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    Just my opinion but I personally would not breed to supply such a market. What the idiots will and won't buy shouldn't be your concern, just breed your own line and improve it whilst they're all fecking about with trivial things like colour
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    It's already happening...it's why I only keep albinos, poleys and sandies. I won't have any ferrets that are 'odd' colours. Mostly due to a bad experience I had with a pair which had been a part of some fool's colour breeding scheme. Ultimately though, people will buy fancy colours and there will always be people who can't help their own greed and will breed to supply the demand.
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    Sounds like progress to me. As least her slow, considered actions show that she is thinking about it The worst ones are the ones that bite repeatedly, lightning fast, and without let up, as though there could not possibly be any other action. Your jill will come good.
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    Let her settle in a bit mate and just feed and handle. I have bought around some shockers by doing nothing by that. I find it usually takes new ferrets a week or so to settle in and become confident, during this time I try to keep them nice and quiet, don't let a lot of people handle them. It's a time for them to get used to their new place in the world. Once they know where they stand and that they aren't going to go hungry or be hurt even nasty biters are more receptive to being handled.
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    Is the trap in the first pic a Belisle? Fantastic pics.
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    Maybe lay off rabbiting that patch for a bit and take up minking for a while instead. Bet you could trap a good few... Sorry about the ferret. Never easy to lose a good ferret.
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    Never come across any whilst out in the field but I'm well remembering some of the posts here. I like the thought of flicking rabbit guts in their general direction. Would soon move them on, I think. I've come across plenty in other situations though...most obnoxious was a fella in his early twenties- arrogant, ignorant vegetarian dimwit- who really cut up when fieldsports came up in conversation and he found out that I have been known to neck the odd bunny. Ah, the idiots one has to endure through association. You should have kept on and caught more bunnies mate- that would have bee
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    Yup, unless you give them enough to last until morning. If I don't leave enough to last until morning mine never knock back a bit to eat. They have faster metabolisms than we do and most people like to have something in the morning- especially if we have graft lined up.
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    I haven't found that to be true at all. I feed mine before we go out and they will work for as long and as hard as necessary. A few kicks certainly won't put them off...if mine worried about a few kicks, hungry or not, then they probably wouldn't be the ferrets I would choose to work. Yes, each to their own. But I do not go ferreting without having had breakfast and I have to do considerably less than the ferrets, so I don't expect them to work on an empty stomach either. i went out today with my 2 new polecat ferrets,fed them a raw egg each at 6.30am and was on my permission at 8.45 ,
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    I don't recall anyone saying to stuff the ferret until it is so fat it can't fit down a hole. Leave that to the fluffy pet keepers [to clarify: Not all pet keepers. Just the fluffy ones.] My ferrets are not wild animals and I expect them to hunt all day, which they do, and not stop and eat their fill after making one catch, as a wild polecat or feral ferret would. I don't think that what domestic working ferrets do and what wild polecats and feral ferrets do are comparable. My ferrets have breakfast before they work and I can see nothing but benefits. I have tbeen there and tried the
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    Bargain mate
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    No difference except that it's grey.
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    That's a big mink!
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    I haven't found that to be true at all. I feed mine before we go out and they will work for as long and as hard as necessary. A few kicks certainly won't put them off...if mine worried about a few kicks, hungry or not, then they probably wouldn't be the ferrets I would choose to work. Yes, each to their own. But I do not go ferreting without having had breakfast and I have to do considerably less than the ferrets, so I don't expect them to work on an empty stomach either.
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    I have some of mine in something very similar, I got hold of some old pavers and paved a base for it to sit on. It was a good bit of work for an afternoon and works well. It's worth treating the wood occasionally, will make it last longer.
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    Doesnt castrating the hobs take the agression away from them like with dogs. It prevents most sexual aggression but it makes no difference at all to their working ability. I have hobs on my team but I do prefer jills for places where digging is not possible. That being said, in the places where it is then the hobs certainly get the job done! DOES IT STOP THEM FROM KILLING AS MUCH. AS I WOULD DIG UPTO 3FT FOR A FERRET No mate, they will be just as hard on the rabbits once done. I've worked hobs intact for a few seasons and then had them castrated and then back to wor
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    Doesnt castrating the hobs take the agression away from them like with dogs. It prevents most sexual aggression but it makes no difference at all to their working ability. I have hobs on my team but I do prefer jills for places where digging is not possible. That being said, in the places where it is then the hobs certainly get the job done!
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    Then if you are that well set up [and it sounds as though you are] I would reiterate my reccomendation that you don't breed until they are further proven. Take that extra step, plenty of lads breed ferrets in their first season without them being properly proven, be one of the better working breeders who doesn't. And I would reconsider breeding the silver.
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    A recessive gene which is more likely to be seen if inbreeding occurs, much like all recessives. I caught a very small black several weeks back and kept it. The wee thing is quite tame now and growing well.
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    Personally I would not breed them in their first season, let them prove themselves for another season first.
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    Personally I wouldn't do it, for the exact same reason that Ideation wouldn't. I take a lot of pride in the condition of my ferrets and have no desire to see them with [their own] blood all over them! Especially for something I can't even eat or use. I would leave the rats for the smoke and terriers.
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    Gday mate, I start mine at six months, don't expect anything great from them until their second season though. First season is just their warm up and getting used to things, a lot is forgiven, second season is when the graft starts!
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    That is bullshit. The most reliable jill I ever had never ate rabbit even once. She simply didn't recognise it as food. But she accounted for a great many and was pretty beneficial as she would never sit on a kill. And if you actually think there's a benefit to replacing stock frequently? Anyway, I think I know what's going on. You mentioned them having dry food? A lot of ferrets will choose dry food over fresh meat. It's like a 12 year old choosing McDonald's over vegetables and steak. If they have both available at once and have developed a taste for dry, they will tend to leave t
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    Fantastic set up you've got there mate!
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    A day to remember
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