Ratting With Ferrets

[bunny tickler 876]

Ratting with ferrets is good fun but if you've got a prized rabbiting ferret i'd keep it well clear of rats as they can get nippy after constantly battling rats and thry can be badly wounded/killed by rats.

 

Sam

right on there sam very true

[hedgemumper 37]

takes a good ferret to stick at a few rats . my dad did it for a living and the best line of ferrets we used were first cross and three quarter cross polecats .they are fearless and will stick at them all day .most other ferrets wont wear the collar .

[fitchet 788]

Ive seen ferrets get some worse kickings of rabbits far worse than any rat. I ferret rats with mine regurly. Hardest bit is finding good sensible terriers. Atb

:laugh: ........your kidding right.............?

No. I had a ferret lose an eye after a kick off a big buck rabbit. Never had it with a rat.

[d.nelson 9]

is it true jills are better than hobs for this line of work? anouther thing in his book

[ferret100 47]

Really think it depends on a lot more factors than the sex of the fert.

 

Not impressed by these, but make what you want of them...

 

 

 

Very different from ferret coming across rat in natural environment, but gives an idea of what goes on. Mind you, no idea how long captured rats exposed to weather or gone without food/water, so a well fed/watered rat down a bury could be a different story. Atb.

[d.nelson 9]

cheers think ill just stick to the air riffel for them for now at least till i get a ferret im nt as found off as 5 i have at the min are reasonable rabbiters one for whatever reason doesnt like field burrows? but would hunt a hedge burrow all day and ether bolt or kill in matter of minutes might not have killed but be on its way to doing so

[Hywel 53]

is it true jills are better than hobs for this line of work? anouther thing in his book

 

From a size perspective yes.

[ferret100 47]

Sorry d.nelson, do you mean you'll wait until you want rid of a fert, then use it for ratting as if it gets injured you'll not be bothered?

[d.nelson 9]

i didnt say that but wasnt far from thinking it

[ferret100 47]

i didnt say that but wasnt far from thinking it

 

No one hear likes to hear of ferts deliberately coming to harm. Hunting has a very poor view already, best not to make it worse. Just be glad your not the ferret you've taken a dislike to eh?

[d.nelson 9]

im jokin all my ferrets are top class and well handled plain n simple if i didnt like a feret i wouldnt have bought it or would have given it away to some one who did like it theres no reason for rating havnt done it before and honestly dont have anywhere with rat burrows between dogs and traps we have set about farm rats dont get chance to set in.

[ferret100 47]

im jokin all my ferrets are top class and well handled plain n simple if i didnt like a feret i wouldnt have bought it or would have given it away to some one who did like it theres no reason for rating havnt done it before and honestly dont have anywhere with rat burrows between dogs and traps we have set about farm rats dont get chance to set in.

 

No bother, humour doesn't always translate well with this typing lark! Atb.

Edited January 26, 2013 by ferret100

[d.nelson 9]

I no has happned few times I really should watch "norn irish humour" really doesn't translate to well any way n that's befor u take this typing lark into accout wouldn't want the antis getting rong end of stick

[ferret100 47]

I no has happned few times I really should watch "norn irish humour" really doesn't translate to well any way n that's befor u take this typing lark into accout wouldn't want the antis getting rong end of stick

 

Being from Norn Iron is tricky enough, add the dry sense of humour....well, you know what I mean like. Just making a version of a tin hat here, but appreciate pro and anti points of view, don't believe either side is always right. Atb.

[d.nelson 9]

Yea idgets on both sides