Ferting today

[mattydski 560]

Ferreting today.. bad start to the day, I was badly let down by a mate who decided to take his wife shopping in the sales tooday. I had even taken a pheasant round last night for him..

 

So kids, Landrover and ferrets loaded, we set off about 10.30.

 

Got to the permission at about 11.00 am

And set out to go to the first burrow.. then the second and third...no one home

Then Went to the fourth.

 

 

A single holer, netted up, and let my assistants sit down for a bit, the 200 yrd walk had obviously taken it out of them..aww.

 

After a wait of about 10 mins, the kids were fed up and went back to the landrover for a rest..

I gave it another 20 mins, beofre i decided that my little Jill needed a bit of a help and sent her sister down.

10 mins later she reapeared, with out her sister. It seemed that she had killed down a stop end, and couldn't get out. The locator showed her at about 10 feet from the entrance and about 5 ft down, but still moving..Which suported my theory. So, filled in the entrance hole, and went back to the landy for a spade.

 

 

A very deep dig later, I was right, I found my little Jill, very pleased to see me..

 

 

 

And a lesson for the younguns...how to back fill a 5ft deep hole properly , so that livestock dinnae break their legs, and the farmer disnae break your neck

 

So 1 1/2 hours later... We decided to have lunch, Jamie decided to try to steel my hip flask, and Ben decided to steel my camera

 

 

The afternoon..Em.. Well netted up a real big warren, more than i would normally tackle on my own.

I am not sure whether no one was home, but didn't bolt a thing..may be the Jills were be given the run around..Not a single bolt..

After more complaints from the landrover , I netted up a couple of warrens I thought looked promising, and sent out the biggest fecking rat..

 

He got 60 grams of clear pigeon lead poisoning for his troubles... By this time the camera had run out, so had to take a couple of pics with the phone..

 

 

And now the size guess..this is next to my size 9....

 

 

 

So, the total tally for the day.. I f'ing rabbit, 1 f'ing Rat

 

At least the fezzers fed themselves..

 

Tomorrow..Lamping

[stubby 175]

nice pictures and write up though mate

[richie 1]

fair play matty, thats some dig...

[will.f11 24]

well done mate. I had a rat bigger than that a couple days back with terrier. was same size as my size 9 without tail

[stealthy1 3,964]

At the very least it was a day out with the kids, and some ferret food.

[Brimmer 220]

Always good to see the rugrats in the game Matti. A cracking dig as well! Good effort!

Edited December 29, 2008 by Brimmer

[andy s410c 61]

Some digging that M Brimmer will be creaming himself with them photo's Good to be out with the kids

[Marty O Hare 3]

Good to see the little'ns out with you, and a beauty dig that mate, one of them wear you have to make it big enough to get in.

Good effort

[Kay 3,709]

Your kids look froze but they got some fresh air so thats all that matters

[Guest foxyjo.]

I loved that!! sounded just like one of my sporting trips!!!

I loved the "complaints from the landrover" (and a bloody smart bit o kit that is too Matty!) I have the same trouble, but now he's a bit older I get comments like "other people's Mum's go shopping, or watch telly or knit or something...what do I get? Mine's mental and has her 'ead in an 'ole"!!

Or worse....I get a running commentry on the disasters..."That was worth it then...." Until I end up yelling for him to shut up! Oh the joys!!!

A lovely write up and made me grin my head off! Lovely to see the little lads out and about.