black rabbit

[jetwhippet 14]

Ive seen a few black rabbits over the last 25 yrs, but had my first one today. I saw one last year but was gone before i could pull elastic on my stretcher. But today i saw one by the roadside, he slipped into the hedge but stuck out like a saw thumb, Bam..first shot (you only get one with a rabbit) hit him in the neck area i think, out like a light. Well chuffed, the only other colour ive caught was out lamping 23 yrs ago, had a orange ginger colour rabbit, similiar to hare colouring, he was with other rabbits, but kept light on him as he aslso stuck out like sore thumb....anyone else had anything like this

the farmers used to introduce black rabbits onto their land and when they dissapear they now their land is being poached

[rob190364 2,594]

Ive seen a few black rabbits over the last 25 yrs, but had my first one today. I saw one last year but was gone before i could pull elastic on my stretcher. But today i saw one by the roadside, he slipped into the hedge but stuck out like a saw thumb, Bam..first shot (you only get one with a rabbit) hit him in the neck area i think, out like a light. Well chuffed, the only other colour ive caught was out lamping 23 yrs ago, had a orange ginger colour rabbit, similiar to hare colouring, he was with other rabbits, but kept light on him as he aslso stuck out like sore thumb....anyone else had anything like this

the farmers used to introduce black rabbits onto their land and when they dissapear they now their land is being poached

erm, and how does that work then when there's god knows how many predators that also kill rabbits?

[Ideation 8,216]

All bollocks, it's just a mutation, agouti (rabbit color) is actually made up of white, black, ginger, brown etc hairs, and sometimes you get weird color expressions. Usually a sign of a good healthy population

[DogMagic 461]

I had a black one ferreting this year. Iv had loads with a little white dot on their forehead or chest too.

[MikeTheDog 153]

the farmers used to introduce black rabbits onto their land and when they dissapear they now their land is being poached

Not so!...It's just a quirk of nature, a recessive gene that comes out now and again. Bit like ginger headed babies... :laugh: ..No offence to any ginger mingers, after all, it's just another shade of blond!..

 

My Meg' caught one a few years back, black rabbit that is not a ginger baby... with a bad dose of mixy

 

 

Here's another unusual colour..marbled..

 

Edited May 6, 2011 by MikeTheDog

[scottish carper ingram 40]

on the farm my grandad used to own there is black rabbits with white collors and brown rabbits with white collors never had the pleasure of catching one though

[Chickens4ever05 22]

i caught my first also this season although i have seen a few, had the odd marbled and a blue ish one last year

 

caught on camera

 

 

 

 

its only a rabbit but i was made up lol

 

Tom

Edited May 8, 2011 by Chickens4ever05

[shushycatcher 219]

its bad luck to kill a black rabbit! So ive always been told.

[morton 5,368]

i caught my first also this season although i have seen a few, had the odd marbled and a blue ish one last year

 

caught on camera

 

 

 

 

its only a rabbit but i was made up lol

 

Tom

That looks like a dropper,a pet one!.

[Chickens4ever05 22]

it was on a grouse more in the middle of nowhere there are a few up there i have a pic from the season before when i bolted it and it got away.

 

it got down a set and was left till this season

 

 

def not dropped the keepers said they have been up there for years and they have keepered it over 20 years

 

Tom