Topic: ferreting

[miusty]

Hi, I am new to the boards. I was just wondering if there is anyone else out there that keeps ferrets for practical use?

I am very restricted where I live now and can't have poultry of any description and the garden is too small for any other live stock.  But my partner and I still have and work our ferrets. I'm not a great lover of 'stew' but there are some fantastic honey basted recipes for rabbit!

[manicscousers]

hiya, miusty, welcome to the site  ;D
don't keep ferrets ourselves but someone on here must  :)

[OllieC]

I think Mr Smith does a bit... I would if given the chance (and the skills & ferrets!). Welcome to the site - any photo's of your furry helpers welcome!

[lorna]

Welcome to A4A.

[ACE]

I used to enjoy going out of an early evening to net up a warren. Take home a couple of bunnies for dinner. I don't know of anybody around our area who still keeps them for working. There are a few silly bints who use them for racing at village fetes etc. They are a sort of pet for them.

[Rosyred]

Not sure where you are. We keep a ferret but he is a pet and has never been hunting. I wouldn't mind some free rabbit for stew.

[star]

Hello and welcome Miusty :D,

I reckon a lot of folk may go for working ferrets if this downturn gets too bad.

Someone here must have a common interest with you ;)

[kt.]

My dad does - loads.  He caught 16 two weeks ago!  Would love to do it myself. But do not have the time with working away a lot.  I do love a cooked rabbit in the pot.    Missus wont eat rabbit but I always eat it when its on the menu when we go out to a restaurant.  Delicious :)  just me and kids then

[Hyacinth]

Met someone tonite (last nite?) whose got 4 ferrets and I've got a question for you, please...does ferret poo scare away rats, like lion stuff is supposed to scare off foxes? 

[OllieC]

Was the person you met trying to shift a load of dodgy ferret poo, Lish?

[Hyacinth]

Was the person you met trying to shift a load of dodgy ferret poo, Lish?

it was a chat-up line with a difference, certainly ::)

[tonybloke]

Ferreting is alive and well  in east anglia! it's taught as part of  countryside management / gamekeeping course at my college http://www.easton-college.ac.uk/   ;)

[denis trundle]

Heres a few pics of my stinkers miusty



 and some of our catches



yer cant beat abit of rabbiting even better when eaten with your own homegrown veg ;)

[Hyacinth]

lovely working animals, Denis 8)

a couple of those fresh rabits would be my perfect Christmas dinner! Do you have a good outlet for them?

[OllieC]

Yes, lovely to see, effective pest control... with a delicious by-product! A good days work there.

[denis trundle]

thanks all, yes it is rare to waste any rabbits, to be honest i would like summat abit more regal for christmas dinner ;)

[Hyacinth]

ahhh, regal is as regal does? (and no! I've no idea wot that means either!!)

just that I'd sooner have a couple of rabbits (NOT frozen Chinese things) to cook anytime, over the alternatives available to me.

Check list.....garlic = GOT, home grown
                    Rosemary - GOT, home grown
                    Chillis - GOT, home grown (thanks Steph :-*)
                    Olive Oil? .....errr...nah, not this year, but with Global Warmin
                    an that, I'm workin on it....
                    Red wine = see above!!
                    RABBITS =  :'( :'( :'(

Reckon you've got the making of the King of Crimbo dinners, but if you're missing anything....swap you some Apache chilllies or garlic/rosemary for the little hoppers :-* - deal?   

[denis trundle]

where bouts are you?

[Hyacinth]

where bouts are you?

Birmingham :'(