Black Rabbits

[micky 3,325]

On 23/06/2022 at 13:07, Moocher71 said:

Me grandad called them parsons and he'd never take one ,I remember seeing black /white rabbits along a railway line years ago near Market harbouer but I think someone had let them go and they had bred with wild ones .

Their are a few places in that area where  Black Rabbits show every year, they were introduced  before the War to increase the Meat yield and improve the quality of the Fur, up the Road a few miles away on the Althorpe  estate  i caught a few White ones ! these had been introduced around 1900  to make the Lawns look nice and the strains are still in their Genes.

[Moocher71 4,049]

2 hours ago, micky said:

Their are a few places in that area where  Black Rabbits show every year, they were introduced  before the War to increase the Meat yield and improve the quality of the Fur, up the Road a few miles away on the Althorpe  estate  i caught a few White ones ! these had been introduced around 1900  to make the Lawns look nice and the strains are still in their Genes.

They was good few black white ones along the railway at market h ,always remember a old fella I went ferreting with trying to catch them up ,Althorpe nice estate, I used to have a mate that lived on the estate in a old keepers cottage .