One Sleepy Rabbit

[CraignTod 278]

Out ferreting today and almost stood on a rabbit so got the pup in hope for a nice chase.. shame really

 

ofcourse ended with her world class retrieve

 

https://youtu.be/HDTSyuzoqvU

[CraignTod 278]

mods delete post please lol damn video wont work

[squab 2,875]

mods delete post please lol damn video wont work

u tubes down mate mine not playing either

[LurcherLad94 2,582]

working now just watched it

[CraignTod 278]

working now just watched it

poor fecker lol

[woodman 131]

much myxomatosis in your area

[The one 8,533]

Does it have myxi when the film starts im sure its a black eye looking up its no closed over ?

[CraignTod 278]

much myxomatosis in your area

thats what my old chap said, but the rabbit looks absolutely fine when i picked it up and of the 13 today none has any signs of myxi?

 

i reckon hes drunk, he was quite near an apple tree

[woodman 131]

Does it have myxi when the film starts im sure its a black eye looking up its no closed over ?

i asked because before the tumors show they often get lethargic and disorientated.And there are quite a few strains of the virus

The overall pattern and consequences of myxomatosis in wild rabbit populations were studied at three farmland sites in lowland southern England and upland central Wales between 1971 and 1978. When results from all years were combined, the disease showed a clear two-peaked annual cycle, with a main autumn peak between August and January, and a subsidiary spring peak during February to April.

Rabbit fleas, the main vectors of myxomatosis in Britain, were present on full-grown rabbits in sufficient numbers for transmission to occur throughout the year, but the observed seasonal pattern of the disease appeared to be influenced by seasonal mass movements of these fleas. However other factors were also important including the timing and success of the main rabbit breeding season, the proportion of rabbits which had recovered from the disease and the timing and extent of autumn rabbit mortality from other causes.

Significantly more males than females, and more adults and immatures than juveniles, were observed to be infected by myxomatosis. Only 25–27% of the total populations were seen to be infected during outbreaks. Using two independent methods of calculation, it was estimated that between 47 and 69% of infected rabbits died from the disease (much lower than the expected 90–95% for fully susceptible rabbits with the partly attenuated virus strains that predominated). Thus it was estimated that 12–19% of the total rabbit populations were known to have died directly or indirectly from myxomatosis.

Although the effects of myxomatosis were much less than during the 1950s and 1960s, it continued to be an important mortality factor. It may still have a regulatory effect on rabbit numbers, with autumn/winter peaks of disease reducing the numbers of rabbits present at the start of the breeding season.

Edited October 18, 2015 by woodman

[nottzhunter08 898]

Isn't there another disease that kills rabbits but they look fine, I'm sure someone will know???

[The one 8,533]

Isn't there another disease that kills rabbits but they look fine, I'm sure someone will know???

RHD

 

I think it was just a daft young rabbit ?.

[woodman 131]

Isn't there another disease that kills rabbits but they look fine, I'm sure someone will know???

hello,perhaps you are thinking of this one

Rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus emerged in China in 1984, and has killed hundreds of millions of wild rabbits in Australia and Europe. In the UK there appears to be an endemic non–pathogenic strain, with high levels of seroprevalence being recorded, in the absence of associated mortality. Using a seasonal, age–structured model we examine the hypothesis that differences in rabbit population demography differentially affect the basic reproductive rates (R0) of the pathogenic and non–pathogenic strains, leading to each dominating in some populations and not others. The strain with the higher R0 excluded the other, with the dynamics depending upon the ratio of the two R0 values. When the non–pathogenic strain dominated, the pathogenic strain caused only transient mortality, although this could be significant when the two R0 values were similar. When the pathogenic strain dominated, repeated epidemics led to host eradication. Seroprevalence data suggest that the non–pathogenic strain may be protecting some, but not all UK populations, with half being ‘at risk’ from invasion by the pathogenic strain and a fifth prone to significant transient mortality. We identify key questions for empirical research to test this prediction.

[random 659]

Think the one is right,rabbit didn't know what to do so sat tight? Soon as there's movement the dog knows what to do though...