Laying and rabbits

[IanW]

And the stew pot!

 

 

carrots, onions, herbs and a suet pie crust...... Mmmmm

 

Right I'm off the get the rife out.......

[corylus]

Well then the ferrets are obviously too well fed! Ferrets and hawks works relatively well in twisty areas with lots of obstacles

 

 

My point was that older dry stone walls are full of spaces where rabbits can hole up. We also encounter a lot of small sets beneath walls where should a ferret hole up would be impossible to dig without risking the wall.

 

And with all due respect the amount of buns we have here at the mo are not going the be reduced by hawking. We do have chaps come with hawks and the get some rabbits, but to control numbers we would need to remove hundreds per week consistently, and that's not going to happen with ferrets or hawks.

[mickdundee]

An experienced couple of lurchers would clean up in walled fields as the rabbits find it difficult to get quickly into the tight entrances with a dog on their arse. But hundreds per week would take some doing. It's a shame the numbers have been allowed to get to that state. I imagine the dry stone walking will be suffering as well

[hedgesparrow]

if you have that many. air rifles with night sights. and silenced take a load out a night with a couple of guns and a lamp.

know of a couple of chaps who be up for it if it was local.