Actionpigeons Posted December 22, 2011 Report Share Posted December 22, 2011 (edited) Has any one noticed a shortage of Rabbits this season in Derbyshire? I had a lot of Rabbits on my pemission last season but im very short of them now. Yes I took about a 100 last year , but there was still plenty about at the end of the season. Seen a lot feeding in the summer as I was walking or driving past my Pemission but they seen to have vanished. Edited December 22, 2011 by Actionpigeons Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swiss.tony Posted December 22, 2011 Report Share Posted December 22, 2011 maybe moved away to a better post code area ? may be dont like your aftershave ? or best of all you shooting there sisters :look: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Actionpigeons Posted December 22, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 22, 2011 (edited) maybe moved away to a better post code area ? may be dont like your aftershave ? or best of all you shooting there sisters :look: Good to get mature answers to a topic debates, I have a 7 year old grand son that would write something like that Edited December 22, 2011 by Actionpigeons Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yankeedoodlepigeon Posted December 22, 2011 Report Share Posted December 22, 2011 (edited) Good to get mature answers to a topic debates, I have a 7 year old grand son that would write something like that Yes I agree. No place for this on here... Maybe they are on holiday or work in the area could have dried up and now a ghost field. Edited December 22, 2011 by yankeedoodlepigeon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swiss.tony Posted December 22, 2011 Report Share Posted December 22, 2011 Good to get mature answers to a topic debates, I have a 7 year old grand son that would write something like that chill out only a bit fun but dont think ill bother next time will just let you moan and bitch into your cornflakes in peace Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mad1 Posted December 22, 2011 Report Share Posted December 22, 2011 I have next to non left but I would like to put it down to being a good shot and spending enough time on clearing them for the land owner ( or it could be down to the mixy) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Actionpigeons Posted December 22, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 22, 2011 I have next to non left but I would like to put it down to being a good shot and spending enough time on clearing them for the land owner ( or it could be down to the mixy) Some one told me of a new virus that rabbits are getting, not mixy . Do you know of this or any one else know about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mad1 Posted December 22, 2011 Report Share Posted December 22, 2011 (edited) Rvhd symptoms are not universal and may include loss of appetite, lack of co-ordination, respiratory difficulties and discharge of blood from orifices (including nose-bleeds). However, animals generally show few external symptoms of the disease and it is much more likely that an apparently healthy-looking animal will just 'drop dead'. The incubation period is between 24 and 72 hours with death from several hours to one or two days later. RVHD is a very difficult disease to diagnose in the wild. There is a marked difference between the apparently healthy-looking corpses of animals dying of RVHD and those dying of myxomatosis. Edited December 22, 2011 by mad1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TaxiDriver Posted December 22, 2011 Report Share Posted December 22, 2011 My landowner reckons that they do move about dependant on what crops are planted/growing in certain fields Seems a plausible reason but I'm not experienced enough to know for sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Actionpigeons Posted December 22, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 22, 2011 Rvhd Google it it does not sound nice Well done mate I have just googled RVHD makes interesting reading., This could be why they seemed to of disappeared over night.. I heard that a virus from China was to blame but was unsure of the name of it and what it did. . It says only takes 24 to 72 hrs to kill them. Mixy bad enough with out this spreading everywhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pavman Posted December 22, 2011 Report Share Posted December 22, 2011 (edited) shot over 750 this year on my bits which is more than last year so no shortage here Edited December 22, 2011 by pavman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Actionpigeons Posted December 22, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 22, 2011 shot over 750 this year on my bits which is more than last year so no shortage here Happy days mate, wish we had them in them numbers around here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elmerfudd Posted December 22, 2011 Report Share Posted December 22, 2011 Had a few just outside buxton but dropping off the further south I go,picking up again in parwich. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david hunter Posted December 27, 2011 Report Share Posted December 27, 2011 very few on the one farm i shoot.but a quarter of a mile away on another farm there are plenty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
subbyc Posted December 29, 2011 Report Share Posted December 29, 2011 very few on the one farm i shoot.but a quarter of a mile away on another farm there are plenty. Hardly any in west Fife. There are however loads of buzzards and magpies. Even the crows are making a comeback. It seems the buzzards are taking the young and managing their numbers that way - damn them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
