Tiercel
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Has the ability to merge multiple pages of a thread into to one long page gone? I have tried looking for a way of merging the pages but there does not seem to be one. On the other hand it could just be me as usual. TC
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Most people use braided nylon, usually a flat braid as it can be spliced quite easily. I use 1.5mm or if I do not have any of that I will use 2mm. Some net sellers use braided polypropolyne and to be honest it's cheap but it is totally useless. It will catch in anything and it cannot be spiced properly. For all my personal nets I use 1.5mm flat braid 45KG breaking strain, light and you will get around 4oo mtrs per kilo. TC
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Hamsters and Goldfish are the easiest way of getting over to childern Children that nothing lives forever. They do have their uses, when they die you feed them to the ferrets. TC
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Apart from the obvious good practice with young ferrets. May I be so bold as to suggest that the reason you did not had any digs last year was sound managment above ground? In the last two years we have had one dig, and that was because we left my mates son net up a warren on his own. Field craft will always out. I enter my ferrets virtually the same as you, except I will let them do it on their own. Small warrens, try to get the tubes if not facing upwards then at least level, (young ferrets do not like going down steep slopes). But, most impotently there must be a rabbit at home, place t
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I don’t have a crystal ball neither can I see the past, but I am willing to bet that in the past out crossing to wild polecats has been tried at some point. People are making out that it is a new innovation, A mate of mine done it 25 years ago, crossed a trapped Welsh polecat hob with a polecat ferret Jill. The result was as has been well documented on here by people who have tried it. In the end he set them free, as they were as wild as their father. This thread was not started with the intent of knocking the eu cross. What is really boiling my p1ss, are the people who are systematica
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A ferret is a ferret, no problems with that! Some work better than others. Thats true! Ferrets have been worked for the last 2,000 years. Fact! Now all of a sudden there are people who are 'improving' the ferret, now colour is more important than working ability. It seems this year the darker the ferret is, the more desirable it is. FFS get a grip, ferrets are getting like pedigree dogs, and if the purveyors of these 'improved ferrets' get their way the humble ferret is going to go the way of all the working strains of dogs that have been messed up by the so called dog lovers.
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You are trying to start a long net lenghtways. Start the net off like a purse net but with 13 meshes for a 4.25" mesh or 14 meshes for a 4" mesh just keep knitting row after row after row. When you have the length you want. There are 36 rows to a rigged yard of net for a 4" mesh and 34 for a 4.25" mesh with a 100% bag. Stop knitting cut off the ring and your net is ready to add the selvedge. TC
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Aboslute rubbish. This is what happens when people start having ferrets as pets. Keep the hutch spotless and you will have no trouble. TC
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The fact is, none of you seem to be able to spot a wind up when it bites you on the swollen vulva. TC
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Free lining a live mackrel over the reefs in falls bay produces some fine specimen bass every year. If the weather is right watch out for the birds working, chances are there will be a shoal of bass below them. TC
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Not to Wexford it's not, It costs the same to post to any european country as it does to the R I. I am curious as to why? As the depth of the net has nothing to do with how slack the net is. Odd that! TC
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Mustela putorious? It seem not all EU polecats are dark. TC
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Absolutly brilliant photography. :notworthy: TC
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This little girl was lucky she was found by some walkers and handed in to me two years ago. So people still muzzle ferrets it's unbelievable in this day and age. Tucking into the first bit of food she had had in god knows how long. TC
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No excuses learn. this will tell you all you need to know about repairing nets. TC
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What you seem to forget is that albinism occurs naturally in nearly all forms of animals and birds including humans. So breeding polecat to polecat for generations would not give you a 100% guarantee that the line would not produce an albino. Think about it where did the first albino ferrets come from? TC
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I have a vested intrest is seeing that the truth be told as it is, not a distortion or emotive exaggeration of the facts. As for the breeding of albinos, I have bred 2 litters of ferrets in the last 25 years. I only bred the last litter because the Jill was such a good worker, that was 3 years ago. I only keep 3 or 4 ferrets at a time as that is all I have the work for. I like the way albinos work so that is all I keep. I have kept polecats, but not for the last 20 years as they do not suit the way I work. TC
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Ferrets with albinism are far from being blind, impaired vision is the term used. Deafness is a possibility but to what extent no one really knows. You are just using the term blind and deaf as an emotional crutch to back up your argument, when the statistics show that neither is really a cause for concern. To use an analogy like the one you used about your grandfather smoking. If you wear glasses as a child you are genetically different from most of the population does that mean that you should not go on to have children yourself, or that your life is affected in any great way? If you h
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No one is denying that an animal with albinism, no matter what that animal is, is genetically different to normal animals. The main way that they are different genetically is that the animal is unable to produce melanin that gives the hair, skin, and eyes colour. This type of albinism is known as oculocutaneous albinism and yes it does affect the vision of the albino animal. That said, there exists a possibility that the animal may have other defects, in reality while the possibility of these defects exist, they very rarely manifest themselves. While the lack of vision may not be detr
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Albino ferrets were quite common during the first half of the last centuary. It was only after the advent of mixie that the numbers went into drastic decline, as people got rid of them believing that the rabbit would never recover from the mixie. That went for polecat ferrets also. In conciquence the ferret went into a steep decline in numbers, only being kept by a few as pets. However, once the rabbit started to make a comeback so the demand for the ferret grew. But with a drastically reduced gene pool it is inevatable that some inbreeding would have taken place. But how much inbreeding w
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I have seen bedlington crosses with mouths like butter. But, I have seen more of them that will give the rabbit a crunch if it gives it a hard time. I have seen a few lurchers in my time, I had my first one funnily enough that was a beddy x another terrier crossed with a whippet in 1968. She had a fairly good mouth but the odd rabbit would get the treatment. The last lurcher I had was about 15 years ago off chalkwarren as it happens, out of his ACD X Speckle. Unfortunatly he broke his neck while working and that put me off having another lurcher, but I have been thinking for the last coupl
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After not having a lurcher for the last 15 years, I am thinking of getting another one. I will be used mainly for ferreting / mooching for rabbits only, with a little bit of lamp work. My first thought was something with a beddy / Whippet greyhound in it but the thought of the dog having a hard mouth has put me off somewhat. I have decided on a GH / Collie x Whippet / Greyhound. In theory it should give a dog that would even out in the low twenties at the shoulder and have the enough brains from the collie to be able to work things out. What are your thoughts on that cross. TC
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I don't think Nigel can be beaten on price and for service he is the best.
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When I was a kid growing up in the Cynon valley, most ferrets looked like the 'Greyhound' type of ferret but there again they were almost exsclusivly fed on a diet of bread and milk, with the odd bit of meat. I wonder if that has anything to do with the leanness of the ferrets? TC
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What a load of bollocks. As has been stated ferrets have been used for centuaries. The oldest referance I can find for them is Stabo in his "Geographica" written in 9 BC describes how people of the Gymnesian Islands (present day Balearic Islands) breeding Libyan ferrets which they muzzled and sent into holes to bolt the rabbits. Gengis Khan was known to go ferreting. There are tapestries, drawings and paintings starting from the 12th century depicting ferreting with both polecat coloured ferrets and albino ferrets. Queen Marys Psalter written in the 14th centuary has drawings of m
