paulus 26 Posted June 13, 2011 Report Share Posted June 13, 2011 Never seen on my crap bit of permission luckily. I actually had a little blind baby rabbit hop over to me and stand by my trainer on the way back from fishing the other week. It looked awful with puss coming out of his eyes and sneezing constantly (I assume this was mixy) so I put him out of his misery and put my trainers in the washing machine when I got home. looks like this Quote Link to post
southcott 9 Posted June 13, 2011 Report Share Posted June 13, 2011 in my own mind, farmers etc are still putting it down The councel still put mixi rabbits down in most parts of the country mate The antes need that information , so they can hound the council ! Quote Link to post
scalesntails 118 Posted June 13, 2011 Report Share Posted June 13, 2011 Never seen on my crap bit of permission luckily. I actually had a little blind baby rabbit hop over to me and stand by my trainer on the way back from fishing the other week. It looked awful with puss coming out of his eyes and sneezing constantly (I assume this was mixy) so I put him out of his misery and put my trainers in the washing machine when I got home. looks like this Thanks. I have been really lucky then to only encounter it once in my life and even luckier that when I did it was about 10 miles from my permission. Quote Link to post
jf1970 328 Posted June 13, 2011 Report Share Posted June 13, 2011 Never seen on my crap bit of permission luckily. I actually had a little blind baby rabbit hop over to me and stand by my trainer on the way back from fishing the other week. It looked awful with puss coming out of his eyes and sneezing constantly (I assume this was mixy) so I put him out of his misery and put my trainers in the washing machine when I got home. looks like this Thanks. I have been really lucky then to only encounter it once in my life and even luckier that when I did it was about 10 miles from my permission. 10 miles apart won't stop it mate, it is capable of travelling the whole country. Quote Link to post
scalesntails 118 Posted June 13, 2011 Report Share Posted June 13, 2011 Never seen on my crap bit of permission luckily. I actually had a little blind baby rabbit hop over to me and stand by my trainer on the way back from fishing the other week. It looked awful with puss coming out of his eyes and sneezing constantly (I assume this was mixy) so I put him out of his misery and put my trainers in the washing machine when I got home. looks like this Thanks. I have been really lucky then to only encounter it once in my life and even luckier that when I did it was about 10 miles from my permission. 10 miles apart won't stop it mate, it is capable of travelling the whole country. I'm just trying to think positively mate Quote Link to post
jf1970 328 Posted June 13, 2011 Report Share Posted June 13, 2011 Never seen on my crap bit of permission luckily. I actually had a little blind baby rabbit hop over to me and stand by my trainer on the way back from fishing the other week. It looked awful with puss coming out of his eyes and sneezing constantly (I assume this was mixy) so I put him out of his misery and put my trainers in the washing machine when I got home. looks like this Thanks. I have been really lucky then to only encounter it once in my life and even luckier that when I did it was about 10 miles from my permission. 10 miles apart won't stop it mate, it is capable of travelling the whole country. I'm just trying to think positively mate lol, sorry mate, i know what your saying, it's great to get a bit of permission with a good head of rabbits, then to turn up one day and see them with myxi, heart sinks. Quote Link to post
jasperdog 98 Posted June 13, 2011 Report Share Posted June 13, 2011 not an expert but i have a few years experience, myxi affects rabbit populations (when there is lots around) then they crash (die off) and it is a natural thing to happen when a spieces has grown to numbers that can not be sustained in that environment. The rabbit looses its natural immune to myxi, some will survive and so the rabbit population will return to the high numbers again. So when they do your best option for keeping clear of myxi is to catch as many as you can without exterminating the population from your permission. Quote Link to post
dazzz 421 Posted June 13, 2011 Report Share Posted June 13, 2011 cant for the life of me think how that will work????if you catch as many as you can,,,how do you know you are not taking the one's that will become immune?????? hence wipping out the breeding stock,,,i think you just have to let it run it's course,,also myxi will strike anywhere not just on heavily populated land,,,,like you im no expert but how can you say it's a natural way of keeping down over populated area's,,,i thought it was introduced by man?? so does that not make it artificial??? nature does have it's own way of dealing with things, i'm not sure myxi is one of them???? Quote Link to post
fox assasin 16 Posted June 13, 2011 Report Share Posted June 13, 2011 same here mate there showing up dead every where lets just hope there wil be some healthy ones left by september Quote Link to post
alan626 305 Posted June 13, 2011 Report Share Posted June 13, 2011 ive seen more myxi rabbits this year than i have in the last 10 years its not a good sign when every body is on the same level on thl Quote Link to post
_Sean_ 15 Posted June 13, 2011 Report Share Posted June 13, 2011 ive seen more myxi rabbits this year than i have in the last 10 years its not a good sign when every body is on the same level on thl yeah id say its down to that hot weather we had in april causing an early large hatch of fleas covering the early does and first set of kits and those kits do be moveing from burrow to burrow spreading to more younger litters Quote Link to post
darren lurcher 4 Posted June 14, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 14, 2011 not an expert but i have a few years experience, myxi affects rabbit populations (when there is lots around) then they crash (die off) and it is a natural thing to happen when a spieces has grown to numbers that can not be sustained in that environment. The rabbit looses its natural immune to myxi, some will survive and so the rabbit population will return to the high numbers again. So when they do your best option for keeping clear of myxi is to catch as many as you can without exterminating the population from your permission. but mixy only came to ireland in the 1950s so wat about before then Quote Link to post
airbourne 128 Posted June 14, 2011 Report Share Posted June 14, 2011 About 4 weeks ago there was a couple with it running on the roads, i was out for a stroll yesterday in the same area and i counted 24 healthy one. Quote Link to post
marty42 18 Posted June 14, 2011 Report Share Posted June 14, 2011 mix isnt a natural way of keepin down the rabbit numbers.its a cruel man made disease to keep the rabbits down.around hear the rabbits are grand.its only an odd mix 1 you get is all.bout 2 years ago we had alot a mix around.it would turn you of eating them.i even passed the doctor on the road and asked him is it safe ta be eating rabbits ha ha.he laught at me and said its quiet safe ta eat them that mix dont affect humans or any other animals,only rabbits.only for that i would have never eating another rabbit again.alot a people says that mix can skip one generation and pass on to the next and that if you get a mix rabbit you should kill it to stop it from breeding and passing it on to the next generation.if thats true or not i dont no.but i think you should kill as many mix as possible to save the poor rabbit from dieing a slow painfull death Quote Link to post
Maddog1986 7 Posted June 14, 2011 Report Share Posted June 14, 2011 I spotted 19 rabbits in a field by my house and the farmer was in the field so I thought IDE ask for permission cause he was having a problem with them and he said to me he's just put aload of mixy down and now when I walk past the fields with my dogs there's not even 1 rabbit about nomore I'm totally gutted Quote Link to post
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