Brimmer
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Everything posted by Brimmer
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Bleeding eck, feel a bit antiquated with me mark 1 now! Nylon tangly nets all the way for me i'm afraid! The modern ways have changed the ways i do things, especially the quad bike, the rifle cannot be turned down when it comes doing a job, a motor for getting there and back. Personally i think if you just want to embrace all the old ways, you are holding yourself back, guess i'm more of a modernist than i thought!
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Advice once again given from the top of the game.
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Must admit, i like my solitary days out with my russel. Obviously the bag numbers are going to be down as you have to net every hole up, lets face it they are useless at catching anything but the dopiest of rabbits compared to a runner! A good terrier is handy to have around, the marking is superb and no stone is left unturned. Thing is most are, (like my own), swelled headed, a bully and a scrapper around other dogs, determined beyond the point of reason, and far too slow to catch a surface skipper. A dog bred, tried and tested for countless generations being the lurcher suits the bi
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Hows the pest control paying? is it good money? After ferreting the land all year and don't seem to be making a dent in the numbers, are they outbreeding your efforts? I have my own theories on why you have not had to dig, and why there seems to be numbers there, and its not down to hidden warrens.
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They are in short supply, people breeding anything is to blame. A large amount of folk would not get out enough, or into enough work to know whether their animals are any good, and up to breeding standard.
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thats all i can add to that!
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Any ferret I own will lay up, if it does not, then its not made the grade. I'm not afraid of a dig, and only ferrets with that mentality will get some rabbits shifted, never mind the fieldcraft, some just dont come out, especially later in the season. What is considered a lay up may be different from some folk, but my understanding is, a lay up means a live rabbit that is not moving for love nor money, and a ferret that will not come away until the job is done, meaning dead rabbit, or i get to the rabbit with the spade. I'll be honest, my ferrets are no gibbers, but i can tell the differen
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Bugger, this thread was shaping up to be something worth reading with the comical answers! Why did you have to go and spoil it with serious replies! My ferrets must be crap though, as they work better for not being fat useless bloaters due to being on a bit less food the night before.
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Sorry to hear it LD.
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As the lads before have said, a squirt of liquid pararfin will get bone matter moving fron the rear end of most ferrets mate. (Administered through the mouth end though!)
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Once showed a poley of mine as a lad, only got second, well a sleek, strong day to day killing machine out 3-4 times a week, all day, might have dirty nails! So gave it up as some poncey fluffy perfect black eye'd white hob beat him! (looked like it was straight out of the bath, and would be surprised if it had ever seen a hole!) Are they actually showing ferrets?
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Allright Leeview,i dont personally know you, but know enough to know you are serious about the game. I see pest control as a reason getting thrown into the mix, backing up the reason for ferreting long into the breeding season, killing milky does and countless young. Fair play you have to show a result to secure the permission, but why not put the effort in during the correct windows most call a season? If you are unable to get out that much to do the job in that window, why not let a few young shavers get out and take over the land and do the job rather than ferret it well into breeding s
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Get on the rats if things get really bad, there's always a bit of fun to be had!
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what's the deepest you have dug for your ferret ?
Brimmer replied to Simply Bull 02's topic in Ferrets & Ferreting
Jesus i usually end up with a 4-5 foot every time i go out, sounds like you guys are getting it easy! Nothing really deep, but masses of earth moved. Everytime i'm out i get one or two! -
Bad thing is, it didn't even surprise me to read it!
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is kulling unwanted kits more responsible?
Brimmer replied to baldockbanks courser's topic in Ferrets & Ferreting
My take on it is only breed what you need. If you dont need then dont breed. This year for the second season i'll not be breeding as i'm probs overgunned. (Shame, could probs move every ferret i breed and more to responsible owners who work them as well.) Anything bred should get the chance to prove its working abilty in the field, if it's useless, then i have no problems with anybody culling the animals that nature would have culled anyway. (Its a better end than getting passed pillar to post.) One problem, for all the none breeding i'm doing, there will be plenty out there with l -
Strap yaself in Malts...it's going to be a longin Cannot believe meerkats and mongoose were left out of the bloodline, look at the teamwork factor!
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I'd stop if it was against the law. But the stopping would come with a hefty price. A vast line of snares would be put into place, mass amount of mk 6's would be set, and i'd be out shooting them every night. What any anti needs to realise is that for all the harm any ferreter does, it could be done twice as harsh if ferreting was given the boot. Most folks respect the quarry and protect it's intrests just for the sake of hunting it on it's own terms and giving it a chance. Take that away and see how many rabbits you'll see around.
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Just start digging is my advice! you'll be there sooner than knowing how far down you have to dig!
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Had three this season, only to have us stopped by the snow. Maybee there's something in it!
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Below ground, lets face it any animal is in the same boat, virtually no light, and being a poley or white or anything in-between makes no difference. I will be going back to dopey red eyes when i breed again. They are much easier to handle and catch up. The black eye's though i also admire, they do take a little settling down, but it's amusing to watch them follow a dog above ground.
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The advice about starting them too young is good advice, and the advice about them not being any good until there second season is also good advice. Also them being too fat is good advice. Here's the downside. Many jills after being started to early never come round, and are often afraid of the dark. Even a fattish ferret will still get on with the job, but not show the same cards as a fit strong killer animal. Dont take anything as gospel that i say, i am wrong as often as i am right. But it sounds like the animals that i had for a few years, some days on fire, but others just messing.
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Nice one mate. Hope the next season has less snow this time. Good luck on the fishing.
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Maybee tame a kit, but the adults are not worth it. Tried around 12 yrs ago. Just tried to kill my own ferrets when mixed, and was a skulking lump. Nothing better than captive bred working animals. What went into the ferrets you have probs started years before when you were born. Dont go backwards for fingers sake!
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The pup reminds me of our best dog ever mate. Just by the looks of it. A dopey blue dog that turned out to be the most determined animal anyone had seen. Please keep me up to date on this dog! I want to know how how he goes on!