Rabbit numbers
- Thread starter Beagle boy
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Belta them not seen any cross ones on the farms a got
My mate has his own washer repair business he likes a rabbit or two so a normaly drop a few of for him
He did a lil job for a mate of his would not take any payment lad new he liked a rabbit so went to granger market & pay £11
My mate has his own washer repair business he likes a rabbit or two so a normaly drop a few of for him
He did a lil job for a mate of his would not take any payment lad new he liked a rabbit so went to granger market & pay £11
I've watched railway company put some down, letting them out of a carrying box. I get that Warren's could undermine the trackbed, but the disease then fans out across the local area.
Im lucky that a few of my perms have healthy numbers, one or two have too many. A few have literally not a single one.
Smellydog
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Highly illegal. The rule of law my arse.
Black rabbits occur completely naturally within a wild population. No "cross" involved. I forget what the typical ratio of black:normal is off the top of my head.
Yes these recessive colour morphs are completely naturally occurring to do with the genetics of agouti fur colouration. They generally occur in areas of inbreeding etc, isolated populations of high density. When you start spotting them generally it is an indication of population issues, and in my experience there will often be a disease collapse soon after.
On my permissions up north I'm over run with rabbits, on one permission I took approximately 70 in two sessions, each session was maybe 3-4 hours
I've got a permission up here in the north where I took approximately 70 rabbits of in two short visits, I have never had a lull in the action I just need to keep plugging away at them as they just keep coming.
I did a YT videos of these two trips
Way back when I was a boy living by the sea, there was a length of cliff beside the railway that was cut off by, obviously, the line and sea on one side, and human habitation on the other. There was a substantial number of black rabbits, as well as a few ginger ones. They were there for years until Mixy went through them like a dose of salt. I don't believe there are any rabbits there now.
10 years ago our rabbit catcher was taking 8 or 9 hundred a year off this estate and similar off other local farms. He got them down so I could manage them with a couple of nights lamping. VHD occurred, rabbits vanished. Just occasionally see 4 or 5 so no control at present. Had a few in our Churchyard for 3 months, now they've disappeared.
Beagle boy
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Do you have a link to the videos mate?
Beagle boy
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Not a problem mate
Not such a daft idea at all.....In parts of Galloway some of the keepers would release a couple of black rabbits to see what effect myxomatosis was having on the population. You still get occasional throwbacks appearing.Well thanks for that gents
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For years when a did come a cross them a thought some bar stewards let there pet go
Mind you, if you want to see places with plenty of rabbits ......you need to go to the far NW wastelands - plenty around there this year
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