest and healthiest dogs after a hard day in the damp and the chill.
it may show you something that ma transmute your breeding programme into a drive for health in the raw & vital sense, health of body & mind.
If you do not actively select for these traits it is pot luck if you get them. Work with terriers will help you select, you see how coat quality, dog aggression, size, build, agility, courage, inquisitiveness, obedience, stamina, hardiness and physical overall fitness affect a living breathing dog. Not one of many to be made up, please!
Don't think i live in an absolute vacuum. I have many serious show people mates & friends. That is their path, work & performance is mine. But show breeding degenerates a dog, body & mind, INEVITABLY. Please even if you show enthuasiastically consider selecting for performance.
None of us breeders, work or show or pet are perfect.
but please let us make every new generation of glens better than the last, body & mind.
Monday, 20 October 2008
NACH BHFUIL AMADAN MISE!
Amn't i a fool?
Do i live under a rock or not?
Isn't Harry O'Donoghue the man who judged Glens over the states a fair bit this year, don't tell me you Glen Folks didn't know about his petshops in the North East of Ireland, where pedigree and non-pedigree pups have been sold for years.
Now i'm out of Dundalk about 3 years now so i don't know if it still goes on, but i can easily check.
You see the hypocrisy of it gets me, that breed club ethics and kennel club ethics advise against puppy sales from pet shops over and over, AND as an ex pet shop owner who DID sell puppies from my own shop i can tell you why it really is a bad thing.
The pet shop puppy is more likely than not to be an impulse buy, not thought through, a pity purchase... because there is something absolutely wretched about seeing puppies in a pet shop.
Now the puppies i sold were bred by myself and taken home each night to their mums and often spent a fair amount of time loose around the shop with us, but that doesn't excuse us from doing what is not good practise.
Because as you good dog owners and breeders know out there getting the right home for your dog isn't just a matter of getting the money out of someone, you have a lot of matching up to do between your dog's requirements for a happy, healthy well loved life and what this person can offer the dog.
This CANNOT be done in a petshop where you are pressed for time no matter how sincere you are about doing right by the pups. So yes it more than likely goes wrong, a puppy bought out of pity in a petshop, it is more likely to not work out, to be sold on, passed on, end up in a pound.
And oh deary me, you didn't know this is what Harry O'Donoghue had been doing for years and now his sons continued doing in the 3 shops across the northeast up to 3 years ago at least. Harry was well known as a bulk buyer of litters across the area and believe me the pups were often sold at very high prices compared to the going rate of the times.
Well we live and learn but i'm glad i'm out of the petshop game, its not what you think, its all about money and if you are honest, sincere and genuinely care about pet welfare, you won't last in pet retail, its a jungle out there!
Do i live under a rock or not?
Isn't Harry O'Donoghue the man who judged Glens over the states a fair bit this year, don't tell me you Glen Folks didn't know about his petshops in the North East of Ireland, where pedigree and non-pedigree pups have been sold for years.
Now i'm out of Dundalk about 3 years now so i don't know if it still goes on, but i can easily check.
You see the hypocrisy of it gets me, that breed club ethics and kennel club ethics advise against puppy sales from pet shops over and over, AND as an ex pet shop owner who DID sell puppies from my own shop i can tell you why it really is a bad thing.
The pet shop puppy is more likely than not to be an impulse buy, not thought through, a pity purchase... because there is something absolutely wretched about seeing puppies in a pet shop.
Now the puppies i sold were bred by myself and taken home each night to their mums and often spent a fair amount of time loose around the shop with us, but that doesn't excuse us from doing what is not good practise.
Because as you good dog owners and breeders know out there getting the right home for your dog isn't just a matter of getting the money out of someone, you have a lot of matching up to do between your dog's requirements for a happy, healthy well loved life and what this person can offer the dog.
This CANNOT be done in a petshop where you are pressed for time no matter how sincere you are about doing right by the pups. So yes it more than likely goes wrong, a puppy bought out of pity in a petshop, it is more likely to not work out, to be sold on, passed on, end up in a pound.
And oh deary me, you didn't know this is what Harry O'Donoghue had been doing for years and now his sons continued doing in the 3 shops across the northeast up to 3 years ago at least. Harry was well known as a bulk buyer of litters across the area and believe me the pups were often sold at very high prices compared to the going rate of the times.
Well we live and learn but i'm glad i'm out of the petshop game, its not what you think, its all about money and if you are honest, sincere and genuinely care about pet welfare, you won't last in pet retail, its a jungle out there!
Sunday, 19 October 2008
TORTIS
Tortoise
Here's someone you haven't met or heard of before,
COOKIE MONSTER.
Cookie Monster is our African Spurred Tortoise we imported from Spain shortly after her hatching about 5 years ago i think.
