Brimmer
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Nice one Jembo!
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Are they overfed? Were there definately rabbits at home?
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Nice one, i'll be getting one soon! The batteries i get, are the hearing aid batteries from tesco, £3.50 for 6 of them, and leave them screwed up in a collar, and usually last from oct till after xmas.
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i was out today for a bit of bolting to the gun and i know what you mean about the snow... feckin well hard to walk up hill, like some one tied lead weights round my ankles!!!! these jills i have are bloody dynamite. they catch more than we shoot. spending more time with the shovel in my hand than the shotgun! Want to swap them for a couple of vegetarian jills then Chez?
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Those ferrets look spoilt for choice in that pile!
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Awesome!
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Plenty of digs Andy, you know me well enough now! Only put the jill away as too many were bolting!
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Just a £100 fuji compact, think i need an SLR to get the piccies i want. The thing is with taking the running piccies, you're usually behind the working animals, following up. This coupled with digging, carrying and ferreting does not leave you with much of a chance to take the piccies! I have Dslr and I would have been happy with pics like those (but we almost never get any snow around here...), but I think it would be too much to carry around when hunting? It would be too much if your doing anything. Thats half the problem trying to get the piccies, my old feller is 70 yrs old,
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Nice one Andy. keep it up mate.
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Looking like right solid animals Lofti lad. How are the dogs from the litter looking?
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Thats just what i've seen before, the pets suddenly become workers in an instant! Nice one festa!
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It's been there all year and every year, exept one for the last 16 years i've been on there. It's already done it's work on there. Thank god some of them get over it and go on to breed again!
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Thats very strange, never seen jills come in so soon, something is definatly out of sync there. I wonder if the albino has triggered the others? I know it's not ethical to just breed for no reason, especially just as an experiment, but if the jill is a good one, would it be worth lining her, and seeing what happens?
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Also remember this, i've seen so called 'Pet Ferrets' a good few years old, rehomed to working lads, and turned into absolute scorchers in the field! If they are of the mindset, instict is too strong a pull for a good ferret!
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Yep work them alongside an older ferret, lots of young ferrets just doss around when first introduced to the hunting scene, bouncing around and playing. It won't take them long to work it out alongside an experienced ferret.
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The locator box or the collars?
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Superb piccies!
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Horrible for the dogs to be honest, rabbits had the upper hand Micky. Horrible to try and walk yourself as well! you telling me mate i feel stiff as f**k now but that might be the fact i only had one hours kip after a good slurp last night. but the dogs we had with us were sencsible on the ground they were working on and kept running to a minimum Don't think they had a choice today, plodding and hoping not to break through the surface was the key!
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Very true mate, makes you want to take up micro elctronics don't it! Bloody patents!
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No need mate, i believe they will come out, with or without any coaxing of any kind. As long as you are happy with them that is all that matters at the end of the day.
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We have 3 of them, on the last one now! but it's getting worse! Thing is we have 4 collars as well. (micro's) Need them fixing up reallly. A mate in Doncaster just bought a MK1 from ebay, bought a new collar from euroguns for forty quid. Ouch sounds expensive!
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Horrible for the dogs to be honest, rabbits had the upper hand Micky. Horrible to try and walk yourself as well!
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We have 3 of them, on the last one now! but it's getting worse! Thing is we have 4 collars as well. (micro's) Need them fixing up reallly.
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Ferrets are inquisitve by nature, any sound or movement will create attention. I see your point on not wanting a killer, If you only want to skim the easily scared few out of the holes then thats in your favour, and i have nothing against that. These are not trained animals, they just realise that running away is an easy option, and thats all they are doing. If a ferret took 5-10 minutes to get up through a bury once whistled, i'd think there was something wrong with it!
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I'm sure if the ferret was trained, it would take it no more than 30 seconds to show on the surface. The fact it takes 5-10 minutes shows this is just normal behaviour of a ferret, especially one that is not willing to get stuck in properly. I'll tell you what is going on really underground shall I? (If you had good collared up ferrets you would see this.) Your jills are bieng put underground with something 4 times there size, when getting within biting distance of the rabbits, they are getting kicked senseless, and are deciding that what they thought was fun, is suddenly, no longer fun. Th
