Ferrets and Ferreting - With Simon Whitehead

Ferrets and Ferreting provides an encouraging step by step guide to keeping and working ferrets, from birth right through to working them in the field.

We look at all aspects of their welfare, the husbandry, how we keep them, feed them and handle them so theyre sufficiently trained, fit and efficient for a day out hunting, controlling the rabbit population. We cover all elements of equipment needed for the ferreter to get started, including nets, spades, the ferret finder and the ferreters dog.

Simon has kept ferrets nearly all his life and has a livelihood that is deeply entwined with the ferret. In the summer he travels around the UK, with his Pakefield Ferrets demonstrating and displaying at shows and fairs and in winter, controlling rabbits in the fields of East Anglia.

You will see here the basic art of ferreting, with healthy ferrets, nets laid correctly and rabbits obliging! Apart from the ferret finders, these scenes are basically the same today as they were many, many decades ago man, dog, ferrets and some nets controlling rabbits. Back then of course the rabbit would have been hunted for food alone oh how times have changed!

If you are planning to work ferrets in the field or just keep one or two as pets Simons advice and knowledge will set you on your way.

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[bummer2k9]

im tinking of buying a few ferrets..wat sort of ones should i buy????do i need a ferret finder cause ive seen a video where a ferret finder wasnt used.mail me back please

[SecondSightTrailers]

@bummer2k9

Its difficult to recommend what 'sort' of ferret you should buy as this will depend on your circumstances and what you intend to use them for. A ferret finder is normally a wise purchase though. The DVD Ferrets & Ferreting with Simon Whitehead covers pretty much all you need to know to get you started with helpful hints & advice. It is available by going to Second Sight Productions website in the countryside & wildlife section of the catalogue

Thanks for you comment Hope this helps

[doom705]

i love ferreting with my jill :)

[G1ngerFox]

@Mralibaba48 >> Ahah! That ferret being badly treated?? Ferrets just -LOVE- being rolled around, and played with. They love contact and play with each other that way (but with a bonus of teeth!) I have 2 girls and 1 boy, and they are fantastic friends and hunters too... kennykenzo's right: a ferret knows veeeeery well how to show you he/she's not happy. XD They have a very strong avec "piercing" bite (I'm french and miss the word XD)

[kennykenzo]

if the ferret didn't want the man to shake him i am sure he would let him know by trying to bite, they are a very confident animal.

[Mralibaba48]

You are treating it like an object not a living being you twat, shaking it around !

[facebookcarazy123]

@bummer2k9 you dont really need locater in small sets but in larger ones you mite need one because the ferret mite get the rabbit and eat it down the hole so thats always good to get a locater.

[genderbenderphile]

@ferretkings Polecat is a colour that ferrets come in, very similar to the colouration of the wild polecat, white ferrets come from a recessive gene in the background of the polecat and... well, just happen now and again, I have two ferrets, brother and sister, and the girl is a polecat coloured ferret, while her brother is pure snow white, and both their parents were polecat coloured.

[genderbenderphile]

@wotansrevenge Well, if you want to be overrun with rabbits dying a slow, 14-day long death of myxomatosis, which involves blindness, swelling of the face and genitals and the slow breakdown of lung tissue, which, incidentally, is incredibly easy to pass on to pet rabbits, and has no cure, be my guest.

Personally, I think a quick snap of the neck is how I'd rather go.

[genderbenderphile]

@bummer2k9 You should always have a ferret finder, it is so easy to lose a ferret when working, and in my opinion, the number one rule of ferreting is that every trip lasts as long as it has to in order to bring all your ferrets home. And unless you want to have a hard time of it, invest in a ferret finder.

As to what kind of ferrets, males will work for a long period of time, females tend to be better in short bursts.

Coat colour preference is really down to you!

[italia10588]

Do hunters that use ferrets view them as pets or merely hunting tools like a gun or a knife? Doesn't look like this guy really views them as a personal pet like his dog or something.

[EdTheBadass]

I am thinking of bigger prey.

Rabbits are too small.

I am thiniking of using badgers. How much would a fat hunting badger run and what wouls be the biggest prey I could catch?