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  2. Info required - aggresive fert!!

    in Ferrets & Ferreting

    Posted

    Dave, I stand to be corrected but I'm sure when jills come into season they have to be seperated from hobs that are vasectomised as the male will keep trying to mate them - eventhough he can't get her pregnant he will still try and he can damage the jills and risk becoming exhausted himself. The new jill you have is spayed but she came from a place where there was a jill in season ready to be mated and perhaps the scent of that is still on her :hmm: Even if it is the scent on her, when that goes the hob will still try and mate all three of them as he is in season himself. I do hope I'm right its not something I profess to know everthing about so I hope i'm giving you the right advice. Anyone else any ideas?

  3. In season already!!

    in Ferrets & Ferreting

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    Mines not come into season yet , but commanche mentioned something interesting about laying snow possibly making a difference & i looked up some more indeapth stuff about photoperiod & if i can find the peice i will post it.

     

    It was explaining that its to do with reflection , i noticed this year the first year we have had show lay for any length of time how much lighter it apperared , so maybe its a possibility

    That would make a lot of sense Kay :yes: I hope you can find the post! Will make for an interesting read.

  4. In season already!!

    in Ferrets & Ferreting

    Posted

    Mines not come into season yet , but commanche mentioned something interesting about laying snow possibly making a difference & i looked up some more indeapth stuff about photoperiod & if i can find the peice i will post it.

     

    It was explaining that its to do with reflection , i noticed this year the first year we have had show lay for any length of time how much lighter it apperared , so maybe its a possibility

    That would make a lot of sense Kay :yes: I hope you can find the post! Will make for an interesting read.

  23. Great day

    in Ferrets & Ferreting

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    We started off the day at around 8am, netted up a set and put the ferrets in, waited a little while and had the first bolt of the day.

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    After a short dig by Stu and four rabbits in the bag we moved on to a nice flat set a bit further up while the two apprentices (Little Daz and Jamie) took the rabbits to the motor.

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    After another short wait we had four more in the bag! We moved up to another set and it was at this point I lost count of the rabbits, this is where most of the digging took place and Stu dug my albino jill out on a rabbit!

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    Check out Stu’s pink gloves!! (He’ll kill me for this)

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    Then both Daz and Stu dug to her again a little while later which entailed two four foot holes then she bolted the rabbit a few feet away

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    Stu as usual was like a whippet getting the bolted rabbit!! But then a moment of reflection when he discovered he’s lost a purse net!

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    Daz and Stu netted up here and a rabbit bolted just as we were going to get the ferrets out, it slipped the net but Stu managed to get the tail end of it before it made an escape to freedom! Then we moved on and up and decided to put the longnets around this tree, we waited for a little while the all hell broke loose, a rabbit hi the net at the top end just as another one made for the bottom end, Stu and Daz were both on them when another hit the net closely followed by Daz’s jill!

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    Then the keeper came and got out his shot gun. Poor Jamie nearly died when he let off a shot at a rabbit further up the hill :icon_eek: , one rabbit bolted to freedom but didn’t get very far when the keeper shot it! We got a few in the nets here too.

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    Stu and Daz went and did one last set with the keeper who decided that Sox should have a run on a rabbit, he caught it and headed towards the motor where I was and gave it to me, nice one Sox! All in all another brilliant day in great company with a final bag of 26! Little Daz and Jamie were a great help as always, cheers lads for a great day, oh, I’ve bought you both a nice pair of ‘green’ gloves as the pink ones didn’t do much for your street cred! :laugh:

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  24. Splicing nylon twines

    in Longnetting

    Posted

    great post JT, very sound advice :notworthy:

     

    some may find that method a little hard to do with a cored braid so to add a little more advice on cored braid peel back the outter braid, and cut the inner braid away and then do as you have done.

    That sounds like brilliant advice, but what on earth is cored braid :icon_redface::icon_redface:

    a cored braid has a core a solid string etc on the inside of it covered by the braid so you cannot splice it unless you pull back the braid and cut a bit of the core out :)

    Thankyou Auld salmon!! :good:

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