chewton
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Just wondered how many of the veteran ferreters used long nets when they started out? I'm in my 40s and when I started everyone I knew used purse nets. Maybe that was just how it was done where I lived. I know some people have always used long nets ferreting but was it as common as it is now? When we were kids we could not afford locaters so a ferret not showing could turn into a right palaver of squeking down holes etc rather than a quick go with the locater and out with the spade! Do people who use long nets a lot think they dig more due to hole hoppers?
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I've never been to their kennels but my brother has a couple of his dogs. I don't like the idea of puppy farming but have to say my brother stays in touch with them and they always give him their time even though he's not buying which is a decent thing IMO. I also think that collie ways do not suit everyone and it isn't hard to feck up a collie blooded dog if you don't get them.
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I first got into lurchers 30 years ago when I was 11,12 years old. There was about half a dozen of us out all the time with dogs and ferrets. Proper keen like lads that age are. There was always loads of competing and bitching but hey, we were little kids and soon grew up. I assumed mick hucknell was 13. If its true that he isnt but is actually a grown man then he needs to have a word with himself.
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Good advice. Thats how I do it too.
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I tried advertising kits on Gumtree and they banned the ad for having the word working in it!
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..........surely depends where you put the tennis ball?
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lesson for thoughs who dont use a locator
chewton replied to fieldsportsman's topic in Ferrets & Ferreting
Your last statement about pro rabbit catchers is very true and until now I have not disclosed a factor in my replies to this thread and you have hit the nail on the head for 3 months of the year I catch coneys for a living I am blessed with being employed in what I call a hobby that pays the bills for a few months . But this may as you say change why I think locators are a must I we dont have time to sit and whistle ferts out ETC. We must crack on having said that I dont think longnet use means more digging as if working a hedge you minmize the crashing around with purse net setting causing -
lesson for thoughs who dont use a locator
chewton replied to fieldsportsman's topic in Ferrets & Ferreting
I use locators and they do make life easier but as a lad none of us had locators and none of us ever lost a ferret. We did spend a lot of time standing around then squeeking, rattling sticks down holes etc and sometimes had to block holes up and come back the next day. We were never on permission and would not work warrens that looked like hard work. We had a great time. I do wonder though if the use of locators has changed the way people ferret?Does the fact that ferrets can be found and dug out quickly and efficiently change our tactics? People seem keener to use more ferrets and long nets s -
I been reading things Phil Lloyd has written since the 80s and he still manages to always be interesting, which takes some doing, and there is a lot left between the lines. The parts of his two books where he recounts dogs he's had and parts of his life are brilliant. I hope he can be bothered to keep writing books but fair play if he decides to leave it here.
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I never met my mates father in law but he tried writing about his time in NZ cos he loved it so much and my mate showed me the bit about pig hunting. Dunno how you do it now but he was hunting the pigs on foot through thick cover, up and down hills and through streams and had to get in with a knife to help the dogs finish them and they dont go down without a fight. Not for the faint hearted by the sound of it...mind you maybe he made it up to let his son in law know what he'd get if he took the p1ss!
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What pigs is it they hunt in New Zealand? Are they smaller than wild boar? My mates father in law used to catch pigs with dogs out there.
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Good films Tomo. Leave poor old whin alone you know it wouldnt be the same without him! Whenever I'm lurking about reading posts I get concerned if he hasnt been on for a while I worry he's been sectioned and is on a ward somewhere telling the lampshade about beasties and lobsters...
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Have a look at Dutch Ovens mate
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Theres been times I've been out exercising a dog, not looking for game, in an area I dont usually see game when up its jumped. My dogs have never been to the standard of a lot on here but if they've been off the lead having a gallop when that happens theres times I've found myself with an unexpected catch somewhere I havent planned on being and that games got hidden and picked up later. I cant be the only one thats happened to. Game has often got hidden deliberately as sometimes catchin it is the easy bit and its getting things home without getting pulled that takes all the thought. However I
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I agree but the fact is this forum always has posts on with lurchermen pointing out wrong that lads with dogs have done. We all know theres tw*ts with dogs. This is a public forum. Its no wonder antis are always looking at it if we keep telling them what they like to hear
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Come to think of it the lads might have been hid in the next ditch thinkin you were keepers shining a light looking for them!
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Lads all have different ways of going about things. I love to see a dog run but have always kept it local and one for the pot. I have had to hide game and come back for it later, who's to say lads didnt come back to pick those hares up. I wouldnt drive to the fens knowing I was going to leave dead game lying round, if you are gonna leave it surely it should be so it wont get found. Remember theres local lads who are seen about regular who'll be getting the blame!
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Great post to read.
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I lost ferrets like this when I was a kid. Same symptoms. It was botulism from meat going off that they had hidden. I'm always careful to go through bedding etc after Ive fed raw meat these days. Its surprising how quick meat can get rotten. Dunno if thats whats happened to your mates but worth considering if theyre getting raw meat
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Gafer, where do you get your elastic?
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vet should have told you to keep apart for at least 3 months, the tubes can still hold sperm after the snip, and if a hob aint shagging anything, it stays there and yes, tubes from snipped hobs can grow back/reattatch, one of mine did I was told 3 weeks by my vet. I left it over twice as long to be on the safe side.
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Hob snipped. Left 8 weeks before being put near the jill. Kits born friday! At least the vet gave a refund when I told him!
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People happily sit at home watching tribes from different countries hunting food to eat and this was no different. The traditional travelling people in this country are part of rural life whether people like that or not. Romany people have been part of the english countryside longer than many of the rural traditions people see as part of our heritage and scottish travellers have been on the road for hundreds of years.
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Got to say I agree. First time I've done the jill jab and I'd be wary of doing it again.
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One of mine lost some fur on its tail and its thinning on its back. The other just starting to lose on its tail. They were both jill jabbed this spring does that have anything to do with it?
