big or small???

[Ray Mears 272]

just starting a topic really what do you preffer big ferrets or little ferrets just wondering evry one to there own :11:

[Guest Frank]

I like a ferret that can push out rabbits and clean a warren, not leaving any left overs.

Size no matter, indurance and brains i prefer.

 

Frank.

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

These days, with seemingly very few of ye left with the craft to work a ferret without half a f***ing scrap yard hund round its neck, does it matter?

 

I grew up with the idea that small jills were de riggour. Armchair theorists stated they had to be small to 'Slip out through the nets' ?

 

Experiance taught me that it's a c*** who doesn't look to that net, what ever's just passed through it. (And I've never in my life worked a ferret dripping with bling, either).

 

Further experiance showed me that a nice, strong hob can do everything a dinky little jill can do. Only usually manage it in shorter order.

 

Give me a nice, poley (because I like that colouration ) hob. Jills are for sport and time passing. Hobs get the job done.

 

That's been my experiance, anyway

[Guest trill]

i normally work smallish ferrets but recently have change tactics i now work a smallish jill and a normal sized hob together. the idea being the jill is quick and bolts most of the rabbits and the hob is slower and clears anything left behind. this combination works well for me

 

 

 

poo picture i know

Edited October 12, 2006 by trill

[Guest Frank]

Good picture trill.

 

Looks like she has been on the jagular.

 

Frank.

[ferreterno1 0]

i agree with millet, small jills for small shallow sets, but hobs for the bigger sets, i think thats hobs go deeper, one place we go is very deep and 100 hole sets so 6 hobs is the answer and a couple of jills for the higher levels, this works for me.

[Guest trill]

as whippet boy stated each to there own but to me big hobs = lots of spade work and i dont mind digging but not most of the day!. i keep ferrets of different sizes but i wouldnt keep a hob the size of a pinemartin

[inan 841]

i normally work smallish ferrets but recently have change tactics i now work a smallish jill and a normal sized hob together. the idea being the jill is quick and bolts most of the rabbits and the hob is slower and clears anything left behind. this combination works well for me

 

 

 

 

poo picture i know

I like the lipstick and thewhiskey barrel round its neck,no seriously TRills ferrets are very good workers his small silvers are very keen to get on with it,and his big hob is slower but like a vacuum cleaner,as he said a good combination,as my freezer will attest.

[Guest mucker]

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Edited May 11, 2007 by mucker

[ferreterno1 0]

as whippet boy stated each to there own but to me big hobs = lots of spade work and i dont mind digging but not most of the day!. i keep ferrets of different sizes but i wouldnt keep a hob the size of a pinemartin

 

 

i agree with trill you dont want massive hobs most of mine are about average, but i have a silver one which is a bit smaller

[Ricky-N.p.p 0]

I have 4 small jills 2 albino 1 silver 1 poley, the two albino's are the best workin ferrets i have ever seen and touch wood have never killed in....i dont use locators on my ferrets you see.

 

The polecat and silver jill are this years young uns and havnt seen much action as i have had a spate of bad luck recently involving cars and hospitals..... dont ask !

 

 

I lined the two albino's with a freinds polecat and kept a jill off each litter but gave my huntin buddy two hobs, one of average size and one slightly larger so we have a deceant side to play this year and time will tell

[beagles 0]

ive had ferrets for a while now does it really matter, as long as they are from good working stock thats wat counts

[blackpack 70]

ive had ferrets for a while now does it really matter, as long as they are from good working stock thats wat counts

 

 

were not on about wats in your trousers beagles

[BITCH 135]

smaller ferts for me any day.use mine for ratting and bolting squirells as well as rabbiting so bigger stuff no good.plus bigger ferrets more digging.ferts in pic very small jills from years of inbreeding.

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[Guest JOEB]

Errr..........medium size poley hob...will just work & work......

Last sunday, I am glad I never took my big sandy hob as we were getting a few drummers and this fecker is a savage ..........would have been digging all day.

JOEB