MIXY

[Guest bullterrier]

no signs of it around here thank god ...john

[Sorley x 32]

It has really started striking hard here round Cambs/suffolk borders. Coming across swellings and pustules larger than I've ever seen before. The wet mild weather we've had has meant the virus vectors are doing very well and differ strains of mixy are getting spread all over the shop. The result is rabbits are getting hit by strains they've not yet been exposed too.

 

Just hope there is enough of a breeding population left immune that can bounce back quickly.

[Guest Frank]

my hubby was saying that every 7 yrs a new strain is released, as the few survivors develope immunities which are then passed on to young, so the next 6 yrs the occurance of mixy slows a lil each year until the new strain is released, and the proceding spring you see a more virulent spread of it. mind you i've no idea if this is fact or rumor...

 

I think, their is some truth in this, as a place i know of, has had a big rabbit explosion over the summer. Speaking to the farmers, they said, its due for a mxy outbreak, as apparently, it hits them hard, every 6 to 8 years. The farmers have noticed this, over the years.

 

Frank.

[greatwhitehunter 47]

theres bugger all on all of my permissions i went lamping the other night without the gun and didnt see a scratch

[oyama 27]

Oxfordshire had it bad again as last year.The farmers around here move the poor creatures about so the disease spreads across the county.

[woodchip 2]

Oxfordshire had it bad again as last year.The farmers around here move the poor creatures about so the disease spreads across the county.

 

From the bunnies point of view what a nasty was to die ...

[bill88 6]

I see it every year on a couple of bits of permission i hunt.Usually seems to appear around late August/early September,then seems to settle down later in the season,with one or two of the rabbits we take showing the healed up wounds from the myxy.

Went out yesterday evening to recce a bit of permission where i haven't seen any infected rabbits for over ten years,and found these three poor feckers within 50 yards.

 

 

 

 

 

[Kay 3,709]

Not seen any here thankfully

[mole catcher 1]

yep its the same here on the norfolk suffolk borders. been out twice this last 3 nights and i would say % of what i shot or netted were full of mixi

[ferretville 69]

Luckily up my neck of the woods there`s not too much mixy kicking about . Were there is signs of it it seems to be inclose to the town`s out in the countryside itseems to be champion. On sunday went for a walk around 1of the farms ive got and there was plenty of working warrens only problem u still can`t get in to half of them vegatation hasn`t died back enough. Also found plenty of fox sets it`s like an explosion of everything is going on give it a couple of weeks and i will soon be cracking. Happy hunting folks fv

[J Darcy 5,871]

No mixy round here yet.....mindst you, theres no bloody rabbits either!!!

[woodga 170]

some of the ground we hunt has mxy all year round but it dose not seem to affect the numbers of healthy rabbits we take not long been in and we have done a bit of ferreting accounting for 26 healthy rabbits and we have never seen any mxy today at all just loads of healthy rabbits and i mean loads

[Hob&Jill 258]

Apart from that one I havent noticed any more around where I live. Fingers crossed.

Spoke to soon

 

Went for a walk about with the dogs and found 3 dead and a couple of rotting smelling bushes

[Popgun 0]

It's very bad here not seen it this bad for a good few years still finding a few clean bunnys thank god,i've got a young Cocker to train and theres nowt like bunnys to get them going, hopefully the cold weather will sort it out,if we get any

[Guest little_lloyd]

The rabbits have finnaly started to appear again Let them gain a few more numbers and i can start supplying the farm shop.

 

But on the down side i found four badly decompoed carcasses today :sick: