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get some fecking permission :11: :11: then buy a decent spade i have a steel ditching spade, with a steel shaft ...i also have a folding spade, but it is a heavier duty type than the 3 piece metal jobs, its a german folding spade with a short wooden handle and a pick on the back of the spade...it's under my car seat, and comes in handy for emergencies and road rage events :11:
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NO HE IS BREADING :whistle: HEM FOR FITCH ?? Fitch is what Furriers call ferret fur, when it is used to make fur coats/scarfs etc..... :11: good luck with the kits mate, handle them as soon as they start coming out, they will bite you for a while, but the more you handle them the better they will get, the jill will calm down as and when the kits start coming out, i would feed her with something runny to distract her while you are handling the kits.... A lot of old books recommend giving her a drink of milk whilst handling the kits to distract her and so that s
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cracking, taking kids out ferreting can either be the best days ferreting or the worst, glad you both enjoyed it here's my 8 year old last weekend
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now we will just wait for pics of your fox nets wrapped around a fox bear in mind the directions for making nets on that site are for capturing rabbits flushed by ferrets, fox nets are twice that size with bigger mesh, buy a few before attempting to make your own, i know that obvious but i thought i waould say anyway as i couldn't bear to think of some yank struggling with a fox in a rabbit net :11: :11: also worth saying some foxes play dead when netted, some dont, i would have a gun or spade handy to despatch them quickly :11:
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C'mon Will, it's not that good :11: i have 1 of his ferreting books...i would use it as toilet paper, but the pages are already covered in SHITE :11:
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you wont go far wrong..the rings are what you stitch the cord to when making nets and help when you are putting them away, you stretch it out and pick the twigs and debris out, then fold it end to end until in about a quater then you wrap the peg and drawcord around the whole thing, holding it together in your bag/pocket the rings will help hold it in place, dependng on the hole though you may need to utilise twigs etc..to stop the net falling into the hole... practice makes perfect, and there is no substitute for experience, shame there isn't someone nearby to show you, get out a
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good looking dogs, everyone seems to have a dog called milly :11: .....thats my daughters name
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fantastic pics haggler.....do you have a pic of the net before the fox entered as that may help the lad with setting one...i tried to upload a pic but i cant on this site
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jagd terriers are german hunt terriers, they are used widely in europe and a few have gone to the US, they are apparently descended from our fell terriers , thats what the mother is....there are a lot of jagd terrier fans in the US gregd on m oochers has some ............ i read up about them cos i have a teckel another german hunting dog
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sorry didn't i make that clear, peg the drawcord not the net, as the drawcord has got to close the net around the fox as it hits it wasnt knocking you mate,at the top he said the rings get staked didn't notice that :11: good spot, and a very good point, the fecking fox would bounce back like hitting a tennis racket :11:
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sorry didn't i make that clear, peg the drawcord not the net, as the drawcord has got to close the net around the fox as it hits it
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:11: josh i think the lad is in the states where they dont work ferrets...it's illegal, ...so he wont have set a rabbit net :11: the fox nets you are on about are larger versions of what i use to catch rabbits, they are purse nets, named as such because they close like an old fashioned purse around their victim, the rings are at each end, through the rings and through all the outside meshes is a draw cord, at one end (i.e.) outside the ring you attach a peg, the peg is pushed into the ground, the ring opposite the peg is pushed gently into the soil at the bottom of the hole...the dra
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wire (broken-coated) haired Dashund :11: Teckel is the original continental name...mine is a first cross between a Teckel and a Border...she owes nothing to the border sire...except slightly longer legs :11: here is the link have a read..there are pics on there http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/sunsong/UK%20Teckel/ukteckel.htm for some reason this website wont allow me to upload pics??????i dont have any pics of mine working cos she moves too fast and is usually under a bramble hedge chasing rats and rabbits :11: but i was going to put a pic of her playing with my little
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i would get a teckel mine is a brilliant bushing hound, flushing everything from rabbits, foxes and muntjac, she has killed over a dozen rabbits and 3 rats that didn't want to flush :11: she is only 18months and i have shot loads of rabbits, pigeons and other game :whistle: that she has pushed out of cover...her ears are permanently torn as she prefers being in a hedge bottom under brambles than anywhere else :11: edited to add--she once caught hold of a muntjac in a bramble patch...they had a right fight...the munty escaped and she had a puncture wound from its tusk's...they are game :1
