rabbits in oz

[Bearfoot 1,477]

 I no plenty farmers who have put deseased rabbits down collected at markets from around the country wile buying stock I've even been asked myself several they do some damage that for sure there is a bigger picture modern farming bigger machine tearing  out hedgerows reintroduction of raptures glyfosates chemicals ect we are our worst enemies at times 

Edited March 21, 2019 by Bearfoot

[dogmandont 9,825]

Numbers have collapsed here as well places that used to hold a good population are now empty all but the odd one here and there. Mixy and new farming practices have been their downfall. 

[dogmandont 9,825]

Just now, W. Katchum said:

I been asked by 3 folk over this past season to supply them with infected bunnies so they could release them in dales to stop folk coming rabbiting Obviously I said no but I’m sure they would have got em elsewhere if they were determined 

Some people are just proper cnuts. They would rather have a rabbit die a long lingering death than have lads on and do it the right way. And people class us as the cruel ones. 

[dogmandont 9,825]

9 minutes ago, W. Katchum said:

Can see where they comin from even if i don’t agree mate, Same folk poison rats an nobody bats an eye lid, yet with rabbiting there’s still folk out now an right up until recently even with sheep about to drop an I think there’s been 3 reported stock worrying attacks by dogs(not just working dogs) in past couple weeks, sure somebody over next dale lost 16 sheep an over 40 lambs other day That’s not without thefts an that aswel, like Iv said before the dales are Goosed now unless ye got ye foot firmly under table

But why not get decent lads on over the winter to reduce the numbers the right way without introducing a shitty disease like mixy. And about the rats I don’t think they take a week or two to die after consuming poison. 

[Black neck 15,986]

2 minutes ago, dogmandont said:

But why not get decent lads on over the winter to reduce the numbers the right way without introducing a shitty disease like mixy. And about the rats I don’t think they take a week or two to die after consuming poison. 

Alot dont die from it round these parts just get ill then recover only found 3 or so dead uns but loads wi the scars on um 

Just thought I'd fire that in 

[dogmandont 9,825]

3 minutes ago, W. Katchum said:

I ain’t debating what’s right or wrong pal I just saying it as it’s happening, be honest would you really care about a few rabbits if ye thought ye quad or mini digger has been pinched by lamps out lamping? Or would you feel sorry for poor Steve who ye hardly know but always been polite when dealing with the rabbits an that if ye thought some lads out coursing were responsible for the loss of thousands a pounds worth a mutton an lamb?  I don’t know how I’d react tbh but can understand why some places want the rabbits gone 

I get what your saying don but it’s just a real shitty way of culling rabbits, and god forbid a farmer would have to employ a professional pest controller to get rid of the problem animals. If you have a problem with lads coming on that shouldn’t be there then by all means get rid of the problem but at least do it the right way. A bit of a different issue but Seen a large area void of most ground dwelling animals because a farmer was losing cattle to TB so him and his neighbors pumped slurry down every hole they came across be it rabbit fox or badger when all it needed was a few nights out with his rifle and he would of got the results he was looking. 

[dogmandont 9,825]

2 minutes ago, W. Katchum said:

Farmers ain’t knows for doing this the right way mate, they do it the quick way

You mean the cheap way don. Cnuts are all saving up to be Jewish. Lol. 

[Aussie Whip 4,100]

The farmers here put out 10/80 like its lollies,cheap, quick way to kill target species and most native animals get caught up in it.Ask if you can catch a few rabbits,might as well ask for a night with their wife.

[Aussie Whip 4,100]

3 hours ago, fred90 said:

Yes a chap at work (not a dreamer or arse hole) stopped the van on way home what he thought was a rabbit sat at roadside. turned out to be a leveret full of myxi. 

Might be a mutated type of the virus,never heard of myxi affecting hares.I have found a couple of hares dead lately on my property,so maybe its hitting here.

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

14 hours ago, fred90 said:

Yes a chap at work (not a dreamer or arse hole) stopped the van on way home what he thought was a rabbit sat at roadside. turned out to be a leveret full of myxi. 

There is a school of thought which puts the hare eye damage down to a new group of pesticide sprays allowed to be used on the set aside margins around fields .Ive seen hares with eye damage but nothing like the pussy mixy disease .

 

[micky 3,325]

I have read this post and my take on Mixi  is that it's a cruel and foul disease but I was around when rabbit numbers were at their height and in a small way helped my Granddad  to control them and over the years I have often read how people today say how the could have kept their numbers down if they had the chance , now when I was a kid every boy in every village was a Rabbit catcher as was every manual worker and they were very good at it , so what is it that makes people think that they would make a better job of doing it  than they then those lads pre 55 who were out every spare minute with Traps ,Snares , and Nets ????

[fred90 3,234]

33 minutes ago, micky said:

I have read this post and my take on Mixi  is that it's a cruel and foul disease but I was around when rabbit numbers were at their height and in a small way helped my Granddad  to control them and over the years I have often read how people today say how the could have kept their numbers down if they had the chance , now when I was a kid every boy in every village was a Rabbit catcher as was every manual worker and they were very good at it , so what is it that makes people think that they would make a better job of doing it  than they then those lads pre 55 who were out every spare minute with Traps ,Snares , and Nets ????

interesting point there. I wonder if these wonder rabbiters who say this have realised the equipment & technology they take for granted wasn't available at that time.