K5 Virus Finally Struck?

[Aussie Whip 4,112]

Just been to a property I keep for winter hunting where usually easily pull 20 rabbits for the afternoon.Dog frantically going from warren to warren with no mark, all lifeless.Dog caught one rabbit on edge of property.I come here every few weeks during the cooler months,not this year.Been hunting here for 7 years and never seen it like this,so puting it down to K5.Other spots also have low numbers.In central tablelands nsw,once a mecca for rabbit hunters,now a nightmare area for farmers with loads of hungry foxes decimating livestock and native wildlife,You wonder what the people who released this virus were thinking.

[terryd 8,490]

great shame the country side is not the same with out a rabbits in it. It just don't seem right

[Jamie m 668]

Just been to a property I keep for winter hunting where usually easily pull 20 rabbits for the afternoon.Dog frantically going from warren to warren with no mark, all lifeless.Dog caught one rabbit on edge of property.I come here every few weeks during the cooler months,not this year.Been hunting here for 7 years and never seen it like this,so puting it down to K5.Other spots also have low numbers.In central tablelands nsw,once a mecca for rabbit hunters,now a nightmare area for farmers with loads of hungry foxes decimating livestock and native wildlife,You wonder what the people who released this virus were thinking.

If you were only going out and getting twenty rabbits . Makes you wonder how much of a problem they really were , ??? Certainly not in my book , if there's easy prey for foxes , they will catch it , and some of your native wildlife could go the same way as there cousins ,

[rabbit demon 302]

Funny the sheep farmers spread myxi here to stop certain people lamping and coursing. They hunt hares mainly, when the myxi hit this last year the foxes were coming from everywhere when I was calling them. Had 15 sets of eyes staring back at one night with a couple of squeals. Coincided right with the lambing. Foxes were starving and sprinting to you when they were called. These diseases totally mess up the balance.

[Arry 22,011]

Just been to a property I keep for winter hunting where usually easily pull 20 rabbits for the afternoon.Dog frantically going from warren to warren with no mark, all lifeless.Dog caught one rabbit on edge of property.I come here every few weeks during the cooler months,not this year.Been hunting here for 7 years and never seen it like this,so puting it down to K5.Other spots also have low numbers.In central tablelands nsw,once a mecca for rabbit hunters,now a nightmare area for farmers with loads of hungry foxes decimating livestock and native wildlife,You wonder what the people who released this virus were thinking.

 

Money !!!! alway comes down to money. Their playing with fire.

 

Cheers Arry

[stoggy 598]

Great shame hope we do not get it here.

[mushroom 13,085]

Wasn't it the Ozzies that developed Mitzi?

[moxy 617]

Money is bang on

 

http://www.pestsmart.org.au/rhdv-k5-frequently-asked-questions/

[Aussie Whip 4,112]

Wasn't it the Ozzies that developed Mitzi?

Somebody brought it over here in the 50s.

[Arry 22,011]

Perhaps the Australian RSPCA should take the Australian government to court for cruelty to animals.

 

Cheers Arry