Young bunnies

[cantona 310]

The numbers of rabbits by me have drastically reduced much the same as most places, had a walk round earlier and saw one or two in each of the old hot spots but no young at all, I always see plenty of young but most die from hd or maxi, the adults are about albeit a small amount, but why no young at all, nowhere?

[Bobtheferret 1,269]

There’s a fair few around me but maybe not as many as you might expect but it’s hard to know as not really out and about as much as usual due to the bloody virus. 

[fred90 3,324]

picked one up on way to work just been hit by a car. lovely clean doe. not in kindle or milky, which it should have been really. 

[Bobtheferret 1,269]

Every doe I caught from late jan onwards till the last one I had two weeks ago was either milky, pregnant or both. 

[Loton Moocher 1,255]

Speaking to a keeper yesterday he says he seen young about where you dont usually get any ? Gota. Be good news for me thats if this feckin virus has gone come winter ?

[fred90 3,324]

3 minutes ago, Loton Moocher said:

Speaking to a keeper yesterday he says he seen young about where you dont usually get any ? Gota. Be good news for me thats if this feckin virus has gone come winter ?

good luck . last few years here looked like it could be picking up at last. Young about through summer, soon as autumn came hardly anything, usually myxi has struck. I don't expect anything else now. 

[Loton Moocher 1,255]

2 minutes ago, fred90 said:

good luck . last few years here looked like it could be picking up at last. Young about through summer, soon as autumn came hardly anything, usually myxi has struck. I don't expect anything else now. 

I know where your comeing from mate the last few years never known it as. Bad even with big mixy outbreaks ?

[Penda 3,341]

I was working in Peterborough today and on the way home to brum saw hell of alot of bunnies with mixy on the side of the road 

[fred90 3,324]

1 minute ago, Penda said:

I was working in Peterborough today and on the way home to brum saw hell of alot of bunnies with mixy on the side of the road 

I still see myxi as the biggest killer of rabbits and not rhd. 

[Loton Moocher 1,255]

1 minute ago, Penda said:

I was working in Peterborough today and on the way home to brum saw hell of alot of bunnies with mixy on the side of the road 

Not a good sign as it well early for a mixy outbreak must have. Been the good spell of weather we av had ?

[Loton Moocher 1,255]

2 minutes ago, fred90 said:

I still see myxi as the biggest killer of rabbits and not rhd. 

I see the 22 rifle at night worse than mixy ?

[Bobtheferret 1,269]

Mixi is still a horrible killer of rabbits and no matter how many times I’ve seen a mixi rabbit I still feel such a feeling of despair when I see one, evil disease and terrible death. Nothing worse than seeing numbers build up nicely then going back to a spot and seeing corpses everywhere. 

[poxon 5,816]

Seen no young rabbits at all local to me seen the odd adult about but I see more fox an roe deer than rabbits about at the minute. just before I packed in for the season it was getting noticeably dull on the rabbit front the tick over was slow my bitch was knocking them out there seat they weren’t offering no sport for her she was like what the fecks wrong with em dad why they not pegging it......full of mixy bad case of it as well we put a good few out there misery I can foresee this winter local being poo on the rabbit front but I’ll be traveling about this winter With the young bitch 

[Loton Moocher 1,255]

3 minutes ago, poxon said:

Seen no young rabbits at all local to me seen the odd adult about but I see more fox an roe deer than rabbits about at the minute. just before I packed in for the season it was getting noticeably dull on the rabbit front the tick over was slow my bitch was knocking them out there seat they weren’t offering no sport for her she was like what the fecks wrong with em dad why they not pegging it......full of mixy bad case of it as well we put a good few out there misery I can foresee this winter local being poo on the rabbit front but I’ll be traveling about this winter With the young bitch 

Our area its always the same places it hits year after year but not looking good if it about already  ? Luckely not seen any yet ?

[poxon 5,816]

I see a thing on utube the other day about mixi in Australia there constantly making different strains of the virus to release to kill rabbit numbers off as they have had big numbers there but they keep developing strains of the virus because they get amune to the strains to quickly but it’s for sale to for land owners to buy to release with rabbit problems any were in the world they said it was sickening to watch tbh