Rabbit numbers

[neil b 2,371]

1 hour ago, W. Katchum said:

Wet weather will see a drop in numbers just before season starts

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[chartpolski 24,849]

2 hours ago, FOXHUNTER said:

Plenty rabbits around Throckley

I'm not seeing them and I can see Throckley from my house

Cheers.

[OldPhil 5,812]

The problem locally is Myxy....always has been...

We are on the South Coast and there are numerous Salt Marshes...

These places are phenomenal breeding grounds for blood sucking Mosquitos,...and I do believe they, (alongside the rabbit flea) are prime vectors for spreading the noxious disease.. Every year it is the same....hot Summers followed by damp Autumn weather,...perfect conditions for the Myxoma Virus to flourish, and do its work

 

Edited June 12, 2022 by OldPhil

[mackem 27,836]

I think there's been 3 cases of RHD here, two in BC one in Alberta? Myxie is the same, rare. Biggest threats to rabbits are hawks and coyotes, quite a few rabbits running around the neighbourhood. 

[FOXHUNTER 5,021]

50 minutes ago, chartpolski said:

I'm not seeing them and I can see Throckley from my house

Cheers.

You need to know where to look

[chartpolski 24,849]

1 minute ago, FOXHUNTER said:

You need to know where to look

I hope you're not poaching the land I poach ! !

Cheers.

[FOXHUNTER 5,021]

Just now, chartpolski said:

I hope you're not poaching the land I poach ! !

Cheers.

No my mate has a few small permissions around Throckley

[chartpolski 24,849]

1 minute ago, FOXHUNTER said:

No my mate has a few small permissions around Throckley

I had ferreting permission on Dewley farm, Throckley, but the area is barren of rabbits. It was good to have if you got the pull coming back along the 69 from more productive areas

I get my hen feed from East Heddon farm, another area barren of rabbits.

Cheers.

[FOXHUNTER 5,021]

Just now, chartpolski said:

I had ferreting permission on Dewley farm, Throckley, but the area is barren of rabbits. It was good to have if you got the pull coming back along the 69 from more productive areas

I get my hen feed from East Heddon farm, another area barren of rabbits.

Cheers.

You don't see rabbits sitting  along the 69 now like you used to.  Used to be heaving all the way from Hexham through Melkridge to Haltwhistle , dont see anything now.

[chartpolski 24,849]

Just now, FOXHUNTER said:

You don't see rabbits sitting  along the 69 now like you used to.  Used to be heaving all the way from Hexham through Melkridge to Haltwhistle , dont see anything now.

When you used to come off at the Hexham roundabout, before they made the bypass, the verge would be thick with rabbits.

Honestly, i lamp from Blucher, through Wallbottle, Newburn, Throckley, Heddon and all the way to Fourstones, both sides of the 69 and hardly see a rabbit. Plenty of hares and roe, though !

Cheers.

[Gypsydog94 4,623]

1 hour ago, OldPhil said:

The problem locally is Myxy....always has been...

We are on the South Coast and there are numerous Salt Marshes...

These places are phenomenal breeding grounds for blood sucking Mosquitos,...and I do believe they, (alongside the rabbit flea) are prime vectors for spreading the noxious disease.. Every year it is the same....hot Summers followed by damp Autumn weather,...perfect conditions for the Myxoma Virus to flourish, and do its work

One of the best populations I know of local to me is on a friends farm bordering the estuary and marshes. Strange how myci doesn’t seem to effect them to bad. 

[Bosun11 537]

Lads reporting numbers are up on a few local farms. It's good news, though I fear it won't last long...

[fred90 3,292]

I come up to Northumberland once or twice a year with the missus and dogs, mainly walking etc, good numbers at Wooler over last couple of years. 

[FOXHUNTER 5,021]

2 hours ago, chartpolski said:

When you used to come off at the Hexham roundabout, before they made the bypass, the verge would be thick with rabbits.

Honestly, i lamp from Blucher, through Wallbottle, Newburn, Throckley, Heddon and all the way to Fourstones, both sides of the 69 and hardly see a rabbit. Plenty of hares and roe, though !

Cheers.

Plenty roe and hares I know ....we shoot a few foxes. Do you see many foxes?

You obviously havent come across the couple of pockets of rabbits I know of

[chartpolski 24,849]

18 minutes ago, FOXHUNTER said:

Plenty roe and hares I know ....we shoot a few foxes. Do you see many foxes?

You obviously havent come across the couple of pockets of rabbits I know of

Any amount of foxes, mate. Especially in the fields near houses.

I see them almost everyday hanging around my Allotments and the b*****ds cleared out my Cayuga ducks, killed six but only carried off two.

To be honest, rabbits aren't my first or second choice of quarry with the type of dogs I keep, I like to run the hares and roe, day or night, but we cover a lot of ground along the Tyne valley and there are certainly nowhere near the rabbit numbers there were, say, back when we were doing the lamping competitions 10-12 years ago.

Cheers.