wild rabbits for sale

pat25c

anybody know where i could get some wild rabbits to populate a bit of my farm, all pasture in my area so ruining a crop is not an issue , dont know anybody with ferrets , but i would be willing to travel , also I've never done this before is there anything i need to do to make it easy on them.

Tackleberrywho

Releasing a wild animal into a different environment is illegal without a permit from NPWS

Birdnuts

pat25c wrote: »

anybody know where i could get some wild rabbits to populate a bit of my farm, all pasture in my area so ruining a crop is not an issue , dont know anybody with ferrets , but i would be willing to travel , also I've never done this before is there anything i need to do to make it easy on them.

Hard to beleive theres any suiteable habitat that doesn't have a rabbit population in this country - what type of soil, drainage etc. do you have on your farm??, rabbits will actively avoid boggy, water logged areas.

PS: When rabbits disappear from an area its nearly always due to an outbreak of Myxie!!

robertpatterson

I can sell you any amount of wild rabbits
Theyve all died of lead poisoning though:o

kildare.17hmr

if there are no rabbits about there must be something killing them or the land is not suitable. They were nearly shot to extinction in one area i shoot last year. Held off shooting till this summer in that area and you could trip over them there are that many!

Vegeta

Yeah guys as pointed out in the thread, what the OP wants is illegal.

Vegeta

Hey guys, my interpretation is the following

This is from Section 45 of the Wildlife Act after the amendments made in 2000

(1) A person who is not a licensed wildlife dealer shall not sell, keep for sale, transport for the purpose of sale or exchange, offer for sale or exchange, purchase for resale or exchange, or engage in taxidermy in respect of—


(a) a protected wild bird or protected wild animal, at any stage of its life, whether alive or dead, or any parts, products or derivatives of such wild bird or wild animal,


(b) the eggs of a protected wild bird or the eggs or spawn of a protected wild animal, or any parts, products or derivatives thereof,


(c) fauna, at any stage of its life, whether alive or dead, set out in Part I or II of the First Schedule to the European Communities (Natural Habitats) Regulations, 1997 ( S.I. No. 94 of 1997 ), and being fauna within the meaning of this Act,


and shall not publish or cause to be published any advertisement, catalogue, circular or price list likely to be understood as conveying that such person buys or sells, or intends to buy or sell, or engages in taxidermy in respect of any protected wild bird or protected wild animal

Fauna is defined in the act as:

“fauna” means all wild animals (both aquatic and terrestrial) and includes in particular wild birds, wild mammals, reptiles, non-aquatic invertebrate animals and amphibians, and all such wild animals' eggs and young, but in relation to fish or aquatic invertebrate animals (or their eggs or spawn or brood or young) only includes fish and such aquatic invertebrate animals which are of a species specified in regulations under section 23 of this Act which are for the time being in force;

So anything to do with selling wildlife is not on going by the above. Hence the thread closure.


Now if we want to discuss the legalities of simply releasing Fauna in to new areas then feel free to start a new thread to discuss it. I'd be interested in that myself.