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  1. Brimmer
    Also i get nailed a few times a year whilst working the critters, it always down to me. They always seem to draw blood, but its always accidental, usually by trying to bully my way past them with my arm up a tube, drawing the rabbit. They wont usually nail you when the job is on, but it happens when they are fired up and not respecting what they do.
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    Picking them up, approach slowly, kneel down at the side of them and offer up your knuckles slowly on one hand before picking them up around the shoulder/neck area. Dont grab or whizz around them, be patient, no matter how long it takes.
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    Looks like you have found the balance there Ideation, its not about starving them at all, its about keeping them in shape. Mine have food every day, and like Tug has just said, the night before, the food is taken out. (they get the livers at the end of the day though!)
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    Shame about the news Shaun, only had a few cherries low down a few weeks ago, on the upper land they were ok last weekend. Deffo the mild winter has set them off early, glad to see the respect given to the animals as soon as they start, most just go with the old any month with an R in it line, and then wonder why there's nothing left to hunt. Good on you feller, only another 8 months now matey.
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    I think you are spot on there Brimmer, and shows a great deal of knowledge on ferrets. The only exception I have is were the ferrets are still in their first year, and I just continue with the same feeding regime every day. Whether this is right or wrong I dont know, but I work on the premise that they are still growing. It must also depend on the natural hunting instinct, and the will to hunt, of each individual ferret. Any ferret can be judged on whether its carrying weight or not by most folks out there, carrying a little timber will not stop them at all, carrying a good bit
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    Thats perfect Charlie, get digging!
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    Anybody in there right mind will not starve a ferret, but personally think there is a huge difference between a hungry animal, and a content one. Just in the basic make up of a predatory animal like a ferret, it has an off switch, this is triggered by food. I have seen it many a time, an animal wont go the xtra bit to do the job when they are content. Do a job? Yes Do the job? ( in my opinion) No. Just look at the wildlife documentary's on telly, how many wild animals bother to hunt when there belly is full? How many horses or greyhounds do you see running the track
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    Dunlop puroport wellies, Flexothane bib and brace, and gortex camo army jacket. (usually only open ground, no thorns!) Underneath anything warm and comfortable, but really like a hoodie for keeping the wind of my lugs and neck sometimes.
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    Nice to hear positive posts like this, well done on the land and the season so far!
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    Yes fished Hornsea north beach under the caravan site on Sunday. Were decent bags of large whiting at range and also dabs, both on black worm tipped with mackerel. Fished better towards high water.
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    Nice one, looking at the longnet piccie, you can see how strong the wind was, nightmare. Also i can remember ruining a yellow lab years ago belonging to my boss, he had it for his shooting, but it didn't take it long to become a ferreting dog. Can be a lot less hassle than most lurchers or terriers. Nice bag, off nice ground.
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    .Woke to the alarm at 6 this morning, 10 hrs earlier the old feller had rung me to arrange going out today as usual, during the night the wind had blown up, and I was sure I was going to get the give it a miss call No call as I walked the terriers in the gales at 6.20 am, no calls whilst I boxed the ferrets at 6.45am, out on the street at 6.59 am waiting for 4 minutes with the ferrets scratching in the box beside me, the spades, the nets, the box with the locaters and collars, the knife, the strap, my wellies, my waterproofs. Oh and my coffee. At 7.03am the truck rolls round the corne
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    Now I have an up to date pc, looking through a few more vids from a few years back, found Billy Bob up to his usual tricks! Bad digging though!
  14. Brimmer
    No just a heavy right hander mate! Lol
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    The bulldog is on the left, allthough ive angled the blade a bit more with the help of a blowtorch, on the right is my old chopped roundmouth, and the middle my current round mouth, a bit of a point helps sometimes with tweaking rocks out.
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    Well worked tool there Mickey!
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    Good result there, we have had a few with cherries in them. Wish rabbits could leave it until April until they started breeding!
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    The Bulldog rabbiting spade is a great piece of kit for knocking small holes into tubes in shallow warrens, and prising rock out of the way to get to the tubes. Now the downside, the angle and size of the spade head make it only usefull in digs up to maybee 2ft deep, the small size of the blade makes it hard to move any decent amount of loose earth or sand in anything over this depth. Saying that, they are probably the best £30 you will spend on any piece of ferreting kit. A chopped two way, or chopped roundmouth will cover all situations, and getting deep as well, maybee 4-5 ft without creat
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    Its is going to get raped to fook, only benefit is you wont have a load of kits around to shift. To be fair on the jill, build another hutch for her.
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    Cracking pics, dont see a lot of brindle dogs around our part nowadays, they were everywhere when i was growing up!
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    Shame you dont live up north Aaron, still a few good collie crosses around where i live, dont know of any litters though.
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    I,d probs just be patient and keep working the ones you have feller, if you have enough work for them, next year they will be better for it. Realistically you will probs only have at best another month until you are finding the rabbits full of young. Only my thoughts on how i,d be doing things though.
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    When they are having young they are well out of the working season, anything beyond Feb they can get as fat as they want!
  24. Brimmer
    A lot of variables in the question. As a general rule i like to give them more than they need, then slowly decrease the amount they get until they are in working shape, i believe this is straight down from the chest and not in an way bulb shaped.
  25. Brimmer
    Dogs a knob, but lets face it, we all learn to work with knobs!
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