Novice ferreting and ferret redeemed itself

[Marvin 193]

Been getting out with a couple of lads off here doing a bit of ferreting, shooting and trying to learn the ropes, took a jill out last week and she was a bit shy being retrieved from holes and kept darting back in, that said i thought i would give her another try-out today.

 

Armed with borrowed nets (cheers millet) and a 16 foot locator i set off to a couple of local buries close by (sort of learner set's) thought i would get in there before the kids break up for school next week.

Collared up one ferret and let the shirker graft collar free and put them to ground.

First set produced a nice fat bunny (once gutted had 3 nearly fully formed babies inside), happy with that from such a little set we boxed the ferrets and moved onto the next.

 

For some reason the shirker was savvying up and exiting the holes almost ok, the other ferret i think was scared of the dark so i swapped over the collar and re-entered the self-redeemed jill, within a couple of mins she had bolted one bunny and we dug to another she then shot off in search of more.

 

This was the point i shat myself, the locator was marking her at 8ft, gutted by the prospect of putting that much graft into anything is terrifying enough for me, let alone digging to a ferret and bunny, but hey-ho here we go.

 

Started digging and she decides to move, after following her round with the locator for 20mins she settled back in the spot so carried on with the dig, broke through one burrow which must of been above the mark as this was maybe 3ft in but as i was clearing soil out from it the ferret popped its head out of one of the runs, so i took the opportunity of grabbing her and boxing her back up.

 

Now i suppose your asking yourself did i dig the other 5 foot to find if there was a bunny there, i could say yes but i would be lying, what sort of eedjit do you take me for, took the opportunity to pack the stuff away and head home with the score being 2-1 to us, and a lesson learned, the sets on that particular bank are deep (should of listened to Millet).

 

Good crack though, one ferret redemtion and think managed to hook me mates interest in ferreting.

[reddawn 2,173]

[darbo 4,776]

nice one

[The one 8,506]

Mate get a couple of pipes in your garden and let her run in and out of them ,move slowly when you pick her up clap her and put her down again every time you have ten minutes try that and within a fortnight your ferret shouldn't be shirking in burrow mouths

[Tug 168]

Excellent that a youngun is coming good, do as was said above so they get used to being picked up and put down again. It's always good to leave them to work though, mine will 'show and go' if they are still working, if there's nothing home they come right out.

 

Mods, is there any chance of a dedicated section for ferreting reports?

[Westy76 546]

Excellent that a youngun is coming good, do as was said above so they get used to being picked up and put down again. It's always good to leave them to work though, mine will 'show and go' if they are still working, if there's nothing

home they come right out.

 

Mods, is there any chance of a dedicated section for ferreting reports?

Take a look at the ferreting report section

[Tug 168]

Take a look at the ferreting report section

 

I regularly do

[saharashadow 26]

Although you didn't dig down the remaining 5ft,and I don't blame you for that, it always pays to backfill where you have dug, particularly if there is livestock around.

Edited February 12, 2012 by saharashadow