badgers and foxs

[wexford Pa 84]

Get a bigger ferret, about 14' and 16lb should do the trick..

[Guest crobinc840]

i have done some big old rabbit warens that i have bolted rabbits and foxes from, [lucky for th ferrets] but you can tell a bager by the bedding out side the hole and the amount of dirt that as been dug out.

 

Yeah there were piles of dirt but what does the bedding look like? There are sticks and plant pieces all over the place.

[Guest jt750]

i have done some big old rabbit warens that i have bolted rabbits and foxes from, [lucky for th ferrets] but you can tell a bager by the bedding out side the hole and the amount of dirt that as been dug out.

 

Yeah there were piles of dirt but what does the bedding look like? There are sticks and plant pieces all over the place.

 

Bedding is usually a 14 tog quilt with miss selfridges bed linen

Seriously though it looks like hay pulled out at the entrance .. Badger can be transient creatures and they can have setts which aren't lived in permanently but used as stop overs so to speak

[Guest crobinc840]

i have done some big old rabbit warens that i have bolted rabbits and foxes from, [lucky for th ferrets] but you can tell a bager by the bedding out side the hole and the amount of dirt that as been dug out.

 

Yeah there were piles of dirt but what does the bedding look like? There are sticks and plant pieces all over the place.

 

Bedding is usually a 14 tog quilt with miss selfridges bed linen

Seriously though it looks like hay pulled out at the entrance .. Badger can be transient creatures and they can have setts which aren't lived in permanently but used as stop overs so to speak

Cute, thanks I thought it was. I've only met them face to face not at home so it's nice to know what door I might be knocking on

[The one 8,530]

Look at the way the hole was dug if you can ,the track into it dung pits if its a badger .if your no sure leave it alone

[events co-ordinator 353]

Check any hair caught on twigs or roots around the holes badger hair looks like its came off a shaving brush but ferreting is similar to terrierwork (legally) if in doubt keep it out. Come to think of it thats a good tip for OFFICE PARTIES :crazy:

[Plong 21]

Foxes usually bolt to ferrets, don't know about badgers though, don't know anyone who has entered a ferret into a sett holding one.

[Reddog83 4]

Quite a few local here. Foxes you can smell around warrens i mean they are pretty rank smelling and also you're likely to find bones outside the entrance. Badgers often have "spoil" outside their holes which is digging and old bedding. Also you're likely to find middens/latrines close to a badger sett.

If you're still seriously in doubt find someone to show you what is what before you put your ferrets to ground

Spot on that mate

[bobwood8 1]

Get a bigger ferret, about 14' and 16lb should do the trick..

could get the ferrit on roids

[COSH 14]

Foxes usually bolt to ferrets, don't know about badgers though, don't know anyone who has entered a ferret into a sett holding one.

i can safely tell ye, a badger wont bolt from a ferret lad, back in ireland in the sixties i put my ferrets in all the holes on the land i hunted, as rabbits were in them too. i never lost a ferret to badger or fox but bolted quite a few foxes with them, one or two even small enough to get pursed in the rabbit nets. in my opinion the worst thing to bump into with the ferret is the mink, this is the only time my ferrets have been injured with bites to the face/head and they empty their glands too, stinking. smaller mustelids bolt swiftly from ferrets.