Guss33
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From what I have read on here and spoken to a few people you need to use dustless wood chips. I personally prefer the wire floor and rags for bedding as that’s my preference. I do also have one cage that has a timber floor for when I have young kits.
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Thanks For all of that it looks quite like a difficult way of doing it but like said it’s easier to carry across paddocks just out of interest what would be the weigh difference with between a quick set net and the traditional system.. I am lucky on where we go as we are able to drive up to were we hunt with little or no long walks.
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As strange as it sounds I no what a quick set net is and a gate net is. As I live in Australia I don’t have the advantage on what you guys ha e by walking into a shop I made my own quick set net baskets with the advice from other members on this site and it was a great information, thanks to all that helped . But can someone please explain the differents between a quick set net and a traditional net , l understand all the other net systems that you talk about just not sure on exactly what a traditional net is please.
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Just out of interest could a change of weather effect the way mixi works as where I live in Victoria Australia we can end up with 4 seasons in one day. It may sound crazy but is it possible.
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Is it possible that a majority of the rabbits have being vaccinated from mixi like us humans from the corona virus and only the anti vaccination rabbits got it , sorry I deal with a lot of people ( turkeys ) that don’t believe in vaccination they believe it is a government conspiracy thing.
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Gday bud how did you go did you end up getting a few ferrets two is always a good way to go as they keep each other company.. and any luck on where you live with rabbits is their any about. Stick with it and stay around on this site as their is a lot you can learn from. Stick around and fill us in. Never give up.
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Do the whippets need to be worked on a regular basis or are they like the grey hounds who sleep all day from their hard night of sleeping, obviously you need to walk them everyday. My mate that I hunt with has two of them but he is on a large property and they seem to run all day long. They are a fantastic dog for ferreting and do run down the rabbits that try to get away.
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I have seen it here in Australia off and on at different times of the year but been lucky that the myxi hasn’t cleaned out the property’s where I go. From what I have seen it doesn’t seem to stay around very long.
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We have found them excellent and like said they can be a hassle to carry but just about all the places we hunt we are able to drive up to the warrans. And it makes it easy when we use up to 40 of them at once. We do a lot of long netting but with our long nets we use 8 mm steel rods as the fibreglass ones you guys use wouldn’t last a weekend with us as most of the ground is like concrete we also use ground nets but we find them a pest to get the rabbits out when you have a dozen is so
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They look good when time comes to start working them put them with their parents both if possible for some reason they seem to pick it up a lot quicker that’s the one thing I have noticed, I am doing exactly that this year with two of my kits that I am keeping get them up and going then give my 2 older ones away as pets and just keep turning stock over each year.
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It’s good to see a great catch well done.
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And know their is five. They all seem to be happy but I won’t leave them all together for another week or two. It so far so well I think he will just end up being a cage mate to the rest of them
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My kids already have a pet ferret each and they only go hunting when the kids go.
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Well I have handle him well and gained his trust and introduced him to one of my good hunters and they have become great together over time I will put him with the rest of my good hunters but at this stage he will stay home as I don’t think he would be any good. I will hope to find him a good home as a pet once I am convinced he stops nipping.
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Looks like you have a good crew well done
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Well slowly getting their I have introduced another ferret to him and so far it’s all worked out I don’t think he will make it to be a hunter but my kids want to keep him as a pet. He is not as spooked any more and is easer to Handel and not nipping as much.
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I being getting the od rabbit with young ones as well since around June till now and that’s here in Australia, but we aren’t that concerned as we still have plenty hopping around. It’s great to see young kids getting out their catching rabbits and you got a good feed of rabbits.
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The well as you can see my cagers are around 4 foot long and around 18 inches wide they have wire mesh all round for ventilation,the double story cage has a water boll on both levels so just in case the ferret is unable to get from one level to another. During Summer I hang heshon bags over the front of the cages and wet them down. During the days we get the 4 or 5 day heat waves I run a sprinkler hose on the front of the cavers on low and for the young ones under around 10 weeks or under in age I Bot frozen bottles of water in the cage to help keeping them cool. Where I live in Australia the
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We run two whippets that my mate has and they work well would love to have one myself but I wouldn’t be Abel to have a lot of time to work one as it spend most days at home alone as I work long hours. They work well together and seem to out run the rabbits very well and generally bring them straight back with generally minimal bruising to the rabbits, and they are stock friendly with the farmers stock with no dramas. But always let the farmer know that you are bringing dogs on their property.t
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I seperate mine from their mother at around 8 to 10 weeks if I am going to sell the of. If I am keeping them I leave them with their mother and work them with her. In Australia we call it weening them of from their mother. The hardest thin I have found is introducing new young ferrets to my existing ones I use for hunting it takes a lot of perseverance swapping bedding around so the get use to the smells swapping them from cage to cage then introducing them to each other. That is the biggest challenge that I have found , but I did get a lot of good information and advice from other people from
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Welcome to the to the web site stick around you will learn a lot of good stuff on it. Well you are right from what I have seen on this site and also on YouTube things are different from country to country, the first thing I start my ferrets of at around 6 to 9 months old and as I bread my own I run them with their mother who is a great hunter, but when time comes to introducing them to my existing stock it is from time to time challenging from stoping them from punching on . The other main one is in most countries people use ferret locators on their ferrets and seem to do a lot of digging, whe
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When l was talking about bells I was saying to put them on the net in several places so when a rabbit hits the net on the opposite side to where you are you would hear the bells or if the ferret was trying to get through the net. The one thing I have never done is have collars on any of my ferrets as I have always been concerned about them getting caught on a tree root. I often also set nets around large piles of hard rubbish and wood sheds never liked the idea of collars. Has anyone ever had any problems with the use of collars..
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We do a lot of garden beds and wood piles never lost a ferret yet the only thing really is to have plenty of eyes on the whole net to make sure the ferrets take of. One thing I have often thought about is putting on a few fishing bells unsure if it would spook the rabbits. The other one I have learnt is when you put the ferrets into an overgrown garden the rabbits will climb to the to and hide. We put one or two ferrets down low and two or three on top depending on the size of the garden.
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had a ferret returned to me the other week that we sold to a bloke. He said he had no time for it and it bites, well when we sold the ferret to him we had used it a few times and was a good worker and didn’t bite or nip, and had been fixed up ( in Australia we call the cut bucks ) unsure on what you call them over your part of the world. Any way got him back a week ago and he was in a cardboard box backed up in the corner with a slight shake. Put him in a cage by himself to settle down and after a few hours found him hiding in his sleeping box, when I tried to get him out he latched onto my ha
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That would be fantastic if you could send me his details. Anyway this is one of the nets I have been using the mesh size on the small mesh is 40mm square and the larger one is 100mm square I have one set up in a quick set net system that I built my own basket with the help of many people from this site and the net is80 meters long with the poles 8 feet apart and found it to work very well . Don’t have any photos of it set up but next ti e I use it I will take some. S
