black rabbits

[Pops 19]

have read that gamekeepers will plant black rabbits to see if they're being poached. is this true? if so did they use regular domestic rabbits or cross a domestic w/ wild? either way what breed of rabbit would have been used?

[neil cooney 10,416]

Melanistic rabbits are not rare. Any where with a good rabbit population will usually have 1 or 2 black ones amongst them.

I've heard it said that keepers use them to show signs of poaching. I've also heard it said it's unlucky to shoot one.

I seen one only last week and most species of animals throw the odd melanistic specimen naturally.

[johnmac666 2]

Melanistic rabbits are not rare. Any where with a good rabbit population will usually have 1 or 2 black ones amongst them.

I've heard it said that keepers use them to show signs of poaching. I've also heard it said it's unlucky to shoot one.

I seen one only last week and most species of animals throw the odd melanistic specimen naturally.

 

 

had 1 last season but there are more on my permission which i have seen,regarding the bad luck , i let it go the first time , only to have to dig to my hob at another sett because it had gone into a stop end,my mate dispatched it not me i was having none of it was gonna let it go again : )we was arguing like 2 kids the bad luck i had after that day seems more than coincidence but im superstitious, & eneded in the guy who used to drive us up there crashed 2 cars twice & now has died in a car crash about 2 months ago , but as the previous poster says where bunnies are in abundance there are always a few strange colours i even seen a ginger bunny !! regards john

 

R.I.P Karl Taylor

[rabbitsweep 0]

I got told that the black ones were in areas that are more inbred, don't know how true this is - anyone else heard it? And this is probably a stupid question but if a keeper put a black rabbit there how would that monitor poaching? If they disappear how dya know they haven't it's not by some other means eg disease, predators...

[kx100 66]

at greenoce in the hills thers only 2 normal colourd rabbits that i have seen the rest are all black and gray with whight fluffy necks like duch rabbits

[Sexy_Shot 5]

there is a load of black'uns by me infact probably more than the regulars... nobody seems to be touching them...

[martin 332]

I've got a lot of these on one of my permissions..........

[r-o-b-p 3]

WHERE IS LOADS OF BLACK RABBITS AND WHITE ONES NEAR ME

[Ideation 8,216]

Agouti is made of a huge number of colours, and varients are expressed, where one colour is dominat - hence white, black, ginger etc. Look at a normal rabbits fur - it's made up of black, white, grey, ginger hairs. I once saw a half white, half normal rabbit.

[Guest LancsUK]

Why are keepers' getting p*ssed off about rabbits being poached? they are vermin and a pest .. this is a joke as far as im concerned lol.

[josh-waddingham 13]

there are alot of black rabbits on our local shoots the goshawks certainly take an interest in the

[Ideation 8,216]

Why are keepers' getting p*ssed off about rabbits being poached? they are vermin and a pest .. this is a joke as far as im concerned lol.

 

 

They were used for this purpose a long time ago before the ground game laws were changed when no common man could take the coney, even to protect crops.

[theferreter 311]

heres one i caught last season let it go two run another day meant 2 be bad luck 2 kill them heres another rabbit caught on the lamp two seasons ago one ugly f****r

[george atkins ga 1]

on one of my permissions there were seven completly white ones and only a few normall coloured ones.but on the land next to my permission there was none

[graham4877 1,181]

On the permissions right next to my house Theirs black.white.ginger.gray and even sandy!! Will wild breed with pet rab's if they get out!