A Happy Farmer

[Marksman 934]

Howdo guys....

 

well, after wor kid complaining about doing the write up "again" last week, I feel I have to put my 2p worth in so I fear it's my turn!

After one of use having a successful lamping hour today (writeup here:- http://www.thehuntinglife.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=130808 ) we continued our day with our usual ferreting session.

We headed back into the field where we were lamping as I had seen around 8 bunnies dive for cover to the same bury. It's a bury we had only done last week and wouldn't normally have done it, however seeing what went in could only be a good thing ...right??

 

Wrong..... we netted up, entered a ferret in each end and waited..... and waited....and waited. Out came the finder to find one stationary 6ft down

I picked up the spade and gave the floor a whack a few times. Then we heard it.....that telltale thunder and BANG!! that was the first one in the net

 

 

Another 10 mins saw our second and last bunny from that set....So...what happened to the other 5 I saw go in there????....

 

Anyhoo....as the morning rolled along and we moved into another field things were looking grim..... 4 burys in and only 3 bunnies to count.

After a quick cuppa the afternoon soon changed matters.

The first one of the afternoon suited and booted the ferret was entered and after 5-6 mins still hadn't showed her face we located her 3ft down and so the dig ensued, with me at the business end of the spade.....

I was soon down on top of the ferret and also not 1 but 2 bunnies holed up in a stopend....things were starting to look up :clapping:

 

Before I bore you all to tears (if youre not already you've done well.... ) cutting a long story short and a few more burys later and after 2 escapees we ended up with 19 good sized rabbits in the bag.....

 

Couple more for good measure...

 

Needless to say the farmer is a very happy man, with over 60 bunnies cleared from just 2 fields in 2 weeks.

 

Thanks for reading!

 

Darryl

Edited November 28, 2009 by Marksman

[John-B 4]

Very well done mate, ground looks nice and dry there, Looks like them rabbits are causing a lot of damage up your way aswell, Top digging action aswell to top it off

[Marksman 934]

Very well done mate, ground looks nice and dry there

 

Take it from me mate, it's not.....makes the digging a little easier though ;)

 

Darryl

[auld salmon 28]

i well done mate

[ferretville 69]

Good sesh lads im out the morn hope the weather is decent but knowing my luck it will be windy,raining and freezing lol .

[andy s410c 61]

Tidy bag there lads got to get out when you can...this weathers bollox at the moment .

[stealthy1 3,964]

Well done lads, that fence looks well p*ssed due to the rabbit activity

[festa 206]

aye it was a cracking day weather was good to us for a change

john-b i wish it was dry mate esp when i went arse over tit very quickly followed by a squelch lol

[brogan12345 0]

nice mate looks a good day out

[The one 8,476]

We tried a boundry fence today but the guy next door wouldn't let us do his side all the rabbits seemed to bolt on his side into burrows into his field but one of the workers is going to try and put a word in for us during the week

[Brimmer 220]

Nice to read, and good to see the piccies! Always like to see a bit of spade work!

[John-B 4]

aye it was a cracking day weather was good to us for a change

john-b i wish it was dry mate esp when i went arse over tit very quickly followed by a squelch lol

 

 

[John-B 4]

Nice to read, and good to see the piccies! Always like to see a bit of spade work!

 

Brimmer, i'm getting a bit worried about your spade fetish