*** The Ferret Thread ***

[wolfmagicrattery]

ours live outside but our spare room have been converted into a ferret play with ropes balls things for them to dig in and it looks a bomb has hit after they had they play lol we feed our dry 24 hours a day they get chick deer g pigs moorhen rabbit heart liver pheaset and the they get bones as well from the bucthers as our bucthers does a big bag of bones for 20p i would not be with out my babies now and buttons he was my first ferret has bond to me strongely if my husband picks him up he bites his ears!!! but he loves me and my mum he lays in our arms and go to sleep and we can carry him about like that!!! i shall post photos of some of my babies

[ferretman]

I got into ferrets whan i was about 12. My gdad used to go to the poultry auctions and i went to as at the time i used to have rabbits and guineapigs. Everytime i went i kept looking at the ferrets and every month i kept pestering my gdad for some in the end he gave in and started building me a hutch and the same day in the paper was an ad baby ferrets free to good home so we went and their was a court with about 13 baby ferrets in every colour u could think of i picked 3 jills and that was it been keeping them ever since. I normally take mine to shows and they allways do well. Once you own ferrets and people start to know people will bring you stray ferrets and a lot of people give me meat such pigion and rabbit. I think their fantastic little animals better than a cat or dog.

[zoe6660]

why do alot of people say get adult how hard is it to learn a ferret that nipping isnt good.

[SteveCourty]

Originally Posted by Shadowz

its illegal in the uk to remove the scent glands.
castration and spaying will remove most of the smell and allow them to live happily together.

thanks as I said I dont agree with it but didnt realise it was illegal

[bbigerljodie]

hi i have a male and female ferret just wondered
can i keep two jills together when one is pregnent? she looks lonely or will it be a bad idea ?

thankyou

[ferretman]

Id keep the pregnant one away seprate 2 weeks before her due date

[snakewhisperer]

I began keeping ferrets many years ago (probably 15 to 20 years ago) The first two I got were Jills and as with most things when you're on the lookout, I couldn't find any anywhere! I saw an ad for baby ferets and phoned immediately. When I arrived at the house a couple of young lads greeted me and went outside to get the "babies". When they returned with a wooden box, one of them started pullng on motorcycle gauntlets!! Alarm bells were ringing and I'm thinking 'this aint looking good'!!
Even with said gauntlets on, the lad was as nervous as hell and barely dare pick the ferrets up, which by the way were almost full grown and appeared to be extremely hungry. I was in two minds but as I'd had so much trouble sourcing them and me being the eternal optimist I decided to take two Jills. For the next month or so my hands and arms looked as though I'd been hand feeding tiger sharks!!! It wasn't a case of getting the odd nip, every tme I opened the hutch they attacked me with much gusto!! It wasn't anything other that the fact that they had been competing for food and not getting quite enough so anything warm and flesh-like was food including me ...... actually... especially me. One of my work collegues on seeing my many, many wounds from finger tips to elbows said-"what the hell have you been doing?" I proudly exclaimed "I've got ferrets!!" I got a look somewhere between pity and concern for my sanity! I eventually semi-tamed these ferrets and bred from them and have handled all I've had since them before their eyes open and have had no such problems.

[SteveCourty]

Originally Posted by snakewhisperer

I began keeping ferrets many years ago (probably 15 to 20 years ago) The first two I got were Jills and as with most things when you're on the lookout, I couldn't find any anywhere! I saw an ad for baby ferets and phoned immediately. When I arrived at the house a couple of young lads greeted me and went outside to get the "babies". When they returned with a wooden box, one of them started pullng on motorcycle gauntlets!! Alarm bells were ringing and I'm thinking 'this aint looking good'!!
Even with said gauntlets on, the lad was as nervous as hell and barely dare pick the ferrets up, which by the way were almost full grown and appeared to be extremely hungry. I was in two minds but as I'd had so much trouble sourcing them and me being the eternal optimist I decided to take two Jills. For the next month or so my hands and arms looked as though I'd been hand feeding tiger sharks!!! It wasn't a case of getting the odd nip, every tme I opened the hutch they attacked me with much gusto!! It wasn't anything other that the fact that they had been competing for food and not getting quite enough so anything warm and flesh-like was food including me ...... actually... especially me. One of my work collegues on seeing my many, many wounds from finger tips to elbows said-"what the hell have you been doing?" I proudly exclaimed "I've got ferrets!!" I got a look somewhere between pity and concern for my sanity! I eventually semi-tamed these ferrets and bred from them and have handled all I've had since them before their eyes open and have had no such problems.

The problem is people are scared by them. All the young my gfs dad have get handled. On a daily basis theres a load of ferrets running around and they barely nip. Its like anything they tame down easily. There kept in the garden in a shed and run inside a larger chicken run, At the thime it used to house ducks as well and one day one of the ferrets got out. It was found in the coup cuddled up with the chickens! It hadnt attacked any of them im unsure if it was used to them and didnt see them as food or its just because there well fed and not hungry

[laura_aldridge1987]

I currently have 5 fuzzies, they are all a year old: Oscar and Cecil are sandy brothers bought at 8 weeks old, I thought they would be the limit of my ferret collection but then I heard of a friend who had a little boy of similar age who she was no longer able to look after so I took him in! His name is Zipper, a little tiny polecat boy and he's lovely. After that I brought home a tiny little angora girl called Buttons who is my little princess, she's white with a silver stripe - was incredibly evil to start with but after her jill jab has turned into the cuddliest one of all! Most recently I have added a little eu polecat jill to my collection called Pebbles...she settled in very well but has started to become a bit dominant over the others recently so I will be getting her spayed as her jill jab hasn't been as 'settling' as it was for Buttons.

[fern]

have a look-see at my pictures in the pics section aww my babiessss

i have lots of ferrets..
males and females and babies.. i LOVE fuzzys they are so much fun.