In those days surprise, surprise we ran a pet shop in Dundalk the North East of ireland.
We set up in 2001 as Dundalk Aquariums & Aquatic Supplies in Bridge St., Dundalk during the heart of the Foot & Mouth Crisis.
It did so well we upgraded to Williamson's Mall & Mega Pets 8 months later. In MegaPets version1 we did very well, now importing our own tropical fish from malaysia, africa, singapore & china, our quarantine fish room was 150 x 20 gallons, we had Penang Discus & Malawi & Tanganikan cichlids, it was heaven for a fishophile. We kept small animals, guinea pigs, hamsters, rabbits, chinchillas, pet birds, african greys, cockatoos, canaries, budgies, finches & then exotic reptiles....
First we bought off a pair of reptile dealers, Martin & Paddy from Tyrone, who sold us out to their competion fairly quickly, later we learned to buy direct & cheaper hence COOKIE MONSTER who i bought for myself direct from a farm in Spain.
Soon we decided to get an even bigger premises for MegaPets and we took another unit in the Shopping Centre, even bigger and spent a fortune creating an EXOTIC ANIMAL ROOM a sort of small town zoo for displays and teducational tours of our diverse exotics. We took in an investor & foolishly despite teething problems pressed on.
Well yes it all went pear shaped, we indeed are not business people as we were so often told, just animal lovers.
Well we learned a lot!
We enjoyed caring for the many animals the wonderful fish & reptiles & small animals!
We learned you can sell PUPPIES FROM YOUR PETSHOP FOR YEARS & YEARS, that you buy in by the litter for cheap.... if you are a certain person, well respected in the IKC & KC, with a famous prefix known for Cruft's level Fox Terriers & Lakelands....a judge also i fear, may have judged Glens too, & i assure you what does this man know about glens???????
Harry O'Donoghue
OOOOOOOpppps!
Saturday, 18 October 2008
BREACHADH AN LAE NUA
A New day Breaking
After the misery of nursing & losing Timmy and Wolfie its been a relief to feel a new day breaking and the somber mood here starting to lift.
First of all this morning i went for a nice brisk walk with roxie the rottie nothing too long, about 20 mins up the road & back, we took some pictures
After the misery of nursing & losing Timmy and Wolfie its been a relief to feel a new day breaking and the somber mood here starting to lift.
First of all this morning i went for a nice brisk walk with roxie the rottie nothing too long, about 20 mins up the road & back, we took some pictures
Then out went the orpington babies who are no longer chicks but fully feathered little chickens in the miniature.
Fed the turkeys, Cranberry & Sauce, think they are a cock & a hen, its very debatable whether we'll get round to eating them as 2 were bought so the one for christmas wouldn't be lonely, guess that says it all...
Took some pics of the Cuckoo Maran cockerel
And Peter caught one of the Khaki Campbell Ducklings now 4/5 weeks so i could take her picture & cuddle her.
Put out the babies then, glen babies and jack babies, both litters about the same age, 6/7 weeks now.
Fluzzy checked out the puppies, our newest rescue case, by gum that's a story.
Sunday, 12 October 2008
CROIBHRISTE
HEART-BROKEN
On 9th october Wolfie, Gerrardstown Wolfgang was put to sleep. He had lymphoma all through his body & bones, he was only 3 in August.
At first pneumonia was suspected, then poisoning by weedkiller when he failed to respond to the usual medications. When he was xrayed & bloods examined the truth was found he had incurable cancer.
We're still destroyed.
He was a lovely mannerly dog, who grew out of a boisterous dog-aggressive young dog hood into a mannerly gentleman. He was affectionate & obedient to myself to the extent that he did not accept any other masters. he was a one person dog. He was a proven worker of such speed & efficiency that had been rarely seen in recent glenhood. He was a return to the glories of old. Dubhie is lost without him, they were like a wee married couple.
He's gone now & i miss him dearly. wee wolfie
On 9th october Wolfie, Gerrardstown Wolfgang was put to sleep. He had lymphoma all through his body & bones, he was only 3 in August.
At first pneumonia was suspected, then poisoning by weedkiller when he failed to respond to the usual medications. When he was xrayed & bloods examined the truth was found he had incurable cancer.
We're still destroyed.
He was a lovely mannerly dog, who grew out of a boisterous dog-aggressive young dog hood into a mannerly gentleman. He was affectionate & obedient to myself to the extent that he did not accept any other masters. he was a one person dog. He was a proven worker of such speed & efficiency that had been rarely seen in recent glenhood. He was a return to the glories of old. Dubhie is lost without him, they were like a wee married couple.
He's gone now & i miss him dearly. wee wolfie
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