my local spot is full of mixy

[paulus 26]

you can spread it aswell when your in an area that has it and you move on to some where new you can carry it on your boots

 

i was told its passed from a fly , so its in the air. Never heard of humans passing it either from clothes or boots.??

 

Can be passed by the fleas, and they can transfer from the rabbits to dogs / ferrets etc and moved from permission to permission etc.

is also spreed by birds and live stock as well as fox`s,badgers,hedgehogs infact anything a tick or flea can hitch a ride on whilst feeding.

 

Yup.

 

But we don't have much control of the rest . . . . . .

 

I just think sometimes if you have been in one area and killing mixi bunnies and you have land in a totally different area with a healthy population, it's woth giving everything a flea treatment before you go to the healthy bit.

sad to say if its going to spread to a new area theres very little that can be done, at the end of the day the virus is doing exactly what it was made to do.

[_Sean_ 15]

yeah midges and biting fly can spread it just as quick and i think its down to the mild weather not killing them and the flea off midges can spread a long way

[paulus 26]

yeah midges and biting fly can spread it just as quick and i think its down to the mild weather not killing them and the flea off midges can spread a long way

i know after that very cold spell last winter,when the rabbits started to breed the numbers were well up on the previou spring, however alot more than normal have now fallen to the virus, vicious circle.

[_Sean_ 15]

yeah midges and biting fly can spread it just as quick and i think its down to the mild weather not killing them and the flea off midges can spread a long way

i know after that very cold spell last winter,when the rabbits started to breed the numbers were well up on the previou spring, however alot more than normal have now fallen to the virus, vicious circle.

 

 

i know its a shame itl always happen where theres a good population your proably better constantly hunting them and keeping the numbers to a reasonable ammount to stop a large spred of fleas but then you reck you hunting youl never win

[Ossie n Arch 1,682]

Iv'e not read all this topic, most, but not all.

 

Earlier this year i was asking a farmer for permission whose land boarderd a motorway, and he said we have no rabbits here. He said the nearer to the motorway you are the less rabbits there are because the Mixy is put down there ??

 

10/15 miles away, along the same motorway around the same time there were loads of Rabbits in the fields close to it. Now there is none.

 

We,ve got Mixy on my permo now too.

[richie c 11]

june july the rabbit population was booming my way, was realy looking forward to the season, i would say 90 percent now have been wiped out and the virus is still at large, must be a strong strain of the pox virus and perfect weather conditions has made it thrive, cant see many prisoners surviving.

[lurcher330 2,301]

Still catching them 7 the other day took these 2 home for the ferrets

Edited November 19, 2011 by lurcher330

[ferretman5 1]

was in kerry during the week, rabbits starting to show early signs of it down there, what a disaster.

[NEWKID 27,577]

Likes been said a big problem is the mild weather still yet to have a frost at all down here, although the mixy seem to be isolated from what I've seen. In some areas we've noticed how healthy the rabbits are with the most fat I've seen when gutting them there's one area though where 3 out of 5 will have mixy, personally I'm gonna leave this bit and let nature take it's course.

I've been pulling loads of ticks off the ferrets too, don't normally frontline them but have now.