South Somerset Ferreters - a great family day out hunting rabbits
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- Опубликовано: 16 фев 2012
- Like ferrets and lurchers? You will love the South Somerset Ferreters. Where other people get together in shopping centres or leisure parks, here is a group of families who like nothing better than to meet up in the great British countryside with kids and picnics, and bolt rabbits to longdogs. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 105. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain105
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Why hunt rabbits?
Rabbits are a major agricultural pest, costing the British economy an estimated £100 million a year*. More than half of this figure is accounted for by damage to agricultural crops, with winter wheat, barley and oats being the most vulnerable. In terms of annual yield, a loss of 1% per rabbit per hectare (2.5 acres) has been recorded but overall yields can be reduced by up to 20%. Rabbits also graze on pasture, impacting on newly sewn areas, reducing available grass for livestock and the yield of crops cut for silage.
Wild rabbits burrow under roads, railways and through archaeological sites, causing subsidence and other damage to buildings.
They also contaminate the soil with their urine and droppings, so nothing but weeds can survive. In addition, rabbits chew through the bark of trees, killing nursery stock or young saplings and preventing the natural regeneration of woodland.
A Government survey in 1995 put the UK rabbit population at 37.5 million. This number is thought to have dramatically increased. Farmers and landowners now have a statutory responsibility to manage rabbit populations on their land, to prevent them causing damage to neighbouring properties.
*(Natural England 2007) 
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Nothing better than the sight of a lurcher behind its quarry! Video disliked by 172 people who don't understand anything about pest control and conservation go hug a tree or something... thank you please
good to see dogs being used for what they were bred for.
Dementi asi máte rádi zabíjení co?
Miroslav Kotrys i meant the whippet, a sporting dog, was bred to catch small game. i had a german shorthaired pointer, and i hunted quail with her.
It's a Lurcher.
Great we need more groups like this. Brilliant way to introduce kids to the wonderful world of field sports
how to introduce kids to animal abuse
Not a mobile phone in sight - wonderful!
Nice video and commentary.
great stuff, love ferreting, nice to see you all out
the old fashond way is the best ........ what a good job ...... your dogs look so happy ...
wow....very interesting....so different from how we hunt rabbits in the US!! pretty cool!!
great bit of ferriting
Ferreting is mint I luv it 😝
Great video, would love to see more ferreting videos
Nice work. I'd love to try ferreting.
thank you jaf for ur reply can't wait for ur next video
Great sport keep it up guys.
2:24 Interesting seeing the trappers break the neck. I remember watching a vid on how to properly break or stretch a rabbit. Seeing it applied is something else.
I’m now living in Somerset and ex hunt service. Got few ferrets and lurchers
Would be keen to get out with them as always but more fun in a gang.
I also hunt Harris hawks over ferrets.
Hunters of Britain on facebook are making a documentary the side of training a working dog, being out in the field in all weathers for that first catch, the love and respect that almost all hunters share with the country side and British wild life, i want to show the passion and heart that goes into this lifestyle...
if you would like to know more, take part in the documentary or even become part of the team please leave me a message and i will get back to you straight away.
THE BUNNY LOVERS ARE ANNOYING! You all think rabbits coursing is cruel. Yet couldn't give a shit about the sheep going hungry. Because there's no grazing. This is my living.
I bet you wouldn't be complaining if it was rats they where killing.
The irronic thing is. Most of these people are pro abution and think nothing of killing a human life in utero.
You are so right and you put a huge smile on my face. All those complaining here have once done other inhumane things themselves like abortion, hurting other people's feelings, cheating, eating animals that they themselves didn't slay. They all need to shut up and take a good look in the mirror. Love your comment, really :)
I love rabbits I don't like seeing them die but I know it's life and there has to be something higher in the food chain
Reagan Alexander qrt yhnn
Nothing at all wrong with hunting, and I am a devout animal lover.
well done you blokes!
Louie looks to be having a fantastic time...lol
Thanks for the video...Some of the best meat your family could have at dinner.
cheers
I once heard someone ask a child where milk comes from and the child thought milk came from Tescos , so what better way to teach a child than to take them out and teach them the truth .
vous avez passé une bonne journée, vous avez des chiens extra bon civet !
