Fat-Ferret 857 Posted September 1, 2009 Report Share Posted September 1, 2009 (edited) Me and my mate headed for a bit of farm ground this morning with my dog and few ferrets. The morning was slow with only 4 by lunchtime, After that we decided that the big warrens werent worth the time & moved onto the quicker smaller sets, which turned out to be a good move as we took another 12 by 4 oclock, the dog accounting for a lot that missed the nets & retrieving purse nets with a rabbit intact Our first dig was 7ft, when a small jill left a warren with no collar, I dug till I couldnt see out, and got the collar eventually. The farmer showed us his tarmac lane in the evening when we where getting ready to go, the rabbits have dug below the lane and THROUGH the tarmac...We scattered few purse nets over the holes, but had no way of securing them so left them loose, one hit the loose net on the road and it gave the dog enough time to catch up with it, another 3 bolted from the road and the dog managed them all, I have never seen anything so strange as bolting rabbits from tar & catching them in nets without pegs in the ground! It was a stupid thing to do looking back, because there was no way to dog to the ferret if we had needed to. This was the first day I ferreted with the dog and she was brilliant, she marked reliably, missed very few bolters & done a great job of the tarmac rabbits without missing any...She behaved very well and was very obedient, and made the whole day far better. We ended up with 20 rabbits and a good days craic, Im looking forward to getting back - My mate is in the picture below before we headed home Edited September 2, 2009 by Fat-Ferret Quote Link to post
jenksi87 3 Posted September 2, 2009 Report Share Posted September 2, 2009 nice going pal Quote Link to post
The one 8,513 Posted September 2, 2009 Report Share Posted September 2, 2009 good going mate no sure if i would have been keen to stick a ferret under a road in the evening though . Quote Link to post
brogan12345 0 Posted September 2, 2009 Report Share Posted September 2, 2009 nice one mate :L Quote Link to post
max abell 196 Posted September 2, 2009 Report Share Posted September 2, 2009 Well done mate sounds like you had a good day Quote Link to post
ferret-boy 44 Posted September 2, 2009 Report Share Posted September 2, 2009 WELL DONE MATE Quote Link to post
Prince_Jimmy 0 Posted September 3, 2009 Report Share Posted September 3, 2009 Nice one mate Sounds like a good day out to Quote Link to post
pencoed hunter 7 Posted September 3, 2009 Report Share Posted September 3, 2009 Nice one looks like a good day out that. I might go out for afew hours ferreting today get a rabbit or 2 Quote Link to post
StephOC 6 Posted September 3, 2009 Report Share Posted September 3, 2009 Sounds fantastic - I've never had anything like 20 in one day! Quote Link to post
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