Best Way To Start Workers

[Tiercel 6,986]

There is a lot of sense and a lot of total and utter bollocks that has been said already.

 

Handle them a lot, get them used to you feet, the dogs, the nets, tubes, tunnels, the grass, going in the box, getting collars on.

 

Pick them up from the mouth of tubes gently and calmly, so they don't mind your hand reaching for them at the mouth of a hole.

 

Feed them and water them well, maybe introduce a whistle when you feed them.

 

Do not starve them, thats stupid, pointless and cruel, and do not throw them live bunnies, it's also pointless, cruel and just weird.

 

Enter them, in small, occupied warrens, maybe behind an experianced worker.

 

Now heres a thing i sometimes do that people will probably think is mad. When the young un is put in first time (i do it alone), and a rabbit bolts, i quickly neck it in the net and leave it by the hole for the ferret to come out and have a rag of, as a wee reward. . . .seems to (in my head) make them equate bolting as a good thing, rather than killing in. (maybe i'm mad, but last season we didn't have one, mid tube kill or dig).

 

 

Apart from the obvious good practice with young ferrets. May I be so bold as to suggest that the reason you did not had any digs last year was sound managment above ground? In the last two years we have had one dig, and that was because we left my mates son net up a warren on his own. Field craft will always out.

 

I enter my ferrets virtually the same as you, except I will let them do it on their own. Small warrens, try to get the tubes if not facing upwards then at least level, (young ferrets do not like going down steep slopes). But, most impotently there must be a rabbit at home, place the ferret down wind of where the rabbit is and I have never had a young ferret that will not go like a train into the warren.

 

TC

Edited July 25, 2011 by tiercel

[The one 8,479]

I let the kids play in the garden or garage with then in and out of pipes ,picking them up putting them down im no worried about working ability at this stage that will come as they get out , im aiming no to have them shirking at the burrow mouth i want to get on . . i enter them with a older ferret and it might take a few outings to get them used to the dog ,nets etc but usually by christmas you have the start of a good working ferret

[The one 8,479]

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There is a lot of sense and a lot of total and utter bollocks that has been said already.

 

Handle them a lot, get them used to you feet, the dogs, the nets, tubes, tunnels, the grass, going in the box, getting collars on.

 

Pick them up from the mouth of tubes gently and calmly, so they don't mind your hand reaching for them at the mouth of a hole.

 

Feed them and water them well, maybe introduce a whistle when you feed them.

 

Do not starve them, thats stupid, pointless and cruel, and do not throw them live bunnies, it's also pointless, cruel and just weird.

 

Enter them, in small, occupied warrens, maybe behind an experianced worker.

 

Now heres a thing i sometimes do that people will probably think is mad. When the young un is put in first time (i do it alone), and a rabbit bolts, i quickly neck it in the net and leave it by the hole for the ferret to come out and have a rag of, as a wee reward. . . .seems to (in my head) make them equate bolting as a good thing, rather than killing in. (maybe i'm mad, but last season we didn't have one, mid tube kill or dig).

 

Apart from the obvious good practice with young ferrets. May I be so bold as to suggest that the reason you did not had any digs last year was sound managment above ground? In the last two years we have had one dig, and that was because we left my mates son net up a warren on his own. Field craft will always out..

 

TC

 

These days im no sure its all about feild craft some days the rabbits will fly out other days they dont spade out and dig then move on im doing nothing differnt .

Sometimes tidying up a bit that somebody else has ferreted before the rabbits have seen a ferret and learned by tucking there head in a stop end and letting the ferret scratch there arse they will live for another day ,those rabbits wont bolt it will be a spade job

[whin 463]

handle them feed them dead rabbs feed them the qaury there going to kill or chase , no need for toys like good working dogs if they are bred [bANNED TEXT] they soon take to it if there not well either give them to apet home or put them to sleep,toys does not make workers breding pre entering them with mother or when they are ready plenty ways to make ferrets get rabbs youse your brains and imaginaition

[whin 463]

if you have good ferrets you either dig them or they move on , ferrets wholeave rabbs or come of especaily in shallow easy digging not worth the keeping , ive been out with guys they put ferrets in hole a bit of bumping but nothing much then out comes older better worker and bang rabbits are bolting everywere , not everyferret is a grafter

[Rake aboot 4,935]

First thing to do ,is to get them to a vet,who will decide if they are fit to be worked,, lots of ferrets are not emotionally inclined to work and will be brain damaged if put down a hole,, get a vet to come out with you for a small fee per day and watch them to evaluate their mental wellbeing regards working,, then get them to provide a vetinary phycologists report to give you peace of mind in this regards..

 

 

Oh ,,no wait a minute,,hold on ,sorry I thought I was ferret100 for a minute,,

 

Just handle them lots and try them out in Sept,,, free off charge.

 

ATB

[DogMagic 461]

starve the f**k out of them. works every time

Always one isnt there!

[KittleRox 2,147]

[DogMagic 461]

There is always some braindead prick somewhere just gagging to advise us all to starve a ferret before going out. Its cruel and all it does is encourage lay ups. If that ferrets hungry it will kill instead of bolting and then it will eat and then it will go to sleep for a few hours. And then the same stupid c**ts will be there advising you its a shit ferret and that you should leave it down the hole, it aint worth waiting for or digging to.

 

Heres how you SHOULD do it: Feed whole rabbit. Not live rabbits, that serves no purpose other than to give the antis more ammunition against us. Take the kits out with at least one experienced ferret (preferably the mother as they will naturally follow her). Put your net peg in the ground above the hole, straighten the net out and lay it beside the hole. Put mother ferret at the entrance to the hole and let her wander in. As her tail disapears put the kit at the entrance to the hole and let it follow its mother. Now take hold of the net and drape it over the hole. Let nature take its course. Yes it really is as easy as that!

[minka79 1]

There is a lot of sense and a lot of total and utter bollocks that has been said already.

 

Handle them a lot, get them used to you feet, the dogs, the nets, tubes, tunnels, the grass, going in the box, getting collars on.

 

Pick them up from the mouth of tubes gently and calmly, so they don't mind your hand reaching for them at the mouth of a hole.

 

Feed them and water them well, maybe introduce a whistle when you feed them.

 

Do not starve them, thats stupid, pointless and cruel, and do not throw them live bunnies, it's also pointless, cruel and just weird.

 

Enter them, in small, occupied warrens, maybe behind an experianced worker.

 

Now heres a thing i sometimes do that people will probably think is mad. When the young un is put in first time (i do it alone), and a rabbit bolts, i quickly neck it in the net and leave it by the hole for the ferret to come out and have a rag of, as a wee reward. . . .seems to (in my head) make them equate bolting as a good thing, rather than killing in. (maybe i'm mad, but last season we didn't have one, mid tube kill or dig).

 

Best reply so far,

 

ATB Seany

if you look back he always has the best and most sensable advice great for beginers like me

[jam1 8]

starve them fuc# that

would you like been starved then goin at to work???

just get them fit an feed them odd rabbit wots been gutted but leave fur on.

good look mate atb jamie

[theferreter 311]

starve the f**k out of them. works every time

Always one isnt there!

there is indeed mate the mans a has been

[DogMagic 461]

starve the f**k out of them. works every time

Always one isnt there!

there is indeed mate the mans a has been

MAN?????

[theferreter 311]

starve the f**k out of them. works every time

Always one isnt there!

there is indeed mate the mans a has been

MAN?????

ok then child

[DogMagic 461]

starve the f**k out of them. works every time

Always one isnt there!

there is indeed mate the mans a has been

MAN?????

ok then child

I was thinking more along the lines of :wankerzo4: Lol!