Great memorys for me. Used to ferret every weekend for years during the 70/80s in Aus. My grandfather made a living on it after he stopped working, selling to the local butcher's. Wasn't uncommon to bring home 100+ pair regularly. Whats with the long nets is this a UK thing
Your Grandfather sounds like a great guy 👌. No there a new thing all over , well not exactly new they have been around for quite a long time in a lot of different forms but it was always quicker and preferred to put purse nets on the holes. With the quick set type they are much quicker and catch rabbits if 2 or 3 come out at the same time and it makes it easier for the ferrets to wonder around without moving nets and walking over the warren . Thanks for the comment I appreciate it 👌
Good video. 80 is unreal. Where I ferret in Ireland the rabbit population is in trouble. Hawks & buzzards were released about 4/5 years ago & the rabbits are getting hammered. Some of my permissions are by forests & fox & rabbit population used be good but now its fucked, even foxes have become very scarce because there's no rabbits to eat. I used to see 5/6 rabbits in every field whereas now I've to walk 5/6 fields to see 1 rabbit. I'm hanging up the nets for this season. Hopefully the rabbits make a come back.
It's always sad to hear someone hanging there gear up . To be honest mate I was nearly there a year or 2 ago but I had to have a word with myself . Its been my love since I was 6 and I've had some of the best memories doing it . Have you tried further afield or is it scarce all over . Its not great here in the UK either. RHD and mixi along with all the natural predators and hunters doesn't help . That is the reason I was going to stop because I know I've personally cleared out a very lot of land for owners . I try to just keep numbers low now instead of wiping them out
@@cumbriahunter I'm just gonna hang up the nets for this season, try give the rabbits a chance. I've tried going further a field but it seems to be the same everywhere I go. Same as you I was a young kid when I got a ferret & ferreting is just a part of me now I'll never stop but I also have respect for rabbits & I wanna give them a chance to recover.
I 100% understand mate . I've even thought about asking a farmer if I could stock his land with a few rabbits and keeping a number there but It would just attract the wrong kind of people. I hope they come back for you mate 🐇🐇
Same down south but down to this rabbit disease vh1 or something.within 24 to 48hours of catching it there dead and strange with they die under ground that's why you never see Caracas everywhere.. but I think it's happening every up and down the country.good hunting 👍
im up north plenty around me i hung my gear up few years due to health reasons but if ever up here i can get you plenty ground just ill not be ferriting it anytime soon
@@pelletandferretpestcontrol7367 just comment on the video and your in . I'm numbering each comment then going to do a number generator. The net is nearly at length I just need to put the draw cord and poles on it
Honestly I've got soo much gratitude for my ferrets it's unbelievable the get ast so much of and they turn up every time . The stamina and drive they have is unreal , ive bread my line of ferrets from a European around 4 years ago and I put my best hob over her and I've currently got 8 ferrets from that line of 3 generations . I've Honestly never had a better business of ferrets than the 1 I have now
@@richardhughes1076 just as a hobby but I have a few land owners counting on me nearly every week to show face so I need to keep at it or I'll loose it
Good to see some rabbits in good numbers, I am from Gloucestershire and where I live has been decimated by VHD . VHD wipes out the rabbit population and they never come back 😔 small pockets of rabbits across my permissions make a bit of a come back then VHD wipe’s them out again it’s 10 times worse than Myxomatosis. Fields and hedgerows that were traditionally ferreted are now devoid of rabbits for the last 15 yrs at least . I never thought something so common would become so rare I hope it never reaches your neck of the woods.
We have seen it in patches and your right it absolutely destroys the population. Luckily there are still patches with a few but they are getting harder to find . 👌
@@mattmatty4670 Introduced by the Romans Matt , then later in UK history looked after in large enclosures by the Normans as a food source . Rabbits escaped these enclosures and began breeding in the wild, In later history they were labelled as pests for the crop damage they can do , but at the same time where caught up on country estates by estate employees and sold at markets for their meat and fur providing extra income for the estate and jobs for many including the hat trade. Chicken farming in my opinion , is what did for the rabbit and the jobs that they created . Production of chicken replaced the rabbit on the uk menu and the introduction of myxomatosis sealed the rabbits fate😔. Now VHD disease has practically wiped out the rabbit and the country culture that followed them 😔 Nature loving public now eat chicken crammed in 18 per meter squared.
@@shaunjones6049 never new that. I know they a pest here in oz n we trying to eradication program. So is it a eradication program over there as well ?. Mate always watch rabbiting in the UK.
