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!
hiya, miusty, welcome to the site ;D
don't keep ferrets ourselves but someone on here must :)
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!
Welcome to A4A.
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.
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.
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 ;)
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
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?
Was the person you met trying to shift a load of dodgy ferret poo, Lish?
Quote from: OllieC on November 24, 2008, 17:31:23
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 ::)
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/ ;)
Heres a few pics of my stinkers miusty
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v383/hedgesteeper/18122008064.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v383/hedgesteeper/GypFerreting010.jpg)
and some of our catches
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v383/hedgesteeper/20082008099.jpg)
yer cant beat abit of rabbiting even better when eaten with your own homegrown veg ;)
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?
Yes, lovely to see, effective pest control... with a delicious by-product! A good days work there.
thanks all, yes it is rare to waste any rabbits, to be honest i would like summat abit more regal for christmas dinner ;)
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?
where bouts are you?