Devon County Hunt Sabs

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If you support our work and want to contribute a couple quid towards our fuel and equipment fund, you can do so via paypal.me/DCHS 10/10

We're catching up with recent hit reports but our priority is sabbing as much as possible before the season ends, so there's a bit of a delay on the admin side. 09/10

They boxed up before 4pm at Woodland Farm, where the hound van and several horse trailers were parked for the day. 08/10

With not much to see all day, hunt supporters David Evans and Helen Dunn turned to their usual belligerent antics, both of them seemingly desperate to get their fingers caught up in the propellers of our drone at takeoff and landing. 07/10

The presence of sabs averted a digout, protecting the hunted fox as well as the resident badgers at the sett. 06/10

It wasn’t until they got to the Frogmore Copse valley north of Stowford that hounds picked up on the line of a fox, following the scent in full cry all the way east to Island Copse. Hounds marked a badger sett, indicating that a fox had gone to ground. 05/10

After drawing another blank in a scrubby area around Breakneck Cross, Jason took hounds via Sandy Lane back towards the area north of the meet and into Woodland Wood and Higher Ford Wood. 04/10

They continued north through Bottomley Wood towards Stowford Wood, hounds failing to pick up on any scent. 03/10

The hunt set off north towards Stowford, first drawing a blank in a large gorse patch and then carrying on east towards Breakneck Cross, with huntsman Jason Marles on foot a lot of the time. 02/10

The Eggesford Hunt 26.2.26

Eggesford met at Higher Biddacott on the edge of Chittlehampton. They seemed a little surprised to find a small team of sabs already waiting for them in the fields north of the meet. 🧵🦊 01/10

If you support our work and have the means to do so, please consider contributing to our fuel and equipment fund paypal.me/DCHS 15/15

If you have any information on where these last few remaining meets may be occuring, or information regarding the locations of the staghounds, please pass it on. 14/15

Fox and hare hunting season may be coming to a close, but spring stags hunting is from March-April, and mink hunts start again in the summer! 13/15

The end of March/beginning of April marks the end of the fox hunting season, but unfortuanely that's not where it all ends. 12/15

Given that two days before this, a farm adjacent to these woodlands lost several heavily pregnant ewes to a dog attack, it was clearly not wise/respectful to send a pack of uncontrollable hounds to tear through the surrounding woodland. 11/15

After some grumpy mumbling and with sabs on his tail, he soon gave up and headed back to the meet. James then got into his pickup truck and alongside some of the quadbikes set off to try to find the remaining hounds. 10/15

The last time he attempted to hunt these woods James lost most of the hounds. To everyone’s shock, the exact same thing happened again! 09/15

Having clearly not learnt his lesson from the last time he hunted the area, James decided it would be a good idea to put the hounds into the various woodlands and plantations of Swardicott, Waydown, and Newcourt. 08/15

James (still hunting on foot) took the hounds north through the valley all the way to Woodhead, where he remounted and headed back to the meet, where they stopped briefly for a quick sausage roll or two before heading out again. 07/15

Hounds tore through the large plantation, passed a nearby dog agility training session, and down to Higher Gortleigh where they lost the scent. 06/15

Seemingly frustrated by this, James’ continued without his horse, putting the hounds into some woodland near a sewage works, where they picked up on a line and shot off in full cry north, eventually ending up into Upcott Wood again. 05/15

Some time passed before we found huntsman and hounds heading towards Sheepwash. With James perched on the back of a quadbike and no field to be seen, the convoy headed into Sheepwash where we found the field at the pub with James’ horse in tow. 04/15

It wasn’t long before hounds had picked up on a line but were just as quickly rated off by nearby sabs, though terrierman Ben Vincent encouraged them back onto it and the hounds headed north into Upcott Wood. 03/15

Stephen James left the meet into an adjacent field and took the hounds straight to a nearby woodland at Upcott Barton and dismounted. 02/15

The Stevenstone Hunt 21/02/2026

We headed over to Sheepwash to see the Stevenstone Hunt celebrate the birthday of a hunt member in a damp shed. 🧵🦊 01/15

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We sabbed all three meets of the Eggesford Hunt last week, at Kingsland, Higher Biddacott, and Lower Gorhuish, and then we also sabbed their meet at Edgemoor Farm on Monday. 🧵🦊01/03

Pay Devon County Hunt Sabs using PayPal.Me Go to paypal.me/dchs and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

Foxes are giving birth and nursing their young right now, so we're prioritising being out as much as we can to protect them. If you support our work, please donate to our fuel and equipment fund via paypal.me/DCHS 03/03

Multiple foxes were helped to safety by sabs and digouts were prevented. In turn, we were subjected to the usual tantrums from the usual suspects. Full hit reports to follow! 02/03

We sabbed all three meets of the Eggesford Hunt last week, at Kingsland, Higher Biddacott, and Lower Gorhuish, and then we also sabbed their meet at Edgemoor Farm on Monday. 🧵🦊01/03