What age to work ferrets

[millytheterrier 12]

wondering if some one can tell me what age do i start working ferrets?

 

Thanks.

[bunny killer 19]

wondering if some one can tell me what age do i start working ferrets?

 

Thanks.

[/quoteany of my youngsters which are born in may,june,i will give them a run out in the february of the following year on smallish buries,

[ryangolding 4]

sooner the better for me, (beginning of season) start off on small warrens mate and progress from there

[Ideation 8,216]

Give them a couple of burrows toward the end of the season, smallish ones, half dozen to a dozen holes, 3 or 4 bunnies. Some i don't work at all in their first season. Second season it's all go.

[banjorabbiter 2]

Mine took to it very naturally at 4 and a half months while my friends didn't start til bout 10 months think there all different mate

[zac! 0]

start mine when they are around 8 month

[millytheterrier 12]

cheers lads.

[simonrocco 175]

hello pal i start mine off at about 6 months old just in little sets where iv seen rabbits go in iv never had any problems doing this so far.

[millytheterrier 12]

Thanks simon.

[The one 8,506]

I like a nice early kit and start it with a older jill in a small burrow little and often and then work them hard in there second season when i would start trusting them .But last season we started six kits in big burrows with a few older ferrets and by the end of the season they where cracking workers but they where out every chance i got