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    Top man, the smile says it all
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    If you can get your hands on an eel net double sided one that will catch you hundreds. I use a dead rabbit or pigeon in the trap that I have shot, road kill just as good. Set the trap away from the bank for bigger crays you get the smaller ones closer in. They do burrow into banks so a slightly rocky stony area will be best, leave the trap 2 days and there will be hundreds in if its like my ponds. All that's left of the bait is the odd bone, they start to eat each other if you leave them any longer. Grade the crays throw back the small ones (if your allowed to) and hey presto a couple of hund
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    thats a good rabbit population you have there these lurchers i breed would love that game unfortunatly the rabbit population in south wales is crap well done lads and keep at it have a good 2012 That why there alot of welsh boys up this way cant belive you have to drive 60 miles for some ferretting . Cheers Cookie There are plenty up these parts but it's not easy game. The lurchers are a magnet to the law you get people ringing them all the time when your out and about, we carry letters of consent or ring them and let them know where and when we are going to keep them off our case.
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    Collie dogs are not the best for catching rabbits, we sometimes tether them to stop them putting their noses down the holes and dragging nets off when we are netting up.
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    Don't up what's happened with the pic will put it back on. sorry guys
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    It was a great couple of hours, it was fun to see Tilly drag the spade chasing the rabbit, she would have had it if not tethered. Mind you I reckon I could have caught it when it ran towards me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4LpIL1oLNQ
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    It was just a couple of days since we were last out but the lads were keen as mustard to get back out there and bash some bunnies. I had decided to give the chicken farm a go, we did this late last year but it's just amazing how well they recover here. This was a Christmas bonus, that's because it's a dam site easier than most of the land we do mainly grass and a railway banking. We arrived about 8.30am to find a raw wind blowing so we were keen to get going and warm up. I can honestly say it was reasonably slow the first hour, not what we had expected BUT we knew what this place can hold s
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    Just thought I would say happy christmas and new year to you all, hope you all get the pressies you want.
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    Good write up mate, just got to get some of those wellies he is setting a trend, wonder who has got the strangest ones out there.
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    Should be a few on the chicken farm Stevo, easy ferreting for a change woop de do.
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    http://youtu.be/6Y81-0uSIts A quick 4 from the res bank before we called it a day. We always pull the tail off any rabbits the dog nails so we know it could be bruised.
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    will stick a couple of short vids on when I get time
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    Well the weather has put us back a bit this season, all that rain and wind was a bit too much when I have been down with a bad cold for weeks. But with the cold subsiding and the weather deciding it wanted to be spring for a few days we thought (be rude not to) With a few new/young ferrets in our possession we thought it would be a good day to try them out and see if we could get them working. It takes time and patience with most but some just take straight to it. We could have done some easy grass bankings, I have been getting pestered to do but thought throw them in at the deep end. Thick
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    They are great eating but a pain to shell when you have a few hundred to do. I net them from local farm ponds and I can hardly haul the nets out after 2 days there are so many in there. I use a dead pigeon or rabbit as bait with a double sided eel net and have had some huge ones that would take your fingers off.
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    Its a messy job you don't want to be doing this then ramming your hand down the hole to retrieve a ferret and rabbit.
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    Last year was really cold but still have to sort those rabbits out.
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    http://youtu.be/oPcc4q-P4e0 Hard rocky ground makes digging difficult but we don't like to leave any rabbits behind. This set produced 12 rabbits but they didn't give up lightly.
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    I can honestly say I have never had rabbits as big as these we got, they were huge apart from the odd ones. They must have been feeding well on the crops, it had been a beet field at one side and is a rape field the other. Guess all that sugar was good for them, I keep telling my missus cut the sugar back as it puts pounds on the hips.
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    Yes mate some kind of old age thing I guess
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    Yes mate your welcome, it's solid around here another pair of hands would have been good today.
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    Well it was my 50th birthday on Sunday and we had arranged for a trip today (Monday) I was a bit under the weather as you can imagine but still as eager as ever. We dropped back on to the last hedgerow we left of at last time when we nailed 56, but still plenty to go at. You could see half the field was grazed really bad by the rabbits so the signs were good for some hectic sport and it didn't let us down. Although the fog was really bad, the worse thing was it took longer to get light in the morning, this put us back half an hour. When we eventually got under way the rabbits were in a go
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    Sorry I duplicated it
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    Had one last week with what looked like half a tennis ball on its back, thought Ray had some dodgy offspring, you never know with him lol.......
  25. stevethefish
    Spot on as always good write up matey.
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