Brimmer 220 Posted January 30, 2012 Report Share Posted January 30, 2012 Cookie, that would be an average, as you have said, its your first year on thl, if you go and trawl through the posts in was putting up 3 years ago, i think you,d probably get your answer. You think they are building up again slowly mate? Yep but only with carefull management, lucky the rabbiters on the surrounding farms are not as dedicated, we are probs only averaging 20 or so, think next year we will be something like. Quote Link to post
johnny boy68 11,726 Posted January 30, 2012 Report Share Posted January 30, 2012 As soon has I see my first scutty I'll stop taking the fert's out though I can understand the need to carry on if its pest control. Nailed one out of cover today mate and seen a couple more hopping about above ground for the first time Give me a call later about the w/e. I've had a fair few does with cherries but not seen any scuttlers yet, though it is 3 coats colder up here. Ring you in a bit mate. Quote Link to post
weasle 1,119 Posted January 30, 2012 Report Share Posted January 30, 2012 Last xmas while in the grip of the freeze i was catching pregnant does... This year i still have places that i havnt done yet,Must admit i dont like killing the little fluff balls ,but needs must,at times.Although my 4 month old pup caught one and did a perfect retreive today .Each to there own if the numbers are there you have to carry on,but if you are trying to look after your bit of permission then you have to put up with very short seasons. Quote Link to post
Guest cookiemonsterandmerlin Posted January 30, 2012 Report Share Posted January 30, 2012 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 Not fooking touchie at all, just could not be arsed typing an essay in defense of the folks who knock it on the head, rather than carry on. I may have been blunt, but thats how I'd be if I was stood in front of you. Now with a little bit more time, I'll discuss it in a propper manner. Firstly, how ever you conduct yourself in the field, or any one else, is none of my business, people do things differently, each to there own. My only gripe really is for somebody who obviously does more than most, and gets out a lot, needs to draw public attention to something that does not need any attention at all, and then feels the need to critisize a common sense approach to hunting and a respect for the animals they hunt. I understand on ground further south, and lowland that almost all year round you can see young rabbits, and that the inevitable will happen, part and parcel of the sport, but as stated already, there are windows in the season when there is a lesser chance of it happening. and ferreting into the middle of March is certainly not lessening the chance. We hunt on some really high ground, and even in the coldest winters, by early Feb you see the tubes swelled up, and the odd cherries in them, this is time for us to stop, but in the 4 months we have, we have covered the 1600 acres in the two farms we go on, out all weekend, every weekend, whatever the weather, in a usual year (not the last 2 years due to the wipeout caused by the winter 0f 2009/2010.) we would usually take between 1200 to 1500 average. My point is, if you hit them hard, at the correct time, you dont need to keep going well into breeding season. My personal opinion is if you cannot clear them when they are not breeding, then you have more land than you can hunt, or you are not doing your job well enough, but I understand other folks dont have the time that I have. I can understand that sometimes, if you get new ground, at the back end of a season, then you might need to show willing, but personally, unless I was getting paid a propper wage for doing it, i'd not be ferreting, and probably only be shooting the three quarter grown rabbits, ensuring any milky does dont leave a starving litter. There is no sport in ferreting warrens, killing young and does in kit. If I was a farmer, in deperate need of shifting them, then maybee i'd nail everything. These are my opinions, people do things there own way, and are entitled to theirs and to conduct thereselves however they want. So I am correct in thinking that out over every weekend for 4 months is roughly 12 to 14 days in your ferretting season and you cover 1600 acres in them 12/14 days and catch 1200 /1500 coneys. giving at worst a catch rate of 85 a day over ferrets or at best 100 a day . I maybe reading your numbers and day wrong . Cheers Cookie How did you work that out? 4 months = 16 weeks. 16 weekends, both days, would take it to 32 days out. Which would leave him at an average of 37.5 - 46.8 rabbits a day. And is that really the only thing you can pick up on in that whole post? P.S Brimmer - very well said mate Told you my maths was awful Also stated in my first line not having a pop just intrested to hear the replies for the reasons so much talk about packing it in in jan . Not picking up just good numbers and impressed with them good going. And picking on post I think thats your job on my posts . ATB Cookie Quote Link to post
