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thats what I was trying to say a few posts back, the way you'd know you had a silver, and not a BEW would be a couple of matings down the line, when no BEW are produced, there could be loads of keepers thinking they had BEW's that are in fact silvers, although my jill looks white, on running the hairs the wrong way (backcombing) you can see some silver.... if you thought you had a single BEW, I'd say, find someone with anoither BEW, mate them together, if no BEW's are produced from the mating, then one or both must be silvers,
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pizza only on sundays magwitch, rabbit and carrots rest of the week
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a silver will always be silver, Ive got a silver here, thats almost white, and could quite easily be mistaken for a BEW, this again would account why its hard to produce BEW, if the bew's that people have, are in fact, silvers thats it, my hairs coming out in clumps with all these calculations So what is a silver ferret who has shed the silver leaving a light coat & dark eyes ITS STILL A SILVER kay, your really trying to make me go totally bald aint ya
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9 ferts in total, 5 jills, 4 hobs
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did'nt see that one Inan and I had me chaps on today too suits you sir
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so, to help me keep the ferret amused whilst Im cleaning the court, my other half came in, otherwise they wont leave me alone, took the video with my new phone, the LG viewty, last video was of a night time, after i'd lowered the settings and looked crap, this time after adjusting settings, its much better, let us know what you think,
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i would mate, gimme a shout, go halves you mean, or the lot???
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me and magwitch regularly use 2 longnets to encircle a large tree/bush area thats impossible to purse net, if you can put another stop net across this circle then even better, as you do get lots coming up one hole, dissappearing down another within the longnets, purse netting a few is a good idea in the hope of backnetting, i would however say with this sort of set up, you need to be putting 4 or 5 ferts down at once, gets those bunnies panicking, using just 1 or 2, and its to easy for the rabbits to keep away, without leaving burrows
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a silver will always be silver, Ive got a silver here, thats almost white, and could quite easily be mistaken for a BEW, this again would account why its hard to produce BEW, if the bew's that people have, are in fact, silvers thats it, my hairs coming out in clumps with all these calculations
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dont want you thinking im spamming this post, but its got my mind buzzing now, back to breeding strains etc the quote of breeding albino to silver may give BEW, but not guranteed, shows how the non keeping of records, or the not knowing about dominant/recessive factors play a part in breeding lets say someone had a BEW that they paired to an albino this BEW was bred with one parent being an albino, therefore the BEW is split albino, so on this mating, albino's would be produced, but they would be splits(carrying the BEW gene) this would account for non knowers saying, its not gu
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from this, i would say that BEW is a recessive, we already know silver is dominant so pairing 1st generation silver to albino, wouldent produce BEW offspring, but those offspring could be split BEW therefore the following year you would breed father to daughter, mother to son, BEW would then be produced but thats only if the 1st pairing of silver to albino, has one of them as a split BEW
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lets say albino is recessive, Ive got no idea weather sable is dominant or recessive so lets say its recessive too now the complicated bit, kicks in, cos 2 recessives carrying the same colour gene, becomes dominant (see why a register/bookeeping is needed) keeping it simple, if your albino is pure albino, and sable pure sable, you'd get 50% albino and 50% sable offspring if however either one had a differnt parent down the line somewhere (presuming sable is recessive) then your sable would be classed as a split (carrying another colour, but not showing it) lets say, the sable had a a
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Why shouldn't you pair two silver's because they are dominant? breeding 2 silvers together is a bit like marrying ya sister, its gonna start producing bits that you dont want, thats not to say it aint done, Im only saying this from my days breeding the budgie's, as breeding 2x dominant's will increase a factor that you want in the offspring, so if you had small ferts, it would (fingers crossed) keep the strain small, but on the downside, any factors that you dont like, would also be getting doubled up so to speak, so people tend to breed dominant to recessive, trying to get a healthy li
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dont be to fast to condem her mate, first outing an all, my silver jill does excactly the same, think its cos she's having to much fun, and dont wanna go back in the box trouble is, if you try grabbing her from hole, its going to make her worst, you just need to let her get on with the job in hand, once its finished and she knows the place is empty of rabbits, she come out no problem, mine runs from hole to hole and i leave her to it, give it a few more outings, before you place judgement, and if still you aint happy, ill have her off ya
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its all to do with recesive or dominant gene's, used to breed exhibition budgerigars, and comes in useful to know, but forgotten most of it now, but silvers are bred from using 1 silver and anything else, you'll get a mixture from the offspring, cant remember the percentage, but this year breed 2 silver jills, both to the same albino hob, now no albino young, so albino must be recessive but did produce, silvers and polecat's silver is therefore dominant, which is why you shouldent pair 2 silvers together the polecat must mean either the silvers or albino are splits (either one's h
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on your small jills, what hole do you go down too? my jill slipped the mark 3 once, its now fastened at the 2nd from last hole, she's fine with it, and never comes off, or try unfolding a paperclip, heating, and making a new hole, in between those already there, put on fert in cage for a couple of hours to see if they still come off, saves digging
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great pic's, just get that vid clip working,
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I wouldn't let to many people know that, there are a womans neck nearly in the noose over it and she's not home safe yet twins everyone can feel for this woman(she got 15 days, rather than hung) but its the ***king state of the country she's in, jokes come and go about everything in this country, aint you heard the kenivil jokes yet, it's the one thing us brits have left, humour and the ability to laugh at ourselves, so no, Im not worried that i know the guy, or are you saying england should ban jokes about less fotunate people, or would that make us as bad as that country wh
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something wrong with them photo's oh yea, Inan aint got a foot in them, although I presume that's his 4x4 3rd pic down, was that 4 rabbits from 1 dig??
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I suppose whatever you can afford, or convert will do, something simular to a landing net, with some add on's such as seat belt webbing to hang around back of neck, and clips? for holding the poles, I probably could have addapted something myself, but to be honest, was too lazy, and saw this as lasting years I did make a mistake of presuming the 50yd net i had, was 100% bagging, on setting the poles to the net in the garden, i had done 25yds of net with 100% bag, then realised what was left wasent enough, but did'nt want to un tie all the poles, so ended up with a 35yd net with 100% baggin
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that e bay posting was put up by a biker mate of mine and other half
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to right richie, also years ago i dont think ferts held the same value, we have prob gone a bit soft as we went on, years ago i can remember the old boys saying, its only a ferret,leave it, get another
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well the picture you have put up, show's them? thats from magnum's poles are the same as diagram fibreglass, point on one end, cap on top, 2 rubber grommets in middle net tied on as described just recieved some myself from magnums, cost £3-70 each, as bought more than 10, took me a couple hours of trial and error, and pulling out of what little hair i have left, to get them tied on in the right places, but sorted in the end, also got myself a basket £50 all free delivery, (had own net) looks a proper job, just doing another net tomorrow
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maybe if you stick to burrows that are only 4 or 5 holes, but larger warrens I would'ent trust it, without a collar, locators can be so usefull, not just for underground, if your doing a large warren, and a fert slips out unoticed and wanders off, a quick sweep of the area can also locate them
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yup, use a locator, but for those that say, mine never stay down, so dont need one, and as other has said "dont kill underground?" you have an obligation to not only get your ferrets out, but also any rabbits that may have been mauled by the fert's, rather than just leaving them there
