A fun day and black rabbits?

[HarveyTheHunter 6]

Had a really enjoyable day out ferreting on my mates farm bagged 10 but the start of the day was soo hard their was loads of holes in think brambles we got 2 out of their and lost 4!! well at one we decided to move on a found a nice open bit to ferret and it was great we got 8 out of their and not even to many holes! well recently round my village i keep getting black rabbits and seeing them every where! i bagged a black one today aswell any one know why they are black?

[shaunpauls7 131]

Sounds like a good day out bud well done.Nothing worse than netting up on thick bramble patches.

Atb shaun

[simonrocco 175]

well done pal sounds like a desent day atb

[whin 463]

usaly get black rabbits when there an explosion of good breeding then you get coiulors coming through saw lots of old suffok blacks down dirty wall near aldeburgh a few in scotland ,not got the anser but i notice them when there a good breeding populaition

[Tug 168]

Throwbacks to keepers and warreners who uses to release them. It's easier to count 3 black rabbits in a field of normal colours as they are obviously different. If you noticed the black ones were missing then you knew you had poachers or predators.

Edited November 29, 2011 by Tug

[Ideation 8,217]

Throwbacks to keepers and warreners who uses to release them. It's easier to count 3 black rabbits in a field of normal colours as they are obviously different. If you noticed the black ones were missing then you knew you had poachers or predators.

 

That's an old wives tale mate.

 

Agouti is made up of a number of colors, including black, white, brown etc. As a result you get mutations where you get rabbits of all one color. I've even seen half white / half normal etc. It's more prevalant as whin says, in a big, healthy population.

[KittleRox 2,147]

Throwbacks to keepers and warreners who uses to release them. It's easier to count 3 black rabbits in a field of normal colours as they are obviously different. If you noticed the black ones were missing then you knew you had poachers or predators.

 

That's an old wives tale mate.

 

Agouti is made up of a number of colors, including black, white, brown etc. As a result you get mutations where you get rabbits of all one color. I've even seen half white / half normal etc. It's more prevalant as whin says, in a big, healthy population.

Correct, the different colours originate from wild rabbits and are occasionaly produced when two rabbits mate which carry the hidden gene

 

not from pet rabbits which have been released

[Jamie m 668]

Throwbacks to keepers and warreners who uses to release them. It's easier to count 3 black rabbits in a field of normal colours as they are obviously different. If you noticed the black ones were missing then you knew you had poachers or predators.

 

That's an old wives tale mate.

 

Agouti is made up of a number of colors, including black, white, brown etc. As a result you get mutations where you get rabbits of all one color. I've even seen half white / half normal etc. It's more prevalant as whin says, in a big, healthy population.

Correct, the different colours originate from wild rabbits and are occasionaly produced when two rabbits mate which carry the hidden gene

 

not from pet rabbits which have been released

Correct as pet rabbits come from wild rabbits anyhow

[KittleRox 2,147]

Throwbacks to keepers and warreners who uses to release them. It's easier to count 3 black rabbits in a field of normal colours as they are obviously different. If you noticed the black ones were missing then you knew you had poachers or predators.

 

That's an old wives tale mate.

 

Agouti is made up of a number of colors, including black, white, brown etc. As a result you get mutations where you get rabbits of all one color. I've even seen half white / half normal etc. It's more prevalant as whin says, in a big, healthy population.

Correct, the different colours originate from wild rabbits and are occasionaly produced when two rabbits mate which carry the hidden gene

 

not from pet rabbits which have been released

Correct as pet rabbits come from wild rabbits anyhow

Correct

[Jamie m 668]

Throwbacks to keepers and warreners who uses to release them. It's easier to count 3 black rabbits in a field of normal colours as they are obviously different. If you noticed the black ones were missing then you knew you had poachers or predators.

 

That's an old wives tale mate.

 

Agouti is made up of a number of colors, including black, white, brown etc. As a result you get mutations where you get rabbits of all one color. I've even seen half white / half normal etc. It's more prevalant as whin says, in a big, healthy population.

Correct, the different colours originate from wild rabbits and are occasionaly produced when two rabbits mate which carry the hidden gene

 

not from pet rabbits which have been released

Correct as pet rabbits come from wild rabbits anyhow

Correct

And correct

[HarveyTheHunter 6]

hummmmmmm so is it becuase of the game keeps or the other reason im comfused!!

[KittleRox 2,147]

I remember a mate telling me about a big white pet rabbit ( dutch white I think ) which had been living wild for quite a few weeks when he decided to bolt it for the dug,

a very accomplished lurcher, gave the dug a good kicking apparantly , not a second time though because the dug knew what to expect

[Jamie m 668]

The colour variation in wild rabbits, is a naturally occurring phenomenon....

Obviously folk sometimes let domestic bred rabbits loose, for various reasons...but this is not the primary cause and I have caught odd coloured rabbits in many 'out of the way' places and areas, that verge upon wilderness. Such remote moors and heaths have scarce seen a human, let alone a tame bunny..

 

The old adage regarding Victorian Gamekeepers putting down black rabbits, as an early warning system against night netters, etc, does not realy stand up to close inspection.....

 

Caught plenty of Blue Bevan's round Micheldever....there must still be a few about...?

 

All the best, CW..

 

 

 

www.chalkwarren.co.uk

Had one last year chalkers down Portsmouth by the harbour got a pic somewhere big old buck it was ,

[NewBarnFerrets 3]

I just thought they were over 40 & had dyed their hair to cover the grey