Ideation 8,216 Posted January 30, 2012 Report Share Posted January 30, 2012 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 Not fooking touchie at all, just could not be arsed typing an essay in defense of the folks who knock it on the head, rather than carry on. I may have been blunt, but thats how I'd be if I was stood in front of you. Now with a little bit more time, I'll discuss it in a propper manner. Firstly, how ever you conduct yourself in the field, or any one else, is none of my business, people do things differently, each to there own. My only gripe really is for somebody who obviously does more than most, and gets out a lot, needs to draw public attention to something that does not need any attention at all, and then feels the need to critisize a common sense approach to hunting and a respect for the animals they hunt. I understand on ground further south, and lowland that almost all year round you can see young rabbits, and that the inevitable will happen, part and parcel of the sport, but as stated already, there are windows in the season when there is a lesser chance of it happening. and ferreting into the middle of March is certainly not lessening the chance. We hunt on some really high ground, and even in the coldest winters, by early Feb you see the tubes swelled up, and the odd cherries in them, this is time for us to stop, but in the 4 months we have, we have covered the 1600 acres in the two farms we go on, out all weekend, every weekend, whatever the weather, in a usual year (not the last 2 years due to the wipeout caused by the winter 0f 2009/2010.) we would usually take between 1200 to 1500 average. My point is, if you hit them hard, at the correct time, you dont need to keep going well into breeding season. My personal opinion is if you cannot clear them when they are not breeding, then you have more land than you can hunt, or you are not doing your job well enough, but I understand other folks dont have the time that I have. I can understand that sometimes, if you get new ground, at the back end of a season, then you might need to show willing, but personally, unless I was getting paid a propper wage for doing it, i'd not be ferreting, and probably only be shooting the three quarter grown rabbits, ensuring any milky does dont leave a starving litter. There is no sport in ferreting warrens, killing young and does in kit. If I was a farmer, in deperate need of shifting them, then maybee i'd nail everything. These are my opinions, people do things there own way, and are entitled to theirs and to conduct thereselves however they want. So I am correct in thinking that out over every weekend for 4 months is roughly 12 to 14 days in your ferretting season and you cover 1600 acres in them 12/14 days and catch 1200 /1500 coneys. giving at worst a catch rate of 85 a day over ferrets or at best 100 a day . I maybe reading your numbers and day wrong . Cheers Cookie How did you work that out? 4 months = 16 weeks. 16 weekends, both days, would take it to 32 days out. Which would leave him at an average of 37.5 - 46.8 rabbits a day. And is that really the only thing you can pick up on in that whole post? P.S Brimmer - very well said mate Told you my maths was awful Also stated in my first line not having a pop just intrested to hear the replies for the reasons so much talk about packing it in in jan . Not picking up just good numbers and impressed with them good going. And picking on post I think thats your job on my posts . ATB Cookie Don't feel picked on, i'm just a c**t Quote Link to post
BEARINATOR 2,872 Posted January 30, 2012 Report Share Posted January 30, 2012 Don't feel picked on, i'm just a c**t You said it Quote Link to post
Ideation 8,216 Posted January 30, 2012 Report Share Posted January 30, 2012 Don't feel picked on, i'm just a c**t You said it . . . and i look like jesus . . . . 'mind f**k' Quote Link to post
BEARINATOR 2,872 Posted January 30, 2012 Report Share Posted January 30, 2012 Don't feel picked on, i'm just a c**t You said it . . . and i look like jesus . . . . 'mind f**k' :laugh: I'll get you and Johnny up for some sport 1 day mate Quote Link to post
andy s410c 61 Posted January 30, 2012 Report Share Posted January 30, 2012 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 Not fooking touchie at all, just could not be arsed typing an essay in defense of the folks who knock it on the head, rather than carry on. I may have been blunt, but thats how I'd be if I was stood in front of you. Now with a little bit more time, I'll discuss it in a propper manner. Firstly, how ever you conduct yourself in the field, or any one else, is none of my business, people do things differently, each to there own. My only gripe really is for somebody who obviously does more than most, and gets out a lot, needs to draw public attention to something that does not need any attention at all, and then feels the need to critisize a common sense approach to hunting and a respect for the animals they hunt. I understand on ground further south, and lowland that almost all year round you can see young rabbits, and that the inevitable will happen, part and parcel of the sport, but as stated already, there are windows in the season when there is a lesser chance of it happening. and ferreting into the middle of March is certainly not lessening the chance. We hunt on some really high ground, and even in the coldest winters, by early Feb you see the tubes swelled up, and the odd cherries in them, this is time for us to stop, but in the 4 months we have, we have covered the 1600 acres in the two farms we go on, out all weekend, every weekend, whatever the weather, in a usual year (not the last 2 years due to the wipeout caused by the winter 0f 2009/2010.) we would usually take between 1200 to 1500 average. My point is, if you hit them hard, at the correct time, you dont need to keep going well into breeding season. My personal opinion is if you cannot clear them when they are not breeding, then you have more land than you can hunt, or you are not doing your job well enough, but