Where Have All The Rabbits Gone

[The Hunting Lady 3]

listen over this past few years i have been finding it harder and harder to find rabbits are any of yous having the same problem ?

[nothernlite 18,089]

Nope been doing the same bit of ground for 30 odd years some seasons are better than others but just take a steady amount each season and it keeps me and me muts happy

[The Hunting Lady 3]

  On 06/02/2014 at 20:13, nothernlite said:

Nope been doing the same bit of ground for 30 odd years some seasons are better than others but just take a steady amount each season and it keeps me and me muts happy

thats good i think its a case of finding the right ground and the right time.

[Ideation 8,216]

Been all over country, I'd say its not been the best year. The summer promised a better season than materialised. Still caught enough to keep freezers full and make a bit of coin. But here's hoping next year is better.

 

But then I say that every year!

[millsy2014 3]

Rabbit haemorrhagic disease (RHD), also known as rabbit calicivirus disease (RCD) or viral haemorrhagic disease (VHD), is a highly infectious and often fatal disease that affects wild and domestic rabbits of the species Oryctolagus cuniculus. The infectious agent responsible for the disease is rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus (RHDV), or rabbit calicivirus (RCV), genus Lagovirus of the family Caliciviridae. The virus infects only rabbits, and has been used in some countries to control rabbit populations

 

 

This virus is back on the rise again in certain areas of the uk,more deadly and potent than mixy

[Belfasthunter 12]

  On 06/02/2014 at 22:46, millsy2014 said:

Rabbit haemorrhagic disease (RHD), also known as rabbit calicivirus disease (RCD) or viral haemorrhagic disease (VHD), is a highly infectious and often fatal disease that affects wild and domestic rabbits of the species Oryctolagus cuniculus. The infectious agent responsible for the disease is rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus (RHDV), or rabbit calicivirus (RCV), genus Lagovirus of the family Caliciviridae. The virus infects only rabbits, and has been used in some countries to control rabbit populations

 

 

 

Any way of telling how the rabbits might have this virus?

 

 

This virus is back on the rise again in certain areas of the uk,more deadly and potent than mixy

[swg dave 334]

Would i be right in saying, that VHD affects rabbits in the same way as EBOLA affects

humans, IE,, there main organs turn to a liquid mush, and they bleed from every orfice.

What a wicked fecking scientist, that thought that one up,

Remember the film OUTBREAK with Dustin Hoffman about the ebola outbreak in africa..

[millsy2014 3]

yeah pretty gruesome way to die everything swelling leaking and breaking down ,but the Australian scientists have spoilt it for allot of huntsmen ,spoiling catching potential

[slip lead 862]

I think it's a combination of many things, myxi, VHD and bad weather, last year we had snow up until April, even down south and this year seems like it's going to be just as wet as the year before last.

 

look at the south west at the moment and just try and imagine how many ground dwelling animals that have met there demise.

 

Also people and predators take large numbers from places that just can't reproduce the same numbers as the previous year so theres a sharp decline year on year.

 

Happy Hunting

[millsy2014 3]

  On 07/02/2014 at 03:30, desy said:

 

  On 06/02/2014 at 22:46, millsy2014 said:

Rabbit haemorrhagic disease (RHD), also known as rabbit calicivirus disease (RCD) or viral haemorrhagic disease (VHD), is a highly infectious and often fatal disease that affects wild and domestic rabbits of the species Oryctolagus cuniculus. The infectious agent responsible for the disease is rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus (RHDV), or rabbit calicivirus (RCV), genus Lagovirus of the family Caliciviridae. The virus infects only rabbits, and has been used in some countries to control rabbit populations

 

 

 

Any way of telling how the rabbits might have this virus?

 

 

This virus is back on the rise again in certain areas of the uk,more deadly and potent than mixy

 

they bleed from the inside out ,possibly through ways it can escape (eyes mouth nose anus)in last stages before death

]

 

[Belfasthunter 12]

  On 07/02/2014 at 23:08, millsy2014 said:

 

  On 07/02/2014 at 03:30, desy said:

  On 06/02/2014 at 22:46, millsy2014 said:

Rabbit haemorrhagic disease (RHD), also known as rabbit calicivirus disease (RCD) or viral haemorrhagic disease (VHD), is a highly infectious and often fatal disease that affects wild and domestic rabbits of the species Oryctolagus cuniculus. The infectious agent responsible for the disease is rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus (RHDV), or rabbit calicivirus (RCV), genus Lagovirus of the family Caliciviridae. The virus infects only rabbits, and has been used in some countries to control rabbit populations

 

 

 

Any way of telling how the rabbits might have this virus?

 

 

This virus is back on the rise again in certain areas of the uk,more deadly and potent than mixy

 

they bleed from the inside out ,possibly through ways it can escape (eyes mouth nose anus)in last stages before death

]

 

 

 

So that means you couldn't tell until it was dead ?

[day worker 296]

A lot of people seem to have developed an obsession for large numbers and a posing shot! Maybe in some cases over hunting could be at fault? I would think that if numbers are low then leave them alone for a season because after all they breed like rabbits and will recover in no time!

[millsy2014 3]

  On 08/02/2014 at 03:08, desy said:

 

  On 07/02/2014 at 23:08, millsy2014 said:

 

  On 07/02/2014 at 03:30, desy said:

 

  On 06/02/2014 at 22:46, millsy2014 said:

Rabbit haemorrhagic disease (RHD), also known as rabbit calicivirus disease (RCD) or viral haemorrhagic disease (VHD), is a highly infectious and often fatal disease that affects wild and domestic rabbits of the species Oryctolagus cuniculus. The infectious agent responsible for the disease is rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus (RHDV), or rabbit calicivirus (RCV), genus Lagovirus of the family Caliciviridae. The virus infects only rabbits, and has been used in some countries to control rabbit populations

 

 

 

Any way of telling how the rabbits might have this virus?

 

 

This virus is back on the rise again in certain areas of the uk,more deadly and potent than mixy

 

they bleed from the inside out ,possibly through ways it can escape (eyes mouth nose anus)in last stages before death

]

 

 

 

 

 

So that means you couldn't tell until it was dead ?

[yeah no way of telling until last stage by then there pretty much dead,virus is very fast to kill, but the virus don't harm humans (designed to destroy immune system extremely fast and blood cells).Unless the virus freakley mutated and could be passed on to mankind that would be a problem lol

[millsy2014 3]

killing of rabbits by viral should never have been legal ,creating and distributing dangerous virals worldwide to handle small animal populations is stupid as all virus in the world have the potential to mutate and combine with other virals to create new strains