How To

[bigoy19706 276]

hi so i have my kits only 6 week but what age wood you start them at i was told 6 mounth also will i need a working ferrit to bring them on or is it just natural

[redpat1 225]

I think 6 months is about right for a kit to get going, although you can probably gauge it best by knowing your ferrets individually and getting a feel for their levels of maturity etc.

When I take out new kits I like to run them through a warren the first couple of times once a more experienced ferret has already had a go through themselves and probably cleared it out just to give them the chance to get accustomed to crawling around in the burrows. I have found that then they are fine and will naturally do their job. I have also put them straight down in the past when I haven't had a more experienced ferret and have found sometimes they can take a while to work it out and even go to ground, even when they do I have had a couple of sessions in the past when they have not bolted anything and kept coming back to the entrances the first couple of outings. They have all worked it out in the end though and often the slow starters have ended up being the best performing ferrets I have owned back in the old days!

Just my experiences, hope it helps.

[The one 8,595]

I find there like kids they all mature differently and at different stages and for years i always entered my kits slowly in small warren with there mother or a older ferret after a summer of working in and out pipes in the garden , but two year ago i was short on working ferrets and took six kits collared them up and worked them in warrens from 40 /100 holes with the rest of the ferrets and only one was playing about and a bit skittish but they all came good and made the grade

[sam007 34]

I believe you should always try to imitate nature

I have pipes in the court so they are used to entering holes

and I always enter them preferably with their mother or with

an experience ferret as in nature the mother would be teaching them to hunt

We sometimes take youngsters and expect them to know what to do,

instinct normally kicks in ,but learning off an older ferret

helps .to get them working properly quicker

I have enough to leave them untill they are about 1 year old,

but some need them to work asap.as they only have youngsters

Sam

[pie-eater 377]

I like to enter young ferrets in small warrens. Some of them seem to get it straight away and some take a bit longer so don't get disheartened if they don't get it instantly.

[bigoy19706 276]

i dont realy no any one with older working ferrets so i think it just going to be a case of try them and see what we get thank for all the reply

[pie-eater 377]

i dont realy no any one with older working ferrets so i think it just going to be a case of try them and see what we get thank for all the reply

Thats what Ive always done. Once they make contact with a few rabbits it usualy starts to click.