Out with charlie nelly1 and patterdale joel

[DeepEarth 104]

Out on the estate again yesterday, doing the open warrens that hold a few bunnies. The grass is kept really short here by the sheep, which makes the netting up very easy. Used the long nets as well, but the wind blew the bagging to one side, and made taking in the long nets a lot harder than it should have been.

 

The wind was an abserloute pain all day. It was just my mate charlie nelly1 for the morning, and then patterdale joel joined us at lunch time, bringing with him his 4 month old beddyxwhippet. Charlie's lab did well, working the reeds really well, managing to peg 2 down that chose to sit tight.

I'll let the pictures tell the story.

 

The first warren, only 4 holes but also held 4 bunnies. A nice start to the day.

 

One of the 4 had to be dug to...

 

Two out of the first warren had strange markings.

 

Another warren, and another dig.

 

 

 

 

 

Another dig...

 

 

 

And then Charlie fell in a bog. ;D

 

 

Carrying the catch back to the car.

 

 

The biggest warren on this set of fields, we would have ferreted it but it was too windy to set the long nets.

 

 

End of day.

 

All the best

Joe

[shaunpauls7 131]

Good result bud and cracking land there.

Atb shaun

[darbo 4,779]

great stuff lads. well done. cracking pics.

[salukimad 9]

Never seen rabbits like that with the white near the head looks nice land out the.

 

[tomano1 80]

Well done lads real good day well done mint land

[charlie nelly1 142]

good pics joe and nice little write up, thanks again for the invite, my wellies are still drying as we speak by the fire now, thanks again oh and its a shame joel got a bit board and fed up later on in the day haha

[DeepEarth 104]

He wouldn't have got fecking bored if he hadn't stood around doing nothing all day.

[Guest cookiemonsterandmerlin]

Great lads I think some times hunters over look a labs as ferretting dogs mine in his peak would catch coneys in think undergrowth better than most lurchers.

 

And yours is a cracking looking dog plus nice easy ground you think you had problems with your longnets in open grass field I was setting though a blackthorn hedge very fun.

 

ATB Cookie

[charlie nelly1 142]

thanks cookie monster , she is around 11 months and is doing very well and I am really pleased with her

[Jamie m 668]

Good going looked a fine day bar the wind

[Ideation 8,217]

Well done lads, looks a good day and nice to see the pup out learning

[patterdalejoel 669]

good write up joe look forward to all the hedge ferreters being jealous of the open warrens i was impressed with how eve did, i expected her to be a bit of a pain and be bored, bus she was showing interest in what was going on so im pleased, bad job all my permo is as dead as owt edited to say i was supervising the pup, not standing around

Edited January 22, 2012 by patterdalejoel

[Brimmer 220]

Nice one, looking at the longnet piccie, you can see how strong the wind was, nightmare. Also i can remember ruining a yellow lab years ago belonging to my boss, he had it for his shooting, but it didn't take it long to become a ferreting dog. Can be a lot less hassle than most lurchers or terriers.

Nice bag, off nice ground.

[The one 8,588]

Good going you have a few there