ferreting

[FightTheBan 1,147]

''can i ask how many you breed a year''

 

 

I have never bred a ferret to date.

My first two jills i made the fatal mistake of neutering them, bad mistake, theyve turned out to be the best working ferrets i have ever owned or seen, still working now at over 9 years old and would be overjoyed if i could keep their strain.

I have a white(6 years old) jill who is a brilliant ferret who i am breeding off this year, if i can find a small working hob.

If you breed shit ferrets, you get shit kits, there the same as dogs.

If i breed my best jill i will only give out to my best pals, keep the rest and any hobs left over will be humanely culled.

It is the best way to do it, you breed from the best and you get a good working strain.

To date i have been taking jills off friends, the good ones stay and the bad ones are gotten rid of, i have a total of 10 ferrets at the moment, with pleanty of work for all of them.

I am going ferreting tomorow, will let you know how i get on, hoping for over a ton. Hope this clarifies my thoughts on breeding ferrets. Cheers

Edited December 11, 2009 by FightTheBan

[jacrabbit 0]

keep the rest and any hobs left over will be humanely culled..)

 

 

cant you sale them as pets or pass on to a resue.

[longdog13 36]

keep the rest and any hobs left over will be humanely culled..)

 

 

cant you sale them as pets or pass on to a resue.

 

and that'll help how?

[jacrabbit 0]

it will help them as they wont be killed.

[mushroom 12,925]

 

jacrabbit

Posted Today, 11:51 AM

 

keep the rest and any hobs left over will be humanely culled..)

 

 

cant you sale them as pets or pass on to a resue.

 

 

What's the point of breeding, only to dump them at a rescue WTF.

As for pets working strains are NOT pets they are workers, if they don't make the grade sometimes the humane option is to cull rather than pass about as a 1oo% worker b#llocks.

 

Kie

[longdog13 36]

jacrabbit

Posted Today, 11:51 AM

 

keep the rest and any hobs left over will be humanely culled..)

 

 

cant you sale them as pets or pass on to a resue.

 

 

What's the point of breeding, only to dump them at a rescue WTF.

As for pets working strains are NOT pets they are workers, if they don't make the grade sometimes the humane option is to cull rather than pass about as a 1oo% worker b#llocks.

 

 

Kie

:clapper:

Spot on. After the stite i got in a recent thread about culling, it's nice to see not everyone is totally dependent on rescues or uneccesary sales.

[longdog13 36]

Ah, and i suppose abortion is wrong too?

[jacrabbit 0]

Ah, and i suppose abortion is wrong too?

 

i dont know, iv never been pregnent with a ferret

[FightTheBan 1,147]

''cant you sale them as pets or pass on to a resue''.

 

Possibly one of the most ridiculous posts ive read on here. Its not the fact i couldnt get rid of them, i see too many people who dont treat them as they should be, getting rid as soon as it soots them.

Ill be the first to dispose of a feret that doesnt work, a good worker is worth its weight in gold to me personally

I would ONLY sell to working homes, there are pleanty of toy breed dogs you can dress up for show.

Ferrets are a working animal, and should remain so imo.

[FightTheBan 1,147]

And as regards to culling. If i havent got work/room for them and my close friends havent got work/room for them, i see no point in selling them into a massively overcrowded market for them to suffer some undesireable fate.

 

I have been fortunate enough to inherit a vasectomised hob off a friend from this site, has been a godsend and has allowed me not to breed my jills whilst keeping them fit and healthy.

Anyone with more than 4 or 5 jills should have a vasectomised hob, great tool, decent worker too, if you fancy a dig now and again(hes massive). lol

[jacrabbit 0]

there are pleanty of toy breed dogs you can dress up for show.)

 

why would anyone dress a ferret up for show?

 

nothing wrong with keping a ferret for pet and work like we do with dogs. i know there are some people who would put a gun to a dog that wont work. it hapens in my breed. not in this county thank god. i just think its a pity to kill somthing just because it cant work an less you are so poor that you cant keep any animal that cant earn its keep. i know in other countrys they have no choice as they are so poor. i see what your saying though. but i still think its a shame to kill a ferret that cant work. i have a jill that was a unwanted worker, shes a little craker. i am really glad she was not culled as shes a lovely little girl.