That's good eatin'!
abouslite cracking video the best way to spend a Sunday morning can u tell me wat way the lurchers are bread nice brace of lurchers
I'm not sure to be honest , they belong to a friend who we haven't been out with for a long time , I'm sure one is a bedlington cross , hope that helps , jaf
How else would you suggest they do this then as it's a needed form of pest control.
It's life .
Can u set up a border collie x lurcher to hunt out rabbits... Plz reply ...
If they uses guns they can't sell the rabbit or it lowers the pay of the rabbit... Can I train my border collie x larcher its only 7 weeks old 2 hunt out rabbit plz reply need help
i shal teach all my friends in B.C to do this
Hi i heard if you stomp above the rabbit burrow the rabbits will make a run for it.. is this true?
No, it makes it harder to bolt them and often results in a ferret laying up
+cathal “cathalmire” Devlin nope, they'll just get scared and sit tight
More like nature doing its thing than sport.
Can you imagine going to work everyday and something destroying your work and livelihood everyday costing you hundreds if not thousands of pounds per year , what if you had to constantly repair damage to your work or property and your own cost , the cost of producing food in this country is massive so by controlling any vermin that adds to the cost has to be controlled
i didnt know rabbits eat sheep
All rabbits caught are processed and sold for human or animal consumption , ferreting is a very effective and thorough form of vermin control which has been in practice for hundreds of years , if this or other videos of animal dispatch offends then I can only suggest you choose another topic to view
Pretty close...
you guys would like my whippet he is fucking insane hahah
0:55
impressive. Americans need to learn how to do this.
Would love to do this in the USA but it is illegal. I feed my ferrets a raw die this would be much cheaper than buying rabbits.
For all the anti's out there, taking away peoples right to hunt with dog's, ferrets and other traditional methods is killing the skills that allowed our race to get to where it is. death is humane and swift and the families involved look after their animals better than most "pet" owners. Everyone is entitled to their own beliefs but calling people sadists and alike just shows the narrow mindedness of yourselves and and that you think that yours is the only opinion that matters. In that you are wrong. When the lights go out feel free to knock on my door to ask for the food I am able to catch with the skills I've learned and passed on to my kids, you will promptly be told to bugger off but at least you will have an appreciation of the respect the hunting community shows its quarry and boundaries. p.s there will be traps by my door
Smoking when feretting
0:99
ha im from nz and i play rugby and johna lomo died this yeqr
17 Rabbits at 2 quid a pop, hardly covers the diesel getting there.
I wonder how long they were out????? Could push that number myself easily with a dozen nets, ferrets and my whippet.
Not about the money.
You are being ripped off for those rabbits they cost up to £5
Rabbits are a huge problem in the UK. This is actually a kinder death for the rabbits than poisoning which is the method of extermination since live coursing ended. The people against the hunting don't think about the hours and days of agonizing death the rabbits suffer from poisoning vs the seconds before a quick neck break in coursing and hunting. Also, when the rabbits die from poison, their carcasses are left in the open for other animals to eat. Those animals then consume the poison and die a slow painful death. Personally, I'd rather be the rabbit that dies quickly and cleaning rather than from poison.
Sorry you feel this way and have such a narrow view of the World. I am sorry for the rabbits you have die a slow agonizing death by poison and for all of the other animals that will die the same way from eating the poisoned rabbits.
Elizabeth Bryson Vyvraždování určite rasi nebo druhu je podobné SS.!!!!!
I take it you've never actually hunted before if you think every shot is 100% clean kill?
Waw
what computer and id like to know who suffered because thats the stupidest thing ive ever heard
Hi go coursing im a gypsy are you
I dont think bugs bunny would like this
its nature, gtf over it
awkward how I'm a vegetarian...
ni n brillo correr liebre asi cercadas ylos perros ya saben dode va a salir mala lacaceria
This is a family day out ????????????????????
So why is someone else killing your food for you so much better?
