how much time do you spend with the ferrets?

[xHOUNDx 33]

i try to spend at least 2-3 hours a day with em just running them through pipes and handling them, this will be theirs and my first season so looking forward to it , how much time do you spend with your ferrets and do you do anythin to encourage their hunting instincts out of season ?

 

 

ATB

 

kyle

[patterdalejoel 669]

no point trying to encourage working instinct, its either a good ferret or a shit ferret. i try to handle them and look them over at least once a day, harder in week as im more busy. i reckon its down to how much they are handled when young, the person that bred mine did all the hard work for me, they are as tame as kittens till it comes to rabbits

[xHOUNDx 33]

no point trying to encourage working instinct, its either a good ferret or a shit ferret. i try to handle them and look them over at least once a day, harder in week as im more busy. i reckon its down to how much they are handled when young, the person that bred mine did all the hard work for me, they are as tame as kittens till it comes to rabbits

 

ok cheers pal time will tell if there any good then

[Col_c88 41]

mine usually get handled 2-3 times a day.. when i put them in the run.. when i put them back in the hutch, during this time I check them over for anything that might be out of the ordinary.. and when i go in on a night to put a rabbit in and they climb all over me....

 

sometimes i will give them a bit of a play or give them some paste off me hand.. just to keep the handling there but not too often.

 

though i spent a fair few hours with the kits when i got them but that should be a given.

 

theres pipes ropes and rocks in the run so no need to do much else with them really...

[The one 8,474]

Look over them in morning when im taking the remains of last night tea out and putting the first frozen bottles in , them in the afternoon look to see if the bottles are needing changed then late evening take the bottles out and feed them . never tallied it up and on a sunday they get a once's over and the hutches are totaly cleaned out

[paulus 26]

the more time spent with them as youngsters the less chance you will have problems later its not rocket science

[albert64 1,882]

as paulus said loads of handling when their young, my kids do great job

[paulus 26]

as paulus said loads of handling when their young, my kids do great job

kids and kits are a match made in heaven

[Tug 168]

Mine get a good coat of looking at 3 times a day. Like The One says, I take any leftovers out and skip them out in the morning and give them a check over when they climb over me which usually leaves my work clothes smelling of ferret. I give them a good bit of fuss when I get in from work and give them some paste or a little bit of offal that they chomp down. I have a bit of a play with them again last thing at night when I throw in a rabbit or pigeon once the flies are away. Most days they get about 30 minutes of handling, occasionally if I'm rushed then they get a scratch on the belly and chucked straight back in.

Edited May 28, 2012 by Tug

[Carraghs Gem 1,675]

My girl comes out every morning to have a mooch around the garden with the dogs, she enjoys exploring the disused rat holes under the shed and under the turf pile, she comes out some evenings when I have time.

[Lewis Ste 245]

i got my first kits a few seasons ago and put alot of time and effort into them by making tunnel mazes and things like that but they always had pipes in their run to play in and out of

 

lewis

[xHOUNDx 33]

cheers all, my jill is tame as a kitten, i get her out in the mornings to check on her then when i get back in about 4 i take her out and let her have a run about for an hour or two, then at night when she gets fed rabbit i let her have a climb about, just wondered how much time others spent with them i was worried i wernt giving her enough attention but by the looks of it shes fine

 

cheers

 

kyle

[Ferret mad Dave 65]

Just the one Ferret mate ??

[xHOUNDx 33]

Yeah at the minute it is pal, shes about 9 months was thinking about another jill kit or a vasectomised hob which do you recon would be best ?

[ferret features 289]

Yeah at the minute it is pal, shes about 9 months was thinking about another jill kit or a vasectomised hob which do you recon would be best ?

HOB.