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    All the hobs I've had were much more playful than jills and tended to get bossed around until breeding season, then they knock the jills around. I've just put a hob and jill kit in with my 2 adult jills and the one I expected to mother them has totally ignored them while the one I expected to be nasty has treated them like her own from the getgo. If you put yours together and leave them I'm sure they will be curled up together within a couple of days,
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    My 2 are polar opposites, I can take the collie x anywhere and be sure there will not be a problem and I can take the old dog anywhere once...lol At my age I'm starting to think I prefer the collie, though he will never be anything more than a rabbit dog, but I doubt I will ever bond with him as well as I do with the old un. A perfect example of the difference happened yesterday. For the past couple of months I've begun to let both dogs out of the car when we get back from a walk as opposed to what I should do and put Mouse the old dog on the lead. It's no more than 5 yards to the front doo
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    I gave mine a crow a few years ago and found a load of roundworms about 3 inches long in the cage the next day. I suppose freezing would kill anything like that off but it put me off feeding them for good
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    I try to keep the collie cross from being too friendly because he'd be racing round having a game with them if he got half a chance. My other dog is a big hard thing that has taken just about everything there is to take around here at one time or another and he won't go near a ferret unless we're working. To see him bounce away whenever one comes by him is really funny at times, he's like an old woman lifting her skirt and running for the hills. Both of them work well with ferrets and I've never had a worry that there might be an "accident".
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    Mallards are the most common duck round here so it would make sense but are they big enough to lay an egg that size?
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    I've just measured it and it's two and a quarter inches long by one and a half wide
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    No chance mate, way too big. Our hens lay big eggs and this one is at least as big.
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    Out with the dogs today and they started mooching in a bit of bramble in the very centre of the woodland we walk. The old dog then appeared with this in his mouth and I'm stuck as to what laid it. It's at least as big as the eggs we have from our hens, was just lying on the floor with no sign of a nest nearby or in the trees overhead. The only thing I would think big enough to lay it would be a Goose or similar but this was sitting at the highest point in the centre of a fair sized wood and the nearest water or fields that I've seen them is at least a quarter of a mile away. Looking at pictu
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    Teach you to look after them a bit better then wont it . They live in a 9 foot by 6 foot by 6 foot high open air pen with a turfed floor that they can dig tunnels in and get more exercise than 90 per cent of ferrets, and are fed flesh daily so I don't think they have a bad life. The only thing it will teach me is to check the latch.
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    Cheers for that mate, I'm sure there will be plenty around here in a few months. I'm pissed off because the young hob I lost was a real goodun, and I'd had him vasectomised last year, and the 2 jills I got back are a waste of space for rabbiting.
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    I forgot to latch the pen a few days ago and lost all 3 of my ferrets. Since having to have my old jill put down a few weeks ago the only decent worker I'd got was my hob and of course he's the only one I haven't found, the other 2 were still in our garden despite the pen being unlatched for 24 hours or so. I've been hoping against hope a neighbour would find him but it looks like thats not going to happen so if anyone round me is having any litters this year I'll be after a preferably white hob and jill.
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    A dog can walk past a hutch for months and seem fine but there's a big difference when out in the field and excitement takes over. I'd keep it on a lead for the first few outings and see it's reaction there just in case, and experiment with your own ferrets, there's no easier way to lose friends than have a ferret killing dog
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    I always used an opinel in the past, mainly cause they were cheap like me, but my son bought me a locknife for Christmas made with decent steel and the difference is amazing. I think the maker is Camillus, or maybe thats the model name but it's like a razor and really easy to sharpen compared the opinels.
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    I think Terry may be right, especially with the terrible smell you mentioned. I saw a polecat dead in the road the other day and it would have made 2 of my hob, and he's big for a ferret, so a jill would have no chance against one I should think
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    I can remember watching Morcambe and Wise in the 60's and crying with laughter at them, Watched one a few weeks ago and never smiled once, it seemed very dated. Benny Hill and the 2 Ronnies on the other hand still crack me up even today
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    The worst motor I've had was a Renault Traffic van. The hinges on the back doors were alloy of some sort and every few months the wind would catch the doors and snap them like paper. The engine was as tempremental as f**k and the final straw was when smoke started billowing around my feet as I drove along one day because the wiring had set on fire. Never had a French motor since.
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    Me and my mate had a dig to my hob last year and when we broke through the ferret had basically stripped the fur from the rabbits head and face, the fur was still there just not atatched in any way.
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    If the fields are alive with rabbits it could be that the dog can see them and fixes on one of them rather than the one in the beam, especially if there's a bit of moon Both my dogs have done it at odd times over the years,
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    Do rabbits with this RHD sit above ground the same as mixyd ones? A place my dogs were putting 3 or 4 up every time we went a few months ago has been barren for weeks now, but if mixy was the cause I'd have expected them to have a few as it took hold.
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    I had the net and I can't thank Trigger enough, he's a true gent. Meeting his dogs was an experience too, they make my biggest dog look like a yorkie...lol
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    When I was a kid in the 50's and 60's, like most youngsters I was forever hungry. Round our way you were filled up with a "piece of dip" which is a couple of slices of bread dipped in some melted lard and smothered with red sauce. Me and my ,mates lived on that for the first ten years of our lives or so but every one of us was as thin as a whippet and fit as could be. We were also out from dawn till dusk playing football and other games or exploring the local woods. My opinion is that exercise is much more important than what you eat for health.
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    I've eaten it all my life, but you need lots of the brown jelly stuff at the bottom for the best taste.
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    The dog in my avatar is beddy/grey x bull/whippet/grey, and has taken just about everything that can be taken round here over the last seven years or so. He's touchy with other dogs, so hard mouthed anything he catches is turned into mush and will cock a deaf un if it suits him, but my life would be a lot less fun without him
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    I bought a jacket made by Sherwood Forest 2 years ago at the Weston game fair and it's been great, waterproof and really warm in winter without making you sweat like some I've had. I do a lot of mooching through brambles and the like and it's not frayed at all either, it should last a long time.
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    Me too Trigger, 5 years ago I was running my dog on 20-30 rabbits a night on one permission, they let rifles on there and I'd be lucky to see a couple now
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