Shortage of rabbits........?

[steveS.Yorks 161]

My lads got some permission around 20 miles from where we live,the landowners tried picking up a few myxies and dropping them[i obviously dont agree with this]and they havent been touched,they seem "immune" to myxi.

So when we got permission and ferreted a good few we had an "accident" on the way home,some rabbits escaped alive in our area,things looked pretty good for a while with plenty of young rabbits bobbing about in the area,and then myxi [or something]broke out again and flattned them.

When we next saw the landowner and told him [he's no mug from travelling stock]he says the rabbits on his land have never had a touch of myxi while hes been there,and cant beleive the ones we took have died?

 

Maybe its a different strain of the disease thats developed?

[charlie caller 3,654]

Maybe its not myxy it could be VHD viral hemoraghic disease,but Im from syorks and never seen it round here but you never know i suppose? I hope not its worse than bloody myxy,my old lurcher got one or two with it down in cheshire a few years ago,and it was like handling a living skeleton, horrible :sick:

 

CHARLIE CALLER

[steveS.Yorks 161]

Maybe its not myxy it could be VHD viral hemoraghic disease,but Im from syorks and never seen it round here but you never know i suppose? I hope not its worse than bloody myxy,my old lurcher got one or two with it down in cheshire a few years ago,and it was like handling a living skeleton, horrible :sick:

 

CHARLIE CALLER

 

Im from Rotherham mate,we dont get VHD here to my knowledge,ive seen it in N.Yorks when a relative keepered up there,nasty disease.

Unless you have a lot of rabbits [not much chance near me]it doesnt seem to spread through them,i think its transferred through their piss and then the other rabbits eat the contaminated grass[been told that anyway]

 

I think either somebody has re-released myxi or its naturally mutated as flu/cold viruses do,but im no scientist,whatevers happening its decimated a lot of places for around the last 3 yrs,i cant explain the funny coloured rabbits appearing at different places at the same time,unless man's had a hand in it,the two areas are fairly well apart,seems to much of a coincidence.

The nature reserve was crawling with rabbits at one time,maybe the people who run it have had a hand in it? Course they wouldnt let you ferret/lamp,that would be cruel.