@@mattmatty4670 I don’t know how VHD got into the Uk rabbit population Matt. I have never heard of the British government letting it loose in the wild 🤔 maybe VHD was imported on pet rabbits I don’t know but it’s been devastating in my area and is not welcome in the hunting/shooting/ ferreting community. Uk is a small country compared to Oz and permission to hunt rabbits was highly prized so much so the best rabbiting was kept in local family’s for generations and it wasn’t uncommon for fights to break out over the rabbiting when someone tried to get permission on your patch. Selling rabbits brought in extra income or helped feed us, I swapped them for vegetables and even traded them for beer at the pub. Growing up I looked up to the people who bred the best ferrets or the guys with the best running dogs . Now that’s all gone with the demise of the rabbit 😔
Cheers mate it means a lot . It actually makes me want to put some effort into putting the videos together because it's not really my thing . I'm more about getting out and having fun
The population is worryingly dropping and I've thought about stopping over the past few seasons but I try to control numbers nor rather than clear. Keeping a few around to re populate each season . The virus RHD took a lot out the game aswell
I had a short break in alston Cumbria an I've never seen so many rabbits a few months back. I Wish I'd took my rifle an asked the farm owners permission
@@jamo78s3 yeah you would of probably been allowed on there is a lot of land owners round that end ok with it . Don't get me wrong tho there is a lot of anti hunters , that's why there is so many about because the farms that don't , feed the farms that do
Scotland almost deserted of rabbits but on Anglesey were I live there's loads, especially on the coast, I'm sure they will come back in numbers eventually
Brilliant video and thanks for sharing how to use mark 3, alot of people forget this
I would of liked it to be more in depth but my Jill was with a rabbit
Great memorys for me. Used to ferret every weekend for years during the 70/80s in Aus. My grandfather made a living on it after he stopped working, selling to the local butcher's. Wasn't uncommon to bring home 100+ pair regularly.
Whats with the long nets is this a UK thing
Your Grandfather sounds like a great guy 👌. No there a new thing all over , well not exactly new they have been around for quite a long time in a lot of different forms but it was always quicker and preferred to put purse nets on the holes. With the quick set type they are much quicker and catch rabbits if 2 or 3 come out at the same time and it makes it easier for the ferrets to wonder around without moving nets and walking over the warren .
Thanks for the comment I appreciate it 👌
Good video.
80 is unreal. Where I ferret in Ireland the rabbit population is in trouble. Hawks & buzzards were released about 4/5 years ago & the rabbits are getting hammered. Some of my permissions are by forests & fox & rabbit population used be good but now its fucked, even foxes have become very scarce because there's no rabbits to eat.
I used to see 5/6 rabbits in every field whereas now I've to walk 5/6 fields to see 1 rabbit. I'm hanging up the nets for this season. Hopefully the rabbits make a come back.
It's always sad to hear someone hanging there gear up . To be honest mate I was nearly there a year or 2 ago but I had to have a word with myself . Its been my love since I was 6 and I've had some of the best memories doing it . Have you tried further afield or is it scarce all over . Its not great here in the UK either. RHD and mixi along with all the natural predators and hunters doesn't help . That is the reason I was going to stop because I know I've personally cleared out a very lot of land for owners . I try to just keep numbers low now instead of wiping them out
@@cumbriahunter I'm just gonna hang up the nets for this season, try give the rabbits a chance. I've tried going further a field but it seems to be the same everywhere I go.
Same as you I was a young kid when I got a ferret & ferreting is just a part of me now I'll never stop but I also have respect for rabbits & I wanna give them a chance to recover.
I 100% understand mate . I've even thought about asking a farmer if I could stock his land with a few rabbits and keeping a number there but It would just attract the wrong kind of people. I hope they come back for you mate 🐇🐇
Same down south but down to this rabbit disease vh1 or something.within 24 to 48hours of catching it there dead and strange with they die under ground that's why you never see Caracas everywhere.. but I think it's happening every up and down the country.good hunting 👍
im up north plenty around me i hung my gear up few years due to health reasons but if ever up here i can get you plenty ground just ill not be ferriting it anytime soon
Looks a great day out fair play lads 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Yeah it was a good day pal . Clears the mind and keeps you off the drink 🤣. Feeling good today haha , bit ache off all the digging like 🤣
@@cumbriahunter yeah I bet you are especially that frozen 🥶 bit of ground was more like iron 👍🏻😂😂
@@danwilko6391 I know man I jumped on the spade and my heart just dropped 🤣🤣
Smashing video mate and some very hard looking digs well done
Cheers mate I appreciate it as always. Are you in the Giveaway?
