To Damp To Lamp... Bad Weather

[lurcherman887 178]

Not to bad down south rabbits still about as usuall

[tilimangro 1,013]

Just returned to lamping aftera long break,shocked at how little there is out there ATM .had a few runs on higher ground but saw feck all on every other field

[mud 2,044]

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Edited November 3, 2014 by mud

[Sirius 1,391]

Shouldn't really moan nothings as bad as frozen ground, just this wet is hard work!

Edited January 26, 2014 by Sirius

[nothernlite 18,137]

Should really moan nothings as bad as frozen ground, just this wet is hard work!

thats to come so there saying would rather have this than that

[beast 1,884]

the wet summer 2012 fecked the rabbit population round here, and although they started picking up over the summer this past month has seen them sitting out in cover again, as so many of the burrows are flooded. and they are just easy targets for the foxes ( more foxes round here for the last couple of years than i've evr seen before). whats more, as sirius said the rabbits just wont sit out in the water logged fields - its clay round here mostly too. ferretting is out, lamping is out, just trying to beat the foxes at the bushing game!

[whippet 99 2,613]

that's the place ray , the supplies are delivered by the fireman in boats

[wirral countryman 2,110]

I've been bushing loads of skinny rabbits lately this past few weeks, in fact so much so I'm thinking of giving them a break on certain farms that have been constantly in a couple of inches of water, I'm off out lamping on one now to start a mates pup off so it will be interesting to see whats about, till later, WM

[wirral countryman 2,110]

Well, I'm just back in and there were plenty about on the drier fields but next to nothing on the ground that's been holding water, my mates pup done good for its first nights lamping, she caught 3 out of 4 runs and looks as if she's been at it all her life, bodes well for the future, but she is a very well bred bitch, WM

[trigger2 3,204]

ive been out myself tonight its done nothing but sleet/snow havent seen a great deal about but what i have caught has been in fine fettle, fat and healthy. got on some banks to try and work some dryer ground but the dog was slipping all to feck on the turn.

[Ideation 8,216]

If we have another wet summer or mbad winter..... They're f****d! A combination of disease, weather and hunting them hard when their down ......will push them over the edge!

[wirral countryman 2,110]

Ideation, I've got to agree, certainly on some of my farms, they are only just getting over mixie before XMAS and then flooded buries and fields everywhere, there are a lot of skinny looking rabbits about in certain areas, we can only hope the weather picks up and we get a decent spring, WM