Frantic Ferret Foray - Sunrise Ferreting 23

Athena the old pro takes Leto out for another hunting lesson. Young Leto takes a while to settle and focus on the task in hand.
The hedge that runs along this flooded field is overun with rabbits. The warren beside this paticular one is too big for me to currently net, let alone film. The fields to the other side of this hedge are used for growing crops and during the warmer months the fields can be eaten back by twenty meters or so. If these rabbits are not kept in check, the crop the farmer grows here will simply become rabbit food. The farmer would be forced to raise his prices to compensate for the loss. If rabbits were allowed to do this on a mass scale, the price of our supermarket products would rise.
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These rabbits are collected for food, for my ferrets and people. This is a free range meat, that has lived a free life. These rabbits will be controlled even without me. By taking them myself, the meat is used. Ferreting is an environmentally friendly method of harvesting free range meat.
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For KZbin Review - This video is edited in a self explanatory way for all languages to understand. People under the age of 18 also practise ferreting and I aim to set a mature example. Contact between the animals is brief and is not the focus of the video. Rabbit dispatches are not shown. No blood or gore is present.

[@colinevans7134]

Loved rabbiting has a kid and love watching others doing it

[@lokisabriel]

Older ferret: Immediately goes into work mode once the collar goes on. Younger ferret: OMG we're outside it's playtime WEEE BOING BOING BOING

[@sergeysherba]

Тнгие sтогу. :D

[@alessi4249]

You have to love the little chuckles they do. Makes me smile every time, great video!

[@ZeusPolecat]

Thanks. Haha Leto gets very excited about the whole situation.

[@alecroberto1177]

Instablaster.

[@user-tk8vt3ft4p]

Put yourself in the rabbit's shoes since you are so happy run run😢😢😢😊

[@nigelhumphreysfsuk2833]

Such amazing footage love it

[@hvonsus5725]

your furry noodles are adorable

[@Erebus.666.]

I love that fuzzy at the end, when you put her by them five bunnies..."Wow,all these for me dad? Nice one!"

[@hebneh]

This is nature's way of dealing with zillions of rabbits being born constantly. Rabbits reproduce endlessly to insure that at least some will survive to adulthood; small carnivores, in turn, depend on a constant supply of rabbits to keep them alive.

[@drcherubkharbanda9362]

Why cant they just eat vegetables 😿

[@hebneh]

@@drcherubkharbanda9362 Because if there aren't carnivores eating rabbits, there will be WAY too many rabbits. Look up what happened in Australia when rabbits were introduced there, with no predators to eat them. It was a disaster of destruction from rabbits eating all the vegetation they could.

[@louisdavies8050]

Lol don’t remember nets and video cameras being part of nature.

[@liammaloney420]

Top stuff pal 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@gorgeboy2734]

Great stuff nice to see people still doing it 👍👍

[@ruger.22]

I used to go ferreting when I was younger it was brilliant. Especially the field nets you'd never know if the rabbit would run underneath them. The night vision cams in the Warren's are class 👌

[@thedesertrat]

Great job!

[@DavidSmith-sb7xi]

That was an absolute pleasure to watch, and so nice to see tame ferrets and how you are so at ease letting them run around, thought mine were tame. Hats off weel edited video.

[@mbahbendil]

Very cool, greetings from Indonesia my brother

[@MellyPellyz]

You have the best cat snakes♡

[@whippetrunner9698]

Ferrets

[@gansdummkopf1435]

shortlegged wolfs

[@youngpope3093]

I really love your channel!!! Thanks for sharing

[@gecjc]

Another great bit of footage, well done!

