When Do You Start Ferreting ?

[foxtails 272]

i normally have a day or two out in september but i feel my proper season starts mid october, how about you lot? i speak to other ferreters about when the ferreting season is and they always say any month with an R IN IT ? do you agree ? i normally stop by march !

[Country Joe 1,411]

You wouldn't go wrong with the R Month. better when the cover is down.

[dunkers87 5]

normally start end of September and finish march time, sometimes February because we've found in the past depending on weather climate the rabbits have been pregnant in march. I know we do it to control the rabbits but I don't see the point in killing say 5/6 rabbits for the sake of one. We will just take um the next time round.

Edited August 11, 2013 by dunkers87

[johnrthrfrd 223]

When the undergrowth has died back don't like them bloody nettles.

[dogmad riley 1,347]

I start around end of October when covers back abit. Lamping September onwards.

 

If open burrows then September.

 

Atb

[gav1212 16]

First Saturday of October for me!

[The one 8,494]

Start the now in the horse paddocks or any other field we can access the burrows and just move on to the other permissions as we can . if you wait on a R in the month or the cover dying down your no going to be ferreting much

[dannyboy P 5]

The r in the month was what the old hands used to go by. Problem is if you have a mild winter or even a couple of weeks of warmer weather you'll find um pregnant . Weather seems to be changing over the years and iv found young in them early in the new year. Seems the seasons getting shorter :-(

Edited August 12, 2013 by dannyboy P

[Jamie m 668]

On a friends permission there's a conifer plantation , in the dead of winter you bolt rabbits of all sizes and dig to nests , when its butting wind and frost on the fields and hedges under there it's warm as toast ,

[pie-eater 377]

Im starting in September and I pack in end of February as theres pregnant does and even a few young by then.

[redpat1 225]

September to Feb-March for me. As the other posts say though the climate is changing and affecting the wildlife in this country more than ever before now. With the wet winters a lot of the warrens are flooded right through until late spring so I don't ever get a chance to ferret them now as either the rabbits have moved off or the risk of my ferrets drowning is just to high but when I find a warren off of the peaty ground there are often babies or pregnant does well in to or well before the season ends.

I suppose we just have to approach each season differently now.

[jimster68 123]

i normally start mid september ,my first few trips are only for 2 or 3 hours and i only do easy ferreting ,i find it its a good for building up the ferrets fitness and sharpening them up , i find the covers still a bit high and thiers lots of nettles , but im eagre to get out and cant wait for the season to start,when the covers down im out ferreting from 7am until teatime whenever i can ...........i cant wait for the season to start.......jim

[MR TEA POT 1,287]

When the fields have been cut/end of August time I start of with a few easy sessions couple of hours here and there then do more when cover dies back abit. Start snaring a few rabbits back end of August as well as a few hares not long now?