Rabbit colours

[devvo 0]

Ive just been thinking, how often do you lads get different colord bunnys and what colors do you get

 

in my short ferreting time (4years - only 17) weve had 2 ginger and 2 black ones no other colours though, also has anyone had a white rabbit?

 

[ferreterno1 0]

ive been told about albino rabbits and hares, but never seen any, but i have caught three blue rabbits and bolted and lost a black also seen ginger ones,

here is a picture of a blue skin

[COMPO 54]

this topic comes up quiet often :11:

 

when i lived back in yorkshire quiet a few black ones (especially from one wood on a particular farm) down south now had a few gingers and two blue one's also had them with white blazes/patches , the butcher once accused me of stealing them from hutches :11: he still bought them mind

 

heres one of the blueish rabbits

[DEL 5]

last friday we caught two of them blue coloured rabbits,first time i'v ever seen them

[devvo 0]

sorry, i didnt know this topic has been up before

 

and im from north yorkshire COMPO

[marco 24]

years ago i worked at a land fill site at perth and one day i noticed a white rabbit on the hillside in the middle of no where so i thought that i would have a walk out after work with the air rile as i living on site nothing else to do on a night,anyway i walked to where the rabbit was earlier and it seen me and went straight to ground as wild as they come,the dreniline was going by this time thinking i would be the only one who ever shot a pure white rabbit,so i climbed up a tree about 30 yards off the warren and i thought right ill get you when you come back out surely enough it did 45 mins later but before this absolutley bursting for a no.2 i had to go 10 ft up in a tree on a hill side at perth,so eventually this pure white rabbit showed itself and i got him in my cross hairs and fired,it done a back flip and fell back in the fecking hole and by the time i got down the tree i couldn,t see it any where i was distraut not having my precious trophy to take home and show the lads,but after telling one of the local lads about it the next day at work he was laughing his head off and said theres a batty old women over the other side of the hill who breeds them and the ones thats no good for showing she just chucks out into the field,i dont no if this counts but ye iv'e seen a white one :11:

[bullsmilk 2]

:11: there was proably some one out walking there dogs and getting shit on by you thinking bloody birds are getting bigger and bigger :11:

[robsharpe 1]

here s the weirdest one i caught out last time with woodga

[COMPO 54]

here s the weirdest one i caught out last time with woodga

 

 

is that a rabbit or a tortoiseshell cat :11: :11:

[king 11,984]

me and my mate bullet were ferreting up his way last january or february. his ferret was on a lay up so he dug down about 1 foot and turned to me and said is your ferret in this bury.she is albino.. i said no so he pulled a dead baby rabbit out of the hole. then pulled his polecat jill out.and he reached down and pulled out an albino baby rabbit. the jill had killed the baby but left the albino baby un touched.he took it home to his fathers and they kept it in a rabbit hutch and it came quite tame

[Guest midnight_runner]

did the keepers not use black rabbits as markers on estates so that the keepers could tell if there were poachers around if any were missing

[COMPO 54]

did the keepers not use black rabbits as markers on estates so that the keepers could tell if there were poachers around if any were missing

 

 

allegedly, although black rabbits are a natural occurence , that theory was i beleive put forward by a certain Mr Plummer :11: so make of that what you will

 

all wild rabbit populations have colour variations and occasional freak coloured rabbits, that is how we have the varieties of coloured rabbit we have, because early breeders bred the coloured freaks with other coloured rabbits and doubled up on the freak colour gene's

 

millet that looks like an English Butterfly (a type of rabbit i used to breed) i would reckon that is an escapee that is at least part English Butterfly, i used to breed them and new zealand whites

Edited October 26, 2006 by COMPO

[Phil Lloyd 10,738]

Edited October 26, 2006 by CHALKWARREN