what should i get?

[blando 0]

Hi, is there a big difference between ferrets in there working ability. As I was told that a lot don’t go down deep enough in the burrows they just seem to stay in the top level. I am looking for some new ferrets this year I was going to just get a few from the first litter that comes available to me, but would it be worth trying to get some decent working ones. As I ferret a lot of banks ferrets that go deeper would be better but im not sure this is true what are your opinions?

[The Ferret 0]

Most ferrets will bimble on down a hole and flush bunnies out for you. Some will do it at speed, some will take their time to clear each level, some will wander about ramdomly until they come across a rabbit. Most ferrets will work to some extent, as their natural curiosity will get the better of them.

 

If you're after workers, buy kits from working stock i.e mum and dad are proven rabbiters. It's not always as cut and dry as that, but it's a good place to start. If you buy shit, you generally get shit.

 

Having said that, I have a hob who is mainly a pet and hardly ever worked. When I do work him, he's a diamond!!

 

Always from working stock!!

 

Ferret

[blando 0]

thanks its worth going that little bit further to get some decent ferrets mite even give me a bit more luck this year with the ferreting

[Rabbithunter 456]

a ferret is a ferret, off working stock or not.

 

My polecat hob is not off working stock & he is a cracking worker. My sandy hob doesnt get used very often, but when the situation arises, he works like feck. Horses for courses

 

my two polecat jills are off working stock, one is the best worker i have ever had, the other is shite.

 

ferrets usually get better by the season, i had a 3rd season jill and there wasnt a rabbit she couldnt shift eventually, up until one day when i lost her 15ft down in woodland.

 

get a ferret, handle from young, put it down a rabbit burrow. Dont expect anything good straight away, but persevere and they usually come good. I have only ever had 3 ferrets that werent at all interested in the game, but its the way it goes.

 

happy ferreting

[DiStuRBeD 0]

i think there are two main reasons for getting off working stock

 

one is to give you a better chance of getting something decent

 

the other is supporting the guys that support your sport

 

 

hence the fact that i try and help out a hunter first

[Guest chilli]

get 2 males imho , ferrets need to be in at least pairs as well

[ginge2k6 0]

ferrets dont need to be kept in pairs. of course two ferrets are better than one when it comes to ferreting but as to keeping two in a pair in the same hutch or cage. i find it well easier to exercise a single ferret and i only started off with the one. get one then get another later on in the summer. theres plenty of time for new kits to be born. i wouldnt buy kits off people who breed a lot of ferrets. i bought a ferret of a farmer who had a litter of 13 and she wanted £30 for a jill just because she was silver. i finally got her down to £15. the ferret was covered in ticks and had dried shit on her back paws. i bought her because i felt sorry to leave her with all them ferrets. shes a cracking ferret now. buy from a good working breeder who works his ferrets week in week out and you wont go wrong. i was told that a top ferret would go down that extra level and work harder to push that last rabbit out.

[Guest chilli]

Get two ferrets mate they will be a lot happier .

[blando 0]

Thanks for all your help I have a hobb at the moment and he has had the chop but hasten been al that interested in working, so I think I mite get 2 jills to keep him company and hopefully they will be better workers.

[doddsy1970 9]

ferrets dont need to be kept in pairs. of course two ferrets are better than one when it comes to ferreting but as to keeping two in a pair in the same hutch or cage. i find it well easier to exercise a single ferret and i only started off with the one. get one then get another later on in the summer. theres plenty of time for new kits to be born. i wouldnt buy kits off people who breed a lot of ferrets. i bought a ferret of a farmer who had a litter of 13 and she wanted £30 for a jill just because she was silver. i finally got her down to £15. the ferret was covered in ticks and had dried shit on her back paws. i bought her because i felt sorry to leave her with all them ferrets. shes a cracking ferret now. buy from a good working breeder who works his ferrets week in week out and you wont go wrong. i was told that a top ferret would go down that extra level and work harder to push that last rabbit out.

 

Ive got 5 jills and they are all pregnant. Does that make me a bad person because i will have alot of kits? I think not because all my ferrets are kept clean and healthy and they are given a large area to run and exercise in with plenty of tubes and logs etc to climb and explore. Please do not tar everyone with the same brush because of a bad experience!!

[ginge2k6 0]

ferrets dont need to be kept in pairs. of course two ferrets are better than one when it comes to ferreting but as to keeping two in a pair in the same hutch or cage. i find it well easier to exercise a single ferret and i only started off with the one. get one then get another later on in the summer. theres plenty of time for new kits to be born. i wouldnt buy kits off people who breed a lot of ferrets. i bought a ferret of a farmer who had a litter of 13 and she wanted £30 for a jill just because she was silver. i finally got her down to £15. the ferret was covered in ticks and had dried shit on her back paws. i bought her because i felt sorry to leave her with all them ferrets. shes a cracking ferret now. buy from a good working breeder who works his ferrets week in week out and you wont go wrong. i was told that a top ferret would go down that extra level and work harder to push that last rabbit out.

 

Ive got 5 jills and they are all pregnant. Does that make me a bad person because i will have alot of kits? I think not because all my ferrets are kept clean and healthy and they are given a large area to run and exercise in with plenty of tubes and logs etc to climb and explore. Please do not tar everyone with the same brush because of a bad experience!!

OK MATE MY BAD

[Hywel 53]

Get two ferrets mate they will be a lot happier .

 

 

Good advice....

[MikeTheDog 153]

ferrets dont need to be kept in pairs.

So you would keep the poor fecker in solitary would you :realmad: .....Ferrets are gregarious they ARE better kept in company of other ferrets

[Guest RobW71]

Go for a pair of Jill's Blando, in Spring two entire Hobs will get agressive towards each other and smell more.

With your Hoblet you'll have the right combination

 

Regards Rob

[Rabbithunter 456]

ferrets dont need to be kept in pairs.

So you would keep the poor fecker in solitary would you :realmad: .....Ferrets are gregarious they ARE better kept in company of other ferrets

 

WELL SAID MIKE

 

When one of my jills were pregnant, I seperated her from her sister & my albino. I know that usually jills will get on with each others litter, but i thought id be a bit cautious.

 

I could see the difference in the ferrets when seperated the one on its own just didnt seem as bouncy, & the other two were looked as if they were looking for the 3rd jill all the time.

 

Now there all back together & happy as a pig in shit