Doggone Posted June 13, 2006 Report Share Posted June 13, 2006 http://www.burrill.demon.co.uk/meddoc/myxo.html Follow this link to an essay on myxamotosis. Tells you all you'd ever need to know, if you can wade through it, worryingly though it also finishes with a bit on new deseases they are working on to eradicate rabbits. Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirky640 Posted June 13, 2006 Report Share Posted June 13, 2006 bigsam Im not sure culling will impact the mixxy. Cranfield yes I would agree35-40yrs. Now help me out with this, this is what I have been told about mixxy some 25-20 yrs ago:1. It was designed by an Australian to curb the plag of bunny there. 2. It was by "design" only meant to be a one off cull, put in the air to impact bunnies, never meant to keep repeating itself. 3. It is a type of In ferial disease that is contacted by fleas. 4. The fleas live on and around the mouth ot the warren and the rabbits that enter the warren get the fleas and pass them on too. 5. Basically they die from the clap. 6. I have also heard the the person who invented it committed suicide when he saw the recurring damage it was doing. PS. What I don't know is, if you eat meat from a mixxi bunny would it do you any harm??? I wouldn't eat one but what if you didn't know it had it?? eating a mixxy rabbit would cause you no harm at all. this question was brought up at yes you guessed it the basc health and hygeine course for small and large game i was at. the basc rep said it would be ok for eating, yuk i say no way. we have no mixxy in my shoot but can remember times when they were killed out a bit only 3 or 4 years ago, none since thank fully. i thnik as some of you have said keeping there numbers down helps cheers kirky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beatingisbest Posted June 13, 2006 Report Share Posted June 13, 2006 at one point i did have it all over my permission they have all since died out and i have been left with the rabbit numbers on the land greatly reduced, partly due to me though. The numbers are still very low and i havnt taken one in months because i want the numbers to rise again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dunganick Posted June 13, 2006 Report Share Posted June 13, 2006 :( mixie what a nasty thing to give to any living thing i was talking to a friend the other day who workes on the railway he told me they started to put it down last year to controll the rabbits on the lines i didnt know it was still legal to introduce it intentially? Although i know many farmers who allow mixy to take hold of the population as a means of free pest controll Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
young gun Posted June 13, 2006 Report Share Posted June 13, 2006 There is almost no trace of it round here at the moment, the rabbits don't seem to get it here untill winter when we get a few with it but we usually shoot these first and it luckily never really gets established here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highlander Posted June 14, 2006 Report Share Posted June 14, 2006 Myxi has never really gone away. There are without doubt rabbits that are imune to it to some extent but it seems that once a population gets large then it kinda thins them out. Bit like the plague, the black death, when the human population grew too large and the fleas that transmitted the disease could move from host to host with ease then it hit. Probably still could today, maybe does in some areas Here in East Anglia certainly near the coastal areas the soil is very light/sandy and rabbits love it. We can shoot dozens, sometimes hundreds in an evenings lamping but very few appear to have myxi. Then again the ones that do generally go off and die somewhere and we only see the healthy ones. Trust the biggest predator on the planet, us, to come up with such a horrific way of wiping out another species. Lets hope the Hitlers and Sadams of this world never get their act together to concoct such a thing that'd work on humans. OR perhaps genetic manipulation will do that anyway! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPEEDY Posted June 14, 2006 Report Share Posted June 14, 2006 Every year when I was on the farm the bunnies would breed up around Christmas time and they would be everywhere. But come autumn time there would be sick and dying rabbits all over the place and you would hardly see one till spring. Where I live and hunt at them moment I haven’t seen any sign of mixxy at all so I guess that’s it’s a little patchy down here and even better that it doesn’t work completely. We have also had the rabbit Colici virus (or something?) released down here and its instant death to any rabbit community that it hits, overnight they just all die. Luckily they are building up a resistance as for a couple of years there it was easier to find hen’s teeth then rabbits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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killer rabbit (r1000) Posted June 18, 2006 Report Share Posted June 18, 2006 Everyone I have shot has been fine Im glad to here it :yp: Of course fine is relative they have all been dead which i suppose isn't fine for the rabbit. LOL I don't know about rabbits with Mixi, but I once ran over one with my Maxi! I'll get my coat... :( :( haven't seen any signs of myxi around these parts yet, but not seeing many rabbits on my current shoots (actually, my mates shoots) - isn't very much fun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teal Posted June 18, 2006 Report Share Posted June 18, 2006 It's actually the disease which is becoming less virulent. When introduced to Australia in 1950 it killed 99% rabbits. The longer the rabbit has the disease the more chance (and more times) the virus is transmitted so natural selection favours these strains rather than the quick killers, so the strains we see these days aren't anywhere near as bad as they used to be, allowing the rabbits to overcome them. I know quite a few farmers who will pick up myxi rabbits if they see them and put them into a bank of holes on their own land. It's a horrible disease though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mel b3 Posted June 18, 2006 Report Share Posted June 18, 2006 i visited a piece of land this morning that up until 3 weeks ago held up to 200 rabbits(the place was overun with baby rabbits but i was leaving them to grow) , i counted 3 this morning , it must have hit pretty hard but i've only seen a few mixy rabbits on this piece of land so i didn't realise it would be quite so bad , one of my other shoots had mixy last year and i never saw a sign of a rabbit for months but they're slowly moving back in Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave-G Posted June 18, 2006 Report Share Posted June 18, 2006 I'm holiday-ing near penzance at the mo with my brother who has several thousand acres available to him. Between us we have left several hundred bunnies around for foxy in the last seven days - not seen any mixy yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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