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very true...i often read ferreting threads about how well the dog worked there would be no ferreting without the ferts...they are under rated, a few years ago i was contemplating getting a running dog, as i had increased the amount of land i could ferret and have a ready market for upto 40 rabbits a week anyway i decided that another two ferts would be a better option, they cost less, they eat less, they dont need yearly boosters, they take up less space and they dont make as much mess and they account for a lot more rabbits than any single dog could and they dont even slightly bruise
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i was just going to say have a look here http://www.thewhippetforum.com/ :11: if i could i would have a whippet, my first lurcher was a whippet/greyhound hybrid, she threw more to the greyhound....i saw my bitches grandmother run and she was a decent dog (whippet) although she had bad feet but i think that was an exception to the rule as none of her pups inherited her weak feet and all the other whippets i have seen have had nice tight feet.......i would say yes get a whippet... if it is KC registered, if you breed from her you also make more from the pups......... :11: so that
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not had permission on a golf course but i do several stables including one thats a big livery establishment, where the owner rents stables and grazing to loads of horse owners, i have similar things when the owners of the horses see me...however they understand better the damage that the rabbits do and when i say the owners name and explain he has allowed me on and that reducing the rabbits reduces the chances of their horse breaking a leg in a rabbit hole...i have never had any problems...... i would have thought most golfers would be pro rabbit control as they must surely understand that
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i got mine from a camping shop, they are really long and thick tent pegs, they are over a foot long and are i beleive the type of pegs used on marques (spelling), i then sanded the end to stop it being as sharp and jagged and bent the end into a hoop, they work well enough for me...have a look at your local camping store
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was ferreting with the longnet yesterday, my lad is asking to go shooting and ferreting this weekend....so may do both or may combine and shoot a few bolters...glad it worked out for you and the guns were trustworthy, round the lake if they are bolting bush to bush, could you not use a longnet/stop net?
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Where do you keep your terrier!? Indoors or out?
COMPO replied to Pignut's topic in Earthdogs & Working Terriers
up until i built my dog kennels this year, the dogs were always in the house with a flap in the kitchen to give all time access to the garden, since having a little child again who wants to play on the grass, i have built runs so the dogs dont crap on the childs lawn :11: the dogs are in the house when we are at home and go in the run for the toilet and on a night when we go to bed, if you keep them outside get the best kennel & run you can afford... inside dogs are a burglar deterent...i had a telesales bloke trying to sell me a burglar alarm, i told him i had 2 dogs that would a -
think it was don southered who had a spanielx my mate ad some cockerx whippet/ghds years back great little rabbit/hunting dogs thats the bloke my mistake :whistle:
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the lurcher i had as a teenager was a very commited dog and she would fly into hedges when lamping, and would also rugby tackle hares during the day, she seemed to just throw herself at the quarry when near enough and usually came up from the tumble with it firmly in her teeth i saw that as commitment, but when out ferreting once and she stabbed herself in the eye with hawthorn trying to catch a rabbit i re-thought commitment as suicidal tendencies :11: sadly it aint something you can teach or influence, either the dog will throw it self at the hedge or it will be smart/scared enoug
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weren't paul sagar's coursing dogs part spaniel, i think they were about 1/16 spaniel, i think it was paul sagar i remember reading about a strain of coursing dogs that were part spaniel in a plummer book :11:
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a valid point a lurcher is a running dog...a lot of the bull crosses i have seen couldn't make up the ground to get to terms with the quarry.....that said i suppose 3/4 bred etc. will be fleet enough....a half bred would make a good terriermans dog, drawing and catching as they bolt....but for a long slip they are more fighter than runner, so more running dog is required... if it cant catch it it cant kill it, so it matters not how hard the dog is if it cant get on terms with a long slip what percentage of bull do bull cross owners like use? and if its only a small amount is it
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this is what happened on my thread on the subject....i wanted folks preferences and got...."they each have there uses" :11: i fecking know they do but which do you PREFER :11: