moses

just collected my 8 weeks old ferrets

i got 2 jills and 1 hob

beautiful lil creatures, how long after manning do they stop nipping their wee teeth onto your fingers and bloody hell sharp nails even at that young age lol

these i bought to work the land, hunting etc, to put into burrows to flush out the rabbits so i can slip my hawk on the rabbits

do u leave the food in all the time or call it or whistle to them to teach them to come out for food and they know im here to feed them so in the future they will remember me calling if they decide not to come out of the burrow

any tips will be awesome plz

their polecats

cheers

AudiLover

Are you going to eat them?

Your muslim rent you?

moses

eat what ferrets or rabbit ?????

AudiLover

well once you run out of rabbits id assume the ferrets are next?

moses

lol i will take it as a friday nite joke

i dont eat ferrets, theirs pheasants, , moorhens, ducks, wood pigeons and partridge , thats what the wee man will hunt and the ferrets will help it catch more rabbits if we dont see any running about

just sent the ferrets in a burrow to chase oot the rabbits lol

even bugs bunny cannae escape

Miss Kinky

piccies?

CooperS

Are they being bred as trouser ferrets?

moses

lol i dont understand , i aint breeding them, just picked em up today

and the male will get vasectimized if thats how u spell it once its older


so it will still **** just cant make the jills preggers lol


miss kinky post the pics the morra God willing

their sleeping now


cheers

Gordo

I met a chap with some lovely ones a few weeks ago (ferret racing on a corporate day) - carried them around like little rag dolls, all very placid and lovely to stroke. I asked him how he'd got them to that point and he said the trick is to feed them as pups so they fill their bellies and then leave them for 5 minutes before making a fuss of them / stroking them etc so they get used to it. apparently that stops them biting as they're full and so aren't minded to nip. eventually they don't bother nipping at all.

good luck

Gordo

Lee247

moses
where have you been

Miss Kinky

Moses - you know you have to get the girly ferrets neutered too don't you... they get "female" problems otherwise and it shortens their lives

amazinggrace

Ferrets smell

I feel I should warn people, 'cos no one told me and I cuddled one and spent all day stinking to high heaven of ferret, tried to drown it out with various perfumes and aftershaves, but then I just smelled like a ferret on the pull.

And before anyone asks a ferret on the pull smells very bad.

Bubba po

Go away moses, it's been great without your misogynistic inflammatory posting.

moses

thanks alot mate i will give it a go, i sent a message earlier to an northern irish friend, he hunts with ferrets and his hawk all the time i asked him what way i should go about it, im not sure if with the working ferrets u can leave their food in the hutch with them all the time , thats why i sent him a message and thanks alot bud for the info i appreciate it


lol @ 84 out of 300 i woz chillin oot in gitmo lol just kidding just busy bud and hows u and i hope u have a cool weekend

miss kinky if u get the hobs snipped u dont need to get the jills neutered , see if its a pet animal its fine , but for a working jill getting neutered she will get lazy and fat

so lets say if i had to jills and no hob that will mess up the jills when in season and it can end up in death coz of their ostrogen or whatever level going up i woz told but if u have a snipped hob he can still have sex but his sperm will be dead so he can still mate and put the jill out of season


so i woz told from the guy who breeds them for hawkers and falconers

cheers , i have to get a book i think for working ferrets

thanks alot and any more info will be awesome and cheers

moses

lol they sure do i saw the ferrets dad a huge hob but stank alot lol ferret musk

im glad im keeping them in the garden and not in the house

cheers for the warning

AudiLover

^^ thats a good thing. Who wants old lazy ferrets. You will get to have pups more often that way.

Rage!

For the love of God.

If you need to ask this sort of question you shouldn't be out on the landscape releasing hawks (Harris?) or ferrets. Seriously, please talk to some experienced hunters...

Please!

moses

dude never had ferrets before

their young to train at the moment


i sent a message to my friend, just awaiting his reply to check

and also alot of hawkers dont use ferrets, my mates do, thats why i wanna give it a try

more success rate than a hawk hunting alone


cheers

moses

thanks rage will do

their 12 weeks away from training yet anyways, just gathering info

cheers, i know the air gunners use ferrets and it will help coz their r alot of air gunners here

cheers

Rage!

Wonderful. But that doesn't inspire any more confidence. You clearly have no experience in hawking, let alone ferreting. These are living creatures, please understand that it takes long time to build a working relationship with them. You need to build an empathy with your animals and, not only that, but you need to build an empathy with their quarry. I'm not getting that from you....

moses

mate i asked a question about ferrets not hawking lol


it will be months before they will hunt with a hawk

we spoke about ferrets here last yr, i couldnt find the thread , some folk bought them and their woz a huge thread about it, coz i couldnt find it, i put another one up

cheers

Rage!

Umm yes... my answer referred to both... they are all living creatures are they not?

You can't just buy hawks and ferrets and release them on the countryside unless you know what you are doing. If you are asking on here then you don't. That is my point.

moses

dude no offence , i respect u, u sound an awesome and experienced man

we havent spoken about hawking here and your posts sounds like im just gonna get a hawk and hunt with a ferret which sounds so pathetic


ive hunted with my mates harris hawks and ferrets and at this time at nite i cannae get hold of them , its friday nite, everyone is partying
i collected them today and coz theirs ferret owners here im asking the ones who work their ferrets some questions like after manning how long before they stop nipping and do u leave your food in all the time , i know they do that with the pet ferrets but working ferrets they call them when feeding them so during the training its alot easier to train and call from the burrows

and also regarding hawking, yes dude inexperienced compared to u if u r a hawker coz we dont seem to know each other but without meeting me or seeing any threads about hawks u r assuming something

i dont blame u of course if my post came across like that

my bird is moulting at the moment, 8 weeks to 10 weeks to go and till that time im gonna get it used to the ferrets before i even consider hunting the hawk with the ferret

till that time it will be me hawk and the crows, pheasants and rabbits

when the ferrets r ready, then up the lanark hills with my mates once again, this time i wont be borrowing their birds but hunting with my own

cheers dude, any advice will do

what birds do u fly

cheers, im aff for in a bit will speak to u the morra


have a nice weekend

saxperience

Listen to rage, he is an expert. Learned everything off the net on wikipedia

Iwan

In fairness to Moses, he's had his hawk for quite a while now so I wouldn't say he's a complete novice with hawks.

Sorry, I know nothing of ferrets except they smell. A mad woman near me used to keep some in a spare bedroom and when some people bought her house it still smelled after they ripped out all the floorboards and disinfected everything!

Actually they don't smell if you keep them clean, change their bedding regularly as they wee/poo on it etc.

Hope you get on well with them, best asking people who already keep them for advice if you know some.

Miss Kinky

ferrets can be bathed too... some ferrets enjoy playing in the water

moses

thanks iwan, that woz the luggar saker falcon lol, the hawk i just got a few weeks back mate, a yr old still wild, hardly hunted , he is finishing his moult at the moment my friend, i will post u pics soon as he grows his new suit

and thanks to iwan for helping me out in my early days over a yr and a half ago

mate i owe u one, i still got those books and thanks

moses

true, i cant bathe them too much lol i dont wanna mess up their natural protection from their elements

but if they were pets i would bathe them all the time


cheers

moses

lol is that true


cheers

David Lock

He has been providing an independant and fair minded commentary on the current situation in the Middle East on another thread........