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Scabby Rabbits?

  • 21-12-2005 9:03am
    #1
    thelurcher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 629 ✭✭✭


    Just wondering if anyone came accross diseased looking rabbits lately or know what it is:
    One place I go shooting had a fair population of rabbits - Summer before last they started getting scabs all over their body - the flies were even laying eggs on them while still alive - the fields were literally covered in dead rabbits - it's calmed down a bit but still get the odd one - they live with the 'disease' for a while now because for example their feet grow deformed around the scabs.
    Their riddled in tape work too.
    Doubt it's any form of mixy as the eyes etc. are perfect.


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  • #2
    Vegeta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,393 ✭✭✭✭Vegeta


    are they in the same fields as sheep, sheep get similar diseases like sheep scab and other various nasty things; hence the dipping every year. It might be worth reporting that to the environmentalist types in your area as they might know what it is


  • #3
    scout
    Closed Accounts Posts: 162 ✭✭scout


    sounds like there geting over a kind of mixx
    wher roughyy in cork do you shoot have seen similar prob. out in ovens, waterfall ,aherla ,bandan area


  • #4
    thelurcher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 629 ✭✭✭thelurcher


    There in with sheep alright - wouldn't take them to the dept. at all - only drawing trouble on the farmers.
    Doubt I'd get to keep my permission around there if I had a load of dept. officials in haz-mat gear swarming the fields ;)

    scout: good to see another Corkonian on here! I shoot further west in the county mainly - poor numbers of rabbits this season though all round.
    Was out for hours last night for very little in return.


  • #5
    Vegeta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,393 ✭✭✭✭Vegeta


    thelurcher wrote:
    There in with sheep alright - wouldn't take them to the dept. at all - only drawing trouble on the farmers.
    Doubt I'd get to keep my permission around there if I had a load of dept. officials in haz-mat gear swarming the fields ;)

    scout: good to see another Corkonian on here! I shoot further west in the county mainly - poor numbers of rabbits this season though all round.
    Was out for hours last night for very little in return.

    Just ring them up and ask them have they heard of any infections in the area, you don't have to give the farm location or your own name john smith.


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