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Brimmer

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  1. Good post, nothing worse than double digs to jills or small hobs getting dragged about, especially when you are looking at digs that deep.
  2. What you have not done it yet? Get the bugger done instead of asking questions, an hour in the field will answer a thousand questions.
  3. Aye like the lads have said already, looks ok, give it a go. If you are really worried though, you could probs try fitting the ferrets with the new Deben ferret armbands, they are only £129.99, a bit pricey like we have come to expect, but i wouldn't enter a ferret without them!
  4. Its ages since i tried messing around with the combinations, did the 15 foot box knock slower with the 8 foot collar? or was it the other way round? Also i'm sure my MK1 box picked Andy 410's mk 3 collars up when i was out with him, but it knocked slower with that combo i think.
  5. Sorry to hear about that feller. Hope you get some justice. How many of you fellers think its just dumb kids doing it, or people that should know better? Years ago I had a few taken by some kids, luckily some young lads i knew found out about it, and got them back for me. Probably better that way!
  6. I find about 50% alcohol in the water stops it freezing up!
  7. Got a stranger dropped in my yard last back end, shows promise, knocking a few holes in things.
  8. There's still something in there feller.
  9. Depends on the warren, anything that could end up trouble then as said, probs 3 pm. Funny how sometimes you still find yourself digging like a maniac at 4pm as the light is fading. Better question though, do you stay put, or go home?
  10. My ferret has not been entered for weeks! I keep trying him around pipes, uinder the bush, but he wont go in. Might try him in a 3 holer next, i'm sure he's got to go in one of them!
  11. How long before you up sticks and move Ideation? Sure its not going to be many more seasons until you are chasing the rabbits somewhere else!
  12. Nice one Tomo and the boys, decent bag for up there in present years.
  13. Try the living off the land section for recipes
  14. More rabbit recipies should be put up, good thread.
  15. This is my thinking on it, i have eight at present, I could probably make do with four if I had the perfect ferret at the right age every year, four good ferrets could just about outwork me if I was out three days a week. Now the reason behind having a few, different ground, needs a different approach, some of the slopes and lowland are deep warrens, hence a couple of decent jills to move the rabbits, then on the high ground with shallow digs, a couple of decent hobs to get the job done fast with no nets. Then the part that shows up how soft some of us are, my oldest at 6 now is still
  16. You think they are building up again slowly mate? Yep but only with carefull management, lucky the rabbiters on the surrounding farms are not as dedicated, we are probs only averaging 20 or so, think next year we will be something like.
  17. Cookie, that would be an average, as you have said, its your first year on thl, if you go and trawl through the posts in was putting up 3 years ago, i think you,d probably get your answer.
  18. get a fooking grip. Bit fooking touchie arent you so are saying some only ferret 3 months a year Not fooking touchie at all, just could not be arsed typing an essay in defense of the folks who knock it on the head, rather than carry on. I may have been blunt, but thats how I'd be if I was stood in front of you. Now with a little bit more time, I'll discuss it in a propper manner. Firstly, how ever you conduct yourself in the field, or any one else, is none of my business, people do things differently, each to there own. My only gripe really is for somebody who obviously doe
  19. Agreed, good to see the days work. Even the hard to shift ones!
  20. Kind of mate, stiff wire in the shape of a "D" with the net tied to this and being a funnell shpe out behind, in principal the rabbit runs into the D end and is caught in the bag behind, I'm not sure if this would be any better than setting the purse nets like we do now, I would think the good thing is they wont collapse like a purse net can when it's set in a run, but maybe the down side is they wouldn't work both ways, in that if a rabbit hits it from behind and not through the D, I don't know if they wiil work. Just wondered if anyone had tried them before. When my mate makes a couple I'l
  21. You mean like a bag, or sack?
  22. Shame about the little feller, accidents happen. Terriers are a liabilty full stop, they are a dog without reason, built to do a job. Drop your guard for a second and it will be exploited. Like you said lessons learned, more secure housing in the future i think.
  23. Only just seen this, nice one Micky. Less than a pound for a rabbit is just disrespectful towards the animal. Buggers.
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