Yes, you can do an ancestry dna search, it will provide you with information on what areas your family come from
Releasing wild boar !
- Thread starter Jamouk
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Yes, there are lots of agencies that will analyse your DNA and tell you how much of you is from where. It is surprisingly accurate.
Google, ancestry DNA and take your pick. It is cheap.
I know around a dozen people who have done it, and known them well enough for them to confide in me or discuss with me.
One person was pure Igbo Nigerian, and they got that spot on: from their background they woud be nothing else.
Others have the mix of Scottish, Engish, French and Irish matching well their family tree, the chap with an Italian grandmother, they got even the town right where she came from.
Except, one person I know lamented to me that their adult child got one and it was rubbish as it showed a completely different set of roots than he would expect - I advised him to get a paternity test, which sure enough gave him a big surprise and a rather belated divorce. Every child born should be tested to ensure fathers are not stung by opportunistic women - there is more paternity fraud around than people expect, some studies suggesting as high as 1 in 8.
Interestingly, most results come back in a month but the Igbo result took 5 months for them to work it out.
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Was that child any less loved during childhood? Of course not.
Would have been better never to have known, rather than upset the applecart in later life.
DNA test with ancestry.co.uk
This has shown that I am 7% German and 7% Swedish and suggests that Queen Elizabeth II was my second cousin.
A teenage Prince of Wales, who later became King Edward VII fathered 6-7 children with Abbotsbury girls when he was a guest on Lord Ilchester's pheasant shoots. "maids reckoned it were an honour to ly wi' he"
I know two people who found out that their fathers were Italian, WW2 war babies.
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I agree, I think it would have been better to know but not reveal the knowedge, however, I do not know their personal details and any of the nuances this relationship involves so who am I or we to judge?
Truth is best to be known, but what we do with it is what maketh the man.
One never knows what problems are caused, or what problems in the future are avoided, by each decision, but we are each responsible for the consequences of every action. Even entirely charitable deeds, perhaps 50% of them end up having a negative overall consequence. 2nd Law of Thermodynamics applies to every aspect of science, life and matter.
Access to cheap DNA testing though, may give more women second thoughts before a man is fleeced materially and emotionally, in fact those doing that despicable act fleece two men and their own child.
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Jagare
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My sister and I did the DNA test but with different testing companies. We both came back 86% southern English and me 14% northern European and her test showed Scandinavian, with a small smattering of Jock and Taff's..
As for wild boar, why would you want to introduce boar into a place where you don't have them? Bloody stupid idea. Apart from those that like to shoot them what benefit do Muntjac bring to the English country side?
As for wild boar, why would you want to introduce boar into a place where you don't have them? Bloody stupid idea. Apart from those that like to shoot them what benefit do Muntjac bring to the English country side?
bottletopbill
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ANY one can be a father but takes a man to be a dad (not just a sperm donor )
Pigs eliminate bracken not by eating it, but by rooting up the rhizomes. Bracken rhizomes require anaerobic conditions to thrive and multiply, so when exposed to air they die off.
Trampling by cattle has a similar effect. One of the reasons why bracken is so rampant in the uplands these days is because very few people are keeping cattle on the hill like they used to. It's all just sheep now, which don't have any impact on the relentless spread of bracken.
(And yes, it is toxic).
If ASFV gets in the Country, hopefully it never does, it will affect all pigs, so really there’s no increased risk there, no more than any other disease.
Once you get all the paper work in place for DWA you could cull them how you liked, no different to park deer, not sure what the regulations are now but used to be 2 metre fence with 2 strands of electric either side, they’d need supplementary feeding ( bigger trophies
) but 20 of mixed ages in 15 acres should be fineThat’s what I thought
Trundle wheel from Amazon arriving tomorrow!
Well, he had to check. It is poisonous. giving them B1 deficiency as they have thiaminase in the plant. This leads to a condition a bit like a diabetic hypo, but where as that is low glucose, thiamine deficiency means the glucose products can't enter the cell for respiration.
Not much bracken on the site ! Plenty of bluebells tho
Bavarianbrit
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I released a 50kg boar last night with a .270 Win 
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