Bobtheferret
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Everything posted by Bobtheferret
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A very strong point about a light harvest as you put it, I couldn’t agree more. At this stage in the rabbits fight against the disease it’s imperative that the rabbits that are left aren’t wiped out. I now only ever take a small crop and do just enough to keep a permission so as to keep a healthy stock for the future.
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Interesting to hear that they are back in big problem numbers again, even if it’s a little longer than I would have hoped it does back up my point the rabbit is a born breeder and survivor! Long love the humble bunny!
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Had a couple of milky ones but not pregnant ??. Noticed all the bucks bollocks are back last few weeks, getting a bit extra when I piss them out! I think the wet weather puts them back, noticed last year they seemed a little later than normal and jan/feb were very wet. Makes sense no point having a litter only for them to drown.
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RVHD2 has only really been around for 4-6 years depending on which part of the country your in but is now widespread and endemic to the uk rabbit population so you really need to give them time to recover. My positive outlook is from first the fact that mixi absolutely destroyed rabbits in this country and whilst some places have been hit hard it’s nothing like what mixi did, read up about the devastation it caused or ask some old boys a lot of people just gave up keeping ferrets altogether and the working breeds almost died out but rabbits recovered and relatively speaking pretty quickly real
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See plenty of bags of decent numbers on social media from all round the country, know a few welsh lads that seem to catch a fair few and the dales lads still seem to catch enormous amounts of coney. I think rabbits are suffering badly from RVHD2 and most areas have seen declines but I have great faith that rabbits will do what they do best which is survive and breed and will be back. Mixi killed 99% of rabbits and they came back. RVHD2 was bad in Australia for a 5-10 years and then stopped having an effect. Be patient don’t kill to many of what’s left and they will return.
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70/30 now slowly turning it around. Get voting lads
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Done and left a proper essay in the last box as to why it shouldn’t be banned.
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I would vote for the new party for sure. I am fed up with the same career politicians refusing to listen to the electorate and just doing what they want. We desperately need politicians that listen to the majority not the minority, look at the vaccine rollout volunteers are having to fill in or undertake 21 pieces of various bureaucratic woke nonsense like equality training, racial awareness training etc! No one except a few woke liberals gives a f**k, just get the vaccine in peoples arms so we can have some life back. Any politician prepared to actually represent normal folk has my attention
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I personally haven’t but I imagine that it would be great for day time hare spotting when they are tight in there seat?? I wouldn’t recommend buying a cheap one though, a mate bought a ‘cheap’ £400 one and compared to my £1000ish Pulsar XM30s it’s absolute rubbish. Mine is the bottom pulsar entry model but it’s brilliant just no record, colour change etc which I don’t need anyway. Buy cheap buy twice.
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I bought one about 4 months ago and as much as seeing what is around for hunting it’s just nice to watch nature doing what it does after dark. watching barn owls, foxes hunting recently noticed the rabbits getting in the mood it’s not all about killing stuff just good to get out, see things you could never see it daylight or with a lamp.
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This is pretty clear. Business as normal ladies and gents.
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I will be carrying on as normal unless I get locked up. I will of course respect any landowners that dont want me on during the lockdown but I’ve got plenty of places I can go where no one will know I am there. Not grafting all week and being locked up at the weekend. f**k that.
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I don’t have problems with poachers.....???
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Hopefully there’s some good amount of gear on there for you. Sometimes a big area doesn’t guarantee a good haul, I recently got recommended for a 600 acre farm that was “thick” with rabbits and there’s frankly bugger all on there. Genuinely hope that’s not the case for you ??
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Fallow are a serious proposition for any dog even an experienced deer dog. Big, strong and fast and often in large herds they are not for the faint of heart. My whippet is game as they come and big for a whippet but he just gets dragged around the field, I have desperately tried to break him to deer as it’s an accident waiting to happen but the little f****r is determined to eventually bag him a fallow ??
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Some of the fallow bucks round me are awesome beasts. One ran out on me whilst driving a transit van once did a massive right turn and was literally running alongside me, his headgear was higher than the van and his size and power was breathtaking. Remember thinking at the time any dog that could take him down would be some animal, fortunately I owned a very game beddywhippet at the time so no problem at all....??
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Will any other species of deer cross bread? Or just the sikas and the reds.
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I think I just came in my pants ??
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That’s some numbers! 60 in one Warren but looking at it seems about right.
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What an amazing Warren that is! Did you struggle with hole hopping?
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Good stuff. I love pink nets or bright orange, can’t lose them.
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Out of interest before this year had you more or less let the old coney be and numbers built up as a result? The more I understand about the lower rabbit numbers to more it seems that whilst disease is definitely a factor it seems over hunting is possibly a bigger factor. Permission I have that I know I am the only person that hunts rabbits on the rabbits seem to manage to maintain a reasonable population (I only take a few just enough to be doing your job) but where landowner shoots or multiple people ferret etc they just keep going down. That may sound obvious but my point is the disease is
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Amazing the numbers you consistently put away, fair play. Do you have to travel far? (Not after locations just curious if these are on your doorstep or if you put some miles in).
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It’s obviously hard when a land owner asks form eradication of rabbits on there land but I do my absolute best to make a show but do an awful job as the last thing I want is to wipe them out. I have found that whereas a few years ago you caught 15 of a hedge there would be 15 there the next year now if you catch 15 there will 1 or 2 there next year they just don’t bounce back like they used to. On the flip side though if I catch 5 of the 15 there’s a decent chance there will be 15 again the following year, more like a game keeper these days than a pest controller!
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I think something everyone on here can actually agree on (for once ?) is that papers love fear and sensationalism! Look at the bloody mess we are in on the back of it.
