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Try and remember if something changed from your set up last time when you had the kits and they survived. Noisier than usual. More potential or percieved predators around the cages or a change in diet. Hungry jills will eat kits. I think we have all lost a couple of kits at some point when we have done our best for them..
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Mine get fed mostly rabbit and whole chicken. They also get feral pigeons and hare the odd time. I give them sardines and mullet which is one food they will nearly start scrapping over. Got one wee jill that would rather eat greyhound nuts and bits of potatoe from the dogs bowl than any raw meat put down to her. Shes the only ferret iv ever saw eat vegetables of any kind.
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Aye exactly, she just cant be arsed with them any more. She should have come on here and got some decent advice on how to break her dog to her ferrets if she was really committed to keeping them. Still shes making sure shes getting her dough back. Iv a wee terrier bitch pup that was giving all my ferrets a good playful chewing. She chewed on the wrong jill and and i had step in and save her lol, I gift my kits too
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Separating Pregnant Ferret?
rabbit demon replied to Furrosious ferreter's topic in Ferrets & Ferreting
Personally id seperate them if the non pregnant ferret is scruffing the pregnant jill, just to be on the safe side. Iv had a jill in with the hob and a few other jills before and lost no kits but they all got on fine, then i had ferrets on their own and lost a couple if young, depends on the ferrets and their mood when they drop the kits. Snuggling up shouldnt harm the kits if their is only two of them it should keep them warmer if anything. -
W5 all purpose cleaner on floors and walls, then i use the w5 bacterial spray, i spray the corners bedding area and anywhere else that needs it. I clean them out every couple of weeks and I change the dirty saw dust every day. Im a slight germaphobe so i keep the run spotless. W5 stuff is good and doesnt leave any residue or smell of bleach.
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If one of the jills has problems nursing you have another that can feed them. If one jill is getting the life sucked out it with the kits feeding just take her out for a bit and let them feed off the other jill for a bit, or if the one jill has lumps under her teats because of milk build up leave her in and remove the other. Kits soon sort it out.
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Better off going to Aldi or lidl and buying whole ckickens for the ferrets. its cheaper than chicks. Chicken legs are €2.75 and small whole chickens are €3.15. Thats what mine get through the summer.
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A normal hutch will do. The jill isnt going to move from the nest box for the first few weeks after having the kits, Unless your planning on breeding a load of them.
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Beddy whippet cross, They will take rabbits with ease on the lamp and out ferreting. Freezers always full with mine.
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I was on a new permission that my mate got a few weeks ago. My good jill got a swelt eye from rabbits that were refusing to bolt and i hate to admit it but she struggled to clear the 2 or 3 holers as the bunnies would rather face her and put up a fight than do one. At one point 3 ferrets were working and still not shiftìng them. Every hole we done was a dig of at least 5 foot. We would get the odd bolt but they were hard got. Funny enough all the rabbits i dug to were the bucks. The odd rabbit that did bolt were doe rabbits. Seemingly the place is full of buzzards and that could have been maki
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Never tried them myself as they look awkward to use. I prefer a opinal knife myself. Cheap,easy to sharpen and when it is sharp its razor sharp. Makes gutting rabbits or anything else not seem like a chore i find.
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So sorry to hear about your news too.
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Get a locator unless you want to lose the ferret at some point. The ferret can get stuck behind a dead rabbit in narrow tunnels. I normally finish when half the doe's I catch have young in them, which was last month for me and due to the fact that the bunnies have been scarce this year. But I usually go till at least april if theres plenty rabbits around. I dont get many rabbit jobs but would go anytime of year when one does come up.
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My Mink And Lurcher Hunting A Muskrat Under The Ice!
rabbit demon replied to Minkenry's topic in Ferrets & Ferreting
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When your handling her, make sure she no hungry, pick her up and put her down and just keep repeating that process over and over any time your spending with her. Iv a resue and she was a nightmare for biting. You want to get wee tiny bits of meat and let her eat off the back of your hand to start with, when your confident shes no going to eat the meat and then latch on start her eating out the palm of your hand, then from out of you fingers. I never wear gloves nip training ferrets, kits or adults because at some point the gloves are going to have to come off. If its still biting hard after a
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My beddy/whippet used to be really bad for hunting up. Her recall was shocking when she first started coming out and doing a bit. She still doesnt have perfect recall when she picks up a scent, as in she wont come running back to me when i call, but if i tell her stay there, she stops dead and wont go any further. No infact she might take another couple of steps and il growl stay there at her again. She knows im not messing then. Farmers here shoot dogs reguarly so i cant afford for her to even nip into a field iv no permission on, even although shes totally stock broken. I would scruff her an
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Something stuck in the oesophagus or a chest infection. If it isnt too bad i would give him a day to see if it clears on its own, as it could be food and probably will clear itself. If it doesnt clear i would be heading for the vets.
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Their wee crackers sir and are look well cared for. I do like the look of the poley kits, alway remind me of wee panda bears.
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Break the dogs in one at time as chaff says. you can put them on the leash and see how they get on. I had staff that would kill everything fluffy around him if he wasnt introduced properly. Id bring him out to the hutch when i got my ferrets and take them out the cage. Id do all the handling of the young ferrets in front of him and if he got too over excited id give him a good firm no and a tap, within a few weeks i could put the ferrets down and let them run around My beddy whippet had to get bitten on a good few occasions before she clicked to leave them alone.
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Yeah, fresh paw prints and droppings around a warren mean nothing. Rabbits actually being clean animals use old warrens away from the new sets as latrines.
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Thats a mighty looking dog. I like the thought of the wheaten crosses and might be looking for one myself soon enough.
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Starting To Get Into Ferreting
rabbit demon replied to Guitarguyben117's topic in Ferrets & Ferreting
Without a ferret finder you more than likely will lose the ferret. My mate lost two ferrets and 2 collars yesterday due to his finder picking the worse time to go on the blink. Hob or jill doesnt make any difference its matter of preference,they both will bolt rabbits. For housing get a decent sized hutch or double hutch and for feeding, butcher scraps, fish, chicken and rabbits that you catch are all good to give them. feed them raw. I will advise you to go out with someone a few times before you commit to buying ferrets. I was pestered for months off my mates son to take him out ferreting wi -
Yeah hares dont catch myxi only rabbits get it and you can eat them safely but i personally wouldnt. I have fed them to the ferrets if they arent too bad. Discoulered ears and slight swelling are fine but i wouldnt feed the ones with puss coming out their eyes eewww. Hares and rabbits will sit very tight. My wee bitch got a hare last year when i was out ferreting. I never use her for hare as shes just a wee ferreting and lamping dog. We were walking to a set of burrows on open ground with no cover and what would have passed as a rock got up and bolted about a foot away from the dog. The thing
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There was a bad strain of myxi going around all my bits of land i hunt on here. There's nothing moving at all now. Even out with the lamp where i would normally see eyes all over the hills im seeing zilch. I saw bad strain of myxi that cleared everything before but not on the same scale as whats happened this summer. My dog and ferrets are pets only now till things pick up which wont be anytime soon.
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Iv had rabbits bolt quite often when doing the burrows on the sand dunes. No funny when your laying 30 odd nets and they all decide to do a bolt out the last couple of holes you havent got round to netting. These burrows are deep but its soft compact sand, maybe its caving underneath inside parts of the burrows causing them to bolt or they can smell the ferret even in the box. One reason i got the dog was to keep them in or catch them when they do bolt.
