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  1. Bobtheferret
    By far and away the best permissions I have are small holdings and smaller farms that have no crops (just sheep or cows) the bigger estates and farms often have keepers shooting and farmers just won’t poke up with huge areas of wheat eaten off and give permission to anyone with a rifle and that coupled with mixi and rhvd just means the old rabbit is getting hammered. Definitely worth looking a bit harder for smaller permissions that may only be 10 acres or so but hold good numbers and then just take a fair crop rather than wipe them out.
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    Got to be RHD wiping them out that quick. Hopefully they recover in a few seasons.
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    Whilst there is no doubt rabbit numbers generally are significantly down across most of the country I do feel they will recover but it may take time. Personally I feel it’s the new disease as mixi has been about for 65 years and people have always hunted them, it’s still relatively early since the outbreaks and if you look at numbers after mixi initially hit it took a long time for them to get back to anything sensible. I do feel that (unless your a paid pest controller) that you must manage your permission to avoid wiping out your own sport, make sure you catch enough to keep a land owner hap
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    I doubt I’ll go out till late September early October the cover is high and when shooting last week was still getting milky does and one pregnant one, was deliberately only shooting the odd one to show my face as would hunt them with dogs and ferrets rather than shoot them. Amazed by the amount of pictures online of blokes lamping already and not the odd run 40 rabbit bags if the pictures are to be believed! Have a good season everyone
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    Top man and a pleasure to deal with, most lads on hear probably dealt with Jim at some point. Will be missed. RIP Jim.
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    Keep taking her out and showing her game and she will get there. Have you shown her any dead rabbits? Have you got any ferrets? Showing her a rabbit in the net or bolting her some rabbits might help. Good luck.
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    I’ve got a year old non ped to ped whippet and he is an annoying dick around the house the but the most natural ferreting dog I’ve ever owned. Only took him last winter as the older dog had a horrific accident and was out of action for months (he is fine now) thought he would be a bit young really but he was a complete natural. Never had a dog mark so well, me and my old man were going in the snow and had 4 from a set and were picking up and he just keeps marking a hole away from the main warren so pop a ferret back in rabbit duly bolts he catches it, that was a regular achievement for him des
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    Would love one of yours to add to my workers and introduce some fresh blood but Yorkshire is a long way to go for a ferret from Sussex! Good luck finding them good homes Vin.
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    Was starting to well up a bit reading that, brings back the memories of losing them over the years. So glad she pulled through would’ve been a horrible way to lose her.
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    Did you bolt them to the dogs or use nets? I am guessing the dogs as must be just about impossible to get any kind of peg or long net pole in the ground. Not sure why you bought one from the pet shop though??? ????
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    Agree with Beany01 completely, good points. I do exactly like him bit of air rifle shooting in the summer months for fresh ferret food and keeping land owners happy, my air rifle doesn’t see the outside of its case between September and April though.
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    Lovely kits ??. Good luck with them.
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    Screwfix sell it at a good price
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    R.I.P Ted. Non dog people will never understand the pain of losing a dog.
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    Completely agree with what you’ve said. I have a eleven month old whippet that came out for the first time at 5 months and with me most of the winter and suffered not a single knock or injury. I wasn’t really planning on taking him much but older dog got injured on barbed wire and thought why not? He surprised me no end and has learned so much already. Can’t wait for next season to get him out again and really pleased I got some early experience in him. Good luck with Fleet.
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    Brilliant write up well done for taking the time. I feel your pain I lost one coming up to a year ago and still hurts now. RIP Ossie.
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    Just got to hope he learns for himself, tbh it’s going to happen at some point. Lurchers and barb wire is one of those things unless you can hunt somewhere with no wire....sorry if that sounds pessimistic but I’ve had so many dogs hit wire and need stitches
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    What cross is he? I like the look of him.
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    That’s a fair shout, my ten month old is a hard as nails in the field not bothered by snow, rain or knocks but gets home as is a right baby about stung feet! ?. The older dogs don’t seem bothered however, never really thought about until you pointed it out ginger beard!
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    Following from what Phil said about finding quarry in different circumstances I have different ferrets for different circumstances. I have a hob that will refuse to leave a rabbit below ground and is methodical about checking the warren and I have a jill that simply races round at 1000 miles an hour and bolts all the easy ones but will leave to odd one tucked up. You would not want only the hob or only the jill but both are valuable in different ways. If you have to clear a spot for pest control put the hob in and know it may take longer but the warrens clear but if you want to bolt a few quic
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    Whilst most definitely preferable to get a ferret from proven stock I have had some amazing ferrets from some odd places. One of the best ferrets I ever owned came from a cat cage in someone’s kitchen (aged 3) never seen raw food or a rabbit and yet she was unbelievable. 20 years later her blood still runs through my current strain of workers. Regarding cost I completely agree with Vin that good ferrets are criminally undervalued a lot of the time, I try and keep my own line with occasional input of fresh blood.
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    Sounds like his feet are stung to me. Nettles at this time of year are very sharp, mine does something similar.
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    Looks a lovely pup, well done. Hope he catches you plenty
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    Personally where I lamp it’s actually pretty hard to get big numbers the rabbits are quick and the land is tough. Some of the videos I’ve watched of blokes lamping up north are ridiculous rabbits are just slower and seem happy to squat. Down south were I am hardly ever get a squatter and seem turbo charged! Either that or my dogs are shite! ?
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    I had a brilliant little beddy whippet that was bred from a beddy dam and whippet sire was a superb example of the cross in my opinion and a first rate rabbit dog. Miss him every day.
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