Harsh winters effect on rabbits

[FightTheBan 1,147]

Out ferreting today and yestarday on an estate in dumfries. We ferreted the same hill at the same time last year and got 160 and 150 two days in a row and this year didnt get 100 between the two days. Carcasses lying everywhere and had 7 digs to rabbits that had starved underground.

There is still a good breeding stock and the ones left in good condition.

 

Very sad to see, but heres hoping it has thinned out the rubbish for a bigger and healthier population next year!

FTB

[lodgesmith 4]

Only the fittest survive.Making next season rabbits better .

[The one 8,595]

We got our biggest bag yet last week and they where all healthy big fat rabbits ,but in another place we just picked up a few there where dead rabbits lying about but we blamed myxi

[stealthy1 3,964]

Rabbits not been affected by weather here, all fat gits

[wirral countryman 2,110]

Out ferreting today and yestarday on an estate in dumfries. We ferreted the same hill at the same time last year and got 160 and 150 two days in a row and this year didnt get 100 between the two days. Carcasses lying everywhere and had 7 digs to rabbits that had starved underground.

There is still a good breeding stock and the ones left in good condition.

 

Very sad to see, but heres hoping it has thinned out the rubbish for a bigger and healthier population next year!

FTB

are you sure they had'nt been gassed to ground,I found a similar thing here in cheshire,turned out they'd paid rentokill 1700 pound to gas them and yet I could'nt get the price of my diesel off them,mean f*cker's.

[FightTheBan 1,147]

Definately not gassed bud, we were out wae the keepers.

 

The rabbits up on the heather line were all still in abundance, but the low lying ground with grass fields and short cover were decimated. I have no doubt they will be back in force next year, some bits of ground will always have rabbits no matter how many you take off.

 

FTB