[@hernandezjorge5936]

Awesome hunting I like

[@lisacowan5694]

Love watching your ferrets

[@SweetPea1970]

watching for the ferrets. I love bunnies too though. Not sure how long I will be able to watch this one

[@liammaloney420]

Spot on this 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@JamesTHEKOIwhisperer123]

Well done mate just found this channel keep up the good work excellent video now my sons are after a few ferrets 👍👌

[@wykeishacraft6820]

Great video

[@user-sf9rn9yx5f]

Strong work ferret you can do it

[@alienabductor101]

Fantastic animals. Great hunting! 👍

[@goodperson7316]

Wow bro,😉😉😉👍👍

[@user-sf9rn9yx5f]

Good job the ferret

[@ruralpestcontrol]

That's one of the reasons I never go on my own, when you start to dig a rabbit out you can't watch every net or hole for rabbits bolting or ferrets coming out. Great video though 👍 you can tell the rabbits are wary of the camera in the hole

[@ZeusPolecat]

Thanks! Also behind the scenes I'm changing camera positions, settings, angles, batteries etc. It especially becomes a problem when the ferreting becomes hands on, like this outing did. Yeah the rabbits absolutely react to the cameras presence. No way around it really if I want to film a day out. I'm sure they would be fully aware of the foreign body even if I switched to night vision.

[@ruralpestcontrol]

@@ZeusPolecat Im looking at finding a camera I can attach to the ferret so you can get footage of what goes on right down in the warren, if at all possible 🤷‍♂️

[@ZeusPolecat]

@@ruralpestcontrol Tried it every year. I'm learning from past mistakes and once again I have high hopes but... I highly doubt with the current tech it will please me more than my current set up. One advantage I have this year is Leto seems more than happy to wear an awkward feeling collar/harness, as the others have objected to it. So at least I now have the ferret for the job...

[@johnsheppard1476]

@@ZeusPolecat I remember my mother told about her dad clearing up the field with his animal friend that he used to own and hunt with!And that is perhaps the only animal that can both unearth in several minutes and also outrun a hare!He actually tried clearing field with a huge male Siberian tiger Neron of hares!And those since they first met were Neron's pain in the butt:they were very exhausting to catch but delicious and closely resembling his favourite meal and his favourite toys,rabbits and bunnies(live only)-which he really loved to play with and devour alive,since in 6 months old he was beginning to get a hunting training course given to him by grandad! Anyway grandad had to give him an additional course to teach him to take down those!Obviously those were mostly hiding as well as rabbits,yet Neron didn't unearth those as those were given to him by grandad and mom,so couldn't get underground!And hares were obviously 99,9% of the time underground and that is how they fixed the problem:first of all as Neron couple of times unearthed foxes,he was not that hard to teach that,yet than grandad decided to apply his natural and guy i very strong repellent for lagomorphs that any cat has actually,scent marking!So he either peed in the hole and waited for the bitch to chase or unearthed them mechanically! So through the course of 3 days they got entire fridge full of meat,and ate a crap load of these too!

[@Renville80]

Zeus Polecat Maybe make some kind of housing that makes the camera look more like a rock so the digging buggers won’t be so wary.

[@IndigoVagrant]

Good work. I'm not a hunter, but I can appreciate the ethics and skill that go into your work. Very impressive, good hunting!

[@ytjulitroid9404]

You're the best :D

[@jasminemason1174]

Looks just like our Yishi boy. So funny to watch. They seem to be having a good time

[@eehfdee4818]

This is just great footage!

[@Anrufbeantworter]

A long time ago I also had ferrets. I got a brown one from a gardener, it knew how to hunt well and its victims always had bite wounds on the anus. An albino male I got from a city apartment, where it was only supposed to be a toy for the children. This ferret was lazy and did not walk the corridors of rabbits. But it smelled strongly and from the smell the rabbits fled and quickly went into the nets. My hunt was along the railroad tracks, the highways, in city parks, and cemeteries. In some places I could not kill the rabbits and had to collect them in a box. Some people were annoyed that I was catching the rabbits, other people wanted to see me more often because the rabbits were eating the plants in their garden. My goal was to prevent damage from the burrows of the rabbits. The rabbits came to me first in the freezer and then in the roasting oven. No other hunters had a problem with me and my ferrets.

[@noelfleming3567]

Rabbit stew😊😊

[@leodieslewis6968]

Beautiful landscape

[@ryangaming217tahunyanglalu2]

Cute weasel

[@h0m3st4r]

How did you get the cameras underground, anyway?

