Mixy Rife On New Permission

[Jax13 251]

ive got rights on a fairly big farm with a huge bunny population and i was lookign forward to some big bags with the ferrets. I've nipped down once or twice with the rifle to work out where the decent warrens to attack first are (and to stick a couple in the freezer to keep the fezzers fed in the mean time)

 

went down today for a couple of hours and mixy has exploded on there. took a dozen with the rapid tonight and each one is riddled with it which is really frustrating as it could potentially knock out huge numbers (walked past 5 or 6 dead in the fields in varying states of decay). regardless of how many it does kill, there will still be some good sport left on there its just frustrating that what could have been a gold mine of bunnies is now potentially going to be pretty sparsely populated this year

Edited August 31, 2015 by Jax13

[Leeview 792]

and even less to breed from next year=success as far as the landowner concerned,plus side he may recommend you to others

Y.I.S Leeview

[Jax13 251]

Unfortunately this is one permission where they aren't bothered about the size of the population as they have far more grazing space than they need for their herd size so I was looking forward to having one where I could be a bit selective and use it for sport rather than clearance.

 

It belongs to a friend of the family too so it is a handy place to have access to.

[MR TEA POT 1,287]

Not a good year for rabbits this year low numbers about :-(

[The one 8,597]

Don't think so there's a few places I hit lightly and there's good amounts on them , at my work I lamp and ferret it and it's moving this year again

[northern lad 2,293]

Is this the new one we were talking about Cam?Me and John are going to have a wander over our permissions in the next week or so,fingers crossed the Myxi hasn't hit there,numbers on some of it were way down last year ,was hoping for a good breeding season....will let you know when weve had a walk

[Jax13 251]

yeah its on the one where the hedge bottoms are like swiss cheese - everywhere!!!

 

never seen so many dead in the field before. the crows & buzzards must be having a field day with it.

 

when we get down there its gonna be interesting, we're gonna need a lot of nets because some of the warrens are 30 / 40 metres long and probably upwards of 100 holes each!

 

on another note, if you know of any decent lurcher litters knocking about send me the details - we lost the ridgeback a couple of months ago and i want another pup!

[northern lad 2,293]

Will do mate if I hear of anything going Don't worry about nets mate ,definetly have enough with longnets etc hopefully there will be some bunnies left