Restocking Really Low Rabbit Numbers

[swg dave 334]

Has anybody ever done this, as i have a friend who restocked a place

and the rabbits are still their now. I am not on about trying to turn the countryside

back into a plague of rabbits, but so many on here talk of the low numbers,

walking for hours to get a few runs, what that tells me is they are not there

so just stick a few rabbits down here and their put them into existing bury,s

a nice few does with a few bucks, leave alone and watch. We all know of somewhere

where this can be done, and in the right place it should be no problem.

You hear about big bags being taken maybe put some of those to good use,

just a thought, ile probably get slated for this but so what im old and ugly enough to

take it. I just want the old rabbit to make a bit of a comeback because in places their numbers are

in danger, its time to give the old rabbit a leg up, we all owe it that much, all of us... ..

 

 

 

[snappeer 464]

Hahaha

[J Darcy 5,871]

I did it many years ago. The rabbits bred and lasted a few years, but they all died out in the end.

 

My cousin dropped some off a couple of years back on another patch of land and they are going strong still.

 

I fancy having a go next spring with a few cages of tame does and a couple of wild bucks to service them.

Edited September 29, 2015 by J Darcy

[swg dave 334]

I did it many years ago. The rabbits bred and lasted a few years, but they all died out in the end.

 

My cousin dropped some off a couple of years back on another patch of land and they are going strong still.

 

I fancy having a go next spring with a few cages of tame does and a couple of wild bucks to service them.

GOOD ON YOU DARCY, FOR SPEAKING OUT

[storm323 191]

A friend of mine once dropped 6 on a field that was in between a river and a Main road surrounded by houses his plan was it was out the way and maybe they would not get hit by mixi! Then another six this was around 5 years ago and the numbers when I seen them this summer was very high! If mixi never got put down what a great source of food for a lot of us on this isle it would of been !

[swg dave 334]

PLACES WHERE THE RABBIT NUMBERS ARE HIGH, TAKE A FEW

FROM THOSE PLACES AND STICK THEM WHERE THEY,RE LOW

ITS NOT THAT HARD IS IT, FERRETERS LONGNETTER,S LAMPER,S

WITH SOFT MOUTHED DOGS THAT RETRIEVE, WE COULD ALL DO OUR BIT

AND WHO KNOWS, AT LEAST WE HAD A GO.

[trenchfoot 4,243]

easily done. Once numbers get too high relocate the surplus to a local golf course

[myersbg 1,385]

Just dropped a few down myself in the last week or two, myxie had slaughtered them locally, these all came from drop boxes a few hours away from home.

I dont think it is actually legal, but it usually takes the bunnies four or five years to recover from the myxie around here, and i just wanted to give them a helping hand.

[nans pat 2,575]

spot here were the lads drop them for pups is full of escapees,lol

[hollands hope 1,024]

Often wondered why certain places which held high numbers in the past are almost totaly devoid of rabbits ,could it not be due to a genetic bottlenek. And fertility plays a major role in this. Maybe bringing in new stock in isolated populations could be the answer.

[lurchers 2,762]

Ya wouldn't dare drop them around here as they younguns would still dog them through the season and clean it out.

[flipbull 1,139]

I did it many years ago. The rabbits bred and lasted a few years, but they all died out in the end.

 

My cousin dropped some off a couple of years back on another patch of land and they are going strong still.

 

I fancy having a go next spring with a few cages of tame does and a couple of wild bucks to service them.

You didn't have anything to do with them disapearing to did ya JD ?

[gnipper 6,424]

Any way of getting hold of a big bottle of myxi vaccine and jabbing them before they are relocated?

[J Darcy 5,871]

 

I did it many years ago. The rabbits bred and lasted a few years, but they all died out in the end.

 

My cousin dropped some off a couple of years back on another patch of land and they are going strong still.

 

I fancy having a go next spring with a few cages of tame does and a couple of wild bucks to service them.

You didn't have anything to do with them disapearing to did ya JD ?

 

Well, funny you should say that...... in all honesty I never caught one. Where I put them they'd go out onto a football pitch to feed on a night and you know what footy pitches are like. I think one night I ran six or seven rabbits, but never made a catch. I was working at ASDA at the time stacking shelves on what was known as the 'twilight' shift. Being 5-11pm. So when the season was here and I wasn't too knackered I'd get home for about 11.20 and head out with the dog. I'd planned to have my first ever bash at these rabbits all through my shift while stacking tins of soup and beans and peas. The wind was perfect and the rabbits had been released over a year so they'd had plenty chances to breed etc. The first shine of the field really got my pulse racing, there were rabbits all over, and some right, right out on the grass. They were going to get their arses slapped no mistake. but it was me that got his arse slapped as they all outran the dog.....happy days....

[Maximus Ferret 2,063]

Often wondered why certain places which held high numbers in the past are almost totaly devoid of rabbits ,could it not be due to a genetic bottlenek. And fertility plays a major role in this. Maybe bringing in new stock in isolated populations could be the answer.

IMO it's worth dropping them from more than one source. When you do, or when you drop one or two of fresh blood in a low populated spot, the population often seems to take off with a bang. Hybrid vigour maybe???

Edited September 29, 2015 by Maximus Ferret