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The comment i made was directed at people who put a uncollared ferret in a warren and hope for the best, your insult was directed at me. how much ferreting do you do Mr Shitter You make your statement as if it were the ultimate truth. Locators are very handy items, I'll agree and I have one. It is however quite possible provided you follow the guidelines I earlier suggested, to ferret very successfully without one. Ferret locators are very exspensive, and while perhaps you are on the national average wage of £30,000 or so, a lot of folks are like me getting by on low incomes. Ferreting ha
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In the spring when the barley fields are sprouting, moley sometimes makes long runs where he pushes the earth up and doesn't tend to make heaps. At 10 am if you take a look he might be working, pushing up more at the end. It is dark soil. You can tiptoe very gently (Very Gently)and insert a spade behind him and he's yours. Then follow Ditches advice as they can bite.. Where I live, moles tend to work 10 am 3 pm ish, odd I know.
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I've used rabbit fenns with success in tunnels. I used tunnels with lift off lids to facilitate setting. You can use twigs or pieces of wire even inside the fenn if they aren't too long, to guide the mink. I also found that if they are skipping through and not stepping on the plate, a wire mesh barrier 4" or so from the trap can make the prance about enough to get nabbed. That obviously blocks the tunnel and you need two traps in it to catch from both ends. Quite a risk if you get traps nicked.
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You can manage fine without one mate. Just choose situations where the sets are not massive. Take an extra pair of eyes with you in the form of a mate if you're working hedges or places where you can't see all the holes. If you get a lay up, lay down and listen at hole mouths, and if you decide to dig, use a stick or a piece of wire or similar to judge direction. Mainly small burries though and you won't go far wrong. NB this time of year, pack in soon after lunch time, then if owt happens, you've three or four hours to sort it. Good hunting mate.
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Aye it's shite losing them, but it happens. They're escape experts and exploit any opportunity. I do hope you get him back. I've shed tears in the past, I'm not shamed to admit, for a lost friend.
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Personally, I'd definitely go for the kindness thing rather than any punishment. Be kind and behave and talk gently and be consistent. Reward good behaviour. A word also about the breeding, I was once given a jill, and she was fine, but was so flighty, she could turn in a flash. She never really locked on to me, but drew blood a few times. It was in breeding, as I met a friend of the original owner, and was informed that several of his ferrets were biters, and were best tailed. I wouldn't bother with a biter now, but as its young, it's well worth giving her time to settle and come good.
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My best is 22 with 1 ferret. Everything went well too, these guys must have good ground, as there aren't 230 rabbits on all my ground.
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Excellent day out lads well done.
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just ring steve or peter on 01255 428988 and ask for 50yd long net with 100%bag=850 meshes long and they come 14 full meshes deep(4 1/4).ianrob has posted that they have increased in price to £11 since i purchased my 2,still a good deal in my opinion,don't forget to purchase the nylon braid for head and foot lines.hope this helps.all the best you can email, and they'll phone you back. They quote without vat, so remember to add that on if you don't want a surprise. A 1kg spool of 3mm braid costs just over £7 when it's £14 elsewhere so their prices are very good. -
I just bought a hundred yards of 4z sheet net to make a fifty yarder from Advanced and they charged me £11 +vat, did you get yours a while ago?
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Aye well done, you'll remember that one.
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A good day. I take my hat off to you. I always get myself ratty before I go, never remember my camera. Collars, beeper, nets, longnets, pegs, guy lines, "for bracing pegs when turning corners", spade, wellies. Everything loaded, and off we go, an unusually quiet and peaceful drive, not usually this quiet, oh feck!!!!! the ferrets, back home, do you want a cup of tea, I haven't time for feckin' tea. Is that rain on the windscreen. Though when it's good, it's good.
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I drilled a 3/4" hole under where I put the bottle on the hutch, problem cured. Before You tell me a hutch is not suitable, they are out playing twice a day, digging like crazy in a un-used glasshouse. My boys love me, I've got the scars to prove it.
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Slightly off subject but very funny. A few years ago, I was treasurer of Gretna Wildfowlers club. These two guys from down South used to come up for Christmas Hols every year and this year was no exeption. They turned up at my door and explained who they were, and after a phonecall we sorted fees and they left. A couple of mornings later after morning flight, I was with an old mate Douggie Ritchie, when they passed, and I remarked about one of them having a full arm plaster cast on. Douggie nearly died laughing, he said do you know what happened, I didn't, so he told me. The guy had been worki
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All good points, thanks everyone.
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I hope you get her back mate. It's the game, mostly it goes well, but!!! sometimes it's shite.
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Yep definitely a kick out.
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hello Ian differant places have differant terms i suppose, you say potatoe, i say potartoe kind of thing. You also say about the grip of cottton on your nets whilst working an end wind, have you thought about a problem that may happen such as the following. A few yrs ago i had a net with the bagging tied in, where the cotton thread held the nets mesh to the head line a balled up mess allways happened when working an end wind. You would get meshes pass through others that were held by the stitching and at night this was a real pain. If the cotton lines were to cause friction and cause a m
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Yes I mean running lines, but as you'll see from my previous reply, they were always refered to as bands where I live.
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Yes I mean running lines, and this may be the correct term for them. I was taught to call them bands, and I feel this was the common term for them at one time and that the term banting was probably a corruption of that term, as people tended to use old bands for cording in a field. I have 5mm cord as the running line on one net and use 2mm on others, it just happened that a spool of braid I got from KP&s nets was heavier, and no I don't find 2mm or less any less stretchy. As I said, Harold Wyman has his running line a continuous loop looped through the eyes of his pins but n
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I don't think there is any real difference, just looks. I like poly's to me they look right. I however have white boys now and they're great. I might aquire a little poly jill and see what I get, but I don't think there is any real difference, other than appearance.
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A really nice piece of ground and a nice catch, good pics too.
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I was looking through Harold Wymans' book, and noticed how critical he was about tying the top and bottom bands to the end pegs, a thing I have always done. In theory it makes your bottom band about a foot shorter than the top band. If the bands are nylon as mine are 5mm braid, they stretch 10 feet in a hundred yards and this means your top band is stretched 10' and your bottom band 9', and I have never had a problem with my bottom band being too slack. I appreciate that cotton bands would have very little give in them, has anyone used them, and how do they handle. Also does anyone know where
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Half the fun's working in the dark, but how good's your outfit and is it hands free?. You could possibly scan the field first, but if the light you look at is bright you could spoil your own dark adjusted sight. Possibly however it could be of use. I've never seen one far less used one.
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I used to have instructions for just such a problem, saved them to disk and bought a new disk player that has wrecked everything on it. Personally I just get a needle loaded with the appropriate twine and a net gauge. A pair of scissors in the back pocket is handy. I hang the net in the direction it was knit, and sort it. If I need to cut thread and restart I do. I hope someone can give better advice, as there are set ways to carry out repairs, and while I manage, not everyone is happy to work that way. On the bright side, at least you got loads of rabbits.