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I recued a ferret a few weeks back. The thing is he has strange eating habits. First of all he will not eat meat. Secondly he will not eat dry food until the point where he will bite your finger clean off than touch it and he is friendly when fed. He eventually got fed as i soaked the food in water until a mush and he ate a whole plate!. All the same with 4 different brands...? Could this be a sign of age ? He has all his teeth and i can't see any swelling in his mouth. I was thinking perhaps he was only fed on cat food or something simalar. He has had his nuts cut off at some point...

Yep!....He goes out tommoz...

Gentle Giant... Three months back i took a hob polecat of a good farmer i have known. It was handed to the farmer’s mother and so he took it on for her. 2 years back when he took it on it was just about the most veracious ferret you have ever come across but had been castrated. A really nasty bit of work. I give my mate a huge credit he calmed it and now it is the calmest ferret you will ever come across. Age is obviously 2 + but that’s all i know. He just never got round to hunting it, i know he wanted too but being a farmer he just never had the time but spent 5 minutes a day handling it

i have always reared my ownkits but sold on any other kits, but a guy local to me i sold 2 too does not want them anymore and as he can't get a buyer said did i want them back. This is a new area for me other peoples handled kits? I could and probably will just go and handle them but before i do i thought i might ask some of you this. I know they have been handled fairly well and so should be not so nippy but would they behave differently to me. Everybody has their unique smell i know but even as long as the ferrets have been handled by humans should their reactions be the same. The poi

Might be size of the Piccies in one post Tommo. Great piccies anyway. I am fortunate to have 3 outlets as in Butchers who i charch £2 -£3 depending on size. Also a few pet shops too. Many buy rabbits for their reptiles charging about £10 a rabbit...Incredible!!!!! Probably have got around £70 for that lot however in your case getting paid what happens to the rabbits afterwards can you keep or do they?

Years back i went into a hunting shop that i had used for 20 years to buy my first rifle. I knew i would get an honest answer of HW V Daystate. With no hesitation HW came out. He went on to say that 2 out of 3 daystates he sells end up coming back faulty in the first few years. The HW very rarely a few and he sells more HW's. I have never used Daystate but that alone is a big pain in the butt risk on reliability and i really can't see how the Daystate out performs the HW so much that you can dismiss human ability. If you want looks maybe the daystate takes the edge that's if you keep i

You should get what is on the tin i know but i have had 3 of these MK3's (don't ask.. ) and i find it really is hard to get the exact depth they are just too fussy and over sensitive. As long as you get a rough idea on where to dig if you have to then that really is all that matters surely. The MK3 will never be accurate. it's a bit llike mobile phones for me , just give me one with basics and not a ruddy computer.... i wish Deben could have a competitor (perhaps they have?) as then their prices would be more competitive . £240 for one with 2 collars is a lot. My mate says that's around

I in the main bolt rabbits for the hawk but enjoy netting too. but i agree with all the anticipation and getting to see the ferrets stretch their legs. I just love it when a ferret is on the scent scuttling around between holes or bobbing it's head up.....

you then in standing round holes waiting for rabbits to bolt into nets? After all let's be fair to the outsider hunter it doesn't seem like letting your hair down does it? So what do you get out of it? Why does it float your boat?...

Well the headline got me interested but became a flop!. About the right procedure with me..

I have met some bloody awful falconers ( sorry would be falconers) and if they mentored me ( as some falconers like to be a teacher as it makes them feel important) on my first bird it would fly away or be dead within a week! Many find a falconer and think 'Yeah' he has a HH i will ask... I taught some of myself by books and i have yet over many many years to loose a bird but you also do need that on hands experience too but join the BHA and they will probably no who to put you in contact with not 'harry the harris hawker' from the high street

That's up to you but if many beginners got off their arse and hanged around with a smart arse they might learn something. In America you have a 3 year apprenticeship with tests often , inspections the lot . 90% of falconers would not pass the first year because their ego would stop them from hanging around a smart arse.

Anyone know where i can get the Alt-berg field and fell cheap either very good 2nd hand or new for the cheapest price....Many thanks

Hunting is an elite sport. Even fishing some struggle to find others to fish with. falconry is so elitest its next to impossible to get to fly with somebody however most don't prefering just to fly and not worry about others birds. And to get the land to fly on an almost impossible simply due to space and the mount you need. Many falconers and ferreters team up now as free flying a bird needs so much more land. Anyway as said again ferreting is elitist and land and other ferreters are hard to come by and land is ruddy scarce. I am on the Kent/Sussex borders and there are few ferreters down

It is just meant to be a mildly amusing post. The mum is a great hunter and if she ain't ready will even tell the hob to F""K off. Takes no shite. Hopefully she can get it out of her. The other daughter of hers is fine but it seems this one is bit above her station with biting instead of nipping....