More bad news....

[Bocephus]

Was talking to a friend recently that lives in west central Wyoming. He said the rabbits were disappearing faster than a Biden clone can sign exec orders.
Best I can tell this may be the problem and it appears extreme caution is in order.
Obviously old Doc Death still has things in his arsenal besides the "morbid-covid."

Wyoming Game and Fish Department - Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease Virus 2 (RHDV2)

wgfd.wyo.gov

 

[wbm]

It is not an uncommon phenomenon with rabbits.

 

[Bocephus]

It is not an uncommon phenomenon with rabbits.

Probably right, just big news to me.

 

[Rustytigwire]

I believe in the early 80's there was an over population in Idaho west of Pocatello.
On the news fish and game said was cyclical.
Glad covid is not worse than it is for people.
Edit.
Sorry guys..
Shot mouth off then read the article.
Non native disease.
Be careful.
Damn.

 

[Bocephus]

I believe in the early 80's there was an over population in Idaho west of Pocatello.
On the news fish and game said was cyclical.
Glad covid is not worse than it is for people.
Edit.
Sorry guys..
Shot mouth off then read the article.
Non native disease.
Be careful.
Damn.

They said the same about the decline in ruffed grouse populations here in the 80's. For the small amount of good it did, I hung up the SxS a long time ago. Almost extinct now in my part of the country.
If it goes a bit longer F&G may have to artificially inseminate the only surviving female. But no doubt we'll be overrun with them...most any day now!

By the way, I had a vaxx for "foot-in-the-mouth" disease in my teens...still no immunity here.

 

[Fuj]

Back in that same time period, Western Pa. lost a large
population of rabbit, and Tularemia was blamed. It's a
disease affecting the liver. Yellowish white spots formed
on the liver and spread quickly, as told to me by my Vet.
Nowadays they are back and in more numbers I have seen
in years. Breeding like bunnies, again !!

 

[LHSmith]

My money says it came from C-H-I-N-A, like lanternflies, Emerald Ash borer, and about 1000 other new breeds of damaging insects and 10,000 new varieties of noxious weeds.

 

[TheOtherZilla]

SW Wyoming here. I have seen few rabbits. A few years ago we were over ran with em. I usually take 2-3 for smoking. This year I haven't taken any.. Rabbits here seem to go in cycles. In a few more years they'll be back.

 

[Ned Ludd]

If it's not COVID-19, it's RHDV2. If it's not RHDV2, it's Murder Hornets. If it's not Murder Hornets, it's liberal democrats.

There is always something out there trying to get us.

 

[ED3]

It is not an uncommon phenomenon with rabbits.

Yep; there's a variety of ailments out there that will network through the rabbit population when the population is sufficiently dense for the contagion to spread. The disease knocks down the population; it rebuilds to the needed density, and repeats.

 

[XTR]

Look up the “Mud Lake Bunny Bash”. I heard about it, it Happened in Idaho just before I got to Navy Prototype at Idaho Falls in ‘82. My 10/22 dates from back then when we all got outfitted for bunny blasting.

The point I learned back then was that the rabb population was cyclical and back then at least the ‘yote population tracked behind it.

 

[Charles]

I have seen this happen several times in Maryland over the past 40 years they build to a peak and then they have a big die off

 

[5spd]

Plenty of rabbits running all over the ranches I do predator control on the east side

 

[Twicepop]

Back in that same time period, Western Pa. lost a large
population of rabbit, and Tularemia was blamed. It's a
disease affecting the liver. Yellowish white spots formed
on the liver and spread quickly, as told to me by my Vet.
Nowadays they are back and in more numbers I have seen
in years. Breeding like bunnies, again !!

We've seen cycles of that periodically here also. Generally those affected die off after the first hard freeze.

 

[Ledd Slinger]

We get blue tongue with deer in overpopulated ecosystems. Sometimes wipes out 90% of populations in certain areas. They eventually come back but it takes a long time. Usually 10 years or more.
Also had the weak egg shells preventing reproduction in bald eagles that decimated them here in the northwest. Prior to that, many areas were overpopulated with eagles. 30 years later, sightings of bald eagles are finally much more common.
Now we are fighting to keep Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) at bay in some of our highly populated mule deer and elk areas.
Mother Nature always seems to have a way of sorting out overpopulated species.

Rabbits breed like crazy and should recover eventually if they can survive natural predators and harsh winters.

 

[boltfluter]

If memory serves me, I believe rabbits are on a 7 year or so cycle. As long as we have two, most likely they will be breeding like rabbits shortly!

Paul

 

[Bocephus]

If it's not COVID-19, it's RHDV2. If it's not RHDV2, it's Murder Hornets. If it's not Murder Hornets, it's liberal democrats.

There is always something out there trying to get us.

Need to issue feather capes to congress. It's bad enough when the buzzards pick our bones after we're gone, but now this crowd wants their pound of flesh while we watch...

 

[Bocephus]

My money says it came from C-H-I-N-A, like lanternflies, Emerald Ash borer, and about 1000 other new breeds of damaging insects and 10,000 new varieties of noxious weeds.

And my friend, you just might be right.

 

[Hydenseek]

My money says it came from C-H-I-N-A, like lanternflies, Emerald Ash borer, and about 1000 other new breeds of damaging insects and 10,000 new varieties of noxious weeds.

Their hand needs to be more than called