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  1. Bobtheferret
    f**k me!!!!! £2280! For a mongrel, that’s absolutely mental......just hope they haven’t sold out I’ll get a couple! ?????
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    I hate ticks, nasty bloody things. Fortunately don’t see many on the ferrets but took a huge one off my jill last week right under her chin ?.
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    I have ferrets around that age die on the job I am afraid to say, dug down to a signal on the collar to find ferret dead, fur on the claws, assumed a heart attack. However a happy story as well I lost a jill after the collar stopped working and went back every day (as did my mrs whilst I was at work) for a week to ten days before giving up and assuming the worst then a full 26 days after losing her I get a call off the keeper to say that whilst out on a shoot day (a good quarter of a mile away from where I lost her) my ferret had just wondered up to a beater a he picked her and handed her over
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    I was getting pregnant does (early stages) just after Christmas but last few weeks I haven’t had any pregnant ones. I think they have been absorbing them as the weather has got cold, I catch one today though that was very very milky so must have been nursing young but haven’t bolted any babies yet. I was bolting youngsters in November still though which I think is very late.
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    Well done for taking them in, hopefully you find good homes for the other two.
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    I’ve never bothered getting them tested after op and it’s always been fine, just as well as I normally have anywhere from 4-8 jill at any one time!
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    Love it!
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    Don’t rush into anything, keep looking and be prepared to travel for the right one. I have an 18 month old whippet (pedxnonped) and I have to say I am very happy with him, as a ferreting dog he is spot on. I just keep looking and ringing about litters till I found someone that answered the questions with answers I liked ??. Plenty of good working whippets out there.
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    I am in the south and do well to get it done for less a £100 round here. The op should be very effective I’ve used one for years, get it done soon if you want to use him on your jills in April as I think you should leave it a month or two after the op.
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    Trev have you kept a tally of your season to date? You put some amazing numbers in the bag and all without the use of a net it seems! Keep going with the videos always enjoy them ??
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    I haven’t seen a live hare round my way for nearly 5 years, saw a dead one run over about 2 years ago but that’s it. I go lamping and ferreting throughout the winter and air rifle shooting in the summer so I am out and about plus obviously dog walks etc but they just aren’t there. Rabbits around in ok numbers in spots and barren in others but bloody deer are everywhere!!!!
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    Agreed. Had a lot more bites of hamsters than ferrets
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    Looks like I am the only one to catch a pure white one! Amazed at that didn’t think it would be so rare, the place I caught the two in the pictures earlier in this thread swear to their knowledge that no pet ones were ever introduced but obviously couldn’t know if some random released one. They said they had seen them occasionally for years, other than being white was the same size etc as a normal rabbit.
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    Not being funny but this is not new news, RVHD2 has been over here since 2014 and you only need to see the number of topics on the lurcher or ferreting forums on this very site to realise it’s had an effect on rabbit numbers. There’s also maps been drawn up of suspected/confirmed cases bought into vets etc and it’s pretty much completely widespread across the country. It’s been in aus and nz for longer and rabbits formed an reasonable immunity in a (relatively for a virus) short time of 10- 15 years so very much fingers crossed in another 5-10 years ours do to.
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    I am positive that rabbits use certain warrens only when feeding. They use them so they can venture further away from the primary warren and have a safe sanctuary to go to if disturbed by a fox or whatever but then when they have finished feeding and want to rest up for the night the return to the main warren. For a ferreter this can lead to head scratching especially if you have seen rabbits at night, I would say in my experience this is most likely to happen when there is premium food available (winter wheat etc) but better warrens a few hedges/fields away that are safer and dryer. Rabbits a
  17. Bobtheferret
    Either post the name or be quiet. Plus does it even bloody matter what dog another man runs and if it once jacked on a fox?? It’s his dog and if he is happy with him that’s all that matters.
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    I think you may be on to something there, the lack of wanting to actual feel fur in the dogs mouth. Mine would be same as yours! They are fine in the day, very rarely getting tangled or hit the long net but will hold the rabbit there till I untangle it and take it off them but no way I would even contemplate doing old school long net work at night would be a disaster! First rabbit would be our last probably!!!! ?
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    I think most lurchers can work a long net during ferreting but if we are talking at night as described above then in my opinion that is a rare animal. To leave the rabbit once in the net and then cast back out into the darkness to drive more rabbits into the net all with minimal commands that’s a dog i would like to own.
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    Thanks for taking the time to do a write up with some nice pics. ?? Sounds like a good day even if it was hard work to start with.
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    Most important thing is they work well and have a good temperament, I do personally dislike larger than average ferrets though. I always work a mix of hobs and jills and those cat like hobs are no good for the job in my opinion, to big and strong and if they get hold of a rabbit they are not letting go! Ferrets job is to bolt the rabbit not kill it! I have noticed this year though that with a few less rabbits about mainly the remaining rabbits are seem slightly bigger and stronger than last few years, less competition for food and best warren space perhaps? My imagination maybe!?
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    Went out yesterday and every doe I caught was pregnant, the week before that I caught half grown rabbit maybe 6 weeks old so must’ve been born around mid November.....I think we aren’t fair away from 12 months of the year breeding if they aren’t already.
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    Here is some of my lot! Good grafters all of them.
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