Longers7 720 Posted January 1, 2015 Report Share Posted January 1, 2015 Picked up a couple of hobs yesterday off a lad who's given up ferreting, there quite big boys! Just wandering what size other peoples hobs are that they work? I've only ever worked Jill's which are much smaller in comparison! I know using purse nets with hobs can be a pain with them messing set nets up, but most of my ferreting is done using longnets so not to bothered, any pics would be good. 1 Quote Link to post
bumpy22 414 Posted January 1, 2015 Report Share Posted January 1, 2015 my hob you can only just get a collar round him but as you say in our area most of the work is done with longnets. if we do use him with purse nets it is a bit of pissing about but if they are there he will find them. how are you doing with mixy ? seems everywhere local at the moment 2 Quote Link to post
The one 8,396 Posted January 1, 2015 Report Share Posted January 1, 2015 It's no just the nets big hobs can be a pain in the bum with if there too big and get a grip of a rabbit its a spade job every time as you might find out better run a file over the bottom of your spade mate it's easier digging when the spades sharp 5 Quote Link to post
Longers7 720 Posted January 1, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 1, 2015 my hob you can only just get a collar round him but as you say in our area most of the work is done with longnets. if we do use him with purse nets it is a bit of pissing about but if they are there he will find them. how are you doing with mixy ? seems everywhere local at the moment my hob you can only just get a collar round him but as you say in our area most of the work is done with longnets. if we do use him with purse nets it is a bit of pissing about but if they are there he will find them. how are you doing with mixy ? seems everywhere local at the moment one of my perms was virtually wiped out with mixy 2 years ago and has really struggled to recover any sort of numbers, another of my perms has quite good numbers and mixy hasn't been a problem.... The biggest problem there is the dog walkers calling you a murderer etc etc :-/ lol Quote Link to post
mushroom 12,352 Posted January 1, 2015 Report Share Posted January 1, 2015 You could always gut the rabbits with the flick method and watch their dogs dig into the gut sack 2 Quote Link to post
pie-eater 377 Posted January 2, 2015 Report Share Posted January 2, 2015 Picked up a couple of hobs yesterday off a lad who's given up ferreting, there quite big boys! Just wandering what size other peoples hobs are that they work? I've only ever worked Jill's which are much smaller in comparison! I know using purse nets with hobs can be a pain with them messing set nets up, but most of my ferreting is done using longnets so not to bothered, any pics would be good. That's my hob in my avatar, probably cant see the size of him from that but Id say hes slightly bigger than average. I love using him anywhere Im using longnets. 1 Quote Link to post
johnrthrfrd 223 Posted January 2, 2015 Report Share Posted January 2, 2015 Bred a couple of hobs this year and there massive wasent expecting them to be so big as there mother is tiny and a brilliant worker father wasent that big either gave 1 away and lad has worked him haven't tried the 1 I kept yet for all the reasons mentioned above I only work Jill's so don't no why a kept him really but I will give him a bash my local perm was practically wiped out with mixy picked up a bit and it came back its still about cold weather hasent killed it off practically all rabbits gone. Quote Link to post
random 659 Posted January 2, 2015 Report Share Posted January 2, 2015 Just looked at mine and he is about from the crease of my elbow to my finger tip and I can just get my thumb and middle finger around his ribs,I would say he is bigish especially now he is dressed in his cold weather gear! Quote Link to post
owen12345 43 Posted January 2, 2015 Report Share Posted January 2, 2015 one of my hobs is massive he is twice the size of my other one and thay are the same age Quote Link to post
CraignTod 278 Posted January 3, 2015 Report Share Posted January 3, 2015 Hi longers i got some big hobs but there gamey! Chased a mink out the hole the other day, they rarley kill down the hole but the do kill more than jills every ferret different good luck P.s. In black and ehite because colour file to big Quote Link to post
pie-eater 377 Posted January 3, 2015 Report Share Posted January 3, 2015 I wouldn't be without hobs I prefer them to jills on most of my land. I don't see the fact that hobs can hold and kill rabbits to be a big problem but then most of the warrens on my land aren't to deep. I have a medium sized jill here that is expert at killing rabbits and If I had a ferret that never killed id say it wasn't keen enough to be doing the job. The only 2 problems I see with hobs is they cant pass through purse nets without dragging them down and they aren't interested in working early or late in the season because their minds are on mating (castration could cure that). Quote Link to post
Guest vin Posted January 3, 2015 Report Share Posted January 3, 2015 I like a big hob for the job. Quote Link to post
bobkizzyhugo 40 Posted January 3, 2015 Report Share Posted January 3, 2015 My hob is same size as Jill's. his dad was same size also, got a half brother coming back also as small as a Jill. Some if his hob kits wer massive Quote Link to post
bigadam 0 Posted January 3, 2015 Report Share Posted January 3, 2015 I love working big hobs they are a lot slower and I find u get a lot more bolts from a big lad Quote Link to post
kps1979 1,308 Posted January 3, 2015 Report Share Posted January 3, 2015 Big jeff! First time he'd been out, 2 Quote Link to post
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