labstaff Posted December 30, 2011 Report Share Posted December 30, 2011 Not many on my patch in Derbyshire (Near Ripley) either, no myxy so hoping its not RVHD. In North West Leicester on the shoot I go to, Myxy is everywhere! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
william1 Posted December 30, 2011 Report Share Posted December 30, 2011 hi lad's would that eating the rabbit.' /could it be passed on to human's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
90bhp Posted December 30, 2011 Report Share Posted December 30, 2011 They do move with crops and also the weather biggest burrow on my main permission is heaving in the summer when dry weather and good grass. In the winter they all move to a hedgerow in the next field at the top of a slope. Never actually seen them packing up and moving, but every summer they are in the main burrow and in the winter re-appear in the hedge burrows Saying all of that there are certainly less this year. Anyone else finding the same near me ? (SW Leicestershire / Warwickshire borders) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
labstaff Posted December 31, 2011 Report Share Posted December 31, 2011 Hi William. Are you asking if rabbits with RVHD and Myxy are edible for humans? If so I believe if a rabbit has RVHD they tend to die down the bury. If its myxy then yes a human can eat them....... but I wouldn't fancy it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frenchieboy Posted December 31, 2011 Report Share Posted December 31, 2011 In reply to the OP have you thought about the possibility of poachers, especially those using ferrets and nets as they can almost clear a small permission of rabbits in practically no time at all if they know what they are doing? I have one smallish permission that I was always able to get half a dozen rabbits from each time I went with the 17HMR but on the last couple of visits (Including on the lamp) there has hardly been a single rabbit to be seen. On talking to one of the "locals" who exercise their dogs there they told me that they had seen a couple of chaps using ferrets who seemed to have quite a lot of rabbits. There has also been a couple of lampers seen there but they can be a devil of a job to catch and I for one do not fancy facing up to "lampers", especially when I don't know how many of them there are or if any of them are armed or not! I should add that I know that anyone ferretting or lamping on this permission is poaching as have sole permission there but it is so out of the way you just can not watch it 24/7! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Actionpigeons Posted December 31, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 31, 2011 Hardly any in west Fife. There are however loads of buzzards and magpies. Even the crows are making a comeback. It seems the buzzards are taking the young and managing their numbers that way - damn them thay are talking about letting people shoot some of the buzzards, not sure if its a good thing or not. I do enjhoy watching them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Actionpigeons Posted January 3, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 3, 2012 (edited) In reply to the OP have you thought about the possibility of poachers, especially those using ferrets and nets as they can almost clear a small permission of rabbits in practically no time at all if they know what they are doing? I have one smallish permission that I was always able to get half a dozen rabbits from each time I went with the 17HMR but on the last couple of visits (Including on the lamp) there has hardly been a single rabbit to be seen. On talking to one of the "locals" who exercise their dogs there they told me that they had seen a couple of chaps using ferrets who seemed to have quite a lot of rabbits. There has also been a couple of lampers seen there but they can be a devil of a job to catch and I for one do not fancy facing up to "lampers", especially when I don't know how many of them there are or if any of them are armed or not! I should add that I know that anyone ferretting or lamping on this permission is poaching as have sole permission there but it is so out of the way you just can not watch it 24/7! Hi, you could be right about some poachers lamping it but in the wood itself it full of brambles. I ferret the would myself but with hawks waiting on in the trees as the brambles are to much for nets without clearing them, and nothing has been cleared. Hi William. Are you asking if rabbits with RVHD and Myxy are edible for humans? If so I believe if a rabbit has RVHD they tend to die down the bury. If its myxy then yes a human can eat them....... but I wouldn't fancy it! i only feed rabbits to my hawks, like a bit of lamb better...lol i dont think hawks can get RVHD Edited January 3, 2012 by Actionpigeons Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.I.A Posted January 3, 2012 Report Share Posted January 3, 2012 Plenty of them on my perms Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
labstaff Posted January 3, 2012 Report Share Posted January 3, 2012 Are hawks effected by eating myxy rabbits? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferret Master Posted January 4, 2012 Report Share Posted January 4, 2012 Are hawks effected by eating myxy rabbits? No. FM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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