Drop off in rabbit numbers.

[HallyButt]

Hasn’t been shoot able numbers here for nearly 10 years, as soon as they start to build up rhd wipes them out, a couple of dozen on the 900 acres next door used to be hundreds… not helped by my cocker pegging one yesterday …

 

[Tyla]

Barely any around me in Sussex. I wouldn't shoot one know if I was asked to. If I see a pair on my place I immediately try and reduce predators in the local area to give them a chance. Doesn't seem to help much though. On the upside there are more hares around there have been in decades.

Its sad really, I grew up and learnt a huge amount hunting rabbits. Its going to be hard for my boy to learn the same things so easily

 

[dryan]

Barely any around me in Sussex. I wouldn't shoot one know if I was asked to. If I see a pair on my place I immediately try and reduce predators in the local area to give them a chance. Doesn't seem to help much though. On the upside there are more hares around there have been in decades.

It’s sad really, I grew up and learnt a huge amount hunting rabbits. Its going to be hard for my boy to learn the same things so easily

I’m a fairly handy rifle shot these days and I swear that learning to shoot rabbits off sticks in my 20s trained me well- hope they come back in numbers by the time my son needs to learn rifle handling.

 

[nightcrow]

RHD has pretty well wiped out rabbits on a lot of ground in Mid Wales...pockets are still there but nowhere near the numbers we used to have.

Same here on my patch in SE Cornwall.

 

[LuckyEddie]

I travel around Scotland with my work.

The roads that I travelled in my youth no longer have rabbits as the main road kill, in fact when I travelled some of the roads last week there were none.

Instead there were more badgers lying dead on the road side.

I also spoke to Simon Whitehead at the Scone Gamefair in 2024.
He reckoned the rabbit population had dropped from 60M to around 20M.

 

[Nickb]

He reckoned the rabbit population had dropped from 60M to around 20M.

I wonder if they will ever recover to those days ?

 

[stevekennedy]

Am very lucky still got healthy amounts of rabbits on few hill farms 3 smallish fields worth

What are you shooting them
With hand grenades ? lol

 

[finbar]

17 hornet class round
Good out to 250/300 yards mint on the crow family

 

[Overlay]

Still finding some good sustainable numbers, but a couple of farms still haven’t bounced back hopefully find some new small pockets later in the year

 

[Sniper308]

Wiped my surrounding area 10years ago. Still not recovered

 

[Rob-E]

I travel around Scotland with my work.

The roads that I travelled in my youth no longer have rabbits as the main road kill, in fact when I travelled some of the roads last week there were none.

Instead there were more badgers lying dead on the road side.

I also spoke to Simon Whitehead at the Scone Gamefair in 2024.
He reckoned the rabbit population had dropped from 60M to around 20M.

The badgers could be something to do with Calving season…

I see more deer as road kill now more than anything else.

 

[wboulter]

My permission is devoid of them there used to be hundreds of them on there not anymore

 

[kenbro]

I think it is more likely that the disease has spread from France, via the usual vectors to be honest.

What are the disease spreading vectors you speak of bringing bad things from France.
KB.

 

[JonR]

What are the disease spreading vectors you speak of bringing bad things from France.
KB.

Game dealer vehicles for one.

 

[Ratel]

Just started to re appear in numbers in the village ( not on our estate just adjacent fields). Will just have to make sure we keep a few but not a large number should they invade us.

 

[Sunrise Stalker]

Rabbit numbers in decline but hare numbers increasing?

 

[tgb]

Still millions in North Yorkshire, mixy present but only seems to take the cream off!

 

[Bowland blades]

Still millions in North Yorkshire, mixy present but only seems to take the cream off!

North Yorks is a big area and those bunnies are spread out , much of it will be without any Rabbits at all . VHD and Mixy take more than shooters and ferreters anyhow.

 

[tgb]

North Yorks is a big area and those bunnies are spread out , much of it will be without any Rabbits at all . VHD and Mixy take more than shooters and ferreters anyhow.

Certainly in the Yorkshire dales and NY moors is plagued with them, mixy seems to come in every year when the weather cools off round sept Oct time, like I said previously it takes the cream off but never seems to have a big hit on the population

 

[shakey jake]

Certainly in the Yorkshire dales and NY moors is plagued with them, mixy seems to come in every year when the weather cools off round sept Oct time, like I said previously it takes the cream off but never seems to have a big hit on the population

I wouldnt take much notice of him, its half nonsense half lies normally