Gav 1,708 Posted November 12, 2018 Report Share Posted November 12, 2018 We were over run by rabbits here untill this arrived, honestly to see the population go from plague proportions to nearly extinct in weeks is unbelievable. Never thought I'd see it here! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Born Hunter 17,622 Posted November 12, 2018 Report Share Posted November 12, 2018 Nothing but pockets of rabbits round here now compared to 10 years ago. Disease has utterly f****d them. Bloody shame really but at least I had some good rabbiting before it all went. Not sure they will ever recover. When myxi was introduced it knocked the population back permanently. It should be expected that RHD will have a similar effect. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Arry 18,490 Posted November 12, 2018 Report Share Posted November 12, 2018 Seen it here Gav but not that potent. its very patchy now pockets of good number them areas not far away where it barren. Cheers Arry 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Gav 1,708 Posted November 12, 2018 Author Report Share Posted November 12, 2018 Aye only time will tell what devastation it wreaks in the long term! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Born Hunter 17,622 Posted November 12, 2018 Report Share Posted November 12, 2018 1 minute ago, W. Katchum said: I feel for my kids, they all love rabbiting an any day off school is always spent either rabbiting or annoying life out is to go rabbiting Be a damn shame if they take another whipping like mixy did to em, but I got a wee bit faith in Mother Nature, hopefully she will stop em being wiped out, as I honestly really like seeing them about, watching rabbits play an chase each other about a field always makes me smile, even if I not ferretin them I don't think anything else provides such a wide variety of sport as the rabbit. It is a fantastic quarry. I used to love Sunday mornings ferreting, nights lamping with our lurchers, hunting hedgerows and flushing them to gun with my terrier, late summer evenings stalking the margins with a rifle... Times change and I'm doing new stuff now but it is a shame a lot of that rabbiting is gone. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
flynndog 543 Posted November 12, 2018 Report Share Posted November 12, 2018 It's been up the dales years carcasses laying about with no sign of myxi an old keeper i know told us about it about 10 years ago Quote Link to post Share on other sites
countrymon 51 Posted November 12, 2018 Report Share Posted November 12, 2018 if it carries on like this , it makes you wonder if it will be worth owning a lurcher and ferrets. There has been a massive decline over the last 2 seasons locally, where i was counting 50 plus on some fields of an evening i am now seeing one and twos. it reminds me of the seventys , used to walk for miles with the dog, only thing we run then was the hares, now that jobs buggered as well, Reckon they will see a big decline in raptor numbers now up there, its happened here with the buzzards already. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
trigger2 3,100 Posted November 12, 2018 Report Share Posted November 12, 2018 i think I saw something on the t.v that there is studies being carried out in areas of the country due to the decline in rabbits and they are actually trying to replenish numbers. It may well have been country file I seen it on. They were counting catching and weighing rabbits. Hopefully we can help them to get back a healthy population all over the country. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
j j m 6,478 Posted November 12, 2018 Report Share Posted November 12, 2018 think I saw the same program Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DIDO.1 20,796 Posted November 12, 2018 Report Share Posted November 12, 2018 We haven't really had good numbers of rabbits for twenty years in Lancashire. Yes there was estates with good numbers and odd areas but the days of rabbits on waste ground or moorland edge seem to have gone. Our on the coast seemed to hold em, in the light sandy ground. Year before last I went to look at a job on an airfield, you could see em sat outside sandy Warrens out in bare fields.....went ferreting 2 weeks later and every one had gone. And no they hadn't been poached, they nemerous fences and military police protecting em on that land. If my lad asked me to take him ferreting I would honestly struggle to find a rabbit for him. It's a sad state of affairs 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CushtyJook 1,097 Posted November 12, 2018 Report Share Posted November 12, 2018 (edited) Rabbits and hunting for them is pointless around here and has been for a few years Edited November 12, 2018 by CushtyJook Quote Link to post Share on other sites
iworkwhippets 12,247 Posted November 12, 2018 Report Share Posted November 12, 2018 Not just rabbits, but hares are suffering as well Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fred90 3,087 Posted November 12, 2018 Report Share Posted November 12, 2018 it's all doom and gloom for us. but look at Yorkshire lads still making big bags YouTube is loaded with video & some on here doing it so can't be that bad. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
walshie 2,804 Posted November 12, 2018 Report Share Posted November 12, 2018 Isn't the big bags part of the problem? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fred90 3,087 Posted November 12, 2018 Report Share Posted November 12, 2018 1 minute ago, walshie said: Isn't the big bags part of the problem? there isn't a problem when you are talking them week in week out. numbers rest of us can only dream about we would do the same. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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