Ferreting vid

[Trev70 5,185]

More into bolting to the dogs but had a go with the nets today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6NNvGJAXhA

[Trev70 5,185]

[ollieollie 766]

Nice days work there! Keep the freezer happy 

[arctic skua 28]

good going Trev. did a garden on boxing day had thirteen thats more than i get on most farms . keep at it lad

[Bobtheferret 1,223]

Well done Trev, wondered where you had been hadn’t posted anything for a while. Been catching plenty?

[Trev70 5,185]

50 minutes ago, Bobtheferret said:

Well done Trev, wondered where you had been hadn’t posted anything for a while. Been catching plenty?

Cheers mate yes we've been doing ok mate another month and we'll be on the best land ATB 

[Bobtheferret 1,223]

1 hour ago, Trev70 said:

Cheers mate yes we've been doing ok mate another month and we'll be on the best land ATB 

Fair play. I have a few places I can’t do much on till after the pheasant season is over, just a shame they have often started breeding etc by then. Can’t be helped though! 

[socks 32,253]

Nice little video that. I’ve always found on a bank that the ferrets work much better when entered at the bottom of the bank and work up hill. 

[Trev70 5,185]

2 hours ago, socks said:

Nice little video that. I’ve always found on a bank that the ferrets work much better when entered at the bottom of the bank and work up hill. 

Cheers, I'll give that a go next time I've all ways put them in at the top I don't know why.

[Phil Lloyd 10,736]

Send em' uphill bonny lad...

 

 

http://www.chalkwarren.co.uk/

[foxdropper 17,092]

Was that fox bolted by ferrets or taken other means Phil .

[Phil Lloyd 10,736]

Hi Foxdropper,..that was a mornings ferreting, amidst the Vale of the White Horse.

 I was working alongside a pal employed, by the Rabbit Clearance Society (there were loads of these groups throughout the UK) and his job was to look after several farms, in his area.

All the farmers grouped together, to provide a wage and supply a vehicle, to enable him to get onto the massive chalk warrens.

I remember the Fox bolting into the net...

I don't think it was the ferrets that moved him, but more so the frenetic bumping and rumbling, around the deep bury, by the rabbits.

Whatever,...he was on the list, so had to go...

 All the best, Phil.

 

[foxdropper 17,092]

Known a few lads that were in the Marlborough Downs rabbit clearance society in Wiltshire .You may of heard of  a few of the older lads .

Gussy ,Danker ,Millsey to name a few .Gassing was the thing but the lads preferred ferreting to sell them .I did a year before it folded about 1990 .Gussy was well known for selling ferrets ,any amount ,any size ,any colour .

Bolted a fox myself years ago when I was a young un ,that took the net with it into a badger sett .Right pissed off I was lol.

[foxdropper 17,092]

Chap on the left carrying rabbits with you isn’t lad called  John is it Phil .

 

[Phil Lloyd 10,736]

Long time ago fellah,....I've met so many folk over the years in the hunting field, that its difficult to remember

But, I do seem to recall that the guy's name was John...

He was a nice fellah with good , honest rabbiting dogs.

I had journeyed to Devises to mate my ACD/Greyhound bitch Speckle to an exceptionally useful  Red Merle Collie x Greyhound , name of Sam.

 His owner was Kevin Davies of Calne and the John guy, was his ferreting/lamping partner...

Both genuine, capable hunting men,...I liked them...