dumb question maybe

[Pops 19]

this will probably sound dumb to all of you here but i know feck all about working ferrets.

can a ferret be used in brush piles & places other than a warren (our native rabbits don't warren or even burrow)? can they be used on something besides rabbit? if so what?

thanks all

[poacher3161 1,766]

Yes mate a ferret will work any thing it can get in besides rabbit warrens.I have worked them in rock piles hay stacks piles of steel scrap and once wile ratting years ago at a maggot farm a big mound of yellow fat that the rats had burrowed in on closer inspection it was the bodies of hundreds of farmed mink that had been skinned and left in a pile.atb dell

[watchman 256]

iv bolted rabbits from log piles and amongst corrugated metal sheeting as well,and from piles of railway sleepers,so i suppose the answer is yes

Edited June 5, 2010 by watchman

[The one 8,479]

Yes you can ferret any places like that and use a longnet round it or shoot them as they bolt

[Ideation 8,216]

Spent many many happy days ferreting the huge Rhododendron bushes on the local estates, and at the end of last season had some great sport ferreting some massive brush piles about 20/30 yards square. Often needs a few ferrets though as there is a lot of places for the rabbits to avoid them.

[fitchet 788]

id rather use a good terrier in places like this as the ferrets dont seem to be fast enough to be really effective

[Pops 19]

thanks all

i had a feral born ferret as a pet in high school but have never worked them. i find the idea very interesting and hope to eventually give it a go.