Were Have All The Rabbits Gone ?? (Kent)

[hw100ferret 2]

hay guys , any one from the kent area noticed a rapid decline in rabbits ??

suppose I just got to work a bit harder and get stuck into them hedges along the roadside , they don't seem to be in between the orchards like previous years ???

[Magwitch 687]

Last two times out ferreting I've only had 4............Last winter flooded most of the hedgerows which use to hold a fair few rabbits.

[bugg 84]

Sorry chaps

[hw100ferret 2]

were bouts in kent are u ?

[bugg 84]

I'm not bud just joking

[hw100ferret 2]

I no u r , was asking Magwitch?

[Jamie m 668]

Vhd is moving through that area to ,

[pie-eater 377]

Theyre a bit thin on the ground on some of my land this season. Was out 4 hours yesterday got 4 bolts and one of them was a rat.

[max abell 196]

Got a few down hear in sussex but the numbers are well down on normal

[Born Hunter 17,763]

I'm not in kent but I'm sure we have VHD for the first time this year that I have noticed. There's some really weird shit going on this year round here though. I'm finding crows, rabbits, a hare and a roe doe dead with no indication to the cause, just like they suddenly got overcome with weakness and died..... Yet no shortage of quarry other than fox.

 

On saturday I found a Badger literally lying dead in the field 20m from a set-a-side field margin! No sign of foul play, just a bit of blood around it's nose.

 

f*****g weird stuff...... "2013 the year of 'the happening'" LOL

Edited December 2, 2013 by Born Hunter

[Sheppey rabbit 1]

Hello to all,new to this site,so just add my bit about the lack of rabbits in certain areas,much of the ferretingI do is on fruit farms in the Faversham/Canterbury areas,fruit farmers don't seem bothered by the fox numbers so to get a debate going I'll ask [BANNED TEXT] effect does a good fox population have on the bunnies? ATB

[hawkingyorkshire 6]

because theirs to many people at it!

[youcanthide...BANG 1,051]

Whats VHD?

[poacherkev 64]

I've been ferreting / hunting with the lurchers for 30 years and I've never known a year like it !!!!!! The rabbits have just disappeared back in the summer there was hundreds of young running around now there's none. My daughter works on a power station and the rabbits are untouched there and even they have all disappeared ..

Its very strange but it seems it's all over the country

[James Mcintosh 0]

I've done a few warrens that have been brilliant a few years ago yet this session not one bolt very strange