has this ever happened too you?

[cathunter 8]

Years ago, i was getting shown the ropes off an old timer mate of mine (now past for the last year and half)

anyway i just picked up a 11 0r 12 week old doe (jill)(first ferret in many years)and i was just sitting down in my shed handling her when memories of the past popped in my head.

 

My mate and i where out on a hill side picking up the odd rabbit or three. and at one burrow my old timer mate grabbed a perse net with a rabbit in it and dislocated its neck in the normal fashion. laid it down next to the rest.

standing next to my mate not 4ft away from the small pile of rabbit, i looked over and one of the rabbits didn't look right, so i went over to take a better look, as i did. the rabbit in question, jumped up and started down the hill running flat out, with it's head laying over to the right. i can still picture it now with two short legged foxies in hot pursuit and the rabbit out pacing them two 2 one down the hill.

 

i looked over at my mate and asked what when on there, he said i don't know, never happened to him before in all his 60 something years of rabbiting.

 

 

the rabbit laid there for a good 40/50 sec before it sprang back to life.

 

has any one had that happen to them or something similar?

[Jamie m 668]

Survival neck wasn't broke

[burny2011 12]

he went on his own and had 2 or 3 run off the one of the last times i when with my granddad i had to do all the rabbits because he had not got the strenth to do them i was 17 he was 63 .he loved ferreting he hated old age because he couldnt get out with ferrets

Edited March 27, 2011 by burny2011

[Ideation 8,217]

Thats why i always crack them on the back of the neck, you can tell that they are 100% dead from the ears that way. Never get it wrong.

[tote 861]

Seen it happen a few times, don't think it's a lack of strength more a lack of technique. One of the lads I used to ferret with had bother necking rabbits, quite often he'd pass them over to me to do them after he'd tried and failed, he was 6ft tall, 14 stone and a butcher to trade but he just didn't have the knack of necking them.

[Leeview 792]

Thats why i always crack them on the back of the neck, you can tell that they are 100% dead from the ears that way. Never get it wrong.

Chopping the neck cause bruising and trauma sometimes they're only stunned as for whispering in their ears What if they're deaf? The safest way to test if they're dead give them a prod in their eyeball if it blinks its not dead

Y.I.S Leeview

[Ideation 8,217]

Thats why i always crack them on the back of the neck, you can tell that they are 100% dead from the ears that way. Never get it wrong.

Chopping the neck cause bruising and trauma sometimes they're only stunned as for whispering in their ears What if they're deaf? The safest way to test if they're dead give them a prod in their eyeball if it blinks its not dead

Y.I.S Leeview

 

 

Hold by back legs, chop neck cleanly (one chop kills) - when alive they hold their ears against their back, when dead, the ears drop down at right angles Never had a problem with bruising, even when going to butcher / game dealer. Again it's just in the technique.

[Leeview 792]

Seen it happen a few times, don't think it's a lack of strength more a lack of technique. One of the lads I used to ferret with had bother necking rabbits, quite often he'd pass them over to me to do them after he'd tried and failed, he was 6ft tall, 14 stone and a butcher to trade but he just didn't have the knack of necking them.

Knew a lad a few years back, big lad but as you say just did nt have the knack of necking the rabbits,he would neck a rabbit and stand there virtually strangling the rabbit to make sure it was dead before he dropped it to the ground

Y.I.S Leeview

[The one 8,583]

Id sooner pull its neck then you can slide your hand down and feel the gap in the neck if your no sure there dead . never liked chopping them it looks amateurish in front of the farmer and can bruise the meat from the shoulder if its no done right .

One seen one rabbit get up and run after a guy took it out a snare and killed it LOL

[Ideation 8,217]

Id sooner pull its neck then you can slide your hand down and feel the gap in the neck if your no sure there dead . never liked chopping them it looks amateurish in front of the farmer and can bruise the meat from the shoulder if its no done right .

One seen one rabbit get up and run after a guy took it out a snare and killed it LOL

 

 

Aye, just got to make sure you do it right Never had a farmer judge how well the jobs going by how the rabbits ended up broken necked You still going up there?

[watchman 256]

Years ago, i was getting shown the ropes off an old timer mate of mine (now past for the last year and half)

anyway i just picked up a 11 0r 12 week old doe (jill)(first ferret in many years)and i was just sitting down in my shed handling her when memories of the past popped in my head.

 

My mate and i where out on a hill side picking up the odd rabbit or three. and at one burrow my old timer mate grabbed a perse net with a rabbit in it and dislocated its neck in the normal fashion. laid it down next to the rest.

standing next to my mate not 4ft away from the small pile of rabbit, i looked over and one of the rabbits didn't look right, so i went over to take a better look, as i did. the rabbit in question, jumped up and started down the hill running flat out, with it's head laying over to the right. i can still picture it now with two short legged foxies in hot pursuit and the rabbit out pacing them two 2 one down the hill.

 

i looked over at my mate and asked what when on there, he said i don't know, never happened to him before in all his 60 something years of rabbiting.

 

 

the rabbit laid there for a good 40/50 sec before it sprang back to life.

 

has any one had that happen to them or something similar?

 

had the same thing happen when i started ferreting as a lad,as someone said it was lack of technique and strenth as well,i pulled it felt it go and dropped it to the ground within seconds of it hitting the ground it was up and running id probably just dislocated the neck and it went back in as the rabbit hit the deck,tended to pull them a lot harder after that,chinning is the safe bet

[The one 8,583]

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Id sooner pull its neck then you can slide your hand down and feel the gap in the neck if your no sure there dead . never liked chopping them it looks amateurish in front of the farmer and can bruise the meat from the shoulder if its no done right .

One seen one rabbit get up and run after a guy took it out a snare and killed it LOL

 

 

 

Aye, just got to make sure you do it right Never had a farmer judge how well the jobs going by how the rabbits ended up broken necked You still going up there?

 

 

Its just as the farmer drops in to see how your doing as they often do it looks better in there eyes to have quickly and eficently pulled the rabbits neck than sombody taking a couple of chops at it . And what surprises me is the amount of folk you see taking two or three chops at a rabbit when your watching a dvd

 

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