[@sandrapaola9675]

wow que bonito es estados unidos genial!!

[@nicolascasallasosorio9712]

F for the rabbits

[@motohunter2390]

Brilliant footage as always mate was they new kits them silver ferrets you got now in this video ?

[@ZeusPolecat]

Thanks. First season for the whiter one. The silver mitts seen plenty of work.

[@kalnayanchavan9784]

@@ZeusPolecat णबब

[@WabjetTSJmedia]

Nice hunt)

[@ZeusPolecat]

The last bit of footage from last winter. Thank you all for subscribing! The channel just past the 100,000 subscriber mark! I'll put a video together for it soon, as always I'm running a little late.

[@MstresVampy]

Grtz you've earned every bit.

[@EraVenator]

Love your vids, the scenery is so beautiful too.

[@elcholocachanilla7018]

Ferrets and mink are the same animals??

[@Cookk39]

@@elcholocachanilla7018 they are from the same family lol but u can not breed themtogether

[@christyricker8736]

Thank you for these. Your babies are BEAUTIFUL. When I was in college (approximately 1997), I loved coming home to the dooking of my big boy, Leopold. He was a fantastic ferret and I miss him dearly.

[@phishing822]

Hello, I'm 👍🔔🤟💗🎣

[@sakibmahamud3268]

Nice

[@user-zs4np2gg2p]

Good 😃😎👍

[@jamiearcher2124]

Another cracking video mate, how do you get the cameras down in the Warren? I cant wait to get out now!!

[@joeKisonue]

He has a trained turtle that places the cameras the day before.

[@maxhunter953]

Well trained pugs😁🤣😆

[@user-zs4np2gg2p]

Good 😀😀

[@FableGrey]

how amazing!

[@will9603]

How do you get those camera angles?

[@trickedouttech321]

Are your Ferrits trained to come to you with a clicker or another sound? I have by ferret come to me with a clicker so I never have to dig for them. I have not done it yet but I think Marten would be a great rabbit animal.

[@kevinantepara6246]

Good morning

[@tracoupdastick]

This is so satisfying

[@saintbourdoun7400]

Felicidades, se nota el conocimiento y el cuidado en la tecnica de caza.

[@decheneromain3464]

Bonjour Je voudrais savoir si les collier que tu mets à tes furet sont des collier de repérage ? Si oui quelle marque ? Sinon super vidéo

[@user-zm5ml2wq6w]

Блин, посмотрела ваши видео , и прям захотелось завести хорька для охоты) Очень у вас крутые и интересные ролики! За сегодня посмотрела кучу

[@user-jh6ft9zy9d]

Так потом надо голову откручивать кролику.

[@darrenpulleng2789]

How old are these 2,and they are both gills? Beautiful looking pair of them.

[@TheTRANSAT]

Hello, I see that your ferrets are equipped with tracking collars. Can you tell me where you found them?

[@DylanZombie]

@Zeus Polecat 3:51 I think I saw a flame trail from that first rabbit he’s so fast Also I have a question how do you kill the rabbits after caught in the net?

[@lewisevans4655]

Break their neck

[@elaineloira7036]

Like 🙋 Brasil love 🇧🇷

[@sergeysherba]

А что это за оранжевое устройство? Для поиска пустот? Или датчик тепла?

[@erikyakubovich1820]

Для поиска харька , у него на ошейнике датчик.

[@rosadioniciocaballero215]

El hurón al principio patada ninja

[@leltv3126]

I am a new subscribe :3

[@kuamthojchannel9756]

Nyobzoo tuajsaibkojlawm 💖

[@leeroyjenkins4477]

wow, find ich sehr interessant diese jagd methode, habs das erste mal beim mink man gesehen aber er wurde leider auf yt gesperrt. Sind die Kaninchen plagen ? Wie werden sie getötet ? Warum machen das nicht die Frettchen? Danke für die tollen Kamera winkel und Einsicht in die Jagd, echt interessant ! lg

[@m.esslinger4669]

