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I'm after a bit of advice on the best way of dispatching a rabbit. I'm new to ferreting and when I caught a rabbit at the weekend I had my first go at dislocating a rabbits next, I held it by the back of it's head with my left hand with fore finger and thumb under it's jaw and pulled up its back legs while bending it's head back. I felt the crack of it's neck but when I lifted it up it looked like it was still alive. I had another go and felt another crack but again it still looked alive so I gave it a hard chop on the back of the neck and that seemed to do it. Was it just nerves when I di
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When I give them raw meat they won't eat it, wierd! I've tried them on raw rabbit, chicken and beef and they just kick the dish over and leave the meat. Is that normal if they're not used to raw meat? Wean them off the dried food gradualy i.e a dry portion and a raw portion once a day to start with. After a couple of weeks they SHOULD BE EATING RAW WITH NO PROBLEMS AND NO STRESS INCURRED. Apart from anything else, Wellbeloved, or any other dried food is GROSSLY OVERPRICED! Hope this helps OK cool, thanks for this, I'll try and wean them onto raw.
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yeah possibly, i find that hard to believe though...there was so much rabbit muck around though there must have been more surely! I guess I've been a bit nieve, I assumed there would be lots of rabbits in each warren so I'd come home with a few each time. In a way it's good because it's a challenge rather than being a piece of p'ss! Droppings are not a sign of auccupancy, or are footprints, it just means the rabbbits have been there at some time, what you need is some thing that tells you the rabbits are in there, period yeah, the droppings were fresh though, I guess the rabbi
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When I give them raw meat they won't eat it, wierd! I've tried them on raw rabbit, chicken and beef and they just kick the dish over and leave the meat. Is that normal if they're not used to raw meat?
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Yeah that's great, makes sense...thanks for that!
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sorry if i'm being thick but what's weaton? a dog wat ya think Ha! fair enough....I meant is it a breed of dog or a type of lurcher?
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yeah possibly, i find that hard to believe though...there was so much rabbit muck around though there must have been more surely! I guess I've been a bit nieve, I assumed there would be lots of rabbits in each warren so I'd come home with a few each time. In a way it's good because it's a challenge rather than being a piece of p'ss!
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WEATON /GREY sorry if i'm being thick but what's weaton?
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A small handfull of James Wellbeloved ferret food each twice a day and then once a week they have an egg each. I'll replace the odd meal with a bit of chicken or beef or whatever if there's leftover food. Here they are on youtube
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I'm trying to work out what the best dogs for rabbiting are. Searching on the internet it always says the beagle is the number one choice but I'm not convinced purely because I don't think they'd be fast enough. I basically want 2 dogs that would be good for driving rabbits from brambles/undergrowth and quick enough to catch them in the open when my ferrets bolt them from the warren. Having done loads of research I was thinking along the lines of a bedlington terrier combined with either an irish terrer or a lakeland terrier....or possibly a bedlington and a whippet lurcher. Does anyone
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I'm trying to work out what the best dogs for rabbiting are. Searching on the internet it always says the beagle is the number one choice but I'm not convinced purely because I don't think they'd be fast enough. I basically want 2 dogs that would be good for driving rabbits from brambles/undergrowth and quick enough to catch them in the open when my ferrets bolt them from the warren. Having done loads of research I was thinking along the lines of a bedlington terrier combined with either an irish terrer or a lakeland terrier....or possibly a bedlington and a whippet lurcher. Does anyone
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I've got 2 ferrets adopted from the RSPCA, one hob and one jill, not sure how old they are but they're both fully grown but not old. I've been ferreting with my uncle when I was a kid so decided to take it up again. First trip out with them I only had one collar for my ferret finder so they took it in turns going down into the warrens, didn't bolt a single rabbit even though I tried 5 different warrens. I did a bit of research and thought that it was probably a combination of me making too much noise and the rabbits giving the ferret the run around as it was working on it's own. So I go
