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I love how nicely it retrieves it back to the guys' little bit of carpet!
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Gut them and I wire them to the side of the cage on a shelf with no saw-dust/paper/bedding which reduces the amount of stuff that gets stuck to the rabbit. The shelf can also be removed and cleaned in a couple of minutes if necessary. Leave skin on.
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I fed dry food to my jills last year. I'm pretty sure the sack said it could be fed ab.lib. so thats what I did. The albino may be a bit tubby, but just look how fat the polecat got! I thought she might be pregnant as was a month or so after I got her so didn't want to ration her food.... tricky situation. She didn't learn to nibble, instead kept on gorging everything! Once enough time had passed for her not to be pregnant, I increased the amount of meat fed and rationed dry. Personally I have no doubt that dry food of any brand is a poorer foodstuff for a ferret then a mixture of ra
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Sounds fantastic - I've never had anything like 20 in one day!
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I don't think it would be cruel to let a wild polecat have his wicked way with a jill, but I'd question the legality of catching/killing them in the first place. And imagine it would be illegal to keep them without a home office license?
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Thanks for all the encouragement, (although Longnetter, I am a female :kiss: ) The ferret is still really quiet, but is eating and drinking so I have every hope he'll make it. I'm not worried about the cuts on his back as they don't seem too sore for him. He has what looks like a big bruise on his underside and a lump on his face - maybe a dodgy tooth or something, but since I'm cutting up all his food tiny, and its going down, I hope this isn't too bad a thing for him. I'll try and find my camera charger and take some pictures for you all.
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Wow That looks so cool! My boyfriend has been building me a new run too, its going to have pipes layed all around the garden and up into the trees... Will put up pictures when its done (not till next month probably.)
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nercwys - I can't believe I didn't think of that - - I had a sick cow once and she perked up instantly when given glucose water to drink! How could I have forgotten that?!
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Hello all, He's not too bad now - I can't believe the improvement from yesterday evening. Kay, you're so right about it only taking a few hours. More eating and drinking. Even showed some interest in his new living quarters, before going back to sleep. Thanks COMPO, I'll let him keep his own hours from now on.
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Thats brilliant! Its such a good feeling to get a lost ferret back!
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Thanks for the encouragement. The ferret is alive. He's just eaten some tiny chicken and liver bits (about 3 tablespoons) and drank more water. And he'd been up in the night eating and drinking too. Nice and warm to the touch (he's still inside) and when I walked in the room this morning, he woke up. Whereas last night you could tap on the side of the hutch or poke him and he wouldn't move or flinch at all! Fingers crossed...
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Thankyou Coneytrappr. I will begin grinding shortly. I think its going to die anyway. Its gone cold to the touch. So its in the front room next to the heater on a hot water bottle and covered in shredded paper. I'm really upset. Its a nice thing, and I thought it was going to be ok.
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I posted in the lost and found section that I was given a ferret this morning. Found near Farnell, Brechin, Scotland. He's looking pretty rough. Has lots of cuts and mud on him. Very thin. He is so exhausted, he fell asleep in my hands as soon as I got him. He's in the warm now, in the shed and I've been waking him up every few hours to feed him. (I was worried he might go to sleep and never wake up again as he has no fat on him!) The ferret isn't interested in eating, just sleeping, but if I wake him up and hold it right under his nose he drinks and eats a lot! (An egg, lambs l
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Near Farnell. And seen another lovely looking big polecat hob dead on the road not 3 miles away.
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Ferret found 6am this morning on a farm between Brechin and Montrose, Scotland.
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Thank you for vouching for me Sighthound. And Foxgun Tom, thanks too. (Nae mind thinking I was a guy~It's a new one for me!) RicW, you know your stuff. Many have tried rearing bumblebee colonies, but very few suceed, which is a great shame. Has the Violet bee crossed the channel..?
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I certainly hadn't expected this response! Just assumed that pest controllers would kill bumblebee nests that members of the public found troublesome, its really cool to hear that they either relocate them or leave them alone altogether! Last year, through word of mouth, I moved a nest that was in a rockery which was being knocked down and built on. I simply thought that pest controllers might take many such requests, and if they were going to kill them anyway, then at least this would put them to some ‘use’. Bumblebees receive no legal protection in the UK. I am in contact w
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I research bumblebees at Stirling University and the experiment I'm currently carrying out requires me to find, dig up and kill bumblebee nests for later dissection and analysis. I know some folk on here are pest controllers, and wondered if people contact you to remove bumblebee nests from their gardens, etc.? If so, would you be willing to either give me the dead nests, or let me go and dig them up myself to help with my research? Ideally north of Glasgow and Edinburgh, Stirling, Perthshire, Dundee, and Angus ay would be great. Thanks, steph
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Thats really fast - will have to give it a go! Thanks for putting it on here.
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I have a degree in Wildlife Biology. I now work as a full time researcher in bumblebee ecology in Stirling University. Sometimes I wish I was doing something more practical then research and publishing papers. The other replies to this post are right; you need to get as much experience as you can. Most jobs are about getting your foot in the door, so try to volunteer with a few different organisations on a regular basis (Maybe National Parks, Wildlife Trust, BTCV, etc,) and get yourself known. Once you've shown you have the skills you need, and are reliable, etc, make it clear that y
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Agree strongly Hannah4181, for me it has to be a balance between pretty dresses, cooking, and girly things along with getting stinking dirty ferretting in oversized waterproofs! And when my boyfriend and I do go out shooting pigeons, my little fingers make reloading the pellets much quicker!
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All the usual, but also a coulple of mice the cats brought in, a blackbird that flew into a window and one time, some haddock. However, my dog killed a field vole (I was shifting an old tarp and he jumped on it, and in doing so squashed the vole...) the ferrets would not touch it!
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I'm tempted to think it may be mice in your attic as Eskdalehawks said. Bat roosts may be removed outside the breeding season (which I think will be almost over.) But you have to get a properly licensed person to do it for you. As for killing a bat, or a colony; they are very, very well protected ~ it is an offence to be in possession of a dead one. I would defiantly remove that post about killing that individual.
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I'd have thought more like 8 or 10 years. The average probably is 12-18 months, but this will take into account all those that die of disease/starvation/wounds/killed by other animals, etc. most of which will probably die when cubs.
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I am a scientist and work with genetics (bumblebee genetics mostly). If enough people on here knew the breeding and colouring of their kits, and ideally their parents and grand parents, we may well be able to work this out, if its really not been done before.