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after mixy hit alot of my ground 2 years ago it has been a real struggle to find decent numbers. had a friend of mine ring me tuesday who i shoot with and he said alot of the ground we cover south of me has now got signs of mixy. I am looking at some new ground later to take on but i think it will be mainly fox and roe. my ferrets are not going to work to much this winter. how are the rest of you guys doing on the rabbit front?

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picked up some large pig units that i have been foxing on recently. a few rats but with regular visits from a bait man numbers are not high. like to work the terriers on them once sheds are cleared.

i have plenty of shooting. just got some land signed of for me and a shooting partner today to go with about a dozen or more patches golf courses,private schools,farms,pony paddocks,orchards etc just not many rabbits on them as there were a few years ago. me and my mate cover a few thousand acres and he said the ground is being decimated by mixy. as the cover grows back the ferrets would be being worked alot. they will have to live on venison lol

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Start of summer i was out around our way alot.. Checked a field thats never empty last week and it was empty... Never not seen a rabbit in there....

we had a few 50s and 60s in a night last year on a single farm in glastonbury but now mixy has hit. i get calls to deal with all sorts of pest problems regular. but over the last 2 years most of it seems to be foxes very rarely get rabbit damage.did do a farm by the motorway with a mate i have not been out with for a while managed a few last week . just dont want to shoot too many as numbers are so low.

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we had a few 50s and 60s in a night last year on a single farm in glastonbury but now mixy has hit. i get calls to deal with all sorts of pest problems regular. but over the last 2 years most of it seems to be foxes very rarely get rabbit damage.did do a farm by the motorway with a mate i have not been out with for a while managed a few last week . just dont want to shoot too many as numbers are so low.

I got twp last week. One just outside blagdon the other ontop wrington hill... Irs empty round here..

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My main permission has had a bit of a resurgence as I was mainly hammering one field that the farmer wanted them sorted on so they have popped back with gusto on other parts of the farm. Four in the space of an hour yesterday sitting in one spot which is great for the farm concerned as they are quite nervous from years of shooting.

On the flip side at work where I have permission to shoot I had a bumper year last year then mixy hit and there are only a few hardy survivors left so I am letting the numbers recover a bit.

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We are over run with both buzzards and rabbits. I was ploughing last week and had 30 odd buzzards landing behind me. Yet they don't seem to dent the rabbit numbers.

They probably wont a healthy population of both is a perfect balance. Populations will fluctuate with rabbit numbers as its their primary food source.

 

After the rabbit was virtually wiped out in the 50's 60's Buzzards followed very quickly.

 

Thankfully many historical colonies of Rabbits appear to have built up some immunity to Myxomatosis.

 

Plenty of both around these parts.

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