Has RHD hit Ireland???

the demon

after being away from the sport for a few yeaes i notice the number of rabbits has deteriorated badly, is this due to the rabbit haemmoragic disease where rabbits just bleed to death unlike going blind and running in circles with the mixi, does anyone know has RHD hit this country yet? or what is its position in europe??

maglite

is this a natural or synthetic thing?

the demon

no as far as i know its man made, i read about it a few years ago, i think it was developed to combat the rabbit problem in australia, it gives them a horrible death but spreads like wildfire, in a small country like ireland it cuold wipe them out! DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY CONCRETE KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THIS??http://www.cfsph.iastate.edu/Factsheets/pdfs/rabbit_hemorrhagic_disease.pdf?
check this out!

Trojan911

the demon wrote:

after being away from the sport for a few yeaes i notice the number of rabbits has deteriorated badly, is this due to the rabbit haemmoragic disease where rabbits just bleed to death unlike going blind and running in circles with the mixi, does anyone know has RHD hit this country yet? or what is its position in europe??

Great, just when I was getting urge to start eating them again, this pops up......

TJ911...

the demon

Trojan911 wrote:

Great, just when I was getting urge to start eating them again, this pops up......

i know the feeling< have you checked out the link on my last post? scary!
Apparantly it can effect hares now too. if it is here or gets here it wont leave much sport for anyone.check this out if you didnt the first time,http://www.cfsph.iastate.edu/Factsheets/pdfs/rabbit_hemorrhagic_disease.pdf?

thelurcher

It says on the link that there is no threat to humans.

vcsggl

Whether it's RHD or not I don't know but there is no doubt that the rabbits have completely gone from my land near Clones. I've just spent a week there and covered a lot of land, mine and neighbours, and there's no sign of a rabbit anywhere. The locals all tell me they haven't seen any for months. Was reduced to eating beef!

George

the hunter

vcsggl wrote:

Whether it's RHD or not I don't know but there is no doubt that the rabbits have completely gone from my land near Clones. I've just spent a week there and covered a lot of land, mine and neighbours, and there's no sign of a rabbit anywhere. The locals all tell me they haven't seen any for months. Was reduced to eating beef!

George

and where in clones can you shoot beef ????

kowloon

I thought i was just getting bad at finding the little feckers.

the demon

thelurcher wrote:

It says on the link that there is no threat to humans.

no one said there was a threat to humans, only threat to humans is there will be nothing left for us to shoot!!!

the demon

vcsggl wrote:

Whether it's RHD or not I don't know but there is no doubt that the rabbits have completely gone from my land near Clones. I've just spent a week there and covered a lot of land, mine and neighbours, and there's no sign of a rabbit anywhere. The locals all tell me they haven't seen any for months. Was reduced to eating beef!

George

howya george, not sure if it is here but there is a severe shortage of rabbits, unless clones is walkin with them and your keepin it a secret, ha ha,
Has anyone come across this RHD in ireland yet??

Traumadoc

I would not be suprised, there seems to be very few rabbits near me (Waterford). The Calicivirus "escaped" from an Island research station in Australia in the mid 90s. All the Australians told me the effect was very rapid and rabbits disappeared from most parts of Australia. However thay havemade a bit of a comeback in the last few years. One park ranger told me hehad to get 2 tonnes of explosive fot the 300+ warren problem he had.