Packing up aready are you nuts

[Guest cookiemonsterandmerlin]

This the first season on THL for me and cant belive the amount of members who think having young in the does denotes ending the season it not even febuary yet.

 

I am not having a pop but clearly packing the gear away in january is nuts I think even in worst mild years maybe the 2nd week of march for us and we are in the sunny south.

 

ATB Cookie

[The one 8,503]

Aye we got a couple of young on Saturday but today's rabbits where clean still got a pile of ferreting to do and i reckon i will get to April

[old timer123 367]

rabbits al breed all year if its mild enough so just stick to normal seasons... but they are a pest in some areas so need controlling all year

[Ideation 8,216]

You never heard the expression 'each to their own' ?

 

I agree it really grates on me having to knock it on the head as early as we do sometimes, however i get why some, who ferret just for sport, and dont have huge amounts of land or rabbits to go at, stop when they start seeing a lot of bellied up does, for them its just killing next years sport.

 

Also where serious pest control is the name of the game, once there are a lot of young on the ground, it stops being the most efficienct method to ferret them, it switches to shooting / snaring etc. f**k waiting about while the ferrets slaughter puff balls, or digging every ten mins down to 4 / 6 foot to pull out balls of bloody grass.

 

As for rabbits breeding all year . . . . . not true. They may well buck, mate and even carry at most times, but you only ever see the odd little un. You know when they are really breeding and you know its time to stop, when pretty much every set you ferret spit out fur balls right left and fecking centre!

 

I reckon i'm pulling out about 70 % in kit, and further south that would go up to between - 100%.

[shabadoodoo 16]

ive been finding young the past couple of weeks but today no young at all

[Brimmer 220]

This the first season on THL for me and cant belive the amount of members who think having young in the does denotes ending the season it not even febuary yet.

 

I am not having a pop but clearly packing the gear away in january is nuts I think even in worst mild years maybe the 2nd week of march for us and we are in the sunny south.

 

ATB Cookie

 

get a fooking grip.

[shabadoodoo 16]

bit harsh lol

[Ideation 8,216]

This the first season on THL for me and cant belive the amount of members who think having young in the does denotes ending the season it not even febuary yet.

 

I am not having a pop but clearly packing the gear away in january is nuts I think even in worst mild years maybe the 2nd week of march for us and we are in the sunny south.

 

ATB Cookie

 

get a fooking grip.

 

:laugh:

[Guest cookiemonsterandmerlin]

This the first season on THL for me and cant belive the amount of members who think having young in the does denotes ending the season it not even febuary yet.

 

I am not having a pop but clearly packing the gear away in january is nuts I think even in worst mild years maybe the 2nd week of march for us and we are in the sunny south.

 

ATB Cookie

 

get a fooking grip.

 

Bit fooking touchie arent you so are saying some only ferret 3 months a year

[Guest cookiemonsterandmerlin]

You never heard the expression 'each to their own' ?

 

I agree it really grates on me having to knock it on the head as early as we do sometimes, however i get why some, who ferret just for sport, and dont have huge amounts of land or rabbits to go at, stop when they start seeing a lot of bellied up does, for them its just killing next years sport.

 

Also where serious pest control is the name of the game, once there are a lot of young on the ground, it stops being the most efficienct method to ferret them, it switches to shooting / snaring etc. f**k waiting about while the ferrets slaughter puff balls, or digging every ten mins down to 4 / 6 foot to pull out balls of bloody grass.

 

As for rabbits breeding all year . . . . . not true. They may well buck, mate and even carry at most times, but you only ever see the odd little un. You know when they are really breeding and you know its time to stop, when pretty much every set you ferret spit out fur balls right left and fecking centre!

 

I reckon i'm pulling out about 70 % in kit, and further south that would go up to between - 100%.

 

ATB Cookie

Edited January 30, 2012 by cookiemonsterandmerlin

[tegater 789]

For me it depends what your game plan is. If your farmers want them inialating then ferret right through.

 

Not for me though, I dont know many landowners that want the bunnies gone completley, and certainly were I am, they dont cause that much damage. I have seen land in the past that was crawling with bunnies and now they are clear, because they were hit too hard time and time again.

 

Now if I am ferreting a fenced off area of land with young trees, then everything has to go. Thats what the landowner wants, but it would only be to clear the rabbits inside the wire and manage them outside.

 

Of course all this is probably as a result of where I live in the pennines, with very little arable.

[Guest cookiemonsterandmerlin]

For me it depends what your game plan is. If your farmers want them inialating then ferret right through.

 

Not for me though, I dont know many landowners that want the bunnies gone completley, and certainly were I am, they dont cause that much damage. I have seen land in the past that was crawling with bunnies and now they are clear, because they were hit too hard time and time again.

 

Now if I am ferreting a fenced off area of land with young trees, then everything has to go. Thats what the landowner wants, but it would only be to clear the rabbits inside the wire and manage them outside.

 

Of course all this is probably as a result of where I live in the pennines, with very little arable.

 

A more sensable and polite reply

 

Yes I understand diffrent situs and views somethink other members struggle with as it seems I need to agree with there vierws.

 

But we are talking packing up before the end of january and there saying the only reason to pack up is young in the does /yet on the other hand saying if they was not finding young they would carry on nowt to do with the numbers on the ground and mataining a decent rabbit population for future haverst be ourselves .

 

ATB Cookie

[Westy76 546]

This the first season on THL for me and cant belive the amount of members who think having young in the does denotes ending the season it not even febuary yet.

 

I am not having a pop but clearly packing the gear away in january is nuts I think even in worst mild years maybe the 2nd week of march for us and we are in the sunny south.

 

ATB Cookie

 

get a fooking grip.

 

Bit fooking touchie arent you so are saying some only ferret 3 months a year

No of course not but it's not been a normal winter there's young everywhere here and nearly every doe is milky/pregnant.

Also rabbits numbers have been terrible down here to so why not slow up give them a chance as I don't need to remove every rabbit so why not just manage them in other ways? JMHO

[Jamie m 668]

Hopefully this unusual wintery weather unusual as it's winter ?????? They will abort there young , and kill them off as there's no food for the adults , I was struggling to pick through the rabbits for selling on last Friday , the ones we kept for the ferrets were Bonney as hel, yes spring comes about three weeks earlier down south so end of feb you know it's coming , but this year we will see ,????? Hopefully next weekends write ups will be full of pics of mummified fetus '

Edited January 30, 2012 by Jamie m

[TOMO 26,550]

what ideation said,, if you only have bits to do ,, then you got to save a few.... me personly, whilst im not keen on killing pregnant does,,, i still do,, i genraly carry on till the end of march regardless, i just try to do places that hold good numbers.

 

i also think rabbits stop breeding in july-aug,,, and start again around xmas-jan,, its very rare for me to dig nests in august, and i usualy start in aug, upin the dales.. you might get the odd half grown one,,, but rearly a nest