A nice day ferreting

[stevethefish 80]

Met up with 3 mates today who travelled down to Lincs from Sheffield for a days ferreting. I took them on one of the farms and we had a decent day all told. We started off ferreting some open warrens netting 7 on the first, 4 on the next and then 6, we then moved on to a few dykes with hedegrows that were a bit overgrown and quite difficult. This was to get brownie points from the farmer as the rabbits were eating his fruit trees in his garden so needs must.

We struggled to net many of the holes as they were hard to get to so just netted the easy ones and took pot luck. We had 5 ferrets all collored up and 3 sounder boxed backed up with spades etc. After loosing many from the far side that was overgrown we managed to get to the end of the hedgerow. We had to dig about 4 where the ferrets had nailed a couple but not that bad digging really. We did another hedgerow after that one and called it a day, a count up at the end totalled 49 with just one half grown one. The mates were well chuffed and are yearning for more, and want to have a day with the dogs and lamp. They went home with a pick up full of bunnies and cheesy grins, a nice day out but that was on the hard bit, I will take them on the easy land next time.

[The one 8,592]

Christ 49 thats a bag and a half these days

[olliedakennard 0]

sounds like a good day had by all well done mate

[Coatesy900 0]

Last year I was doing hedgerows and ended up tying 90% of the nets to the branches and fence etc. rather than using the pegs. It takes a lot longer but is useful in those situations.

 

Sounds like a grand day out, good bag

[auld salmon 28]

well done thats a good bag wish i could get over 27