First Trip Out

[gaz1980 0]

Had a trip out with the new kits this week, set off upto the permission at 5:30am. We had a little mooch around with the rifles but there was not much happening.

 

We decided to get the kits (5.5 month old) out and give them a try as they hadnt been worked as yet. Thanks to some great THL members we had been working on socialisation with them over the last week. They were great to handle all day long, they ALMOST came back on recall everytime (The noise we use when feeding them). The Kits worked two small warrens and one large in total.

Not putting presure on them to go down, they just chose to take them selfs off. Really impressed with the work they had done. They managed to bolt a number of rabbits but we only took five in total. Not enough nets to cover all holes so we had to use bricks at times and some holes were just hiden away. We had another two get caught in the nets but sadly wasnt fast enough!!

 

Thanks to everyone who commented on the other advice thread!!!

Will take some pics next time and pop them up!!

 

ATB Gaz

[kobi2k4 2]

nice one Gaz glad they come along so great already, they deffo takeing after their mams and dad, glad they are tameing down loads too shows u must be doing something good with them and spending loads of ur time on them. 5 is a good number first time out and free fodder for the ferrts great stuff.

I did say ud need more nets eh lol ul get sorted as u keep going and getting more usefull things u need, cant have everything all at once eh.

ATB Danny

[gaz1980 0]

Yeah man really proud of them danny, thank you very much for them!!

Couldn't afford to really buy anything shooting or ferreting this month. Had spent a cpl of hundred this month before getting them.

Guna grab aloud of hemp nets as I found a cpl what poachers had left. Was using the nylon ones but found them abit shit.

Just found an excellent warren that I have cleared this morning to work them in the next week or so.

 

Thanks again

[longnetter 32]

Nice to see someone taking thier time with thier ferrets Too many people look for big bags from inexperienced ferrets and get dispondent .

pm me if you want decent cheap nets mate

[KittleRox 2,147]

nice one mate i took mines out last week first time and its great how they just know what to do.ferrets are amazing wee animals,atb.

[Ideation 8,216]

Spot on mate, thats a good effort for a first time with young kits. . . . . you must be made up. With regards to nets, have you tried any spun poly, i find it a nice compromise between nylon and hemp, doesn't tangle so bad and doesn't rot, and also can come in handy bright colors. There is a member off here who makes some really good ones in spun poly and another who makes really cracking hemp nets, if you want their contact details gimmie a shout.

[gaz1980 0]

Maybe a bit to nice longnetter, moved last week and first thing I did was build them a unit in the cellar.

Was looking for much from them at all, just wanted them to get a good bit of a workout.

Definately interested in some nets if cheap fella, incoming pm.

They are amazing creatures Roxy, I can spend many hours in the cellar messing around with them. Good look with your new ones.

[KittleRox 2,147]

Maybe a bit to nice longnetter, moved last week and first thing I did was build them a unit in the cellar.

Was looking for much from them at all, just wanted them to get a good bit of a workout.

Definately interested in some nets if cheap fella, incoming pm.

They are amazing creatures Roxy, I can spend many hours in the cellar messing around with them. Good look with your new ones.

cheers mate.atb.