Polecat

[dogmad riley 1,347]

Anyone had a wild polecat cross?? I would av thought this would vastly improve ur ferrets?? Thoughts on this lads??

Doubt it. Plenty of ferrets out there doing there job very well.

 

The wild polecat is very skittish and there off spring is the same I had a 3/4 bred (apparently) and they were very skittish had to temt them out of there nest box every day. They not for me.

 

A well bred ferret does every asked. And a fraction of the price

Edited May 3, 2016 by dogmad riley

[ZeusPolecat 185]

Ive only read a load of information, experience wise ive only helped breed a couple times.

But my understanding is, it can help the gene pool health wise. Improve eyesight, other senses, muscles, speed and overall health of a strain. Long term, for future generations, it is a realistic method to promote healthy working ferrets and maintain a hunting instinct amoung pet variants. But they will catch and kill. I like a ferret who tries and fails haha, giving me a bolt.

10 or 20% pole maybe. As said, the ferret does a great job, a wild mudslide does the job too well.

It needs to be left to the long term experienced breeders who are willing to bring in new genes over a number of generations.

Edited May 14, 2016 by ZeusPolecat

[bobhow 57]

i have a half cross with a litter of 9 kits to a polecat ferret that i am hoping will do the job they are a lot fitter and healthier fat as mud with lovely coats the idea was to improve my strain which i think i have the half cross jill looks like she could win a show the shine on her coat where as my normal jill looks like a rescue job so ive got the hybrid vigor the proof now will be when i try to work them

[liongeorge 7]

caught one 3 years a go could i tame it could i fxxk kept attacking me so was released miles from my permission

I raised one from a kit found in the wild he wasn't to bad to handle but you could never quite trust him and F he was a strong bugger. Released him in an area with plenty of rabbits and I'd seen polecats run over a couple of miles away so knew others were about.

The domestic ferret has been developed over thousands of generations for a good reason...they should still have a strong hunting instinct but be easy to handle. Perfect. Polecat will more likely kill underground then attack you when you dig to it. Mine was quite scittish and am sure if I'd have worked him he'd have been a lurker.

[stevo79 569]

 

 

caught one 3 years a go could i tame it could i fxxk kept attacking me so was released miles from my permission

I raised one from a kit found in the wild he wasn't to bad to handle but you could never quite trust him and F he was a strong bugger. Released him in an area with plenty of rabbits and I'd seen polecats run over a couple of miles away so knew others were about.

The domestic ferret has been developed over thousands of generations for a good reason...they should still have a strong hunting instinct but be easy to handle. Perfect. Polecat will more likely kill underground then attack you when you dig to it. Mine was quite scittish and am sure if I'd have worked him he'd have been a lurker.

Agree with this why put polecat blood into your ferrets. What's wrong with working ferrets people have breed them for years to work then you go and stick a polecat in with them and get you finger bit off. Pointless in my eyes

[Leeview 791]

 

 

caught one 3 years a go could i tame it could i fxxk kept attacking me so was released miles from my permission

I raised one from a kit found in the wild he wasn't to bad to handle but you could never quite trust him and F he was a strong bugger. Released him in an area with plenty of rabbits and I'd seen polecats run over a couple of miles away so knew others were about.

The domestic ferret has been developed over thousands of generations for a good reason...they should still have a strong hunting instinct but be easy to handle. Perfect. Polecat will more likely kill underground then attack you when you dig to it. Mine was quite scittish and am sure if I'd have worked him he'd have been a lurker.

 

 

Agree with this why put polecat blood into your ferrets. What's wrong with working ferrets people have breed them for years to work then you go and stick a polecat in with them and get you finger bit off. Pointless in my eyes

 

 

anyone else noticed that when a wild polecat is bred from its always a male thats been trapped/caught never heard of one female been caught or bred from?

Y.I.S Leeview

 

 

 

 

 

Edited June 13, 2016 by Leeview

[bobhow 57]

the one i have is from a wild caught jill