Microchipping of ferrets supported by States vet
ANIMAL owners have called for ferrets to be microchipped as further reports have come in of birds being killed.
Three more incidents have been reported since the Guernsey Press covered an attack in which Peter Fletcher and Martyn Courbaron lost 29 French partridges and four turkey poults, worth around £500, to a ferret.
Philip Tostevin was pleased that last year his son, who was four at the time, did not collect eggs from their chickens one morning.
Mr Tostevin went to his animals, near Bordeaux, and found eight chickens had been decapitated.
He will not keep chickens again until he knows the area is clear of ferrets.
Paul Arnold also lost 14 pheasants in July in the Braye du Valle area and caught eight ferrets following the incident.
Sarah Brouard lost more than 25 chickens in four separate attacks and caught a ferret.
States veterinary officer David Chamberlain said that anyone who is a victim of these attacks can call him.
He said that if microchipping was introduced it would be voluntary in the first instance, but it would help reunite ferrets with their owners if found in the wild.
'It would be a huge step in the right direction,' he said.
