tote
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The ground's rock hard and also has a covering of snow but that didn't stop todays ferreting outing. As my boys Dylan and Declan and I headed over to one of my permissions the temp gauge in the car was saying it was minus 5 degrees.
We were prepared for the frozen ground though as we had some 6" nails and a hammer with us as there was no chance of shoving a net peg into the ground.
We tried a couple of holes to start with and both were empty so we headed off up the hill to a gorse covered bank that usually holds rabbits.
View from the hill looking across the valley.
Not a nice bit to net up, Dylan gets the job.
Although we did three buries in the gorse there was nothing at home. After that we went up and ferreted some holes along a fenceline.
Dylan and Declan netting up.
We worked our way along this fenceline doing about four buries and there was only one rabbit at home, but at least we were off the mark.
We ended up back at the farmyard and I saw a rabbit run around the back of a cow shed so followed it and saw it drop down into a single holed burie. We got the hole netted put the Jill down and 5 minutes later we had rabbit number two in the bag.
Twenty yards away was another burie that looked fresh, we got the two holes covered and the jill was sent to investigate. Dylan was sitting on top of the burie and he signalled to Declan and I that he could hear a rabbit rumbling.
The rabbit bolted into the net with the ferret attatched to it, so Dylan had the tricky job of seperating the rabbit from the jill which as you can imagine was well up for it.
We ended the day with three hard won rabbits.
We were prepared for the frozen ground though as we had some 6" nails and a hammer with us as there was no chance of shoving a net peg into the ground.
We tried a couple of holes to start with and both were empty so we headed off up the hill to a gorse covered bank that usually holds rabbits.
View from the hill looking across the valley.
Not a nice bit to net up, Dylan gets the job.
Although we did three buries in the gorse there was nothing at home.
After that we went up and ferreted some holes along a fenceline. Dylan and Declan netting up.
We worked our way along this fenceline doing about four buries and there was only one rabbit at home, but at least we were off the mark.
We ended up back at the farmyard and I saw a rabbit run around the back of a cow shed so followed it and saw it drop down into a single holed burie. We got the hole netted put the Jill down and 5 minutes later we had rabbit number two in the bag.
Twenty yards away was another burie that looked fresh, we got the two holes covered and the jill was sent to investigate. Dylan was sitting on top of the burie and he signalled to Declan and I that he could hear a rabbit rumbling.
The rabbit bolted into the net with the ferret attatched to it, so Dylan had the tricky job of seperating the rabbit from the jill which as you can imagine was well up for it.
We ended the day with three hard won rabbits.
