First full day ferreting this season, bit of a project! pics added

[Tyla 3,179]

Myself, Blackstaff and his boy Bailey had our first day out today. We took my old faithful Parker and my pup Willow along with my four jills. We were doing a bit of ground i picked up this year, its a big house with its own small estate, mainly polo ponies - very nice.

 

We started on a problem area around the tennis court and it was slow but steady, not many rabbits to ground which is odd as I've seen good numbers there before on numerous occasions. There is a large area of woods over the road, also on permission, that i've not been in yet which may hold the answer.

 

We moved on from there to do a nightmare bury, on the side of another wood, a 50 yard long bury with hundreds of holes bisected by two parallel stock fences. Cover was a mixture of thick thorn bushes and a bit of bamboo - lovely! We ran long nets where we could, worked all the ferrets and hoped for the best. Blackstaff and Bailey had the crap job inside the wood with Parker keeping track of the ferrets and dealing with the nets and bolters while Willow and I chilled on the field side! We had a fair few from there and a little dig.

 

By the time we'd picked up the nets and half a woods worth of twigs we'd had enough of nets. We left them and went to a hedgerow for a bit of bolting for the dogs, all went well enough with a good run each, both missed until we got to a little bury where the rabbits didnt want to budge. After some crawling about in the hedge with the box we found both jills on seperate rabbits. While Blackstaff was in the hedge without the camera one bolted giving the best photo opportunity of the day. Parker ran it all across the field but somehow didnt connect. Eventually we pinpointed the other ferret 5 foot down under a rootball, after a bit of fruitless digging we finally got the ferret out, very bloody, but never found the rabbit.

 

Ended the day on 12 rabbits and a hopper. Not too bad but hard work.

 

Im back to the same ground tomorrow bushing. No doubt Blackstaff will add photos to this in his own sweet time lol!

Edited October 16, 2011 by Tyla

[leegreen 2,153]

Nice one, hows your hands, sore? Oh I forgot you was on the field side

[Tyla 3,179]

Nice one, hows your hands, sore? Oh I forgot you was on the field side

 

Yep, had to keep an eye on th pup lol

[NEWKID 27,131]

Nice one mate, sounds like we we had similar days, we too had 12, i'm cut to sh*t from hawthorn, and we dug to the ferrets but couldn't find number 13.

ATB

Kev

[Giro 2,648]

Good job you used your ferrets.. If you had used blackstaffs you would of had to fetch a pale of water lol...

[Tyla 3,179]

Cheers lads, it was a nice day, first of many i hope.

 

Giro - dont be a dick please, I dont want my thread wrecking.

[skycat 6,173]

Sounds like a bit of fun: look forward to the pics.

[rascal_2005 79]

Well done lads

[Tyla 3,179]

Im just about to text Blackstaff to get the pics up, lazy swine lol. I expect hes taken more today as hes out again. Just got back from bushing the same place with herdwick, not the ideal place for the terriers, too much stock fencing, but it was a nice walk. We ended up with two rabbits, one to Willow and one to herdwicks Snuff.

[muddy210 34]

asounds like a good day out lads

[rascal_2005 79]

How is willow getting on mate?

 

Meet up soon?

[Tyla 3,179]

She coming on ok mate. Just wish the weather would sort itself out so we could get out a bit more seriously. Just seems downright wierd ferreting or lamping in a t shirt! You been out with your ferrets yet mate?

[rascal_2005 79]

I know its wietd this weather ehh!!! We have had our first cold spell tho atleast.

 

No not bren out yet but hoping to next week. Been out with ian quite abit with the cattys and fishing

You havent met his pup yet have you?

[Tyla 3,179]

No not yet, dhxgh isnt it? Good luck next week

[Tyla 3,179]

There are loads of pics but i reckon these are some of the best