I understand other folks dont have the time that I have. I can understand that sometimes, if you get new ground, at the back end of a season, then you might need to show willing, but personally, unless I was getting paid a propper wage for doing it, i'd not be ferreting, and probably only be shooting the three quarter grown rabbits, ensuring any milky does dont leave a starving litter. There is no sport in ferreting warrens, killing young and does in kit. If I was a farmer, in deperate need of shifting them, then maybee i'd nail everything. These are my opinions, people do things there own way, and are entitled to theirs and to conduct thereselves however they want. So I am correct in thinking that out over every weekend for 4 months is roughly 12 to 14 days in your ferretting season and you cover 1600 acres in them 32 days and catch 1200 /1500 coneys. giving at worst a catch rate of 37 a day over ferrets or 46 at best a day . I maybe reading your numbers and day wrong . Edited my maths is awful Cheers Cookie Eye Cookie your maths is good,that somes up Brimmers numbers & i've seem him carry them off the high ground without breaking a sweat :laugh: Quote Link to post
Guest cookiemonsterandmerlin Posted January 30, 2012 Report Share Posted January 30, 2012 (edited) 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 Not fooking touchie at all, just could not be arsed typing an essay in defense of the folks who knock it on the head, rather than carry on. I may have been blunt, but thats how I'd be if I was stood in front of you. Now with a little bit more time, I'll discuss it in a propper manner. Firstly, how ever you conduct yourself in the field, or any one else, is none of my business, people do things differently, each to there own. My only gripe really is for somebody who obviously does more than most, and gets out a lot, needs to draw public attention to something that does not need any attention at all, and then feels the need to critisize a common sense approach to hunting and a respect for the animals they hunt. I understand on ground further south, and lowland that almost all year round you can see young rabbits, and that the inevitable will happen, part and parcel of the sport, but as stated already, there are windows in the season when there is a lesser chance of it happening. and ferreting into the middle of March is certainly not lessening the chance. We hunt on some really high ground, and even in the coldest winters, by early Feb you see the tubes swelled up, and the odd cherries in them, this is time for us to stop, but in the 4 months we have, we have covered the 1600 acres in the two farms we go on, out all weekend, every weekend, whatever the weather, in a usual year (not the last 2 years due to the wipeout caused by the winter 0f 2009/2010.) we would usually take between 1200 to 1500 average. My point is, if you hit them hard, at the correct time, you dont need to keep going well into breeding season. My personal opinion is if you cannot clear them when they are not breeding, then you have more land than you can hunt, or you are not doing your job well enough, but I understand other folks dont have the time that I have. I can understand that sometimes, if you get new ground, at the back end of a season, then you might need to show willing, but personally, unless I was getting paid a propper wage for doing it, i'd not be ferreting, and probably only be shooting the three quarter grown rabbits, ensuring any milky does dont leave a starving litter. There is no sport in ferreting warrens, killing young and does in kit. If I was a farmer, in deperate need of shifting them, then maybee i'd nail everything. These are my opinions, people do things there own way, and are entitled to theirs and to conduct thereselves however they want. So I am correct in thinking that out over every weekend for 4 months is roughly 12 to 14 days in your ferretting season and you cover 1600 acres in them 12/14 days and catch 1200 /1500 coneys. giving at worst a catch rate of 85 a day over ferrets or at best 100 a day . I maybe reading your numbers and day wrong . Cheers Cookie How did you work that out? 4 months = 16 weeks. 16 weekends, both days, would take it to 32 days out. Which would leave him at an average of 37.5 - 46.8 rabbits a day. And is that really the only thing you can pick up on in that whole post? P.S Brimmer - very well said mate Told you my maths was awful Also stated in my first line not having a pop just intrested to hear the replies for the reasons so much talk about packing it in in jan . Not picking up just good numbers and impressed with them good going. And picking on post I think thats your job on my posts . ATB Cookie Don't feel picked on, i'm just a c**t A long haired one as well was thinking of doing one of them threads somethink I noticed lately tear jerking threads That some like to do ATB Cookie Edited January 30, 2012 by cookiemonsterandmerlin Quote Link to post
