myxomatosis

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An interesting question, I think its possible the anti's dont do anything about it because its the fact that we want to hunt that they object to. If mxyi was gone there would have to be more hunting to control the population. They would rather the rabbits died a long slow death of myxi rather than be killed cleanly by hunting.

 

Logistically i doubt it would be possible to get rid of it, i cant think of a practical way of immunising the entire rabbit population.

 

Im also not convinced that its mxyi causing the current decline in rabbit numbers, myxi has come and gone in a fairly regular localised cycle for years without causing a crash like this. Mxyi is easy to spot, blind rabbits in daytime etc but i've seen no more than normal this past year and yet the population seems to have crashed much harder?

ARE YOU STALKING HICKYMICKS POSTS MATE AS YOU TOLD HIM NOT TO FOLLOW ANY OF YOUR POSTS BUT YOUR DOING SAME TO HIM MATE ,WHEN HE REPLYS TO YOUR POSTS EVEYTHINGS REMOVED ??JUST ASKING AS HES SAT HERE NOW WONDERING WHY???