@@cumbriahunter I know I watched the video and I have subscribed but not sure
@@pelletandferretpestcontrol7367 just comment on the video and your in . I'm numbering each comment then going to do a number generator. The net is nearly at length I just need to put the draw cord and poles on it
A GREAT WATCH
Cheers mate 👍
Ferrets definitely earned there keep that day
Honestly I've got soo much gratitude for my ferrets it's unbelievable the get ast so much of and they turn up every time . The stamina and drive they have is unreal , ive bread my line of ferrets from a European around 4 years ago and I put my best hob over her and I've currently got 8 ferrets from that line of 3 generations . I've Honestly never had a better business of ferrets than the 1 I have now
@@cumbriahunter that's brilliant. Do you do your rabbiting as a business or just as hobby
@@richardhughes1076 just as a hobby but I have a few land owners counting on me nearly every week to show face so I need to keep at it or I'll loose it
@@cumbriahunter that's great. What do you do with all your rabbits you catch.
@@richardhughes1076 dog and ferret food , some friends and family and the game dealers
Good to see some rabbits in good numbers, I am from Gloucestershire and where I live has been decimated by VHD . VHD wipes out the rabbit population and they never come back 😔 small pockets of rabbits across my permissions make a bit of a come back then VHD wipe’s them out again it’s 10 times worse than Myxomatosis. Fields and hedgerows that were traditionally ferreted are now devoid of rabbits for the last 15 yrs at least . I never thought something so common would become so rare I hope it never reaches your neck of the woods.
We have seen it in patches and your right it absolutely destroys the population. Luckily there are still patches with a few but they are getting harder to find . 👌
Mate aren't rabbits native to your country?.
@@mattmatty4670 Introduced by the Romans Matt , then later in UK history looked after in large enclosures by the Normans as a food source . Rabbits escaped these enclosures and began breeding in the wild,
In later history they were labelled as pests for the crop damage they can do , but at the same time where caught up on country estates by estate employees and sold at markets for their meat and fur providing extra income for the estate and jobs for many including the hat trade. Chicken farming in my opinion , is what did for the rabbit and the jobs that they created . Production of chicken replaced the rabbit on the uk menu and the introduction of myxomatosis sealed the rabbits fate😔. Now VHD disease has practically wiped out the rabbit and the country culture that followed them 😔
Nature loving public now eat chicken crammed in 18 per meter squared.
@@shaunjones6049 never new that. I know they a pest here in oz n we trying to eradication program. So is it a eradication program over there as well ?. Mate always watch rabbiting in the UK.
@@mattmatty4670 I don’t know how VHD got into the Uk rabbit population Matt. I have never heard of the British government letting it loose in the wild 🤔 maybe VHD was imported on pet rabbits I don’t know but it’s been devastating in my area and is not welcome in the hunting/shooting/ ferreting community. Uk is a small country compared to Oz and permission to hunt rabbits was highly prized so much so the best rabbiting was kept in local family’s for generations and it wasn’t uncommon for fights to break out over the rabbiting when someone tried to get permission on your patch. Selling rabbits brought in extra income or helped feed us, I swapped them for vegetables and even traded them for beer at the pub. Growing up I looked up to the people who bred the best ferrets or the guys with the best running dogs . Now that’s all gone with the demise of the rabbit 😔
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Great video mate
Cheers mate
Fantastic even better than the last one
Cheers mate it means a lot . It actually makes me want to put some effort into putting the videos together because it's not really my thing . I'm more about getting out and having fun
@@cumbriahunter keep at it mate
Hyyy bro nice👍 video continues new new content ☺
I'm giving away a stop net. Just have to suv and comment on the giveaway video 👍
Thank you but no interest😜
Very good I haven't seen 80 rabbits in the last 10 years all together .we shoot more deer than rabbits on my permissions now
The population is worryingly dropping and I've thought about stopping over the past few seasons but I try to control numbers nor rather than clear. Keeping a few around to re populate each season . The virus RHD took a lot out the game aswell
I had a short break in alston Cumbria an I've never seen so many rabbits a few months back. I Wish I'd took my rifle an asked the farm owners permission
@@jamo78s3 yeah you would of probably been allowed on there is a lot of land owners round that end ok with it . Don't get me wrong tho there is a lot of anti hunters , that's why there is so many about because the farms that don't , feed the farms that do
Scotland almost deserted of rabbits but on Anglesey were I live there's loads, especially on the coast, I'm sure they will come back in numbers eventually
@@beecee6850 we need this virus killed off . You can tell the parts of the country where its missed. I think it might get worse before it gets better
My new pb the cumbria hunter can make a long net
Cheers pal 👌
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