Anyone ever noticed

[Night_Runner 0]

In smaller feilds you tend to get smaller hares, where as bigger feilds you tend to get bigger Hares,Years of mooching both day and night ive noticed that this is the mostly the case, We have some large open arible feilds local and then some grass paddocky feilds the Hares on the arable are always a bigger size to those tat live on the smaller feilds or grass paddocks.

 

Would be intresting to know if anyone else finds the same.

Edited February 26, 2010 by Night_Runner

[Night_Runner 0]

?? Come on i want to here what you coursing and mooching boys think.

[watchman 256]

iv seen quite a few hares in the smaller paddocks and fields around here,to be honest not seen any difference in the size of them,although we all know they can vary a bit,only what iv seen daytime mooching about

[Bosun11 537]

If that conclusion is based over many years and many hares, then i'd say the hare population local to you is an exception. From my expierience, where you find a certain hare seat during the day, doesn't mean the hare is bound only to the field it's 'main' or prefered seat is on. Hares do a fair bit of travelling during the night to find the best grub on certain fields. They'd starve otherwise. Though certain hares prefer different types of fields to make their seats, some on larger others smaller, just as some prefer paddock to arable.

[J Darcy 5,871]

I have seen lots of smaller (adult) winter hares on the big fields of lincolnshire. I would say that the hare is the same average weight throughout england. From what i have seen. The biggest hare i have ever weighed was about 8lb i think....

[gonetoearth 5,144]

all ways thought the hares at the waterloo cup were bigger

than the hares in linconshire , oxfordshire , and at swaffam

talking to a Lady who's long gone Mrs Fitz used to say the altcar

hare was a true challenge , she never went lamping though

Edited February 26, 2010 by gonetoearth

[Bosun11 537]

all ways thought the hares at the waterloo cup were bigger

than the hares in linconshire , oxfordshire , and at swaffam

talking to a Lady who's long gone Mrs Fitz used to say the altcar

hare was a true challenge , she never went lamping though

May be cause the grub for 'em might be better around here GTE .

I'd say Altcar hares were a true challenge because of the ground they were on. The Withens was a real tester for the novice greyhound.

Thing is, hares were 'brought in' for the cup and relised a week or two before the event, so unless they'd ran well and lived to see a next year, I should think they were a true test and as for size... being 'travelled' hares, size wouldn't come in to it

[gonetoearth 5,144]

all ways thought the hares at the waterloo cup were bigger

than the hares in linconshire , oxfordshire , and at swaffam

talking to a Lady who's long gone Mrs Fitz used to say the altcar

hare was a true challenge , she never went lamping though

May be cause the grub for 'em might be better around here GTE .

I'd say Altcar hares were a true challenge because of the ground they were on. The Withens was a real tester for the novice greyhound.

Thing is, hares were 'brought in' for the cup and relised a week or two before the event, so unless they'd ran well and lived to see a next year, I should think they were a true test and as for size... being 'travelled' hares, size wouldn't come in to it

in the days of big Stewart , and the flatmans bosun i asked that very

question the big fella said they were long netted down in Linc's

and were far smaller , old Ted flatman said he and his brother

used to be sent down pre ww2 to supervise the netting but only

in years when hare numbers were short , both always said true alcar

hare were bigger in stature than brought in hares , ,

Edited February 26, 2010 by gonetoearth

[blacktabs 3]

Ive found hares smaller on damp ground the biggest ive seen were out of woods and round experimental farms atb

Edited February 27, 2010 by blacktabs

[all.rounder 3]

the fields over here are a lot smaller than the fields in England.but i haven't noticed any different in the size of the hares

[richie198 28]

i think the irish brown hair is bigger than any in england

and faster