deadeye ive Posted November 11, 2005 Report Share Posted November 11, 2005 This year has been a bumper harvast for Rabbits on my shoots..............Particulary the Golf course. Last Night at the Golf Club:( .............I ONLY saw 4 Rabbits and shot 2 of which one was scarred with MYXY :< ......... Apparently one theory is that during a population explosion the young re-visit the old burrows where the Flea carrying this dreadful disease habitates and so the cycle of an epidemic proceeds. OR IS IT BEING PUT DOWN ILLEGALLY. :< Hows thing in your areas chaps ?? :thumbs: And what time period does it take roughly for numbers to recover in your areas. Ive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kip270 Posted November 11, 2005 Report Share Posted November 11, 2005 Went round to few farms and they have said the same, not as many rabbits about this year?:thumbs: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferret Master Posted November 11, 2005 Report Share Posted November 11, 2005 Hi, I haven't seen it for 3 years thank God. :thumbs: FM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henry d Posted November 11, 2005 Report Share Posted November 11, 2005 Can I send you some .....just pay their train fare. `kin 1000`s mate :thumbs: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badsworth Posted November 11, 2005 Report Share Posted November 11, 2005 I found a bunny sat in the middle of the road the other day - eyes bright red and breathing its last. I am afraid Mxy is back here (near Bridport) with a vengeance. Rabbit numbers are well down on last year. B Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devilishdave Posted November 11, 2005 Report Share Posted November 11, 2005 I find If I hammer them hard spring and autum they dont tend to get mixi or atleast not as much. Not got any on my pach this autumn Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kip270 Posted November 11, 2005 Report Share Posted November 11, 2005 Henry D, Your not that far from me, wouldn't believe there would be such a difference in populations. Nature is a funny thing :thumbs: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hound dog Posted November 11, 2005 Report Share Posted November 11, 2005 can you eat rabbits with myxy ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kip270 Posted November 11, 2005 Report Share Posted November 11, 2005 suppose so, but would you really want to??? Wonder why you see a few of them around, would think they would make an easy meal for foxes/buzzards etc??? Maybe they know something we don't :thumbs: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNAKEBITE Posted November 12, 2005 Report Share Posted November 12, 2005 can you eat rabbits with myxy ? Lets put it this way, a fox will go past a mixy rabbit and turn it down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackthorn Posted November 12, 2005 Report Share Posted November 12, 2005 can you eat rabbits with myxy ? Lets put it this way, a fox will go past a mixy rabbit and turn it down. hope not one waiting in the hedge for him first one Ive seen for a while on the ground we shoot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George1990 Posted September 24, 2009 Report Share Posted September 24, 2009 Sorry, old thread! I don't want to waste a mixy one I got today, as it is a good size. Sure it's good to eat?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glensman Posted September 24, 2009 Report Share Posted September 24, 2009 I wouldn't... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferret Master Posted September 25, 2009 Report Share Posted September 25, 2009 Sorry, old thread! I don't want to waste a mixy one I got today, as it is a good size. Sure it's good to eat?? Won't harm you if you eat it. FM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George1990 Posted September 25, 2009 Report Share Posted September 25, 2009 Did I mention that the eye-balls are my favourite bit... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racingfrank7 Posted September 26, 2009 Report Share Posted September 26, 2009 Its just starting to come back in north yorkshire noticed it over last couple of weeks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PERCE Posted September 28, 2009 Report Share Posted September 28, 2009 Its just starting to come back in north yorkshire noticed it over last couple of weeks You must live in a different part of North Yorkshire to me, it's been rife in Swaledale since late June early July. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince Green Posted September 28, 2009 Report Share Posted September 28, 2009 (edited) You can eat a rabbit with mixy in the sense that it isn't harmful to humans. however I don't think I would like to. I wouldn't give it to the dogs either. I remember them telling us that BSE wouldn't affect humans or dogs until it was too late. Actually mixy doesn't kill a rabbit. At least not outright. the rabbit dies a slow death out in the cold and wet or gets taken by a fox or attacked by crows. They wander away from their burrows and can't find their way back. I hadn't heard the thing about foxes ignoring a rabbit with mixy, in my experience a fox will take anything. We used to shoot the rabbits inthe back of the head with an air rifle and dump them in a hedge but they had usually gone by the next day. It may well be that in a bad epidemic there are just so many rabbits around that the fox can't eat them all. You often see rabbits with mixy out in the rain soaking wet and starving because it can't find food or is too ill to eat. Once the weather gets colder and wetter they will die in droves. Many rabbits do recover though and you will see rabbits with scarring round their eyes but otherwise healthy once the epidemic has passed. it seems to return to an area every three years or so Edited September 28, 2009 by Vince Green Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy the Kid Posted September 30, 2009 Report Share Posted September 30, 2009 Myxi has raised its ugly head here (excuse pun),my main farm seems to have been hit hard,so might have to find more land to ferret. Billy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timmy264 Posted November 13, 2009 Report Share Posted November 13, 2009 it's unbelievable on anglesey. the last 10 i've shot have all had mixy. they're sitting around the grass verges everywhere around here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluebarrels Posted November 13, 2009 Report Share Posted November 13, 2009 Hampshire and Surrey have areas affected badly with myxy,hopefully some will survive,but i think the ferreters are going to have a lean year around these parts BB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddy Galore! Posted November 13, 2009 Report Share Posted November 13, 2009 Lets put it this way, a fox will go past a mixy rabbit and turn it down. Not quite true, the fox will leave the head as this is where the disease centres. i've shot hundreds of rabbits this summer and left half of them for foxes, when i've returned there's usually quite a few heads left here and there. you can eat the meat, just leave the head as mixy is a neurological disease i'd bone the rabbit aswell. the reason you see lots of mixy rabbits around is cos their brains are stewed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
berthaboo Posted November 13, 2009 Report Share Posted November 13, 2009 i went lamping the other night and had one with it only one so far but still not good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr lee Posted November 14, 2009 Report Share Posted November 14, 2009 We got hit hard by mixy 2 years ago and it wiped out virtually all of them on one of our permissions. The rabbits have started to come back now with about 10 seen so far this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MerseaDavid Posted November 14, 2009 Report Share Posted November 14, 2009 We have been lucky all year until about 2 weeks ago when it hit our rabits hard and there have been so many just sitting out in the field in a ball not moving and my mate dog has had 15 in the last week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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