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Sparklepeeps
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Location: Cheshire
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 Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 7:59 pm Post subject: What is the difference between a Stoat & a Weasel? |
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They both look the same to me!  |
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Magpie
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Location: Norfolk
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| Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 8:05 pm Post subject: |
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Hi, easiest way to tell is by size;
Weasel looks like two mice joined together. Very fast.
Stoat is more like a small ferret. Inquisitive.
Another give away is that Stoats have a black tip to the tail.
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Sparklepeeps
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| Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 8:08 pm Post subject: |
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| the size of two mice! Are they still a danger to chickens at that size? |
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Sparklepeeps
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Location: Cheshire
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| I think we must have a few Stoats locally then, I have seen about 3 of them run over. It took me ages to work out what they might be... for a while, I thought they were just some non-descript part of some other road kill. |
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Magpie
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Location: Norfolk
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We have Stoats and Weasels on the nursery and I have not yet had any problems with the chooks....but we have loads of rabbits which must provide the stoats with plenty. I still have to try and control the rabbits though 
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bronskibeat
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Location: Clawddnewydd
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| Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 11:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Magpie wrote: | Weasel looks like two mice joined together. Very fast.
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That conjures up some great images......
Weasels look like furry ginger pencils crossing the ground/road but stoats are much bigger with a black tip to their tail. Stoats can turn white in the winter and are then called ermine. I think weasels will take on small chickens given the chance but not sure if they will tackle a large breed chicken. They will certainly take chicks if the opportunity arises. They are beautiful animals and a joy to watch. We had a nest of stoats down the road in a stone wall and they used to play in the road when it was quiet. I often saw them whilst out hacking and they were so funny. I also saw a weasel a couple of times scooting along the outside of the polytunnels during the summer a couple of years back but havent seen one since. |
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Itsybitsy
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Location: Leicestershire
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When you need to remember weasels are the wee ones!
I've had a weasel get into my broody hut and kill young chicks and take them away so there's no trace, I just happened to find a head on the ground one morning . . . The wire was ordinary 1" chicken wire, it has fine mesh on it now.
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jaydee67
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Weasels are weaselly recognised coz stoats are stoatally different!
Sorry - I'll get my coat! |
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CP
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Twigs
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Julia you totally stole my joke!!!
I'll have to go with
Whats the difference between a buffalo and a bison?
You can't wash you hands in a buffalo |
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bronskibeat
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Location: Clawddnewydd
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sasha.p
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Location: gwent
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im glad i read this thread bonskibeat you have just answered a question i had for years but never found an answer to.me and my dh was coming home one evening from a meal out and came up the lane past our field on the way home and we had two badgers and a what i thought was an albino ferret or somthing that run out in front of our truck i tried looking it up on the net but never found anything and it has puzzled me all this time  we are also near a river and where it was at the top of the bank that leads down to the river if my memory serves me right it was pretty quick as it scarpered off down the bank towards the river i always wondered what sort of animal it was now im pretty sure it was a stoat  |
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Old Man of the 80's
Joined: 22 Apr 2006
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Location: Wittering, UK
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| Well that's both my jokes expired then!! It's the main reason I read the thread to try and get one of them in. |
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Attila The Hen
Joined: 19 Sep 2005
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| jaydee67 wrote: | Weasels are weaselly recognised coz stoats are stoatally different!
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and Otters are otterly different!
hoho.
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Attila The Hen
Joined: 19 Sep 2005
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| Twigs wrote: | I'll have to go with
Whats the difference between a buffalo and a bison?
You can't wash you hands in a buffalo |
In a similar vein:
What's the difference between a Cormorant and a Shag?
You don't have a cigarette after a Cormorant.
boom boom!
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