Not bolting

[dimmock20 278]

I ferret during the summer I use a good hob but I dig as many as I bolt so good luck,and I hope this helps. P1

totally agree [bANNED TEXT] alot ov diggin in the summer months

[Brimmer 220]

Don't know how many times this has come up, but the very pemission you have is worthless if you have killed everything you are working to keep if you have killed it before its big enough to run!

Rabbits are pests ok, but you're not getting paid for it!

If so then cart on!

Explain to the landowner that you will hit it hard when things are not in full swing breeding.

Its usually down to the folks that are too lazy or scared of the weather that it does not get done in the season.

If you have more than you can control in the season, then do the decent thing and let someone else do it that can.

Do most folk think that ferreting nests is acceptable?

[stubby 175]

Do most folk think that ferreting nests is acceptable?

 

yes, otherwise you would have to say the same about any "pest species", should we stop killing rats/mice because they have young, do shooters stop shooting woodies, as they may have young in the nest, what about drey poking, you'll always get the for and against argument, I can understand that those that ferret only for sport, and have small areas of permission, always use the explanation, that it will spoil it for the winter months, but for those of us, that are lucky to either have larger permissions, or do it as part of our job will ferret all year if need be, the same goes for the other pest species Ive mentioned

[Tiercel 6,986]

Do most folk think that ferreting nests is acceptable?

 

yes, otherwise you would have to say the same about any "pest species", should we stop killing rats/mice because they have young, do shooters stop shooting woodies, as they may have young in the nest, what about drey poking, you'll always get the for and against argument, I can understand that those that ferret only for sport, and have small areas of permission, always use the explanation, that it will spoil it for the winter months, but for those of us, that are lucky to either have larger permissions, or do it as part of our job will ferret all year if need be, the same goes for the other pest species Ive mentioned

 

 

Pardon me if I upset you once again stubby. (Please do not delete this thread as you did the last one) How can you talk for other people? You can only give your view of what you consider acceptable. Once you have been ferreting for a little longer than the three years you have been doing it perhaps you will see the bigger picture.

 

Internet forums are not a true repesentation of the ferreting scene in this country. Many many people ferret who have never seen a hunting forum. Although I cannot be 100% certain I am willing to bet that most of those follow the age old morals of rabbiting. That is you rest them during the summer and hit them hard in the winter. I ferret that way and I am still ferreting farms that my father used to ferret 60 years ago.

 

We all hear the bull spouted about if I don't do it someone else will. That excuse is wearing a bit thin now, I have never done it and as stated have never lost a farm through not ferreting through the Summer months. Perhaps I am lucky maybe it will happen to me but some how, I doubt it.

 

TC

Edited May 14, 2009 by tiercel

[Brimmer 220]

Do most folk think that ferreting nests is acceptable?

 

yes, otherwise you would have to say the same about any "pest species", should we stop killing rats/mice because they have young, do shooters stop shooting woodies, as they may have young in the nest, what about drey poking, you'll always get the for and against argument, I can understand that those that ferret only for sport, and have small areas of permission, always use the explanation, that it will spoil it for the winter months, but for those of us, that are lucky to either have larger permissions, or do it as part of our job will ferret all year if need be, the same goes for the other pest species Ive mentioned

Don't agree in the slightest with most of what you have just said to be honest, rats mice fair enough.

If you got out enough during the season Stubby do yo think you'd need to go all year round?

[Tiercel 6,986]

Don't agree in the slightest with most of what you have just said to be honest, rats mice fair enough.

If you got out enough during the season Stubby do yo think you'd need to go all year round?

 

Is it not if you caught enough during the season?

 

TC

[Guest lamping356]

eh...they are not going to bolt this time of year ie (young)...so i would leave it till september

[123pruce 0]

Ok chaps i can see this is a sore subject and being new here i dont want to be the fuel of the fire.

I respect that 75% will not ferret in the summer and the other 25% do. I have 4 good sized permission lands so if i was to ferret one all year round it would keep that farmer happy and i still have the other 3 lands for the winter ferreting.

I have the permission from the farmer for a live gun cert so i really do need to keep him happy.

 

Off subject now but what sort of age can you start using your ferret for rabbiting?

 

Cheers

[Guest lamping356]

about 7 to 8 months

[kingkeeper21 2]

i noticed you said you were new to it it might be that your making to much noise and disturbance on the surface instead of netting the sets if you stand well away from the set and shoot them when they bolt it doesent seem to affect them bolting for some reason. try it buddy and let me know how you get on.

[dpb82uk 138]

eh...they are not going to bolt this time of year ie (young)...so i would leave it till september

me hob boltted six today tow young sliped the net

[stubby 175]

Don't agree in the slightest with most of what you have just said to be honest, rats mice fair enough.

If you got out enough during the season Stubby do yo think you'd need to go all year round?

 

Is it not if you caught enough during the season?

 

TC

 

 

the clue is in my signiture "pest control officer", so next time we get asked to clear rabbits from the railway tracks, as the digging is causing subsidence of the embankments, I should tell my bosses, sorry its the wrong time of year,

as for not being able to talk about "other people" I was referring to huntinglife members that come out with me on most trips, have never heard them complain

 

but thats leading off the point, I was just trying to say, you'll always have those that do, and those that dont, you'll get those that do it for sport, and those that class it purely as pest control, wether paid or un paid, at the end of the day, its still ferreting, whatever way you look at it, why should we try putting a divide between ourselves

[cpowell251 0]

Don't agree in the slightest with most of what you have just said to be honest, rats mice fair enough.

If you got out enough during the season Stubby do yo think you'd need to go all year round?

 

Is it not if you caught enough during the season?

 

TC

 

 

the clue is in my signiture "pest control officer", so next time we get asked to clear rabbits from the railway tracks, as the digging is causing subsidence of the embankments, I should tell my bosses, sorry its the wrong time of year,

as for not being able to talk about "other people" I was referring to huntinglife members that come out with me on most trips, have never heard them complain

 

but thats leading off the point, I was just trying to say, you'll always have those that do, and those that dont, you'll get those that do it for sport, and those that class it purely as pest control, wether paid or un paid, at the end of the day, its still ferreting, whatever way you look at it, why should we try putting a divide between ourselves

couldn't agree more we have enough so called do gooders against what we do happy hunting all

[dimmock20 278]

rabbits are countryside pests boys!

HUNT TILL YA DROP

[rangers 0]

thers nothing worse than digging down to a ferret eating a few day old rabbits a waste of a dig man plus al the nettles ive not been going out much but its hard to keep away