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Yo! this is my first post. If you use a hobblet, how does it take the jill out of season, when the eggs in the overy are not fertilised? a few old tales here, lets get this in the open for all new ferret keepers to read, FERRETS SMELL, but if good housekeeping is kept to, then that is greatly reduced, hobs are in my eyes, no more likely to lay up, but whatever you use, jill or hob, thats a good reason to use a locator a hoblet is a castrated hob (no balls) a snipped hob or vasectamized (balls, but no sperm) can as has been said in the past, still mate with a jill, neither would produ
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only cause I knew jack would fly there like shit off a shovel
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good pictures there richie, their was us, thinking all the rabbits had bolted, when that one popped out, as if you look closely at the 4th from bottom picture of jack, you'll see me trying to run, while rolling a ciggy
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Id say, get two hobs (males) as you could then leave them intact, costing you nothing, you'll get a few who say you cant keep them together, but I have 2 sets of 3 hobs that live together all year round
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so your saying, if a hungary lost ferret, that had NOT been feed day old chicks, found its way into a hen house, it would'ent try to eat them
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you can stretch it out on a board to dry, pin it with nails, should be dry in a few days, although stiff as cardboard
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get yourself the kids film "danny, champion of the world" its a good watch, and will show you what you want to know
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joe and his three rabbits me and smart halfway through day
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had arranged to take a new member out ferreting, so myself,daughter alix, richie,ferreter216 and joed all met up over a permission I have in essex, although the owners had been around with the tractor/mower since our last visit (3 weeks ago) it was still a little bushey in places, anyway we put the longnets down and entered a few ferts, then waited, and waited, and waited all of a sudden "smart" our jack russell bitch was on one caught in the net, after untangling the rabbit, I pulled out my priest (hardwood filled with lead) to knock the rabbit on the head, at the precise same time that sma
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no one has yet asked what size burrows your putting her down, because if they are large, and your only putting one ferret down, of course your not getting bolts, the one thing on the rabbits mind is survival, if it can escape the fert via the many tunnels, it has no need to bolt, 8 months is plenty old enough, I'd suggest either getting more ferts, or teaming up with someone who has more, as putting 3 to 4 ferts down will see bolters
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I too have two sets of 3 hobs living together, related and un related, yes they fight, yes they get sore necks, but you'll then see the pecking order, unless you see blood, I would'ent worry too much
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is it just me, or does this come across as a personnal vendetta against mod's or just me in general as it seems you can call them stupid, but I cant use the word dickhead, prehaps you could pm me a list of words that are acceptable for me to use
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so, if someone told you its ok the shoot your neighbour while standing on one leg, you'd do it, rather than check it out first,
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what you have to do firstly, is read the first post again, your all jumping on the "old ways", but if you read it correctly, he's not saying that, years ago a lined hob was put down to find the whereabouts of another ferret laying up, the line would then be followed, digging out the complete burrow to get to the ferts nowdays if you wanted to do all that digging, rather than using a locator to find/locate and then simply dig downwards, then so be it but reading the post correctly, it seems, his friend puts his first ferret down with a string attached, so yes if that was the case I'
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of course you'll find dickheads that think thats ok
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of course he's watching, once this place gets it's hooks in ya, it draws you back in
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i would imagine, living on a farm as you do will, gives you the upper edge when it comes to permission, landowners would/will probably feel more comfortable giving permission, knowing that you'll respect there land, compared to a stranger asking for permission on their land I am lucky enough to work in pest control, therefore alot of my permissions, come way of that, but few years back when I lived in london, not a chance
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just do a google search for clubs in your area
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is it encosed by a fence to the public, are there public rights of way close by, I have permissions like these, but be careful, you need to phone the police on each visit, informing them what your doing there, times on and off site, contact numbers etc, someone only needs to see you from a walk way and phone the police that theres a guy walking around with a gun, and you'll have armed police on you, also make sure you have full public liabilty insurance, also, even with permission, remember the laws on distance and shooting near public rights of way, and carry the written permission on you
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the equipment doesnt cost much, got all the gear sitting here as i use to be a cctv engineer, dont need to be a professional film maker, its a bit of fun.. but richie, once the fert is on the big screen, think how much he'll want paying, plus 10% of the films takings
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tess, read it again, it was in a barn, not in the front room being sat on while watching eastenders
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thats right mate, just remember to angle the ends out into the field, at a 45 degree angle, as some bunnies tend to run the length of the net, having that bit angled out at the ends, hopefully catches them
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the hoop snare is used more in sandy soil, any field snared, should idealy be free of livestock
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now thats what this section needs, lots of proper ferret using pictures, well done on a great bag, and cracking pictures to boot
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I bought one of those last year, great for spotting rabbits before turning on the lamp, but had also thought about putting it on the back of a normal scope and using, tried it in the garden, and you can see the cross hairs ok, but thats as far as i went with it, you can get an attachment from a camera shop, to connect the front of the mono to the rear of your scope, think it wound work better with one of those shorter scopes as on a normal scope in then pushes everything back, which feels weird when shouldering the rifle i would think that if the scope is zero'd before the mono is attached
