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  1. Brimmer
    Like bloody footballs, and run like them too!
  2. Brimmer
    Just leave them longer, they will sort it out. put my biggest poley hobs back together last week (brothers), ok for five minutes then they kicked off. like a live dog fight in the back yard. settled in 10 mins when left to it.
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    biggest rabbit comp on the way!
  4. Brimmer
    Donkey jackets are the way to go, until all your ferrets look like miners from the 's! Straw is a good bed, but have found ticks amongst it from time to time, hay does flatten and hold damp. Shavings and old clothes seem to make great beds for ferrets.
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    Make sure the collar is in an upright position like it would be on a ferrets neck, it shocked me how accurate a collar and box is like this. A member off here pointed it out, try laying the collar down on its side and see how far off the reading can be!
  6. Brimmer
    Mint!
  7. Brimmer
    Back on topic, have found in the past on untouched ground you would sometimes get 3 or 4 big bucks out of a warren, i think personally that these animals are all brothers from that years breeding and have not moved out to there own spots yet. They can be fair old lumps, and carry a lot of timber. Have also found clean rabbits like this in vast tracts of mixi areas, can only put it down to the big bucks keeping everything else away from the warren they are in, (terratorial) and stopping infected animals from passing the fleas on.
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    20000 posts thats all i can look at at present, bleeding eck The One, thats some tally!
  9. Brimmer
    Its never too late for a ferret to stop biting, but at 20 weeks the snappiness should really have been handled out of her by now. Keep at it, still plenty of time yet, even the safest of ferrets can sink the teeth in by accident sometimes, and then it just becomes how tolerant you are to the odd bite, and can you work with it! I'd be just as interested in whether she will work ok in the coming months, its funny how folk will put up with and work with an animal that bites if it does the job! (me included.)
  10. Brimmer
    Those blue nets look handy, bet they purse up a treat!
  11. Brimmer
    Its Tegater isnt it?
  12. Brimmer
    It is interesting, and worthwhile. Are you basing it on pure rabbiting bags, ie = dogs and ferrets, or are lamping, gun, trapping,snaring and drop boxes? Think all you will get in the end is numbers of rabbits, will give a good account of the hotspots and where to find them, and probs headaches for folk who have hunted the spots for years.
  13. Brimmer
    There is an ideal type, but thats purely down to circumstances, like i said before, land, stamina, work and hardiness all have to be considered. All crosses have there place, just weigh up what you want out of a dog, and base it around that.
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    Would make real interesting reading, only kept count in our heads over the years on the yearly totals, wish i would have kept records, rather than approximates. Tonight i will start. As for posting them up, i,m sure a few would be slightly paranoid including myself. Nice topic though, if only for other people to read many years in the future.
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  16. Brimmer
    Sorry to hear about the (dont know what to call it) Magwich. Seen the years of breeding gone into what you have, and am sick to see it gone in a breath. Personally i would like to catch up with the things that took the liberty and smash there fooking heads in with my spade for all to see on camera. If i can help, i'll send you something with a pulse from up north. i know wont replace or fill the boots of what you had going, but a backbone for the future if nothing shows up. All the best from the north, and hope you get a lead. Brim.
  17. Brimmer
    Nice work lads, good haul on a cracking day. Just a word of warning on the scenic shots, you may be opening yourself up to some interest from folks you dont want interested, nice to look at yes, but there;s probs a few looking in and working out just where you are in the world, and not bothering asking for permission. Keep at em lads, good work.
  18. Brimmer
    I prefer a jill with some size to it, like the one says, they dont take any crap. get it worked and if its a cracker get it bred from next year!
  19. Brimmer
    Ferrets lost in the right places go on to thrive, then to breed, and continue breeing out of control over a few years. Not many natural predators will bother them, they are not worth the hassle. Against them, they easy come undone at the hands of keepers traps due to there lack of fear of anything they can eat. A few years back in the dales we had an explosion of ferals, albino's mainly, and a some light poley types, they decimated the large warrens, just living in them, and picking off the residents, we even bolted 3 or 4 rabbits out of a large warren and then found a feral down below smash
  20. Brimmer
    Definitely has a light speedy frame, quick off the mark and turns on a penny, never seems to tire either. Hes got a pretty decent coat aswell which has come in handy when bushing so far and has a good nose. So he's got positives but theres also a few bad points in there. Yaps on the lamp, whines on the lead and wont retrieve but im working on that Yours wont be the only dog with a poor retrieve, dogs have faults, thats a given. People being blessed with a brain have the ability to work with the faults.
  21. Brimmer
    Most dogs whatever breed can be twisted at an early age with the right circumstances to be interested in hunting of some sort. Lets face it, men dont have anything to do with it, not far removed instinct kicks in and away you go, its the way a dog is programmed. As to its ability, basic physique will tell you a lot, most dogs from a working background will catch rabbits by default fom time to time even though being hardly racy in shape, but makes me laugh the more for it! A light speedy frame of any sort will fit the bill to catch, but this is where the complications start, stamina, speed a
  22. Brimmer
    I used to rush them and then wonder why the jills would show good and then suddenley jib out, they really dont like the uppercut, and then never come back. As for the hobs, i've had some crackers come through the ranks over the years that were rushed, i put it down to size being able to handle the hard knocks. I would nowadays as most have said hold them back for a while, and have found the jills especially benefit from starting them late around xmas time.
  23. Brimmer
    a photo would be real handy mate to compare the two.
  24. Brimmer
    Splendid, good work lads, it was hot up there on Sat, the sun and no wind saw the dogs knackered in no time. Thanks for posting, Brim.
  25. Brimmer
    Tegater i'm ashamed of you pulling the topstones off the walls!, next thing you'll be telling me you pull stones out of walls to get at the rabbits! Matty 77, a lot of folk use the line that folks are too eager use the locater, if you know your animals well, you know sometimes its pointless sitting around waiting to leave corpses below the sod whilst the ferret moves on to the next victim. You could wait, and eventually the animal will come back on top when all is dead, and the worker is knackered, or face facts, and get on with it. (i do understand in some regions you may have to dig a bit
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