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Well I saw some Longnets for sale on fb, but couldn’t have a look until after the lady had picked her kids up from school. It was near one of my permissions I hadn’t been to in a while, so I thought I would kill two birds with one stone. I nipped over late morning, soon got started by long netting an open Warren of around 8 holes spread over a good area. Approx 80 yards to circle it, with a couple of 15 yarders ran across to prevent hole hopping. I then sat on my barrow, had a quick coffee and a smoke to give it a 10 min rest, then put the ferrets down. The rabbits always take a while to ge
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A couple of my jills have had the same the last couple of years, they seem fine. Might be an age thing
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They are sealed units, so unless it is something simple like the metal pin has fallen off, they cant be fixed
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Well as I’ve ran out of rabbits in the freezer to feed the ferrets, I needed to do something about it! I dusted off the little s200 which hasn’t been used since last Julyish, when I also nipped to the paddocks to stock up on bunnies before ferreting season started. I charged the batteries for the night vision, and this evening, plugged it all together to give it a check over. Well it didn’t work, the screen and camera were dead. A quick test with the multimeter, and the lead between the battery and everything else was open circuit. Well a quick visual, and you could see where the wire comes
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My ferrets dont eat dry food. I just feed a mince in the morning thats eaten very quickly. It comes from the butchers, minced chicken carcass, beef trimmings and a little bit of liver for £1.20 a kg, then a bit of rabbit at night. I only put down what can be eaten, so dont have a problem with flies
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Yes, far better. If I didn’t have my vas hob, I would use them again. It would be expensive though for 8 jills at £90 a pop!
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I had a couple of my jills implanted June 2018 and one of them has just started to come in season. So if you get them done at the beginning of the year, they will last two seasons. I’ve now got a vas hob, so I don’t need to use them anymore, just thought it would be a little useful info
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Well I was asked to visit a new permission a few days ago. They had to leave for work at 7am, so went and saw them in the dark. He was a little cautious of letting a stranger on his land, so he took my phone number and pictured the back of my van. Well luckily there were plenty of rabbits there that’s for certain. He told me he was losing over 25% of the grass which his cattle grazes on. Well he’s cut the hedges while the cattle were in the barns, but Now it has taken me a lot of time picking all all the bits of twigs and thorns out of the Longnets. Well the first day, I walked 50 yards from
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Has the MK1 old grey knocker box had its day
beany01 replied to maxwell's topic in Ferrets & Ferreting
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A pair of my jills do that. Mother and daughter. They never used to do it, just started this season. As soon as I put them back in the run they start having a go at each other. They settle down in 10 mins.They are roughly 4 and 5 year old, always lived together.
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I had this with a couple of kits. I put calcium powder on their feed for a couple of weeks and they were fine
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That mk4 is a cracking barrow. I used to do a lot of carp fishing, too much really, but the excitement sort of went out of it after 20 years.
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I’m only 39, but my back is shite. I stuffed it last year and lost the last 4 months of the ferreting season. I will take a mate next time I go up there
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I’ve tried rabbit cooked many ways, but I don’t like it. I eat every other animal or fish going, but bloody typical I don’t like rabbit! It always seem to have a hint of the guts in the taste.
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Well I got a phone call a few days ago about some rabbits being a problem on theor paddocks. Well I went up there first thing, put the Longnets out and the ferrets in. It wasn’t the easiest place to go on your own. The hedges are 10 ft wide and really thick, pushing well over 14ft tall. Only in a few places where it’s thin, you can cut a net or put donk boards through. I only managed 2x 100 yard sections today, each one opposite sides of the paddocks as requested! I’m glad I took 200 yards of longnet. They do tend to like hole hopping here, so I made up 12 x 4ft long donk boards yesterday, to
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When I go netting in my boat, if i havent been for a long while my hands get sore hauling the nets in. If you do it regularly your hands will toughen up.
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A lot of nets do shrink slightly, especially when they get wet and dry out. My father has some old sprat nets that were boiled to shrink the mesh size, when the sprats one year were small
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Lint is the proper term for the mesh. A softer lint is more flexible and will enmesh the rabbits better. A binding agent is a chemical used to bind the fibres in the twine together
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Im a commercial fishermen, so have a fair amount of experience rigging nets. I brought a sheet of netting from advanced, and its ok, but its not as good as Nelsons lint. I dont know where he gets such a soft lint from, but advanced lints have a lot of binding agent on them. I gather Nelson buys 100 lints at a time, so he can get them made to his exact requirements. The advanced netting lint has started to soften now after a couple of years, but I would still buy all my longnets from Nelson. Hes an ex fishermen and knows how to rig gear properly, I have seen some hash ups by so called longnet r
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Hello, a mate has two mk1’s that need the depth wheel swapped, which isn’t a problem to do. I have checked one of the boxes and it’s an early version without the screw in the dial. I have seen the variable resisters for sale with the screws, but not the older switches without them. Can they still be brought? Or can the newer switch be retro fitted? Cheers Beany
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Well after ferreting Friday morning, and getting back in the swing of things, I picked one of the jills up on Monday night and it looked like it had a bollock! A closer look, and it was a marble sized ball in the anal glands. Luckily, she’s a friendly bugger, so I gave it a good squeeze and loads of pus came out. Well it left a bit of a mess, so I put her back in the run for half hour and she cleaned it all up. So I was now left with a deep 6mm hole. I’ve packed it with savlon morning and night, the swelling has gone down, and luckily it’s healed up lovely. Not what you want at the beginning o
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Thats hard going. I know its not all about numbers, but I couldnt feed my ferrets with that amount. Hopefully they will pick up in numbers sooner rather than later
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Well I thought I would dust off the gear and have a go Friday morning. The local golf course gives me an extra couple of months ferreting, as everywhere else is still horrendous with growth. Thursday night, I checked all the collars and mad sure everything was working fine. I decided to just take my two older Jill’s, as it would only be a short session. I have had a good look round over the summer, as they had most of the gorse dig out by a jcb, so most of the usual warrens had disappeared. So I walked half a mile to a good looking Warren I spied in the summer. The long net was soon ar
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I haven’t seen any mixi so far.
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ive had that s200 a long while. It sat in a cupboard for 12-14 years not used. I bet its never had more than 3-4 tins of pellets through it, but it could do with a service, it weeps air from the bottle over 160 bar.
