Ferreting

Camile · Ferreting

Good evening,

For those of you that never visits Greenwellies, check out this post from Quixote:
http://greenwelliesbalertwine.myf...org/about7229.html&highlight=

it's a brilliant article on ferreting ..

anyone here doing it ? it's fascinating to me ..

now that's hunting !

Camile

phil

This is what i would call hunting

http://overthegate.myfreeforum.or...a117880.php&highlight=#117880

Camile

Thanks for that Phil ...

they are amazing pictures ..

I knew you were right by saying that terriers were the best for rats .. but that really shows it .

Now you have comforted me even more to get a terrier .. be it for rat or fox ..

that's a loyal companion put to good use,

Camile

phil

The small smooth coated red and white dogs are Plummer terriers,great all round workers but they were bred for ratting.

phil

Imaging how much corn them buggers were eating?

squirrel01

great pics, never went ratting but did alot of ferreting in the uk, would love to start it up again, can't beat it on a crispy winter sunday.....

phil

Hello Squirrel.
Do you have many rabbits where you are.

squirrel01

some on the higher ground but not near the house, apart from the one in the hutch Laughing

Camile

phil

Camile
The way i read it. they killed 80 rats the day before the dogs turned up.
The dogs killed a lot of rats under the sheds that they couldn't get at so i would reckon its the best part of a thousand.

Camile

True

but is it normal to have that many under them sheds ?

I would have thought that they would have poison bait everywhere .. or at least keep a few terriers themselves on hold all the time ..

because I wouldn't like buying any of this chap's eggs !

phil

Well its certainly not normal, but the number of rats will grow to the food supply available,and the sheds with the verandas on are a perfect cover,you would only ever see a fraction of the real number of rats