day or night

[poacherman 353]

i do both. prefer mooching during the day watching the dogs work but like to test the dog on lamp.

i do both also and think the bigger test for the dog is during the day.

it has to use its nose,mark burrow,s and work when the ferrets in ground to get itself in the right position for a bolt and for rabbits then a clean bolted rabbit is a harder test than a lamped one imho

agree with you supersam, some of the rabbits that fly out the holes are like bullets. dog needs to be sharp to get to them. a dont think you realy need to train your lurcher if your just going to take it lamping all the time. all you need is the dog to come back in after every chase and retrieve. during the day dogs need a lot more work put in to them.

 

atb poacherman

[Stabs 3]

 

Daytime ferreting and lamping too. Lamping was the first discipline we tried as a sapling and there was a bit of hunting up at the beginning, but we soon conquered that with volume of work. This type of dog learns pretty quick, even if they are a bit headstrong. Daytime is head and shoulders better sport in my book though. The bags are smaller and they are harder won, but it's a whole lot more fun and for me, you can see the dog working...and that's what it's all about for me. I run stuff these days that's a lot easier on the lamp so as a consequence I don't run it. Bloody hard daytime though so that's all I do now.

 

[pointer 543]

I much prefer daytime hunting on either rabbits or rats BUT i spend a lot more time hunting at night purely because if your like me and work Monday to Friday then your not going to get enough sport in with only the weekend left.So lamping is an extremelly usefull pastime for me.I didnt do anywhere near as much lamping as normal last season because the rabbits just werent there,hopefully next season numbers will be back to normal.

I have always felt that any Hunting,Shooting or Fishing i can do at night on a "work" day is a bonus.

[karl p 31]

alrite lads ive got a salukigrey x bull whippit i work her with the terriers,ferrits an work her on the lamp 4 EVRYTHIN else shes a vgood dog 2 work with atb

[the lamping ferreter 160]

does anyone on here only work their dogs daytime with ferrets?(you all seem to talk alot about out lamping),if so what type of dog/dogs do you work. cheers......john

i work both my dogs day and nite with terriers bushing and alot of ferreting dont tend 2 use my whippet as much at nite cause my bitch will go all nite. red bitch 20 months old 24tts saluki/whippet/greyhound/1/8 irish terrier

whippet dog 2 1/2 half 22tts

 

 

cracking dogs there mighty celt,i will be working mine during the day with ferrets and mooching,she has a long way to go yet though lol,3/4 whippet 1/4 bedlington,she has settled in well,cheers......john

nice pup should make a handy dog take it slow with it ATB.MC

take it slow its 20months old it should be killing everythink lol

[supersam 64]

does anyone on here only work their dogs daytime with ferrets?(you all seem to talk alot about out lamping),if so what type of dog/dogs do you work. cheers......john

i work both my dogs day and nite with terriers bushing and alot of ferreting dont tend 2 use my whippet as much at nite cause my bitch will go all nite. red bitch 20 months old 24tts saluki/whippet/greyhound/1/8 irish terrier

whippet dog 2 1/2 half 22tts

 

 

cracking dogs there mighty celt,i will be working mine during the day with ferrets and mooching,she has a long way to go yet though lol,3/4 whippet 1/4 bedlington,she has settled in well,cheers......john

nice pup should make a handy dog take it slow with it ATB.MC

take it slow its 20months old it should be killing everythink lol

a 20 month dog should take everything????

not much of a clue you have lad!!

a dog is only developed at that age so for larger game then at that age the 20 month old a PUP is only introduced!!!

too many lads to quick to ruin their pups i think!!

[jf1970 328]

the lamping ferreter,i think if you look back at some of the comments you will see that mc was actually telling me to go slow with my pup,she is 7 wks old not 20mths.cheers......john

[Ayr_10 0]

i do day and nite way my dogs abt ayr 10

[Guest bluemink]

I much prefer working my dogs in the day, but not ferreting Lampings a good craic as well but its gotta be daytime work such as ratting, coursing and digging for me