Ratting with ferrets

[millytheterrier 12]

Does anyone here use ferrets for ratting?, if so which sex is better jill or hob?

 

Thanks

[Elmer Fudd 2011 39]

us smoker and a terrier or two more fun

[millytheterrier 12]

I usually use my patty bitch, but fancied having ago with ferrets if there any good.

[cornishtrapper 3]

ratting with ferrets is good fun in the winter but not this time of the year to many young rats about and the does will put up one hell of a fight against your ferret best of usesing a smoker

[millytheterrier 12]

Thanks for that cornish trapper. Think I'll still give it ago though. If it doesnt work out I'll stick to my terrier or smoker.

[rob190364 2,594]

there have been quite a few posts on this in the past and the general view from people who've done it in the past is that your ferret will just take a hell of a pounding and there's a good chance it will be killed. I fancied having a go but don't fancy losing one of my ferts for the sake of a rat.

[hunter17 0]

good fun but be sure you have 1 monster of a ferret like mine haha this ferret got tangled with a mink one day..... thank god for ferreting spades and lurchers is all i say

[vduben 55]

good fun but be sure you have 1 monster of a ferret like mine haha this ferret got tangled with a mink one day..... thank god for ferreting spades and lurchers is all i say

bleddy hell!!

[ferret100 47]

there have been quite a few posts on this in the past and the general view from people who've done it in the past is that your ferret will just take a hell of a pounding and there's a good chance it will be killed. I fancied having a go but don't fancy losing one of my ferts for the sake of a rat.

 

I agree with you there. I prefer my ferrets with both eyes! Rats are more than capable of giving a ferret a good fight, more than one rat underground equals a dead ferret! Not worth it at all, that's why we have terriers!

[millytheterrier 12]

Okay, Thanks guys. Yeah ferret we cant beat our terriers.

[Hywel 53]

ratting with ferrets is good fun in the winter but not this time of the year to many young rats about and the does will put up one hell of a fight against your ferret best of usesing a smoker

 

 

Good advice A bit of thought required in advance......

[shootingmadgeorge 6]

better to smoke them and use either shotguns or dogs

[bignoel 14]

if you use your ferret it will be nippy at you aswell when she / he comes out of the holes remember she would of been biting a rat weils disease . a friend of mine was bitten by his returning ferret it wasnt till 2 days later he collapsed from it and he is not a small guy A&E hospitalised for a week WEILS DISEASE it does happen

[millytheterrier 12]

Thanks for the advise.