starving before working

[whippet 99 2,613]

it you wont feel like eating there fore get less lie ups........

 

I don't really buy into "if a ferret has food in its belly or not will prevent lie ups", a good ferret wants to kill rabbits whether fed or not there murderous little buggers by nature.

Most lie ups are arsed up rabbits which simply don't want to bolt for a number of reasons. I don't believe lie ups are caused because the ferret decides it wants to chow down on a coney as its hungry. In my fairly limited experience it just wants to kill the rabbit, and often will move on again.

disagree if a starving ferret has one in stop end it will kill it and eat it ,.............it wont move on if its starving ,............what do wild ferrets eat when there starving?

they just kill and move on lol

if there werent no lie ups ,.....you wouldnt need a finder

i feed mine as said before working and mine kill and come away ,.............if anything is hungry enough it will stay and eat ,..........dont care what any one says

 

that sounds like theory not practice to me, have you ever actually been ferreting?

the last bit is theory because ive never worked starving ferrets,............but it dont take a genius to work out what comes natural to a starving ferret

[Mochastorm 68]

I normally feed my ferrets in the morning, usually dried food, except for ferreting days when they are fed when we return home. I don't believe that these are starved ferrets. They are more energetic, not weak from starvation. They are carnivores, mustelids, who when they have eaten normally sleep. In my opinion just skipping breakfast makes them just a touch sharper, and less lethargic.

 

[leec 132]

my ferts are doubled up in there boxs an they strip a whole rabbit every 3 days,

i mean strip i skin an gut it an hang it up in the box an all thats left is bones,

when i put them in a burry or warren i no when they come up its clear,

dont people care about a ferret leaving rabbits behind,

if my ferrets kill in they only ever chew round top of the neck under the chin or behind ears,

been digging to ferts since i was 15 an never had one a sleep yet

[johnny boy68 11,726]

I think a few on this thread are regurgatating crap they've heard and a few are just silly.....digging down to sleeping ferts, starve and they're sharper less lethargic !!!!

 

I've also heard if you snap their teeth they don't kill in either.

[Mochastorm 68]

I feel that the last post is a bit of a pop at me. What I said was that they don't get fed the morning that they work, not starved, and in my opinion they are a bit sharper. Of course each individual ferret is different, and this is opinion based on having tried different methods over many years and differing ferreting situations. it's not regurgitated crap I've heard, just experience.

[johnny boy68 11,726]

I feel that the last post is a bit of a pop at me. What I said was that they don't get fed the morning that they work, not starved, and in my opinion they are a bit sharper. Of course each individual ferret is different, and this is opinion based on having tried different methods over many years and differing ferreting situations. it's not regurgitated crap I've heard, just experience.

Don't be so paranoid, if it was directed at you I'd have said.

[Mochastorm 68]

Good, I thought they were coming to get me, I've been crying in my shed all afternoon.

[Jamie m 668]

IF,..god forbid,..I was ever to dig deep,.. to a sleeping ferret,...it would remain sleeping,.for all eternity....

 

You mean like socks ferret in Oxford : ) : ) grafting he said lol 12 hours : )

[socks 32,253]

Lol sleeping you are funny Jamie .........

[reddawn 2,173]

my ferrets dont even sleep in carrying box, never mind a warren lol

[Country Joe 1,411]

i have never fed in the morning, when going Ferreting, but my ferrets are well cared for,

but from now on,i will give them a small amount of complete before heading out.

[Jamie m 668]

Lol sleeping you are funny Jamie .........

I think she was trapped in a stop end by a very nasty slug : )

[Jamie m 668]

Lol sleeping you are funny Jamie .........

Only pulling ya leg I will never raise the issue again put it to bed so to speak : / done and dusted ,