Jill or Hobs which you prefer to hunt it ? or does it matter ?

[Jamie m 668]

Although try some summer ferreting with a box full of hormones : / unbearable almost I have been pondering a hobble or two for any summer bashes just as an experiment as spaying a Jill is a big op ,

[pie-eater 377]

I wonder if the people who say hobs are lazy have ever seen a good hob at work.

[Guest cookiemonsterandmerlin]

Prefer hobs but if you working small hedgerow buries I have found the jills can get behind the coneys better due to I guess them being smaller .

But if you have alot of 100 holers then hobs I find have the stammia to work for hours .

 

Each to there and as always there both have plus points but I think the negtives of choosing jill or hob are very low.

 

We have 11 hobs and 4 jills and would say for the pertcentage of working the jills and hobs account for the same amount the main reason coneys will not bolt is that they are either not in the mood due to many factors.

 

Rather than the factor of that its a jill or hob working them.

 

ATB Cookie

[BenjaminCadd 109]

I think if a ferret wants to work it will work hard jill or hob, i prefer jills but my best worker was a hob who had so much power and dragged them out of the burrow many a time.

Atb

[Magwitch 687]

My old jills are slowing down now they have reached the end of their working life's, but I was lucky enough to find a polecat jill a couple of seasons ago which will work until a bury is empty. I have bred a litter from her and these will be my hopefuls for the coming season, In the orchards I do most of my ferreting its always handy to have a dog ferret (not overly big) which will seek and destroy. As soon as he's in I have the locator on because once he's made contact its normally game over for the rabbit and because the buries are quite shallow here a little 2ft/3ft dig will produce the goods. So a combination of the two works for me...................

 

Edited August 5, 2012 by Magwitch

[Rabbiting man 1,191]

jills all the way, hobs are fat, lazy b*****ds!

Must be your hobs then.

[Tug 168]

A good ferret is a good ferret.

[Jamie m 668]

A good ferret is a good ferret.

??????? Explain

[Guest cookiemonsterandmerlin]

A good ferret is a good ferret.

??????? Explain

 

I guess a good ferret EG you can have good hobs or jill or bad worker be it jil or hob so the statement equals a good ferret is good ferret whichever sex it is

 

ATB Cookie

[Tug 168]

Bingo Cookie. Every ferret is individual and there are plenty that buck the "rules". We've got jills that kill under more than hobs, hobs that are fast and keen, jills that are slow and methodical. Big jills, small hobs, lazy ones and mental ones.

Anybody who says "jills do this, hobs do this" haven't owned or worked enough ferrets. What they mean to say is "I've only ever worked jills/hobs, but will give you my opinion anyway despite the fact I don't know any different".

[The Polecat 0]

as long as they hunt well it wont matter

[ferretville 69]

I work 2 hobs and 2 jills . They all have there different qualites . The albino jill is slower and methodical working the sett , were as the poley jill is much quicker in her work . Both get the job done just in a different way . The 2 males are pretty much the same in the way they work . Roll on the season get the little buggers oot grafting .