Hunted cover, worked with ferrets and to ground with mine. Break them early and they're fine with ferrets, like any dog. Mine went beating too. If there's something in there they'd find it.
Food for thought, an old sage once said-"a wise man speaks because he has something to say. A fool speaks because he has to say something".
(and doesn't over use punctuation ?)
On that note, it's a strange one why dogs jack on one quarry but still mad for others. I had a bitch, the only dog I've had that jacked on rabbits at 6, never over run on big numbers. Yet more "testing" quarry she would give it all.
I'm glad I'm in a secret clique who do actually have the best working dogs in the universe so I don't have to get involved with this shit.
My son has a bitch in pup and he's giving the whole litter, the bitch and stud dog to a little old lady down the road. Beat that.