Rabbits moving homes

4200fps

Hi lads, rabbits are gone very scarce around our area so i was wondering is it legal to catch a couple like 20 or so from a different area using a ferret and nets and load them up and let them loose around our area to breed and multiply.. If this is a legal thing to do I might find someone who has a ferret to help out . It also would keep our foxs nourished. Would they live in a new habitat?

declan1980

4200fps wrote: »

Hi lads, rabbits are gone very scarce around our area so i was wondering is it legal to catch a couple like 20 or so from a different area using a ferret and nets and load them up and let them loose around our area to breed and multiply.. If this is a legal thing to do I might find someone who has a ferret to help out . It also would keep our foxs nourished. Would they live in a new habitat?

Sorry but it's illegal to do that

4200fps

Thanks for the information i wasn't sure about it. Pitty

homerhop

its not illegal as long as you use traps that conform to regulations.

4200fps

homerhop wrote: »

its not illegal as long as you use traps that conform to regulations.

Thats good news.. would they survive i wonder. i do see the odd bugs bunny around the area but not many.

homerhop

were there rabbits there before or is there a reason why they have gone scarse?

4200fps

There was always a few not many. theres a guy not far from me that has them ate and thats no lie. :P some people recon they ruin the land i cant see why, we dont mind..few of us were talking about getting some in and let them muliply thats if they do..

Vegeta

Are the land owners agreeable? I'd be surprised if they were, rabbits will ravage pasture and the holes they dig are not great underfoot for horses or cattle.

johngalway

4200fps wrote: »

some people recon they ruin the land i cant see why

I'm just throwing this out there as a wild guess here but it might have something to do with all that burrowing and eating of grass

Vegeta wrote: »

the holes they dig are not great underfoot for horses or cattle.

Or people, I got caught out by a rabbit built man trap this evening I must take some discreet photos of one place I shoot, shows what out of control bunnies will do.

bazza888

most places that have good habitat to support rabbits will have rabbits unless they are hunted out or dying of things like mixi even then there would still be a few about

4200fps

Vegeta wrote: »

Are the land owners agreeable? I'd be surprised if they were, rabbits will ravage pasture and the holes they dig are not great underfoot for horses or cattle.

Its our land mainly they be moving into.. I dont know if anybody done this before but im gona give it a go. The place where we are gona get them is crawling with them, I asked the farmer who has them would he mind if i shoot the rabbits in the meadow beside his house, he said ''there should be some in his front garden if you want to shoot them'' he was dead serious he's sick to death of them lol

garv123

even if you release them on your land it doesnt mean they wont spread on to the other land. other landowners might not be too happy about that.

4200fps

garv123 wrote: »

even if you release them on your land it doesnt mean they wont spread on to the other land. other landowners might not be too happy about that.

Our neighbors are very lay back, They pass no heed on people shooting on their land they wouldn't pass any bit of heed. We've alot of land we are hoping they will roam around.. Now the next step is finding a man near by who's a good working ferret

Spunk84

Used to do it years ago, ferreting in the south and repopulating in north just make sure you use a sack or breathable coal bag for transporting or they will die. Rabbits should be realeased within 3 days or they won't last in the wild, don't know why but that's what usually happened.

tommyboy26

If you bought some pet rabbits and released them on your permission would they survive long enough to breed?

bazza888

theyd be eating within the day id imagine,they havnt the same sense of danger as a wild one

Tackleberrywho

tommyboy26 wrote: »

If you bought some pet rabbits and released them on your permission would they survive long enough to breed?

The wildlife ranger would not be very happy with anyone "messing" with the Eco system.

There is enough trouble with Grey Squirrels, Zebra Mussels and flora to contend with, never mind Munties.

If there are no rabbits in an area, there is a reason why one of the best breeders in the animal kingdom is not there.

323

tommyboy26 wrote: »

If you bought some pet rabbits and released them on your permission would they survive long enough to breed?

Would also have thought they would not last very long, poor survival instinct and stick out like a sore thumb. However a place close to home I sometimes see the odd one with patches of white on it.
My father said he used to see more and because a person at an old abandoned house there used to keep a rabbits, 40 odd years ago. An odd escapee must have lasted long enough to breed.

blackstairsboy

It is not a great idea to release rabbits from one area into another. This is because the rabbits you release may have built up a immunity to myxi but if there are any rabbits in the area you are releasing them into they could quickly contract the infection. So you will effectively wipe out the natural population no matter how small it is.

Browning2010

Why in the name of bejayzus would you want to bring rabbits into an area that doesnt have any? You do realise rabbits are 99.9% of the time considered pests?
There not like pheasants that you can just realese for a bit of sport.

fodda

What do you think an anti-reporter type would make of this?

Dusty87

fodda wrote: »

What do you think an anti-reporter type would make of this?

Sure say what you think they would make of it?

Spunk84

fodda wrote: »

What do you think an anti-reporter type would make of this?

Why would you care what an anti never mind a anti-reporter type would make of it? You really scared of a crowd that has a porn site on the way to educate people on animal rights:D

You know if you say "Anti" 3 times into a mirror, they will get you !! They will get you Fodda!!!!!!!! hahahahahabababahahahaha