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  1. Brimmer
    Sounds like the rabbits are struggling for food Tom. Seen it lots of times over the years, the piss starts off yellow, and gradually gets more and more orange then red the longer the snow is covering. It may be that as some have suggested that some bunnys are in season, (Dont know whether they bleed to be honest), but from what i have seen in the past it looks like the bunny's organs are shutting down from lack of food, and you will start getting skinny rabbits as they live of any fat they have stored. Hope the snow melts soon, the rabbits are taking a battering from it.
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    Is this in an area where snow has been laying for a while? Sounds like they are struggling.
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    I know i've upped the amount mine get fed to be on the safe side, (They'll not be out for a few weeks for sure). They have got really fat on the chicken carcases. I don't really feed mine any of the dried food, but they soon pack on the pounds in a week or two on meat, they are certainly not struggling the fat buggers.
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    If you can still move around ok it's not much different from any other day, Maybee in the shade with these temps damp nets freeze in seconds and dont purse up, but other than that get at em!
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    Been deep snow on our ground since 16th of December, (Over a foot with no patches or breaks.)and it has not lifted for one day, and just increased week by week. Last trip out was on Sunday the 10th of December, had 3 weeks off work over xmas sat around cooked up waiting to get out, no joy at all, would have been out nearly every day if the conditions were ok. Had a couple of drives up to look during the hols and the rabbits are just sat around, chewing at any bits of twig and bark on any branches. Had a call of the old feller tonight, one of his mates had been out with his pups on nearby gro
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    Worst cross Collie/grey. Best cross Collie/grey.
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    Had one of the lads off here pm'd me lately about a spade and what to get. Must think i know something about digging! I'll try to shorten things, it gets almost geeky and boring! The one on the left is a bulldog rabbiting spade, good for the shallow stuff, useless for the deep stuff as the angle on the head is to shallow to lift out the loose, plus the T handle makes digging in cold weather hard. (A D handle you can hoop your frozen mitt in and lift.) (I tweaked the angle of the head on mine, it lifts out loose now.) In the middle now is my current chop S&J. The
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    As the season draws on you'll probs find less and less rabbits will bolt. They get cute and soon learn they have the better of a ferret. Chances are any that saw the ordeal through wont bolt again either, having taken a scalp. Spade at home, shame on you!
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    I'd personally look towards getting outside blood in to breed, something seems a bit wrong with the billy bob thing. Sure the odd generation won't take any harm to be honest, but i'm sure problems would crop up after a few generations of line breeding. You know they have gone wrong though when they start playing the banjo and wearing dungerees.
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    Sounds similar to what has happened in the past to my russel on two occasions. In the end all i could put it down to was i'd chucked some left over spuds and gravy from tea in his bowl, Dont think the starch in them agreed with him. Its been 5 yrs since it last happened. Don't know if it was, but he's never had a spud since.
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    Wow! If things had carried on, i'm sure that a alot of chancers would have stepped up to the plate! Myself would have been there for sure!
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    Spot on Magwich. I have a jill that struggles killing, is she a lesbian?
  13. Brimmer
    Hi Sean. First open a photobucket account, this is free and reliable. Then upload your pics into your albums on the photobucket site. Thats the first bit, let me know when you have done that.
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    Bleeding eck! I'm getting withdrawl symptoms reading about these bags! Well in Kurgan and crew. Hopefully the snow will let me out soon!
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    Got to be worth a thread on the comical undoing of a rabbit that gives itself up!
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    Never done that, and probs never will! bet you laughed your head off when that happened!
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    If mine did not kill, or show the will to kill, then i'd have to be having a serious debate with myself, as i'd know they were not showing the bottle to do the job 100%.
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    Quite simple really Max, why stand around for half an hour whilst your ferret try's to move a stubborn bunny from a blockend which could be shifted from a 2 minute dig? Why stand around waiting whilst a ferret is laid up on a kill, or leaving a kill behind and finally emerging, which could be dug out easily? (what was the point in ferreting in the first place if your leaving kills below ground for no reason.) Why stand around waiting when there could be 3 or 4 rabbits up a tube that could be dug out easy? Why set 20 nets when a big hob could pin a rabbit in seconds and dug to in mi
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    Well in Bouncer! Your collie is giving the rabbits serious eye! Just in case one jumps up and runs by the looks of things!
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    Good on yer Fraggle. That should help the lad a lot.
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    if you open a second window up (One THL creating a post and one window Photobucket) Once you have uploaded your pic into your photobucket album, click on imagecode with the left button, then flick back to the THL window and rightcick then paste where you want it.
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    Nice reading once again Shaun, where are you getting all these extracts from? It seem like 'yarding' was a popular way of getting the rabbits to come to you back then. The rabbits over here in England are not dictated to by the need for fresh water, they seem to get enough from the moisture in the green matter they eat, so don't have to move a long way to find it. Like the idea of it though.
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    Merry xmas Salmon. Santa brought me Stella, so who am I to argue!
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    Have used them on rats in the past and will do again in the future. (but will admit they dont get lots of work on rats.) Not into putting tiny jills into rat holes to do the job, just big fast poley hobs into more open places like under pallets and junk piles. The little jills allthough the size of a stoat, are not in the same league as one, and will get smashed up for sure. The bigger poley hobs i have owned have held there own against many a rat, and are more than capable of sorting them out. It takes an experienced ferret to boss rats, if you feel the need, then try to get a couple wor
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    Nice one Shaun! 'Pimp my quad'
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