Ja die Kaninchen sind eine Plage in diesem Masse, da sie unter anderem ihre Bauten auch auf Weiden machen, können sie für Nutztiere gefährlich werden. Dazu kommt noch daß durch eine Überpopulation und zu wenige vorhandene natürliche Prädatoren, Seuchen ausbrechen damit der Bestand sich einigermaßen natürlich reguliert, die aber wiederum ebenfalls für die Nutztiere gefährlich werden können, da Kaninchen sich sehr gerne, wie die Wanderratte auch, in menschlichen Kulturlandschaften aufhalten. Ist beim Fuchs genau dasselbe, Kulturfolger, nennt man solche Tiere auch. Die Kaninchen werden hier von Hand getötet, in dem ihnen das Genick gebrochen wird, dasselbe würde auch das Frettchen von selbst machen wenn es ein Kaninchen zu fassen bekäme. Warum es beim sogenannten Frettieren, wie man diese Jagdart nennt, darauf ankommt daß der Jäger es versucht zu meiden daß ein Frettchen ein Kaninchen im Bau tötet, hat der simple Grund daß ein Frettchen für seine Körpergröße einen ziemlich starken Biss hat und man sie dann nicht mehr so einfach von der Beute los bekommt. Das Andere was noch hinzu kommt ist: wenn ein Frettchen ein Kaninchen im Bau tötet und sich daran noch sättigt, kann es passieren daß dieser kleine Kobold noch ein Nickerchen im Bau hinlegt und nicht mehr so schnell daraus kommt. Also sind sogenannte Frettchenfinder/Baujagdsender eine ziemlich gute Absicherung sein tierischen Jagdfreund am Ende des Tages wieder nach Hause nehmen zu können.

[@Weezerr420]

12:40 i like how you put him on the mound of victory

[@Dragoneer]

Question: have you ever lost a ferret while doing this? Like has one ever got lost in a burrow or just decided not to come out for you?

[@ZeusPolecat]

Sometimes they can take a bit longer to come out, an hour is usually the longest. Only once did I wait all afternoon until dark before deciding to block the holes with the ferret inside. Went back first thing in the morning and opened a hole, she came straight out.

[@alexotts7245]

@@ZeusPolecat that must be horribly worrisome, I wouldn't be able to sleep

[@annazamilova7879]

Спасибо, интересно было узнать о таком способе борьбы с вредителями!

[@TheSergio1021]

How do you dispatch the rabbits so quickly?

[@ZeusPolecat]

I show it in one video. Video 9 I think it is

[@jacielmartinez3730]

Excelente cacería de conejos 👍

[@selattedong4150]

❤❤

[@bof_tony5637]

01:41 You seem to have two cute little flashlights lol

[@meganmccarron7679]

What cameras do you use mate

[@ekleonbualli5436]

More videos please

[@ZeusPolecat]

I’ll be able to film more soon, once winter comes around.

[@shmehfleh3115]

Seems like it'd be a good idea to put bells or something on the nets, so you don't miss when a rabbit gets caught in one.

[@giselleysushuronesylaosa]

I love you YYYYY BEBÉS!!!

[@plandy82]

Did you end up getting the ferret that got outside the boundary net and headed down the hill ????

[@ZeusPolecat]

Yeah, she appeared back within the boundaries by herself, had me worried for a bit. They have tracking collars on and don’t travel very fast.

[@jusgoddard]

@@ZeusPolecat Had me worried too!

[@maxcalibur5470]

0:01 Oop, bonk goes the Ferret

[@xxxtentacion.2475]

soy el comentario en español que buscabas, Jja

[@ascendien]

hay varios otros

[@shunteruchiha850]

Yo tambien

[@76Hamburg]

Gruß aus Hamburg ✋👍 Super Bruder 👍👍👍

[@crazysye1]

They like so cute when I just look at there nose and eyes 😭😭

[@ytjulitroid9404]

you are the best, upload more videos please and I would like you to make a video of your house and your ferrets and your 100,000 subscribers board :D

[@Skeptik781]

Круто. А как вы камеры в норе расставляли?

