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    Was wondering if anyone had a hushpower moderator for a .410 for sale? thanks, /mad
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    I so hope that was a joke. Otherwise you are a knob. /mad
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    You can buy batteries for a mk1 collar from Deben direct. http://www.romancart.com/cart.asp?storeid=...itemcode=BA7828 £12.95 for 10, vat & p&p included. Now it says V13GS/V357/SR44 Batteries but I bought some SR44 batteries from a shop and they were the wrong physical size. I think for me, I will play it safe to start with and just buy from Deben. /Mad
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    lovely pics. Do the ferts not attack the chooks? heard they weren't a good mix. /Mad
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    guys, this is great, so good to see all of you putting the time and effort in to make your boxes. Starting to get some good ideas now, esp re the dimensions. keep em coming! thanks, /Mad
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    oh my, that made me laugh nice collars by the way. /Mad
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    Thanks DS, excellent info as usual. Love that old box, looks well used. I'm going to try a bow backed box as I like the idea and look of them. Need to work out how to pin the strap back on itself after going through the rings. Pictures I have seen look like rivets. thanks, /mad
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    Was having a look online at Ferret boxes and I thought they all looked a little expensive. So, I am going to make my own, the sense of satisfaction will be worth any hassle involved in making one. What I would like though is some advice from those who have used boxes and recommendations for features the box should have. I have had a good search through the forums but have yet to find any plans or recommended dimensions. What size/design features would you guys recommend for a double box with bow back? What thickness ply should I use to get the back to bow correctly, and what about
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    " Bank holiday weekend What you been up to then?" Making a new 40ft x 20ft chicken run in the lashing rain. Posts hammered in, strainers added, just need to concrete them when I borrow friends mixer. one strand of hi-tensile wire in, nearly ready to hang the netting. Looking forward to going back to work tomorrow /mad
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    Thought I would include the picture diary here for all you shed lovers (me included!). I could quite easily have just bought a new shed but where is the fun in that! The shed in question is very large, and was used about 10-15 years ago to house poultry. Since then it has fallen into disrepair. It consists of four different sections, the last one being where I plan to have the ferrets, that way we can keep our wood store and tool storage areas. Anyway, here are some 'now' pictures. Starting from the left, the 1st section I have just finished slatting with wood from old palle
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    Some excellent advice there for anyone thinking about becomming self employed. I used to run a Landscaping and Gardening company up in Edinburgh. We went through the Lothian and Edinburgh Enterprise Limited (LEEL) who gave us an advisor, training and all sorts of material/contacts etc. Well worth finding out what your local council can provide. As said before, it is contacts that make a business. You need to go to the networking meetings they organise and get to know the 'movers and shakers' in your local area. These meetings will be full of local businesses trying to make contacts ov
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    2nd that motion. I am feeling a bit queasy after reading all of that. /mad
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    heh, me too! To satisfy your love of old sheds, I have a 'picture diary' of the ferret court construction over on Pigeon Watch, See: http://forums.pigeonwatch.co.uk/forums/ind...showtopic=31764 /mad
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    poultry keeping

    Madcowz replied to a topic in General Talk

    We have Light Sussex, Isa Browns (for the eggs), Belgian Watermael which are ever so cute, and a few other rescued brown uns. Did have some others but a bleeding fox came along at midday and ate loads of them. Still haven't paid him back. We sell the eggs at work which helps us cover the cost of the feed and gives us a good supply of eggs. /mad
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    Thanks for your replies. Few questions: If I was to cover the concrete, what should I use? It needs to be hygenic and easy to clean. I could lay lino and then silicon seal the edges. I laid concrete as the shed had no real floor as it used to be a turkey shed and was covered in crap. I thought concrete would be easy to clean and good at keeping their claws short. What do you guys have for flooring? How easy is wood to keep clean? I suppose the best way to give them height and be safe would be to have open shelves up to say 3 feet and then only tubing and enclosed shelves higher
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    Thanks DS, always good to learn new things. I imagine that with the setting bar being too long, they were able to drag the whole trap away towards their lounge where they could eat in comfort. Shame I spoilt their plan the second night! I will set them again tonight and see what happens. They are pretty large compared to the normal mice and shrews I see. Very pleased it isn't squirrels up there, would have been pretty ironic as I have shot them pretty heavily in the local woods and if the b*ggers were hiding up my roof laughing at me I would have been a bit annoyed :-) /Mad
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    They are so lovely. The ones I am getting were born on Friday so I have 8 weeks until I collect. Can't wait. Still busy painting the nursery! /Mad
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    I have been converting one section of an old shed into a ferret court and am almost ready to start thinking about 'Home Improvements'. It is 2.3m long x 1.7m wide by 2m high at the apex. I am in the process of laying a concrete floor and have shuttered off the inside to make it escape proof. I want to add a few shelves, ramps, tubes etc but am worried about the ferts falling off and hurting themselves on the concrete floor. How high do you think I could go before it gets dangerous for them? I did think that the highest platforms could be enclosed by welded mesh and have tubes goin
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    Well, snipping about 3mm off the ends of the wire that holds the spring down (what is that called please?) has worked as we caught these two: Obviously these two are not what was causing the 'elephant in hob nailed boots sounds' every night, so there must be something much bigger up there that scares us every night No really, the sound these guys were making was amazing :-) Now, can I just confirm that these are adult mice? Or am I way off and they are baby rats? I'm not very clued up here. and I take it that there will be more. Also, what on earth have they
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    Would like some advice please on how to catch and what it could be that is running around our ceiling with hobnail boots on. It sounds very loud and runs about at night, having a chew every now and again. I put a Mk IV up there and the next morning the peanut butter was gone but the trap hadn't fired. So, I thought maybe it was mice and bought two little nippers, baited and waited. Next morning, both traps empty of bait, and one had been moved about a foot from where I put it. I did notice that the mouse traps were a bit shoddly made and I have trimmed off some of the bar tha
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    I can't view any of those images. Is it just me?
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    Standard 8ft: 1 x RM675H (R675) Micro 8 ft: 1 x RM312 (R312) Ferret 15ft: 2 x RM13H (R13) /Mad
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    Chalkwarren, how about Ditch, yourself and anyone else, start another thread explaining what you guys do, go into lots of details and explain everything. Like someone else on this thread, I didn't even know what AI was. Would make for a very interesting thread, and I am sure that even us 'country folk' could learn a lot from you guys. Yours, interested to learn, /mad
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    Thanks for your replies. I will stick with my original idea of getting two Jills. Want to take this easy and learn properly. Was just wondering if it would be better for the jills to have a hob about. But, judging how my wife feels when I am on holiday, prob best if there were no men about. thanks, /mad
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    Hi, I am a newbie to ferreting and would like to know how many I should get the first time. I have two jills 'reserved' from a litter which are hopefully being born as we speak, and my original plan was to just have two. I plan to have both jills spayed as I won't want to breed from these two. But as I have a very large court, I was wondering if I should get one or two more. Would they have a better quality of life if I got say three or four? Could I keep say three jills and one hoblet together without any fuss. What do you guys do? Still leaning towards just the two as it is m
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