feeding ferrets

[the hunter 0]

hi all

iv been catching little mice in my neighbours garden

would u feed them to your ferrets? thanks

[watchman 256]

i do mate,think stubby done a thread on it few weeks back

[hullhunter 219]

i might be wrong here but im sure someone told me there liver is poisonous?

[smuel_1@hotmail.co.uk 0]

i have done before mate.

[Malt 379]

Yep, one of the best foods you can give a ferret IMO, a complete little meal.

[Prince_Jimmy 0]

iv done it afew times

[stubby 175]

give them to mine all the time, but I'll add, they were caught and killed in break back traps, giving/feeding live caught mice is illegal

 

[Leeview 791]

give them to mine all the time, but I'll add, they were caught and killed in break back traps, giving/feeding live caught mice is illegal

 

problem with rats as well then?

Y.I.S Leeview

[stubby 175]

give them to mine all the time, but I'll add, they were caught and killed in break back traps, giving/feeding live caught mice is illegal

 

problem with rats as well then?

Y.I.S Leeview

 

 

nope never had rats in the garden

[Malt 379]

Slightly off topic, but..

 

We were on our way back across a field from ferreting a few weeks back, and we saw a black and white cat stalking the hedgerow at the far end of the field in front of us. The cat pounced on something in the hedge, played with it for a bit then picked it up in it's mouth and continued along the path by the side of the hedge. There it was, marching along head held high, tail twitching from side to side almost seemed to be swaggering with pride at it's kill, oblivious to everything apart from the freshly caught prey in it's mouth.

 

Unknown to this cat, our two terriers and my beddy/whippet had spotted it, as they were off the lead having a play in the field on the way back, and were heading towards it at breakneck speed. I knew it was too far away for them to catch, so just carried on walking and left them to it. The cat spotted them when they were about 100 yds from it, and just froze in it's tracks! The prey dropped from it's mouth, and for a split second the cat just stood there wide eyed, either in shock or weighing up it's options!

 

It ran though the fence to safety with time to spare, and I called the dogs back and found a little vole licking it's last on the spot where the cat was halted in it's tracks.

 

I picked the vole up and offered it up to the hole on the side of my bow backed ferret box...

 

It was one of the funniest sights I've ever seen, the vole disappeared almost instantly, in the same sort of manner as the alien/human hybrid did at the end of 'Alien Resurrection,' when it gets sucked out into space though a tiny hole in the spaceship! :laugh:

 

 

By the time I got home there was no trace left of the vole at all in the box!

Edited March 25, 2010 by maltenby

[kill um with crisps 7]

Iv fed mice to my ferrets loads of times. They need quite a few to make up a days feed but every little helps as tesco says! Lol!! If you live catch them legally they have to be killed before giving them to the ferrets but if caught in a kill trap you only have to chuck um in the cage. Iv never fed my ferrets on rats but i hear they just leave the tail.

[The one 8,463]

Should be fine as long as no body's put poison down for them

Edited March 25, 2010 by The one

[all.rounder 3]

i have fed mice rats and grey squirrels to my ferret and a stoat.

[the hunter 0]

iv got the same traps as you stubby thanks all