MXY

[Guest Frank]

Ok, as their seems top be so much mxy around at present, including in one of my areas as well, big time , I thought id see what other folks experiences with the dreaded desease are.

 

What does it do in your areas when it comes? Do they recover quickly from it or does all the bunnys nearly get wiped out?

 

It is apparently dying out over their in the UK and bunnys are getting imune to it, wish it was the same over here.

 

It seems to completely wipe them out over here and it can take a long time for them to recover.

 

So, say it how it is people.

 

Frank.

[Guest The Shaman]

Good luck with your survey Frank - Mixy is a dreadful way for a rabbit to go - I know it's a contradiction because I shoot them - but when I target something it either gets away scot free or I nail it - the poor bugger doesn't suffer

[Ricky-N.p.p 0]

I find some places deal with better than others...one of the better places we go to always has a mixture of healthy rabbits and deseased ones. we average a bag of about 30 there .

 

but in most places it almost wipes them out entirely.

[Hywel 53]

Only partially wipes them out here in S.Wales Frank. I've netted various rabbits in the past that are obviously getting over the symptoms.........

[mapreader 5]

Ok, as their seems top be so much mxy around at present, including in one of my areas as well, big time , I thought id see what other folks experiences with the dreaded desease are.

 

What does it do in your areas when it comes? Do they recover quickly from it or does all the bunnys nearly get wiped out?

 

It is apparently dying out over their in the UK and bunnys are getting imune to it, wish it was the same over here.

 

It seems to completely wipe them out over here and it can take a long time for them to recover.

 

So, say it how it is people.

 

Frank.

Hi Frank, just my twopenneth worth but down here, mid south coastish, we seem to have pockets of it all year round with, it would seem some more virulent outbreaks chucked in for good measure. What i have noticed is that when we get a bad dose that really shakes them up, i,ve notice that a crop of rabbits appear a short distance away that was not as heavily populated as prior to the outbreak, which leads me to believe that where so many die below ground the buries are essentially uninhabitable for quite some time, locally this can take a season or so before buries are getting back to normal numbers. Other areas where i do a lot of night time longnetting don,t seem as bad. Take last season, i netted a field with my son and we had 46 rabbits, 10 had myxi, we groaned. Next set of darks we took another 44 from the same field and apart from a couple that were getting over it all were nice healthy rabbits. What i will say is this a friend of mine saw a document from some government type department that pretty much said the worst outbreak yet seen is still three places off the top scale of how they measure the disease! You tell me! All the best Mapreader.

[mooster 1]

Frank,I'm in Devon.I've seen more this year than last but it has never wiped out any of the farms I go to .

About one in every twenty is my experience,but who knows?Mooster.

[Guest Bigbob]

Dont know if it's true or not but i had heard there where 10 strains of myxi and there on strain 9 and it never kills the rabbit out totally so R.H.D. came along

[Guest Frank]

Thanks very much so far folks for all your comments and experiences with mxy.

 

I was out today at the good place with mxy and not all it seems are wiped out, as i got some very healthy rabbits , hope it stays that way.

 

Keep it coming folks.

 

Frank.

[Phil Lloyd 10,739]

Hi Frank,...this season has been the worst ever for us 'darn sarf'...

I've never seen such devastation. Myxy rabbits everywhere...

Its too late now for many fresh litters of youngsters,.but hopefully the frost will kill off the fleas and make a quick end of the carriers of the disease...Personally,.I've a big stake in the rabbiting..££££

So,.fingers crossed that ole' Brer can make it... All the best,.CHALKWARREN....

[Guest Frank]

Thanks CHALKWARREN.

 

Im hoping the same me self.

We have had no frost at all over here , as yet, really strange weather , fecking green house and all that malarky has things awoll.

 

Frank.

[Guest walk by night]

myxi has hit us hard this year with idiots lamping in summer it has been the worst start to a season since i started hunting and i have been at it 26 years places were there as been not alot of myxi has coped it rely bad were you would see a good few rabbits nowt about catching 1 here 2 myxi has hit us bad this year the worst ever

[amd50 0]

We got it in two of our spots last year in West Yorkshire, one spot got over it easy and there's still plenty of bunnies about, the other spot you can't even see a sign of a rabbit now, both decent size spots and both were well populated prior to the mixy. On the first spot, we've never had it on there before, maybe that's something to do with it wiping them out so easily or maybe just a harder strain of mixy than on the other spot.

[mapreader 5]

Hi to anyone interested, just to follow up on my previous post. Been to a different area tonight, I guess about 12 miles away from where i refered to previously, good sou-wester prevailed. My partner and i ran three hundred yards of net, took 58 rabbits off of two sets. This time last year, and beyond the xmas period mxyi was rife, tonight we had not a sign of it thank goodness. How the fff...k do you do paragraphs on this poxy machine. Still, moving on to other matters. How,s it hanging Chalks, just realised how you sussed.. it was the govt. dept thing wasn,t it?Tried to disguise it, guess i failed. Still, fair play sir and no harm to you, we have walked the same road , people like us need to stick together, there arn,t to many of us left, not too sure how it will pan out (you know to that which i refer), speak soon. Over and out Mapreader.

[Guest Frank]

Thanks for the recent replys.

 

It seems to vary from area to area. In most places over here, if the rabbit population is high, it is only in a couple of feilds, as usually, the feilds are surrounded by bog, so the rabbits cant spread. The rabbits heve been their for a while, but when they get out of hand, a farmer asks for a mxy rabbit from someone and introduces it, which is totally ileagle.

The rabbits then get wiped out and never seem to return

 

But this is only in areas that are mixed bog and farm land, good land where there is 100s of acres, seems fine and usually, the bunnys only get partially wiped out.

 

Cheers,

 

Frank.

[3jackwhite3 2]

i think the people who made mxy should invent a cure for it as well because they wouldn't like it if they were a rabbit and they had mxy so why make it!