Hammergun Posted July 28, 2003 Report Share Posted July 28, 2003 I shot this bunny recently. What struck me was the unusual colouring on the head. There is a 2-tone pattern with a more ginger colour below the forehead coming from a V pattern I've not seen before, and the fur on the body was more brown than usual. It was a young rabbit and was perfectly healthy. Anyone noticed variations like this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.223 Posted July 29, 2003 Report Share Posted July 29, 2003 last year while on works experience on the local estate i caught a rabbit in a trap which also had a thick white stripe running down the middle of its head i have also shot black and ginger colour rabbits and seen albino rabbits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hammergun Posted September 3, 2003 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2003 I am told that this pattern sometimes occurs half way through shedding the winter coat, whereby the moult starts at the nose and goes backwards to the ears. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hammergun Posted September 15, 2003 Author Report Share Posted September 15, 2003 Here's a rabbit I shot tonight. It's shedding its summer coat and you can see the moult lines. Similar moult lines occur on the body. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red_stag88 Posted September 16, 2003 Report Share Posted September 16, 2003 Alot of the ones i have shot look like that, I have shot one with its ears i nthe wrong place also, thery were se to far back on its head, it looked very weird! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hammergun Posted September 16, 2003 Author Report Share Posted September 16, 2003 It's the time of year when they start to moult. The rabbit with the dodgy ears wasn't one of those which had been burrowing at Sellafield was it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest charlie Posted September 20, 2003 Report Share Posted September 20, 2003 there is a article in this weeks countrymans weekly by jackie drackford which covers these strange markings. week ending september 19th. lurcherboy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest charlie Posted October 2, 2003 Report Share Posted October 2, 2003 hammergun, did you get the countryman's weekly i sent you? lurcherboy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hammergun Posted October 5, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 5, 2003 Here's the completed skin. After all the effort in making it, I'm a bit reluctant to let the dog maul it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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