[@megaman9903]

Хорьки ставили)

[@izaqueusousa2938]

Brasil é nós

[@Prosmotren]

А второй совсем убежал или вернулся? Я волнуюсь! And the other ran away or returned? I'm worried!

[@ZeusPolecat]

I got her back, don't worry.

[@user-yu4mo6ok5u]

Супер 👍👍👍

[@drawwgor8374]

Настырный труженник

[@nancyvictoria3115]

Está muy bueno ese documental que precioso está q lindo es ese animal

[@kz8255]

Como le hizo para poner las camaras en las madrigueras? 🤔

[@arields6606]

tambien me pregunto lo mismo

[@antoniovazquez6026]

Que cultivos, si veo puro pasto viejo

[@kesasdaed6464]

What do you do to baby rabbits? you snap their neck also?

[@ZeusPolecat]

I don't hunt during the summer while the rabbits are breeding. If I did catch a baby rabbit, I'd check it for injuries, then release (hopefully without the famer seeing). If it was injured, yes It would become ferret food.

[@vedman8430]

Hello,which country is this?

[@jonathancleaves5714]

Is this in Abergavenny South Wales??

[@janabdul9266]

Damn 100k already

[@user-gw5rc2xx7s]

👍👍👍

[@tythompson8807]

Hey where did you get your ferret from

[@kefrenzamarron7344]

Nice video men i like your videos so much... Oh!! and i have a question, how much you buy your ferrets?? it is curiosity

[@newmexicodustbunnies7147]

WTF!😍 I had never hearf of ferreting. This is so cool. I love learning about new ways to hunt food. Great videos! Your ferret is gorgeous 😍😍😍

[@lohdanasva6252]

Were your ferrets afraid, at first ? Of the bunnies or just going out in general ? My male ferret is literally afraid of everything when he's outside (I only walk them, I don't want to take the risk of seeing them killed by rabbits and well I'm vegetarian so... The mouses and chicken will have to do). Anyway great editing (I won't say great video because it kinda breaks my heart to see those bunnies dead lmao).

[@ZeusPolecat]

I wouldn't say they are scared of going down rabbit holes. Ferrets can be afraid of being exposed above ground, out in open areas. They feel more confident above ground when they know where a nearby hidey hole is, so they can run back to it if they feel the need to. All my ferrets have had the drive to engage with the rabbits, but the jills certainly always treat them with some level of caution. Apollo being bigger and stronger was more likely to just go wading in guns blazing. None of mine have ever been injured and I rarely hear of ferrets getting injured by rabbits. Glad you enjoyed the editing!

[@lohdanasva6252]

@@ZeusPolecat Thank you for answering ! Maybe I should try to install something for my ferret to come back to then. I was really surprised by his behavior because his sister is enjoying herself so much outside. And (obviously) I don't know anything about hunting, all I heard was "ferrets can be killed by bunnies" so after that it was a 'no-no' for them XD

[@ZeusPolecat]

Rather than walk mine, I take them to the middle of a field in a cat crate then just open it. They don't travel very fast so I just supervise as they explore etc. They will initially run back to the open crate until they feel safe enough to venture further.

[@lohdanasva6252]

@@ZeusPolecatReally ? My girl would make a b-line to God knows where lmao but I'll get a crate out for the male, that's a good idea to reassure him, instead of him running back to the door. Thank you ^^

[@ZeusPolecat]

@@lohdanasva6252 Leto does seem unusually confident above ground. All down to the ferret I guess. They are usually happier when they are in a tight space, in which the danger can't be much bigger than them. Their body shape has evolved to spend time in tunnels, to protect their core from the sides and allow them to have their weapons at the front. Wild polecats are prey in nature too. Above ground they are at risk of large mammals and birds of prey etc. The only worry for me is dogs off the lead...

[@chinoxdgaming8969]

Buen video bro 👍😀

[@siantobachanel007]

inilah pemburuan paling simpel

[@ericw9860]

Bros snapping necks on KZbin lolll my mannnnn