Nobody has answered the skirter question yet.
While you’re guessing - what is “billett” ?
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I actually hunted once with a horse that had red/green & white ribbons in its tail…yep! a green kicker that was for sale!! yippeeee! It was Xmas time and I’m bettin’ I’m the only one who really knew what was goin’ on!!
Wateryglen shakes her head! :no:[/QUOTE]
Back in 2000 I was hunting a mature gelding who was new to hunting, I tagged him w/ a green ribbon. On about his third hunt he kicked at a horse during a routine hunting jam up. 
(This guy was a veteran show horse and had been in tight jams before, grrr.) Anyway, the next hunt he wore a red & green ribbon. I was embarrassed but thought “cover my bases.” About the 7th hunt he attempted to kick a hound coming behind him. That day I retired him from the hunting field.
The little mare I’m hunting now is well, quite little. A girlfriend calls her “Speed Bump” with great affection and I let her use my mares hiney to lower the RPM’s on horse’s she is schooling for others. 
It’s nice to not be riding a naughty horse!!!
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OK now I’m TOTALLY confused!!!
Did I get skirter right? How many points do I get!??!! Where my trophy!?
Chop - a sudden kill as in the fox runs out in front of a hound while exiting a covert and gets “chopped” or grabbed quickly? A lotta rabbits get chopped foothunting but often the hound drops it cuz he’s so surprised he caught him!! And he gets away!! yea!! Isn’t it kinda hound instinct to snap at their quarry anyway? or…is chop what foxhunters do to their food at huntbreakfasts!! :winkgrin: as in…Wateryglen has been know to chop her food after hunts…!!![/QUOTE]
I think i SHOULD get credit… Chop- I said a tasty morsel that the hounds eat 
lol j/k
Coffee housing.
Maybe that one is used in UK only.
But it sure applies in our hunt.
Oh, no, it’s used here too. Annoying, isn’t it?
Why is it that I have 3 horses and am not hunting today? Because…Number One is a confirmed dog kicker with no brakes, Number Two has a loose shoe, and Number Three is - well - three.
In short - I’m all dressed up with no place to go.
So I’m home drinking coffee and pondering whether or not to give Catersun credit for the “chop” answer. In the spirit of good sportsmanship, I vote we give her credit as I am trying to get her hooked on hunting - all that’s left is to reel her in. 
Billett- is fox scat.
I loathe coffeehousing - but I admit to being guilty of it once or twice. No excuse - just stuck in the back looking at riders butts for 4 hours tends to make my mind wander…
I’ve only seen a larker a couple of times - and boy did those folks pick the wrong jumps to school on. There’s a reason we didn’t jump those coops. 'Nuff said.
Let’s see - - - - - something easy…
Rate.
What isThruster?
What is a Thruster??
We have a few at our hunt.
Someone who bullies their way to the front of the field and butts in line to be the first over a panel and/or takes their own line to be the first to jump.
I mentioned to someone the other day that I had been “thrown out” of the field and they looked at me in horror asking whatever did I do to be treated like that?
So…what exactly had I done?
That obnoxiuos asshole up the sharp end.
A thruster is a rider that keeps at the front of the field.
“thrown out” I believe is a term generally used for a whip that is left out of the action due to a run taking an unexpected turn away from them.
someone please explain what coffee housing is??
Certainly- it refers to chitchat (usually too loud!) among members of the field, when they shouldn’t be making any noise at all. As though they were at a coffeehouse rather than out hunting. It’s a no no because 1) huntsman, whippers-in and field master need to be able to hear the hounds so they know what is happening, and where, 2) at times it has the potential to distract hounds. I’ve been amused/annoyed when in whipper-in position, a quarter mile or more away from the field, I could hear them!
Sidenote, ‘any’ noise that interferes with a huntsman’s ability to hear the hounds is a faux pas. This is why it is so valuable to have a horse that stands still. If they are being circled in dead leaves, or pawing in dead leaves, that creates a heck of a racket!
I’m still confused!
I guessed skirter…didn’t I get skirter?!!..somebody please tell me if I know what a skirter is!!! If I was wrong; please tell me!
Skirter, skirter, skirter…too much trivia for so small a brain!
hmmmmm…
EVERY hunt has coffee housing! EVERY hunt! At some point, at some time. And I have done it…I admit it…I’m in rehab for it…go to a group meetings once a week…“Hello, I’m Waterglen and I’m a coffee houser!”…There MAY be a group near you!
A skirter is a hound that doesn’t follow the exact line and cuts corners.
Rate - warning or correction of the hounds by the Master or Huntsman.
Gee and I haven’t foxhunted or done Pony Club in over 20 years but that one stuck in the brain.
What is “lark”?
Jumping fences unnecessarily and generally fooling about.
I always thought that coffee housing was someone trying to distract or annoy others by talking and messing about when you are supposed to be either lining out or watching hounds
Billet is fox sh**
What about Curdog?
Curdog - any dawg that don’t hunt.
Also used to rate hounds interested in taking a break and going over to meet or eat a local pet dog - we’ll say “CURDOG” to tell the hound to ignore the dawg.
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Curdog - any dawg that don’t hunt. [/QUOTE]
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