The black bunny

[Netter 0]

If they were spreading mxyi, Why use a black one and not any other tame rabbit?

[mexlad 189]

I dont know if any one else has noticed but around my town when the black bunny shows up mixys not far behind I know they used to be released by keepers as a poacher detection but now I think they are released on the sly infected with mixy I do quiet a lot of ferreting and have never seen a young black rabbit only ever full grown,never one with mixy and they appear over night I see brown and white and ginger rabbits all year round but not these black ones I see them and then get the gun and shoot them asap maybe im barking up the wrong tree but what do you guys think. :wacko:

 

Oreyt mate just wonderd what did the keepers release black rabbits for.

 

Cheers mexlad.

Alright mate they used to put a black rabbit down in the old days and if it went missing then they knew something was a miss either poachers or predatory problem.

 

Oh reyt, thanks for the reply mate.

[Guest Countryboyo]

A bit of variety never hurt anyone, after my project is underway im sure there will be plenty of coloured rabbits showing up in my area. Not great camoflage but what can you do, they will mostly revert back to the wild colour after a few generations anyway.

[runforyourlife 361]

a young one

[slips 114]

I dont know if any one else has noticed but around my town when the black bunny shows up mixys not far behind I know they used to be released by keepers as a poacher detection but now I think they are released on the sly infected with mixy I do quiet a lot of ferreting and have never seen a young black rabbit only ever full grown,never one with mixy and they appear over night I see brown and white and ginger rabbits all year round but not these black ones I see them and then get the gun and shoot them asap maybe im barking up the wrong tree but what do you guys think. :wacko:

were i ferret/shoot the railway runs thourgh orchards we shoot these 3 meybe 4 times a week in the spring with f a c air guns and thats what we reckon and the mixy starts may/june time i also shoot a keeper place were black rabbits not uncommon but the black rabbits shot in orchards always av mixy

[alex24muk 0]

i have a mate who is a mate of a gamekeeper and he aked him about the black rabbit story and he said it was an old wives tale that keepers put them down, he said it was to do with the rabbits breeding being to close i.e son/mother father/daughter and so on this breeding often threw a few blacks into the mix

[SMOGGY 34]

Does anyone actually know of anyone actually spreading mixy ? and where would a keeper get a strain of mixy to infect a black rabbit in the first place- from his underground lab or does he get a mixy out of a field then put it with a black rabbit to transfer the disease then go and drop the black rabbit somewhere else (what would be the point), or maybe he goes to the local market and buys a dozen black rabbits infected. i think not,

 

It's as whin say blacks appear more when the population starts getting out of control, thats when mixy spreads, and as for not seeing blacks with mixy well when mixy comes it may take what 500 - 1000 rabbits out of a area how many do you actually see 15- 20 maybe 30+ but its only a small percentage ever get seem with mixy most die unnoticed, and when you add to that - that only one in a thousand or so rabbits may be black the chance of seeing a black rabbit with mixy is very unlikely.

 

atb smoggy

[Guest Countryboyo]

A lot of black rabbits seen in the wild have some domestic blood in them. A study was done on the frequency of black rabbits in england and the result was that they were always found within 500 yards of a house or residential area, rarely were they found far from where people were living. Of course the black rabbit occurs naturally in the wild but they are more likely to be decendants of or domestic escapees. Or released domestic stock.

[undisputed 1,664]

Yes the black bunny is the animal eqivalent to the grim reaper....once seen death, disease and pestilence are not far behind. Apparently they are going to remake "Meet Joe Black" using a black rabbit and all the other characters will be played by various colours of rabbits. Def an oscar in there for someone.

[bell24uk 0]

I've heard its supposed to be bad luck to bag a black rabbit, but thats just an old wives tale. Though

could be a carry on from the decoy rabbit, to see if poachers are about.

 

ye we got a few up here but i never touch them as they are suppose to be bad luck to shoot one and for me who has no luck atol i cant take the chance lol . the wifes tale is a black rabb is the after life of a priest or bishop hence the reason the get the nickname (priests)

[PAUL73 0]

blacks are x pets when i first started out with dogs the was a black and white one they call them duch. eveyone wanted it and could not catch it, it lived on the main path were people walked there dogs i bet it got 2 or 3 runs a day lol. one bloke offered £20 to the first one of us kids whos dog got it lol it was about for 3 years or so the was loads of blacks about for years after