johnny boy68 11,726 Posted January 30, 2012 Report Share Posted January 30, 2012 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 Not fooking touchie at all, just could not be arsed typing an essay in defense of the folks who knock it on the head, rather than carry on. I may have been blunt, but thats how I'd be if I was stood in front of you. Now with a little bit more time, I'll discuss it in a propper manner. Firstly, how ever you conduct yourself in the field, or any one else, is none of my business, people do things differently, each to there own. My only gripe really is for somebody who obviously does more than most, and gets out a lot, needs to draw public attention to something that does not need any attention at all, and then feels the need to critisize a common sense approach to hunting and a respect for the animals they hunt. I understand on ground further south, and lowland that almost all year round you can see young rabbits, and that the inevitable will happen, part and parcel of the sport, but as stated already, there are windows in the season when there is a lesser chance of it happening. and ferreting into the middle of March is certainly not lessening the chance. We hunt on some really high ground, and even in the coldest winters, by early Feb you see the tubes swelled up, and the odd cherries in them, this is time for us to stop, but in the 4 months we have, we have covered the 1600 acres in the two farms we go on, out all weekend, every weekend, whatever the weather, in a usual year (not the last 2 years due to the wipeout caused by the winter 0f 2009/2010.) we would usually take between 1200 to 1500 average. My point is, if you hit them hard, at the correct time, you dont need to keep going well into breeding season. My personal opinion is if you cannot clear them when they are not breeding, then you have more land than you can hunt, or you are not doing your job well enough, but I understand other folks dont have the time that I have. I can understand that sometimes, if you get new ground, at the back end of a season, then you might need to show willing, but personally, unless I was getting paid a propper wage for doing it, i'd not be ferreting, and probably only be shooting the three quarter grown rabbits, ensuring any milky does dont leave a starving litter. There is no sport in ferreting warrens, killing young and does in kit. If I was a farmer, in deperate need of shifting them, then maybee i'd nail everything. These are my opinions, people do things there own way, and are entitled to theirs and to conduct thereselves however they want. So I am correct in thinking that out over every weekend for 4 months is roughly 12 to 14 days in your ferretting season and you cover 1600 acres in them 12/14 days and catch 1200 /1500 coneys. giving at worst a catch rate of 85 a day over ferrets or at best 100 a day . I maybe reading your numbers and day wrong . Cheers Cookie How did you work that out? 4 months = 16 weeks. 16 weekends, both days, would take it to 32 days out. Which would leave him at an average of 37.5 - 46.8 rabbits a day. And is that really the only thing you can pick up on in that whole post? P.S Brimmer - very well said mate Told you my maths was awful Also stated in my first line not having a pop just intrested to hear the replies for the reasons so much talk about packing it in in jan . Not picking up just good numbers and impressed with them good going. And picking on post I think thats your job on my posts . ATB Cookie Don't feel picked on, i'm just a c**t And he's the nice one out of us pair. 1 Quote Link to post
Ideation 8,216 Posted January 30, 2012 Report Share Posted January 30, 2012 Don't feel picked on, i'm just a c**t You said it . . . and i look like jesus . . . . 'mind f**k' :laugh: I'll get you and Johnny up for some sport 1 day mate Cheers matey, look forward to it. Us pair will travel anywhere to meet sound folk and have a bit sport with them Quote Link to post
Ideation 8,216 Posted January 30, 2012 Report Share Posted January 30, 2012 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 Not fooking touchie at all, just could not be arsed typing an essay in defense of the folks who knock it on the head, rather than carry on. I may have been blunt, but thats how I'd be if I was stood in front of you. Now with a little bit more time, I'll discuss it in a propper manner. Firstly, how ever you conduct yourself in the field, or any one else, is none of my business, people do things differently, each to there own. My only gripe really is for somebody who obviously does more than most, and gets out a lot, needs to draw public attention to something that does not need any attention at all, and then feels the need to critisize a common sense approach to hunting and a respect for the animals they hunt. I understand on ground further south, and lowland that almost all year round you can see young rabbits, and that the inevitable will happen, part and parcel of the sport, but as stated already, there are windows in the season when there is a lesser chance of it happening. and ferreting into the middle of March is certainly not lessening the chance. We hunt on some really high ground, and even in the coldest winters, by early Feb you see the tubes swelled up, and the odd cherries in them, this is time for us to stop, but in the 4 months we have, we have covered the 1600 acres in the two farms we go on, out all weekend, every weekend, whatever the weather, in a usual year (not the last 2 years due to the wipeout caused by the winter 0f 2009/2010.) we would usually take between 1200 to 1500 average. My point is, if you hit them hard, at the correct time, you dont need to keep going well into breeding season. My personal opinion is if you cannot clear them when they are not breeding, then you have more land than you can hunt, or you are not doing your job well enough, but I understand other folks dont have the time that I have. I can understand that sometimes, if you get new ground, at the back end of a season, then you might need to show willing, but personally, unless I was getting paid a propper wage for doing it, i'd not be ferreting, and probably only be shooting the three quarter grown rabbits, ensuring any milky does dont leave a starving litter. There is no sport in ferreting warrens, killing young and does in kit. If I was a farmer, in deperate need of shifting them, then maybee i'd nail everything. These are my opinions, people do things there own way, and are entitled to theirs and to conduct thereselves however they want. So I am correct in thinking that out over every weekend for 4 months is roughly 12 to 14 days in your ferretting season and you cover 1600 acres in them 12/14 days and catch 1200 /1500 coneys. giving at worst a catch rate of 85 a day over ferrets or at best 100 a day . I maybe reading your numbers and day wrong . Cheers Cookie How did you work that out? 4 months = 16 weeks. 