The way the dog killed those rabbits was so far from cruelty its funny.
A quite bit to the neck was an instant death!
My cat catches birds and torments them a million times worth than what these rabbits suffered, and my cat does it for the hell of it where as these rabbits are a pest.
But not living in the country side you don't get to see what pests do, so have a false sense of what nature is/does.
Wow so awesome I'm kidding how rude they did nothing wrong I have two bunny's shame on y'all y'all are so rude the suffer THEY HAVE TO GO THROUGH WHAT IF A DOG JUST CAME UP AND KILLED U IF SOME DOG WAS ATTACKING YOU ID FILM IT SHAME ON U
And some people consider rabbits as pets, just like you do the ferrets! Quite sad to see them killed; just like your ferrets.
dont you eat or use anything that comes from animals then, food, soap, leather products............?
It is cruel but yknow what's crueler? Cows that are produced SOLELY as a meat source, pigs and chickens that are only bred to be sent to the slaughter to then be put on grocery shelves. They go through a lot of torture and cruelty in factories. If everyone had to just hunt for themselves for meat the world would be a little humaner. This isn't inhumane, do you see where this is? In the "country" of the UK where more than likely every part is used or pretty close to it. There is no drawn out death or torture, those rabbits aren't in danger of being extinct and quite the opposite damage crops, damage fields which in the long run prevent herds from grazing which isn't good for the herds. Everything has it's place, not meat factories.
+cubomania3 If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
Raquel Bermejo fuck off😂
these are rabbits. we have been killing them for many purposes for hundreds if not thousands of years
FEO EL PERRO
SO MEAN
I was out to dinner with my girlfriend and her mum and whilst perusing the menu I remarked " FRESH RABBIT!". mum threatened to walk out and never speak to me again if I ordered it. Is that how you britts operate or is it just people from KENT?.
I think hunting is a joke unless its used for eating and eating only, no animal should be used to wipe you feet on when your shoes are wet
GOD entrusted man with the care of all HIS animals... One day we will have to answer for our treatment of them too!!
People kill rabbits because they are vermin. Duh.
its hardly sport when the rabbits haven't even got a sporting chance!! i think you are all rather sad, you not got anything better to do?!!....
Yes, lovely family day out, showing your children how it is right to cruelly, inhumanly and disgustingly take an innocent animals life, I'll invite my nan next time
The narrator is just talking it up for show because he is trying to be entertaining. They're not actually trying to compete like a sport they're legitimately trying to get rid of pests.
This is freaking cruel!
I was wrong to post this and I give my apologies. Sure, dogs have a better chance of catching AND killing than a gun. However, this 'sport' Is still a sick, unnecessary one. There's no need to turn it into some game.
I cannot view using animals to exterminate other animals as being a "sport".
killing animals are cruel
Cruel
disturbing that people get off from being cruel to animals. Different matter if a wild predator takes a rabbit but these people actually get a hard on seeing their dogs tear an animal apart. I worry for the kids in this video.
Rave Snave the dog doesn't tear the animal apart if it did they wouldn't be able to eat it. The dog quickly kills the rabbit and if it doesn't the owner will kill it swiftly and humanely. Have you ever seen a slaughterhouse where cows and pigs are killed? You have no idea how cruel them places can be. They don't get off on watching the dog kill the rabbit it is what must be done so that townies can eat their beef and lamb and mutan.
its cruel its not sport it evil
You need to get out more, Come shooting with me, i'll show you the real world
its sick and only sick people would like this so called sport
Is sick not to want to do it. Only Weirdos and freaks dont want to go shooting
its cruel these are wild animals and its humans how invented hunting farm animal are humanly killed. not ripped apart alive like these fluffy bunny's
Mike Wilkinson lmao nice one
this is just as bad as fox hunting the ripping them apart this is sport it just sick it should be made illegal to do this no animal disservice that kind of treatment
even though wolves naturally rip their prey to pieces, surly rabbits would like to have a natural death instead of being hit by a car, and the rabbit has a natural ability to escape dogs, ferrets... ect
Food Chain mate