Lancashire

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thanks lads. will be a few months yet I think, i'm thinking of netting 3/4 grown leverets later on in the year. any thoughts on that? ie. best time of year

 

Hares breed practically all year round any leverets around now will be having leverets by November themselves

Y.I.S Leeview

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found hares dead in an area a couple of years ago, sent for tests and the conclusion was fluke. been asked to control some hares and would like to relocate rather than shoot. in lancashire. was going to buy a new long net as I gave mine away years ago but though someone in lancashire, with net or relevant hare netting experience would like to help out for the crack.

 

if not we will give it ago ourselves. if it works we might try netting some in a big hare area on east coast next year

 

What makes you think the hares will settle where you release them? Lancs is pretty flat where the hare used to abound and bringing hares from east coast is rolling hills until you get down to Anglia, so a lot different terrain to what they were used to.

How many hares are you after relocating? more than 6 and gatenets wont be an option I've been netting hares when we have had up to 6X 100yds nets in a line, with 15 men to remove and box the hares, then theres the beaters, the more the merrier (had mornings out and all the kids in a village(well known coursing village)have been brought along complete with terriers,collies and mongrels) great craic preban.

transporting them you do need boxes to consider the hares welfare, these boxes would hold 4(occassionally 6) hares in individual compartments not just a box, with plenty of ventilation all round.

Y.I.S Leeview

 

Its an on going project really. I have been asked to reduce hare numbers on one farm where they grow turf nearby, they have been told hares eat x amount of grass and x amount of hares eat as much as x amount of sheep etc so I figure they are better given a chance rather than the local 'pest control' shooters enjoying shooting something they wont eat with pest control as an excuse. We have a number of areas in mind that used to hold hares, some as I have said we found hares dead on and tests said fluke. other areas where open access moor that hares were pushed off with disturbance, on similar areas with some safe havens ie, plantations hares have come back. So its an on going thing with both habitat and introductions in mind.

 

This year all going well it will be small numbers and the aim is to get the transport boxes correct and see how introduced hares adapt.

 

I must state this is simply a conservation project and the hares will not be used for any fieldsports in contravention of the hunting act. Though it should also be noted it will be done by and at a cost to fieldsports enthusiasts

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found hares dead in an area a couple of years ago, sent for tests and the conclusion was fluke. been asked to control some hares and would like to relocate rather than shoot. in lancashire. was going to buy a new long net as I gave mine away years ago but though someone in lancashire, with net or relevant hare netting experience would like to help out for the crack.

 

if not we will give it ago ourselves. if it works we might try netting some in a big hare area on east coast next year

 

What makes you think the hares will settle where you release them? Lancs is pretty flat where the hare used to abound and bringing hares from east coast is rolling hills until you get down to Anglia, so a lot different terrain to what they were used to.

How many hares are you after relocating? more than 6 and gatenets wont be an option I've been netting hares when we have had up to 6X 100yds nets in a line, with 15 men to remove and box the hares, then theres the beaters, the more the merrier (had mornings out and all the kids in a village(well known coursing village)have been brought along complete with terriers,collies and mongrels) great craic preban.

transporting them you do need boxes to consider the hares welfare, these boxes would hold 4(occassionally 6) hares in individual compartments not just a box, with plenty of ventilation all round.

Y.I.S Leeview

 

Its an on going project really. I have been asked to reduce hare numbers on one farm where they grow turf nearby, they have been told hares eat x amount of grass and x amount of hares eat as much as x amount of sheep etc so I figure they are better given a chance rather than the local 'pest control' shooters enjoying shooting something they wont eat with pest control as an excuse. We have a number of areas in mind that used to hold hares, some as I have said we found hares dead on and tests said fluke. other areas where open access moor that hares were pushed off with disturbance, on similar areas with some safe havens ie, plantations hares have come back. So its an on going thing with both habitat and introductions in mind.

 

This year all going well it will be small numbers and the aim is to get the transport boxes correct and see how introduced hares adapt.

 

I must state this is simply a conservation project and the hares will not be used for any fieldsports in contravention of the hunting act. Though it should also be noted it will be done by and at a cost to fieldsports enthusiasts

 

ive got a crate hear that holds 4.... and ime sure i could make another one.

 

thou the fecking things die for fun

[Leeview 787]

True pk they will die unless they are handled correctly, I doubt I could count on the fingers of one hand how many have died from being netted to relocation, and the figures would be in the thousands over several years from Northumberland to Hampshire and East Anglia to Cheshire.

Dido Scottish National used to course on some turf land in Lancs

Y.I.S Leeview

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