digging

[the fezz 44]

right then heres a question , do you think a ferret that is dig too alot can get used to being dug to and there for kills more to ground than a ferret that doesnt........ if you get what i mean fezz

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

Sorry, mate. Can't help ye out on this one as I wouldn't have a clue! Never had to dig up a ferret in my life. Simple as that.

[Guest Frank]

I havent dug to ferrets that many times, say 8 times last year, but i think they kill by instinct and stay for a while with the kill and if they can move on without being blocked by other bunnys ect, will eventually come out.

I have also seen, when i dug to a ferret that was down their for over half hour, 3 rabbits bunged up one end and 2 dead the other, she was completely bloked and would of takien her for ever to come out.

[the fezz 44]

cant work it out , see posts on here from everyone and there all having to dig . i havint had a dig since i was a lad nor have i had to wait more than 45 mins for the ferret to move the rabbit and then show. iam i doing something different

 

iam nice and quite around the warrens

nets are put down quite

ferrets put to ground and i step back usually roll a fag

by the time ive smoked me fag there bolting

ferret is put back through every hole to make sure

job done time to move on to the next

 

 

not saying that i would like to be digging every time :nea:

[bullet 125]

i think its down to how quite you are, secondly if your ferts are hungry, mine will kill and move on, but i choose to dig as i dont like to leave a kill in the bury, ive always dug, its called respecting your quarry, secondly, rabbits around here are getting hard to comeby these days. i hear alot of peeps saying they never dig, but its my choice,

[the fezz 44]

i can understand its your choice but do you think that ferrets will kill to ground more often because they now that your going to be digging to them and there for start killing more than bolting. Fezz

[bullet 125]

nope i dont fezz,

[the fezz 44]

fair enough mate

[Phil Lloyd 10,738]

right then heres a question , do you think a ferret that is dig too alot can get used to being dug to and there for kills more to ground than a ferret that doesnt........ if you get what i mean fezz

 

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Edited October 9, 2007 by CHALKWARREN

[the fezz 44]

never thought about the amount of times you go out with the ferret , iam unable to go as often as i would like due to work and my family , cheers chalkwarren

[mooster 1]

Well put, Chalkwarren.I seldom need to dig but on the occasions when I have it has always been the same routine as follows...

Enter ferret,if nothing bolted after 10 minutes I usually hear a commotion underground in one spot (not rabbits giving her the run around but holed up).

whilst digging down to her my ferret seems to sense my involvement and comes back out to check on my progress before returning to battle until I join in and break through.

Some of this may be my imagination but it certainly seems as though they love working with man as a team!

[john hubery 9]

A few years back I owned a dog ferret which killed nearly every time we used him, lucky for us most of our setts are only a spade blade deep mainly grassland grazed by sheep nice soft soil, he would kill so often and so quickly we would follow him with the bleeper and as soon as he stoped mark the spot with a stoneone of us dig and the other follow him with the box, in places where we had alot of rabbits and at the begining of the season we would often get 3 or 4 rabbits like this in one set, how ever this ferret is now dead and although we bred from him none of the ofspring have been as good at killing in as him,had we been working on different ground this might have been a nightmare

[the fezz 44]

cheers for the replys folks

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

" Respect for the quarry "? Where I come from it was seen as respect for the land.

 

Rabbits were eating the farmers crops. He wanted them dead. I made them dead. What he Didn't want was me, or anyone else, carving holes into the Chalk and Flint which lay a bare three inches beneath his sward. Not to retrieve dead vermin. Thus I never did include a Cro Bar in my ferreting kit.

 

Having since lived on the silten souffle of the Humber Estuary, I can well imagine the compulsion to lean on a spade and see it sink to its shaft in that sift, yielding ground. A one armed man could dig such places and back filling too would be simple and effective.

 

Respect? I only ask that, before you disrespect another mans reasoning ~ allbeit out of ignorance ~ you walk a mile in his shoes. That way ye have a mile start on him and have his shoes too.

 

Ye want to dig? Try working the South Downs. There ye'll learn the true meaning of " Digging ".

 

 

Don't know what Chalks had to say. I found his post over an hour since he wrote it and so .....

[Phil Lloyd 10,738]

Don't know what Chalks had to say. I found his post over an hour since he wrote it and so .....

 

Mate,.it was 'awe-inspiring',...well,.er,..it was fecking AWE,...

 

 

 

All the best,....CHALKWARREN...