rosspti
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Nice one mate - that's the way to do it! If you do a good job, he'll promote you to his neighbours too. Let him know exactly how many you're getting so he knows you're on to it. As for the season, well I started on August 31st. No kits or anything down here - so I expect you'll be ok up there in the North Pole!!! Get on it!
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Here's a link to that one, thanks for the tip Salclalin! http://brian.brinded.tripod.com/id22.html
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I suppose there's no way of knowing for sure where pasties were invented, but I can tell you for sure that Cornish Pasties were invented in Cornwall, and that's all that matters cause all the others are total shite! Oggy Oggy Oggy!
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Sounds like skulduggery to me!
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Hi Biffa, Log in to Hunting Life. Go to My Controls, and then click on Edit Profile Information down on the left hand side. Scroll down and you wll see a "Country" button, with a drop down menu of all different locations. Cornwall is at the bottom. Best wishes
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Hi, me too.. Sir James Smith's 1993 - 1999. Best wishes
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Thanks to IanB & Stubby for sorting out the Cornish Flag option in the Control Panel. If you want details, go to the Ferret Forum and check out my post with the same name as this one. Best wishes Rosspti
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I just want to say a big thank you to Stubby & IanB for sorting out the Cornish National Flag in the Control Panel. There's not many Cornish boys on here, but for those few of us that are.... you can now use our flag if you wish to. For me, I always wanted to use it and so I put one in instead of an Avatar. But now, thanks to the Mods, I can use the flag of St Piran. I know we can use the Union Flag for the UK, but it's nice to have our individual Nations represented. BLURB IF YOU'RE INTERESTED WHO ARE THE CORNISH? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornish_people INFO ON ST PIRAN'
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Hi all I have been making purse nets for quite a while now - and while the speed could be improved, I'm pretty happy with my ability. If I sit back infront the TV and have a relaxed go at it, I can complete a 3'6" spun poly (including drawcord & peg in about 2 hours, start to finish. Thats with 16 meshes wide the whole way through. Don't know if that's good or bad speed, but it suits me. If I get a damaged pursenet I repair it by cutting away the entire damaged bit and starting from there with a new section, and finish with a new ring. However, I also have a longnet (100 yar
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Hi Robbo. Harlyn is lovely. Forecast not looking to bad for you either mate! Plenty of rabbits out on the sand dunes and the golf courses around St Enodoc and Trevose. You going off the rocks, or out on a boat from Padstow? This is one I took ferreting along the coast between Port Isaac and Padstow. Big set on a slope leading down to a cliff. We set loads of purse nets with a long net above the cliff - cause there were holes down over the cliff for them to head for. Had a few, but the scenery made it one hell of a day. Awesome! We even had a seal watching us!
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All land is private land when it comes to hunting. There's nowhere that you can hunt or ferret without permission. I don't hold with poaching or trespassing at all.
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I don't know where you're on about mate but the land that we were working is all private land. I went with the chap who works for the farmer and has the sole permission. I expect your mate has permission somewhere else mate. ATB
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Yes, I was lucky to get invited there! It's a long story but the chap with the sole permission works for the landowner, and also does sheep shearing with my best friend who contracted him into his shearing team. They both shear my Dad's sheep. The other lad with the lurcher is a friend of the chap with the permission - and he also works at the butchers where we get our lambs done for local customers. That's how we all got to know each other! My & my best friend do a lot of shooting and ferreting, and so when he started shearing with this chap we all teamed up for a day.
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Quite a few miles from Millpool boy. Why do you ask?
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Definately some conflicting experiences here! I bit the bullet on Stubby's advice and filled their bowl yesterday lunchtime (with 200g of Alpha Ferret Kibbles). By late afternoon I would say that less than a quarter (50g) had gone which is around 25g per ferret. But this morning, it didn't look like they had eaten anything else! Tonight I will weigh what's left in there to see what's left after 2 days' feeding. I'll top back up to 200g total and see how it goes from there on. The food says to feed ad lib, but to restrict to 5% of body weight per day if they're getting too big (i.e.
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I would say 20 weeks is a good age to start them on real warrens. Don't expect miracles at that age, but the more you work a ferret the better it will get in all respects: hunting, handling, etc. Get them well used to collars before you start using them. I can't see a problem with collaring them from 10 weeks - just for a half hour here and there to get them used to it. Maybe with some treats while they're collared - as a distraction. They should be completely happy with being collared before putting them to earth. If you can get some pipes for them to practice in then again, the s
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Thats right, the first one is on your left with all the fish out on display - that's my brother's. The one one the right does crabs and lobsters - thats another fisherman's.
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Lancastrian eh? Pretty sure I know who you are now. I haven't been out as much as I used - but usually get out with the NCH a few days over the season. I shall try to get out to Hamatethy for the Opener.
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If that ferret makes it through he'll be a beauty for you mate!
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Hi Springfield! Yes, theres not many of us on here. Dytkos & Langaroux are the only ones I have found so far I think. I hope I'm not annoying the rest of the forum with all my Cornish posts, but 'tis 'an'some you! Oggy Oggy Oggy Kernow Bys Vyken
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Thanks Dytkos. Took my girlfriend (now fiancee) up there that day. She's from Cumbria so quite close to the Pennines. We both thought it was bloody awesome! I love it up at Fernacre - even went ferreting up there a few years ago. Fred Sampson's website says they're here on the 10th October - which is a shame cause Sarah's Mum & Dad are visiting from Cumbria and the girls are off wedding dress shopping Might be able to convince her Dad to go with me tho. However if it is the 16th (as you say) then For anyone that doesn't know Cornwall, Fernacre is a remote farm up on B
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OK chaps, I've been hunting shooting and ferreting for about 15 years now (since I was 12). Well, actually I was taken out car-following the hunt from before I could walk!!! However it's been a while since I had my own personal ferrets. I have for a few years relied on friends' ferrets who I have invited along to my land, or gone to their land. I make my own nets, etc. and have my own land to go on - but it's been a long time since I had kits cause when I went away to Seale Hayne (college) I had to get rid of my old ferrets and passed them on to a very good home. Anyway... So I am g
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Were you out Fernacre when the Pennines came down last year?
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I got two new hob kits recently from the same litter (i.e. brothers). They were born mid june and are about 11 weks old now. I have been feeding them on Alpha kibbles as was my best friend who bred them. They'll be on whole rabbit later on once the weather cools down and the flies die off. I have been feeding them daily with two small handfuls to share. I thought they were growing away nicely. This weekend they were reunited with another brother for the first time in 3 weeks on a ferreting trip. We weren't working them, the younguns just came along for the trip. My friend and I were
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Thanks. We were pleased with the numbers too! The lads who took me here ferret these moors all year round cause there's so many rabbits and so little vegetation on the hedges.
