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Brimmer

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  1. We thought you were on a very deep dig mate. Not deep, just rocky! I'll be posting Sundays in a bit!
  2. You might find if you are working them fat, then they will show less of an intrest in food! (I.e live rabbit). Out of season don't worry about a fat ferret, it will do it no harm. Think the biscuit stuff packs the weight on. (look at the Atkins diet, no carbs. What's in the biscuit?) The odd day missed from feeding will do no harm, i'm sure in the wild they will miss the odd day from time to time. I split mine into cages to control the weight, and put like for like animals together, some are big eaters, and others lose condition when caged with these animals, due to the food hogging, and s
  3. Freekin eck, offline fot 2 nights (bloody broadband) it seems like ages ago! Not all make the working grade, if nature had it's way, these animals would have not continued to go on and breed, therefore natural selection has not taken place. This is taken away from any animal that is domesticated, it does not have to run the gauntlet to survive. I've seen it plenty of times, some don't have the heart for the job they were intended for, we as owners keep them alive and cared for, and go on and breed from them. Nature wouldn't breed from them. Beside this, young un's do need a chance
  4. Stork if you look like your avatar, then i cannot see the problem!
  5. It dont bother me Kay that's just evil! well you chaps are sensitive about your bits & bobs i think women loose any dignity once they go through child birth Would at this point suggesting keeping one's legs crossed gain any favour then?
  6. Still makes me wince every time i hear vasectomised, snipped or CASTERATED!
  7. There you go, get the hob v'd and then the jills should be ok!
  8. From what little i know, if you have four jills you intend to keep, then the smart money goes on getting a hob v'd? Got to be much cheaper than 4 x speying. Only an observation of the facts. (I know nothing about speying and vasectomising hobs by the way.)
  9. Let the gang on here know how you get on!
  10. A lot of what is bieng said does carry a lot of weight Phil, and i think these people have a little more know how than i do, but in nearly 16 yrs, i have never had a jill suffer due to not bieng mated. I think i may be lucky, but if you look after your animals, then even the areas open to infection, will not end infected. I'm sure the hobs doing the business will reduce the chance of a any infection in the longterm. It's up to you really.
  11. Stealthy, he'll play anything you want, as long it's a banjo! http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=RyKvD-4IxOY I suppose line breeding has it's plus points with humans!
  12. Nice offer! Wish i was closer! Good on you for offering the chance of a day out!
  13. Not a bad size at all, i wished the one i made this year was a little bigger, or a little smaller. It's maybee just too big for 2 ferrets, but not big enogh for 4 ferrets, and 3 is a squeeze. I'll be building a few HILTON boxes during the summer!
  14. Thank god for that, i was nearly crying off going out with the pensioner then to do the 3 hr drive in the fourtrack, to see if i could help out! Nice to see the lads offering the days out!
  15. Yep awesome to see the young rugrats doing what comes natural to them!
  16. Here's a piccie of Billy bob the fang, he's not line bred, but his looks make you think he is! Don't know how he ended up that way, maybee his mother was rough with him, or he took a tumble as a young un, but one thing for sure, he give's the rabbits hell. Looks mean f##k all when it comes to working, and this little feller does not struggle!
  17. In fact one of my albino hobs looks a bit of a banjo player, one of his teeth on the bottom jaw stick out like an undershod terrier! I'll try and get a piccy of him when i feed them tonight, he looks real comical!
  18. Good bag and good to see a pair of blade's been used in action!
  19. Looks big enough to hold 4 hobs in comfort! The sanding and varnishing take a bit of time though!
  20. A lot of truth in that Kay, only bit i think differently about is the 'drive every occupant into the nets' bit. The one's that won't kill won't drive EVERY occupant out into the nets, some won't budge for love nor money, maybee leaving several rabbits down a warren.
  21. What I understand of keeping a BLOODLINE is to keep breeding from animals you have bred, to keep breeding the same line without any crossing out is LINE breeding as i know it. I'm not keen on line breeding, Just look at Deliverance! If you have kept a bloodline going (allthough only half of it each breeding) you are still keeping it going.
  22. Looks a tricky spot to dig in, were the kills left in? Good on you for getting out in the rain and trying though.
  23. Bringing the pups on is always great to watch! Looks like he'll see some action in the future!
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