Ferreting Professionally

[Phil Lloyd 10,738]

It is a difficult business.....and the reality of the job is nothing, like folk might imagine....

[BEARINATOR 2,911]

:yes: I agree Chalky

[paulus 26]

It is a difficult business.....and the reality of the life,.. is nothing like folk might imagine....

 

:yes: I agree Chalky

sadly true in most professions

[BEARINATOR 2,911]

It is a difficult business.....and the reality of the life,.. is nothing like folk might imagine....

 

:yes: I agree Chalky

sadly true in most professions

 

Except GrCh's job as a rent boy , as he told me he loves it :laugh:

[fieldsportsman 107]

i get 2 quid a rabbit and as he wants as many as possible. dont even need to skin or gut and he collects

[paulus 26]

i get 2 quid a rabbit and as he wants as many as possible. dont even need to skin or gut and he collects

still wil need to do 150/250 a week to make it pay, facture in the fuel and other expenses and will it pay

[Ideation 8,216]

i get 2 quid a rabbit and as he wants as many as possible. dont even need to skin or gut and he collects

still wil need to do 150/250 a week to make it pay, facture in the fuel and other expenses and will it pay

 

In some parts of the country that wouldnt be too hard if you had access to the land, and lamped, trapped, and ferreted etc. However, there are a lot of variables.

 

Car breaks down and needs 300 quid spent on it - thats 150 rabbits out of the calculation. etc etc.

[kanigra 110]

I got £1.75 a rabbit last season as rabbits were thin on the ground down here so game dealers were paying top money for ferreted rabbits.Don't know what it will be this season. On payed jobs we get price per rabbit to get rid of them. Only probs is by the time me & my old partner split the money, the fuel,etc. its not enough to pay your bills on.

[torchey 1,328]

The thing with rabbit control is theres so many people that do it for nothing ,me included .If i get a phone call from a domestic they get charged but if i get phone calls from farmers through word of mouth etc i,m happy to do it just for the permission. I,,ve been on a domestic this evening its a manor house so they are not skint give him a price for 5 visits and he said can we just do 3 Maybe he is skint

[patterdalejoel 669]

I know some folk on here that get £2 a rabbit and buy chicken in all year to feed the ferts ,christ i think i could go professional at £2 a rabbit

thats near the norm mate you just have a very tight fooking game dealer there

[torchey 1,328]

Any one got any numbers for people that take rabbits in the somerset area can,t give um away at the minute..

[The one 8,545]

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'fieldsportsman' timestamp='1341434793' post='2699691']

i get 2 quid a rabbit and as he wants as many as possible. dont even need to skin or gut and he collects

still wil need to do 150/250 a week to make it pay, facture in the fuel and other expenses and will it pay

Just to get a good wage that's 250 rabbits a week then 52 weeks a year that's no covering wear and tear and petrol more if you want your two weeks off during the summer . So i make that 13,000 rabbits a year so whos killing that amount ?.

[max abell 196]

'paulus' timestamp='1341435074' post='2699704']

'fieldsportsman' timestamp='1341434793' post='2699691']

i get 2 quid a rabbit and as he wants as many as possible. dont even need to skin or gut and he collects

still wil need to do 150/250 a week to make it pay, facture in the fuel and other expenses and will it pay

Just to get a good wage that's 250 rabbits a week then 52 weeks a year that's no covering wear and tear and petrol more if you want your two weeks off during the summer . So i make that 13,000 rabbits a year so whos killing that amount ?.

EXACTLY!! we get £2 a rabbit now but i wouldn't even think about trying to do it for a living rabbiting for sport or pastime is one thing but doing it as a job is a whole new ball game all the rabbits we sell help pay for the 4x4s petrol and up keep and any left overs gets paid into my grandaughters bank account

[Phil Lloyd 10,738]

That is a real good gesture Max....

[Rake aboot 4,936]

You need to live somewhere that is fecking over run, and have a good name. And you will notice most pro ferreters need to do game fair demos, sell books, and over price for 'eu polecats' to make a living.

 

Best we found is garden jobs etc, willing to pay a bit, or hotels etc. Also found somewhere that will buy frozen, gutted rabbits for a pound. Take 500 a time and its ok i guess.

 

I wish someone would pay me for the tree rats, i just leave them where they fall.

 

Cook them Jai. there are braw min. tree rat satay ! mmmmm