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Hi people, just looking for some advice on ratting as never done it before with ferrets. I have just got permission on and around a livery so plenty of food stores and that about for the horses, hoping to be a hobby for the summer for the ferrets and dog. I got a big hob so will he be to big for their runs? will one dog be enough?2 3 would be better i guess. Ferrets getting bitten any problems with that?other than it hurts. When i last went years ago we just moved hay and stuff about to bolt them for the dogs. Any advice much appreciated!
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Its in the freezer.(no waste) Any reason not to feed it to the ferret?
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hi mate snow or an hard frost normaly drives rabbits to ground all the better for us to hunt hope you have plenty when your out,still no young in our rabbits in blackwood area tho mate Got my first car in blackwood, had it bit nearer cardiff but not far from you.
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Will give it a go tomorrow or tue, try some i know where the holes are ish.
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Also a quick question, what difference will all this snow make to ferreting? Not that we have had it yet. I am assuming that more rabbits will be to ground?
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Hi all, went out today for a couple of hours only had the one, anyway the one i had had young in it (very small). How many of you are getting young ones in your rabbits at the moment? Sorry no pic's too busy picking thorns out my hands and head.
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389 + 2 =391 2 hobs 391
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Nice bag again mate, you do put the work in, nice digging.
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cheers, funny to watch anyway.
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Went out again for a couple of hours today took them BOTH, First warren the dog mark well both dogs mark was in some lovely brambles about 9 holes, we had to clear a bit out but not to hard work. We netted all the holes (missed a ducking bolt hole) up and put the ferret down the hole, 20sec's later bunny come flying out ferret not far behind. Picked him up and move to the other side of the warren and put him in, 1min later an explosion of earth with a rabbit runny from its life from the ferret still trying to catch it. Gutted about that bunny, when i had a look at the hole it came out of
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Yeah its often hard to make them blot when put down by the dog i agree, but the comments on it being hard work for the hob, he has kill two(its his first season) and dragged them out one of them was out of a high 20s warren. He prob does leave one or two down, but not doing any ferreting at the mo as pest control just for the ferrets and me. Out tomorrow with the locator and his brother see if that gets better results. thanks for comments all!
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If you haven't watched it, there is a episode on kill it cook it eat it on rabbiting and it show you how to do it.
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Went out ferreting today with a lad I meet on here. We started about 8.30 and went on a bit of land his dog been chasing bunnies about close to where I live and didn’t know about. Ferreted bits and bobs at the top of a steep hill where the dog had just chassed one up with no luck. We moved on to field I’ve been using this winter, which hold a good few burrows. The fields were very waterlogged from last nights rain so checkout the banking, the first set of holes the dog mark we netted which I thought was only 5 holes turned out to be 6. No rabbit bolted but heard plenty of bumping about, th
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One is my normal day out at the moment. Going out tomorrow for two or more i hope!
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breeding mother hen is dutch game, the cockerel i was sold as dutch game but i was not too sure about so i'm saying they are hybrid. They are 4/5 months old, two are hand raised. pm me for any other details. will put pic's up tomorrow. only pic i got is of the hen with her chicks.
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Well done mate, nice big bag again i see!
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thats a nice bit of digging, good on you worth it for £50, lucky it was nice and sandy.
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Thats the same as me, works well nice and easy.
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do you work that ferret mate ifso it must be a pain re setting any nets that ones touched yeah his a great worker, but your right his has no chance of just slipping the net holes. bit of a pain, but his worth it as he never bits and doesn't f**k about if no bunnies at home.
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yeah [bANNED TEXT] i do, think i'll keep him on the lead next time get him into marking mode with no distractions see if that works.
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good luck getting rid of them all, if it was that easy there would be none about on any golf courses.
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let the dog take his time but hard work for one little dog, my mate walks it often with a none working dog and he hadn't seen mxyi but its been everywhere else round here, but the land is cut off from everywhere else by a river and houses.
