johnboy19 38 Posted February 13, 2011 Report Share Posted February 13, 2011 Met up with Terrierjohn yesterday afternoon for a bit of ferreting on one of my permissions. After John having a long lie in I picked him up at the bus station and headed over to the farm. The bit we were going to be ferreting was hedge rows at the side of the road into the farm. Decided to start off on the left hand side which is split into two sets of maybe 20-30 burrows. Started on the first section, netting up the holes on the road side, and John put a long net up on the other side, its a bit of a pain to net the other side because theres a burn and its hard to get into a lot of the holes because of the hedge. So nets down and long net up, got two ferts out. Only had on collar so one went in without a collar. John stayed on the road side and i went round the other side. By the time I had got to the other side we had one in a purse net and one in the long net, looking good. Then had a rabbit come to the mouth of a hole, spotted me and went back in. The collarless fert appeared and went back in came back out, I picked her up and put the in another hole. We had a couple of rabbits bolt through un netted holes and into a hole in the 2nd section. Then had 3 rabbits hit nets on Johns side, one coming out a hole on my side and running into a netted hole on Johns and getting caught. The wee jill with the collar on kept appearing and disappearing but there was no sign of the collarless fert. It was maybe about 45 mins - 1 hour that it had been missing for. We put the other ferret down and tracked it to see if it would stop any where for any length of time. Found one spot at 1.5 feet and John dug down but nothing. Found another spot at around the same depth. John felt a very faint thudding under foot and was pretty sure thats where the ferret was. John dug down again but the roots were in the way and I only had a shitty wee spade. It was getting late so we started lifting the nets, last ditch attempt John told me to walk up n down hitting the ground with the spade, and sure enough a minute later she appeared at on of the holes we were digging next to tempted her out with a rabbit and into the box she went! Called it a day at that and put the stuff back in the motor. So all in all it was a good day. 5 rabbits bagged, two runners and one big lay up. If it wasnt for the lay up we would have bagged more but suppose thats all part of the game! Heres the only two pics I got yesterday Cheers John 1 Quote Link to post
terrierjohn 49 Posted February 13, 2011 Report Share Posted February 13, 2011 aye you had to mention me sleeping in it was a good day john cheers for having me over i've got a pic from my side i'll get up later on the misses' hasnt uploaded it from her phone yet next time i think its best to put the coller on the ferret that didnt have it on lol but at least we got her in the end thats all the matters Quote Link to post
JOHNBOY 18 Posted February 13, 2011 Report Share Posted February 13, 2011 good do lads, yous find any young in them ? Quote Link to post
terrierjohn 49 Posted February 13, 2011 Report Share Posted February 13, 2011 good do lads, yous find any young in them ? none in the 2 that i took home with me i never even thought to ask john about his ......i dont carry a knife anymore so never done mine till i got home Quote Link to post
johnboy19 38 Posted February 13, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 13, 2011 nope no you in the two doe's is took home either Quote Link to post
f mac 40 Posted February 13, 2011 Report Share Posted February 13, 2011 looks a decent day out .tj u should have said lol i could have given u a lift need a day out myself (bump] Quote Link to post
terrierjohn 49 Posted February 13, 2011 Report Share Posted February 13, 2011 looks a decent day out .tj u should have said lol i could have given u a lift need a day out myself (bump] lol wasnt my place to invite anybody with me mate just have to finish these pegs mate and then your nets will be ready for you mate if you want a day out geeza shout though i'll get you to one of my permissions Quote Link to post
f mac 40 Posted February 13, 2011 Report Share Posted February 13, 2011 looks a decent day out .tj u should have said lol i could have given u a lift need a day out myself (bump] lol wasnt my place to invite anybody with me mate just have to finish these pegs mate and then your nets will be ready for you mate if you want a day out geeza shout though i'll get you to one of my permissions just gettin the feelers out [bANNED TEXT] u got any dry peg sticks lying around need to make 20 Quote Link to post
terrierjohn 49 Posted February 13, 2011 Report Share Posted February 13, 2011 looks a decent day out .tj u should have said lol i could have given u a lift need a day out myself (bump] lol wasnt my place to invite anybody with me mate just have to finish these pegs mate and then your nets will be ready for you mate if you want a day out geeza shout though i'll get you to one of my permissions just gettin the feelers out [bANNED TEXT] u got any dry peg sticks lying around need to make 20 i've not got any hazel thick enough for pegs just for longnet pins but i'll cut you 20 pegs out of some sarkin i've got .....does the job Quote Link to post
terrier s 123 Posted February 13, 2011 Report Share Posted February 13, 2011 looks like a good day out Quote Link to post
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