Today we're doing something out of the
ordinary what we don't really do at all.
I'm here with Steve and Ross and Ross's
dogs Marley and Sookie. We're going back
we're going old-school, we're going to be
ferreting this morning. We haven't got a
gun, we're going to be netting them and
we're going to be using the whippets. So,
if we can find some rabbits we're
looking forward to a really really good
day it's nice and cold the holes are
pretty clean it's the end of the season
so we're not going to be worried about
the pheasants or anything else we're
going to be having a walk around and see
if we can get some rabbits so it should be good fun.
Right the guys have just
gone down there to have a look at these
holes in these banks see if there's
anything in there.
Apparently, Sookie, the little blue
bitch if there's a rabbit in there
she'll put a red in she'll tell us
whether there's one there and not
instead of getting the ferrets out and
everything else. So, if she says it's good
to go we'll be getting the ferrets out
and we'll be having a look. We're going
to put the locator collars on the ferrets
now which is exactly what it says on the
tin. When the ferrets on the ground
we can tell us how deep he is we're about to use
so if you kill while he's down there we
can then dig down to him and get him out
Then the further the closer is and
it's like the depth on the side of the
box so you often know where he is.
The ferrets have been down a while now
and they've not shown for about three or
four minutes. Steve's got the locator and
he's looking to we can find out roughly
whereabouts they are in the warren.
You believe that? we netted up there,
some other holes here.
We've been looking for the old ferret and it's
come out nowhere near where we
were netted up. But, the dogs did go that
way so whether it something's just
bolting on the other side of the ridge
or not. We're going to pick the nets up now
from here we're just going to move up
I'm going to go and have a look in the hedge up there.
We've come to this bank
now we can see where the sheep have been
on it. But, these holes look pretty well
worked, the dogs got very excited as well.
So, the same process again, will net up
and then we'll put the ferrets in and
wait and hopefully we'll draw this time
Yeah, we've just a rabbit shot
to the net, saw the net and the dog, shot straight
back in the hole. So, there's
definitely one in this bank. You can see
the attitude of the dogs lot sharper, a lot more keen.
Both ferrets are still together, we've dug a hole
here it's what they call a stop end, we
can't go any further and the ferrets
have got the rabbit backed up into there
and it's just a case of digging down until
we find where the ferrets have hold him
up and then we'll get him out then we'll move on.
Dispatched, job done. Awesome job.
Good, clean, nice and healthy rabbit.
So, that's the first one. A lot of effort really,
like I said, he showed twice at the hole and went
back again. But, we've got him now. The dogs are
all excited, the ferrets done its job.
Fill this hole in, take the nets up and move up to the next place.
Right, we've just moved off the top of the hill, which is
up there. We've come back down into the
bottom here I've got one ferreting at the minute.
We can hear something running around,
you can hear it running under the front. The dogs
are really keen. So, definitely it's
definitely someone's giving it rock all here.
This is the biggest warren we've
done so far today, we've got loads and
loads of nets out, as you can see here they're everywhere,
they're holes everywhere
everywhere they're all well used so
fingers crossed we should have a good
show out of this one.
She lost it, when he went down the dip
to the lake, that's what she lost it then
lost sight of it.
The two rabbits bolted out of there,
one went that way, the dog had a course. If it
weren't for the fence sh'ed have got him.
The other one went up over the top we lost
that one.
Now, we've swapped sides because the
lights going it's getting on in the
afternoon. Now, we're going to do these
little shallow that are underneath these
trees because if we do have to have a
dig they're not going to be that deep
when we can get it done so you don't
want to believe in ferrets in the ground
and soon as the light goes something
will go wrong so see how we get on.
The rabbits pushed the ferrets further on and as you can see
we've gone one, two, three and this is a
fourth hole we're still trying to get
We've got the rabbit.
There we go, the end of another fantastic
day. I've really, really enjoyed today and
it's a big thank you to Russ with his
excellent ferrets and his excellent dogs
and big Steve. We've had a good day we've got
seven dead, not a great amount,
we've missed three with holes that we didn't see. But,
like say it's been great fun, we're done
a bit of digging, the dog add a bit of
course so all in all it's been
absolutely fantastic and I've thoroughly
enjoyed it. I hope you guys have enjoyed
watching it as well
and we'll catch you soon, thanks a lot.