Croohur Posted September 14, 2018 Report Share Posted September 14, 2018 (edited) Hi all, I had a bumper crop of rabbits this year on the farm, back in fields they havent been in a while. In the past month I havent noticed as many. I have also found about 5 dead rabbits just laid out on the ground. I had a look at them and could see no signs of infection of inflammation. The only thing wrong with them (besides being very dead...) was som dried blood around the nose of two of them. Anyone know what the problem could be?? Edit: Just did a bit of quick googling, looks like it may be RHD, something I hadnt seen of around here before. Yikes. Edited September 14, 2018 by Croohur Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old'un Posted September 14, 2018 Report Share Posted September 14, 2018 Some of the farms I shoot used to have some big numbers but with Myxomatosis and RHD there numbers have been well down and on some of the farms they have all but disappeared. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultrastu Posted September 14, 2018 Report Share Posted September 14, 2018 Mate sat out all night on our main perm and saw zero rabbits .😭 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mice! Posted September 14, 2018 Report Share Posted September 14, 2018 I counted 40-50 last week sat out around 5pm, i was amazed, haven't seen that many in years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PPP Posted September 14, 2018 Report Share Posted September 14, 2018 5 hours ago, Croohur said: Hi all, I had a bumper crop of rabbits this year on the farm, back in fields they havent been in a while. In the past month I havent noticed as many. I have also found about 5 dead rabbits just laid out on the ground. I had a look at them and could see no signs of infection of inflammation. The only thing wrong with them (besides being very dead...) was som dried blood around the nose of two of them. Anyone know what the problem could be?? Edit: Just did a bit of quick googling, looks like it may be RHD, something I hadnt seen of around here before. Yikes. Exactly the same here, feel bad for not shooting more in spring and early summer, at least they could have been eaten and not suffered... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longbower Posted September 21, 2018 Report Share Posted September 21, 2018 There was an article in one of the national papers last week , reporting the RHD2 ,and Myxie had reduced the rabbit population by 65% compared to 2013. I have loads of perms where there was hundreds , and now very few. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
islandgun Posted September 21, 2018 Report Share Posted September 21, 2018 On 14/09/2018 at 20:28, PPP said: Exactly the same here, feel bad for not shooting more in spring and early summer, at least they could have been eaten and not suffered... My thoughts entirely. I could see the mixy slowly making its way up the coast. I shot quite a few but should have harvested more Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker570 Posted September 21, 2018 Report Share Posted September 21, 2018 Had probably 25-30 regularly showing in my 10 acre wood, early morning and evening. In the last seven days non, absolutely zero, definitely RHD. It wipes them out very quickly and the majority die in the burrows. Last year by now on a couple of areas I was well into 200 shot, this year same areas 6. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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