[Lurchers Killing A Fox ( Not A Hare Dog Topic For A Change )]

i got a pup i brang him out in september he got 2 the fiirst day i got 14 foxes with the dog and he packed up i brang him out one day and he picked a fox 3 times and left him go and that was the end of him i got 3 more dogs after that all useless on a fox but i have a right good dog now he is deer hound x weatin hound good dog on a fox single handed im after getting a good few foxes with him

[Help Needed]

you should be able to pick sumthin um off working dogs hand enough and just keep bringin him out i had my dog out 3 or 4 times a week and he was a dinger give um loads of country and thay will be grand

[Pre Ban Starting A Dog?]

i gave my dogs thare first one with another dog and then all on thare own its hard to get a good dog to do it on thare own you would go through alot of dogs to get one good one or u might get lucky i wouldent keep a dog unless thay did it single handed and i would give them thare first at about 16 months old give it to them to young and you will break them

[hard to find good ferrets]

i started last season with 8 ferrets 2 hobs 6 jills i have 1 hob and 2 jills left the others were useless i saw 7 rabbit go into a burrow i put the hob in and he coundent find 1 after 5 or 10 mins of going in and comeing out he killed one but i wouldent keep a ferret like that so i got rid of him and the same with the jills i bred my good hob with the two jills one is 5 year old the other is 2 year old the hob is last year but he is the best i have had in a long time iwill keep oe or two woung and see how thay get on but thare is no point in keeping a bad thing

[Few daft questions about ferreting]

If thay bit you agean stick your finger back there throut and that will soon cop on and stop biteing you keep doing this very time that bite you and that will stop I do this with my young ones when that bite Me and they allways stop

[Is the MK3 locator as good as they say]

i think the mk1 are better than the mk3 thare easyer to use and arent noisy the mk3 recks my head with the sound it sounds like a space ship or something when you are trying to listen for a bolt i would say try and get your mk1 box fixed the mk3 boxes are ok but i dont think thare the best

[Fleas!]

very very weak sheep dip i dilute it down to the last put it into a spay bottle and spray them i use it when ever my ferrets get fleas and it will kill every thing on them nd i never had a problem with this just dont spay thare head

[Ferret nipping]

what i do is spit on the palm of your hand and let the ferret drink it to get to know your scent

[Ferret nipping]

how would you give a ferret egg do you just crack it into a bowl or do you mix it or give it to them full

 

 

Which ever way you want mine some times have a full one bit messy tho or just pop it in a bowl Sometime put full one in a bowl gives them something too do

 

 

thanks how often would you give it to them once or twice a week or only the odd time

[Ferret nipping]

how would you give a ferret egg do you just crack it into a bowl or do you mix it or give it to them full

[T bars]

if you know some onewho has a welder buy a stanless steel bar or get a old hay rake bar and get a T welded on to it i have bars made from both i got a friend to weld them for me and thay woke great for me

[bread and milk]

i feed it to my ferrets when i have no other food for them and i know alot of peaple that do the same but i dont give it to them that much only the odd time

[FERRET TICKS]

my freinds ferret had a tick and we were out hunting so he just pulled it off and the ferret was fine but i hade 2 ticks on my hand and i used vodka and i killed them and i pulled them off with a tweezers

[Ferreting East Cork Ireland]

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[ferrets with fat necks]

when i got the ferret about a month ago thay were like that i have three ferrets in together and i give then half a rabbit every 2 days i dont thing it is to much for the three ferrets

[What is in your ferret kit]

i take four nets 30 feet long

10 purse nets

2 ferreting bars

1 diging shovil and 1 small shovil

locator and colars

knife

2 lurchers

ferrets

 

i never use a pick i just use a bar you can find the burrow brake up the soil and pull up rocks with them i wouldent go out ferreting without a bar

[ferrets with fat necks]

i have two polcat jills and thay have very fat necks thare heads are smaller than neck and i cant get the locator colar to fit them is thare any think i can do to get it to fit them or did any one have this problem before i think the only thing is to starve them a bit and get thare waight down becouse thare fat enough

[ill ferret]

the best thing you can do if a ferret is sick like that is give it the bar thay wount come right when thay go like that

[Long net system]

i have my nets on polls and the net is tied to the top and the bottom slides up to the top on a wire it is very quick to set up and put away

[Whats The Deepest You Have Ever Dug For A Ferret??]

i had to dig 8 feet under a farmers path becous the buck lodged

[Locator for terrier and ferrets]

i have a ferret locator and what i do is just tape the ferret colar to a terrier collar and use that on the terrier and i never have any problens with it

[can mk1 boxes be fixed]

i have 2 mk1 boxes and one of them will work but the volume is very low and i opend it up and turned the volume up but if you give it one nock it will go down agen the other one when you turn it on it works perfect but then it will start going down in range and then go off if you turn if off and turn it on agen it will work can these be fixed

[fox callers]

i tink the best of all is your hand if you can do it right but i thing the widgeon wistle is a very good call aswell i use a electronic caller to get them into the feild and call then with my hand or the widgeon wistle to get them up close

[ferret with sore ears]

one of her ears is perfect but the other one is still sore thare is only scabs on the outer tips of her ear and i dont thing it is puss its like water coming from inside her ear she is perfect only for that

[ferret with sore ears]

one of my ferrets ears are full of yellow stuff anf little scabs and she was all off balence and now she is ok but her ears are still bad wha could i do to treat this or what it might be my other ferrets are perfect its only her any idias on how to treat this

thanks