A Walk Today ! Mixi Strikes Again!

[storm323 191]

Rained off today so went for a good walk down the sand dunes a few miles away from my home ! Dogs caught 4 rabbits all with Mixi !!! Very sad to see ? my question is do you think people are still putting it down? Or the disease is still living strong in the fleas ? How profitable and good food rabbits would be if Mixi wasn't about !

[Tozer 385]

I keep hearing people say that mixi gets put down/moved and I think in 99% of cases it isn't true, and very few people are moving it. I reckon if you could get a now on the entire population of rabbits locally, plotted on a map where it has popped up you would see a pattern of it moving around.

[johnrthrfrd 223]

I know a farmer that defiantly puts it down and will drive a fair way to get a mixi rabbit to start it off.

[Sweeney 316]

Ffs that's early, hope my bits don't get it. They are thriving atm and haven't been for a few years now.

[FERRETBOY 680]

I would go back with the lamp and cull as many as you can. Then de flea the dogs afterwards.

[Dewclaw69 484]

Wicked disease myxi. On the whole more rabbits do seem to have more resistance. I have seen plenty of rabbits that look like they have recovered and carry scars . It will always affect some areas more than others. Areas with standing water are more susceptible as this is where the mozzies breed.

Wetter years also seem to have more myxi as the rabbits seem to spend more time underground and it must transmit quicker. On one of my permissions, myxi is definitely confined to certain areas of the farm where other areas remain unaffected.

[paulsmithy83 567]

Weather by far seems to have the biggest affect around here. With drastic weather changes it sure seems to pop up more and spread.

[storm323 191]

It's a dam shame ! I think that farmer should be reported ! A truly cruel disease !!! It was by the sand dunes so right by the sea ! The local fields behind my house had one hell of a bloom last year loads of rabbits may till June then Mixi hit and I caught over 40 just walking the the day was sickening !!

[iworkwhippets 13,131]

Golf course where i work my bitch,every year myxi is introduced, theres loads of rabbits at the moment, young and old, im expecting any day now on my walk, i will see myxi, the dog mops em up, but every year, back they come, this year more so than ever

[nans pat 2,575]

I know a farmer that defiantly puts it down and will drive a fair way to get a mixi rabbit to start it off.

i knew an ould boy made a living during the war years rabbiting,anyway he was saying farmers used to ask him for maxi rabbits to let go,he used to get a pair of fresh rabbits and blow a bit of pepper in their eyes before he called to the farm,the good old days,ehh,

[Dewclaw69 484]

always wondered about folk saying myxi is introduced. other than dropping a myxd bunny into a burrow of healthy rabbits ( i know it can be spread by contact as well as fleas) i cant really see how . most fleas will have left the rabbit once dead and its a bit of a tall order hoping it will be spread by contact into a healthy population. cant just drop into the local agricultural merchant for a gallon of myx can you ? might be on the same shelf as a gallon of tb and a bag of foot and mouth .its something that just comes and goes i reckon with some areas affected worse than others.

Edited June 3, 2015 by robs5230