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[The one 8,529]

Still getting a few rabbits just travelling more ,

[Skinny 29]

check out my signature this is the answer as to where all the rabbits are going.

[Ideation 8,216]

Aye the winter knocked the guts out of them. Will be interesting given the low numbers now, what the population looks like following what looks to be a very cold and hard winter ahead.

[ReggieCuz 18]

Well, anyone with a couple of thousand squid to spare can go to Australia, catch as many rabbits as you like and transport them back to merry old England to replenish the stocks. Australia has tried and tried to rid its shores of the bunny, to no avail. Sometimes they come back in PLAGUE proportions.

 

Also, why don't hunters with the room to do so breed a few wild ones and release them in areas that are not dogged heavily? Or are there no such areas in the UK?

Just a thought.

 

Check this for the number of rabbits in a good year in Oz.

[Jordb543 9]

I know i dont use lurchers and have only just starting bushing so not everyone will listen to me much on here but i have studied a little bit of ecology and rabbits like many lower level food chain animals are constantly subject to an occurance known as 'population boom and bust cycle'

 

basically meaning they regulary drop dramatically in large numbers which in turn has the same effect on their predators and then they have a huge increase in numbers again, but the cycle can be distrubted from heavy hunting when there numbers are low, luckily due to their capacity to breed so quickly they are a very very hard species to wipe out lol

Edited November 25, 2010 by Jordb543

[toby1066 413]

wish it was like that over here!

[sandymere 8,263]

Got it bad here, at the beginning of the season was maybe 10 rabbits in a field two weeks later lucky to find one, thankfully still have some ground that is not effected but as its only around twenty miles apart recon it's just a matter of time. When myxi started it kept populations down for a number of years so this may well do so as well. There are reports of quick immunity as it is thought that there may have been a similar virus at some point in the past so we can hope for fast resistant strains of rabbits to appears reasonable quickly.

Edited November 25, 2010 by sandymere

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that pics a cracker . . .

 

 

I'm sorry just being curious, but what actually is that ????????????????????????????????????

 

 

 

 

Havn't seen one of those for ages.

[salukimad 9]

What the FECK does VHD mean likeee???

someone please tell me.

Atb salukimad...

[leegreen 2,222]

What the FECK does VHD mean likeee???

someone please tell me.

Atb salukimad...

 

And also Chinese rabbit virus? or is it the same thing

[Maximus Ferret 2,063]

What the FECK does VHD mean likeee???

someone please tell me.

Atb salukimad...

Viral Haemorrhagic disease.-a disease caused by virus and causing death by internal bleeding, I think in the lungs.

[Maximus Ferret 2,063]

I was wrong about the lungs. Read this:- http://www.cfsph.iastate.edu/Factsheets/pdfs/rabbit_hemorrhagic_disease.pdf