mixy rabbits

[graniteman 0]

Hi all, On one of my permissions there has been a sudden upsurge in rabbits with mixy. There was no sign of it earlier in the year, now every time i go out i see at least a couple of them with it .

Is it going to ruin a lovely shoot ? what if anything will stop it spreading ? If a doe is carrying young when she gives birth are the newborn rabbits infected ?

I have been told that mixy is spread in the burrows and can lay dormant for twenty years, Any views/thoughts on this ?

[Lee85 44]

i dont know much about it but fortuante enough to of not seen one round here as yet

[woodchip 2]

ive seen a few scatterd bunnies on my permission

[The one 8,459]

Its getting warmer thats when you usually see it spreading

 

I usually kill all the myxi rabbits i see hoping to halt the spread but for every one you see there might be two down a burrow

 

If a doe affected with myxi gives birth to young these should have some degree of antibodies

 

I dont know about laying dormant for twenty years but the fleas lie's in the nest that the doe make's but when they move out surely the food supply stops ?

[stealthy1 3,964]

Only a few mixy rabbits on my patch at the minute, but that normally changes when the young rabbits start to move around looking for new pastures.

[billbroon 9]

A shot 2 mixi rabbits this morning one a right big ane, the other was just a young wan. A hate seeing the young ones with it.

[Deker 3,478]

Hi all, On one of my permissions there has been a sudden upsurge in rabbits with mixy. There was no sign of it earlier in the year, now every time i go out i see at least a couple of them with it .

Is it going to ruin a lovely shoot ? what if anything will stop it spreading ? If a doe is carrying young when she gives birth are the newborn rabbits infected ?

I have been told that mixy is spread in the burrows and can lay dormant for twenty years, Any views/thoughts on this ?

 

 

Mixxy has been around for about 60 years, if you can find a way of stopping its spread you will probably get a Nobel Prize!!

 

It does not lie dorment for up to 20 years, if it did ALL the bunnies would have been wiped out years ago.

 

It is spread by the flea and close contact, it therefore stands to reason that it is primarily spread down the burrows.

 

And yes..odds are it will ruin your shoot, if you have the fox too (who hasn't) then that could finish it off altogether, but there are usually enough survivors and newcomers that most shoots recover within a year or two! No set pattern though, it can sometimes pass right through a shoot with seemingly few casualties.

ATB

[billbroon 9]

A dont know if this is correct but was mixi a man made disease that was meant to help controll rabbit numbers years ago. thanks

[Deker 3,478]

A dont know if this is correct but was mixi a man made disease that was meant to help controll rabbit numbers years ago. thanks

 

 

Without going into reams of detail and definition and clarification surfice to say the answer is ....YES!!!

 

But if you must this will help.....

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myxomatosis

[billbroon 9]

Thanks for that deker, good bit reading.

[davyt63 1,845]

i knew there was a reason why we hate!! the french so much?

 

Myxomatosis was unintentionally introduced to France by the bacteriologist Dr. Paul Armand Delille, following his use of the virus to rid his private estate of rabbits in June 1952 (controversially, he inoculated two of the rabbits on his land). Within four months the virus had spread 50 km; Armand suspected this was due to poachers taking infected rabbits from his estate. By 1954, 90% of the wild rabbits in France were dead. The disease spread throughout Europe. It reached the UK in 1953, apparently without human action

regards

 

davy

[RaiderBoy 19]

i knew there was a reason why we hate!! the french so much?

 

Myxomatosis was unintentionally introduced to France by the bacteriologist Dr. Paul Armand Delille, following his use of the virus to rid his private estate of rabbits in June 1952 (controversially, he inoculated two of the rabbits on his land). Within four months the virus had spread 50 km; Armand suspected this was due to poachers taking infected rabbits from his estate. By 1954, 90% of the wild rabbits in France were dead. The disease spread throughout Europe. It reached the UK in 1953, apparently without human action

regards

 

davy

 

 

i read this earilier on wiki too but how can it cross a 20 mile gap over the sea without human action. i would love too see a infected rabbit swim 20 miles

 

Raiderboy

[jamestwo 0]

i know of game keepers catching mixy rabbits and releaseing them on other parts where rabbits are troublesome it makes their job easier

[the Verminator 0]

mixi spreads by fleas and other blood sucking things such as mozzies, so there is no way you can stop it spreading, fortunatly they do seem to become imune to it after a while, at some point you will shoot some with mixi 'scars' on them.

[petehu7 0]

As stated by others mixi is spread by biting flying insects a pregnant doe wont pass the disease on to her unborn young but as soon as the doe dies they will die anyway.

Any young rabbits that are still suckling will starve to death when mum dies.