16 weekends, both days, would take it to 32 days out. Which would leave him at an average of 37.5 - 46.8 rabbits a day. And is that really the only thing you can pick up on in that whole post? P.S Brimmer - very well said mate Told you my maths was awful Also stated in my first line not having a pop just intrested to hear the replies for the reasons so much talk about packing it in in jan . Not picking up just good numbers and impressed with them good going. And picking on post I think thats your job on my posts . ATB Cookie Don't feel picked on, i'm just a c**t A long haired one as well was thinking of doing one of them threads somethink I noticed lately tear jerking threads That some like to do ATB Cookie About the fact that you noticed that i had long hair? I believe at this point it's common knowledge that i look like a certain judeo-christian figure head Quote Link to post
Guest cookiemonsterandmerlin Posted January 31, 2012 Report Share Posted January 31, 2012 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 Not fooking touchie at all, just could not be arsed typing an essay in defense of the folks who knock it on the head, rather than carry on. I may have been blunt, but thats how I'd be if I was stood in front of you. Now with a little bit more time, I'll discuss it in a propper manner. Firstly, how ever you conduct yourself in the field, or any one else, is none of my business, people do things differently, each to there own. My only gripe really is for somebody who obviously does more than most, and gets out a lot, needs to draw public attention to something that does not need any attention at all, and then feels the need to critisize a common sense approach to hunting and a respect for the animals they hunt. I understand on ground further south, and lowland that almost all year round you can see young rabbits, and that the inevitable will happen, part and parcel of the sport, but as stated already, there are windows in the season when there is a lesser chance of it happening. and ferreting into the middle of March is certainly not lessening the chance. We hunt on some really high ground, and even in the coldest winters, by early Feb you see the tubes swelled up, and the odd cherries in them, this is time for us to stop, but in the 4 months we have, we have covered the 1600 acres in the two farms we go on, out all weekend, every weekend, whatever the weather, in a usual year (not the last 2 years due to the wipeout caused by the winter 0f 2009/2010.) we would usually take between 1200 to 1500 average. My point is, if you hit them hard, at the correct time, you dont need to keep going well into breeding season. My personal opinion is if you cannot clear them when they are not breeding, then you have more land than you can hunt, or you are not doing your job well enough, but I understand other folks dont have the time that I have. I can understand that sometimes, if you get new ground, at the back end of a season, then you might need to show willing, but personally, unless I was getting paid a propper wage for doing it, i'd not be ferreting, and probably only be shooting the three quarter grown rabbits, ensuring any milky does dont leave a starving litter. There is no sport in ferreting warrens, killing young and does in kit. If I was a farmer, in deperate need of shifting them, then maybee i'd nail everything. These are my opinions, people do things there own way, and are entitled to theirs and to conduct thereselves however they want. So I am correct in thinking that out over every weekend for 4 months is roughly 12 to 14 days in your ferretting season and you cover 1600 acres in them 12/14 days and catch 1200 /1500 coneys. giving at worst a catch rate of 85 a day over ferrets or at best 100 a day . I maybe reading your numbers and day wrong . Cheers Cookie How did you work that out? 4 months = 16 weeks. 16 weekends, both days, would take it to 32 days out. Which would leave him at an average of 37.5 - 46.8 rabbits a day. And is that really the only thing you can pick up on in that whole post? P.S Brimmer - very well said mate Told you my maths was awful Also stated in my first line not having a pop just intrested to hear the replies for the reasons so much talk about packing it in in jan . Not picking up just good numbers and impressed with them good going. And picking on post I think thats your job on my posts . ATB Cookie Don't feel picked on, i'm just a c**t A long haired one as well was thinking of doing one of them threads somethink I noticed lately tear jerking threads That some like to do ATB Cookie About the fact that you noticed that i had long hair? I believe at this point it's common knowledge that i look like a certain judeo-christian figure head ferretting wanted will travel ATB Cookie Quote Link to post
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