Finally Got One Of The Black Ones

[OEH]

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One of the places I go for a mooch has a lot of black bunnies, but somehow we never seem to be able to catch one. Well finally we got one today. Josie hoiked it out of a patch of bramble and nettles. It was a little myxied, but not too bad. They've been really irritating me and I was wondering why we couldn't get one. Esme also got a normal coloured one. Nice little walk to burn off lunch watching the girls do what they do best and they'll enjoy the results.

No pictures I'm afraid, well there are, but they are on my mobile and I am being particularly technologically challenged about getting them from there to here. To be honest I haven't even figured out how to message them to anyone :wacko: .

 

[jas328sport]

black rabbit :blink: never seen any of them around my way.i have a pet black one but cant say i have ever seen anything other than the normal grey in the wild.

 

[Mark Roberts]

black rabbits seem to be all over the country now.

 

[wilfred]

excuse my ignorance ... are the black ones, pet ones that were abandoned in the wild by their previous owners?

 

[Pennymeadow Whippets]

excuse my ignorance ... are the black ones, pet ones that were abandoned in the wild by their previous owners?

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Gamekeepers used to put a few black bunnies on their land & if they went missing it was a sure sign that they were being poached

 

[~elizabeth~]

excuse my ignorance ... are the black ones, pet ones that were abandoned in the wild by their previous owners?

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The place in question is on the site of a 12th century Nunnery, which would have managed the land around and probably introduced rabbits for fur and meat; I've often wondered if they derive from the original population, particularly as the area is a sort of island bounded various branches of the Thames, or just a sport that has proliferated because the population is a little isolated. We've never caught one yet :wacko:

 

[wunwin]

I was going to reply to this thread, saying how unlucky it is to catch a black rabbit, that the 4 horsemen will visit you, plague and pestillance will be heaped upon you and your kin, and not to ever catch one again. But seeing as my last reply to a thread got me shot to pieces by the k9 kkk, i wont bother. o

 

[~elizabeth~]

how unlucky it is to catch a black rabbit, that the 4 horsemen will visit you, plague and pestillance will be heaped upon you and your kin, and not to ever catch one again.

Bit late to mention it now :sweating: (w00t) :b

 

[Janimal]

black rabbits seem to be all over the country now.

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Yes weve quite a few black bunnies up here. :thumbsup: and even one with a white spot :blink: and yes they are wild.

strangely enough(off topic slightly) we have a crow that comes into our garden with a white spot too.

 

[~elizabeth~]

black rabbits seem to be all over the country now.

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Yes weve quite a few black bunnies up here. :thumbsup: and even one with a white spot :blink: and yes they are wild.

strangely enough(off topic slightly) we have a crow that comes into our garden with a white spot too.

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It's odd, because although this population has a significant percentage of blacks, none of the adjacent populations have any at all.

Black birds get white feathers if they have been damaged at that site, or sometimes just from old age (they are the main problem for black duck breeders :b )

Thinking about it, someone hereabouts has had an undue amount of bad luck recently, and I don't always see what he catches as he sometimes sneaks off to eat it in private :- " :sweating:

 

[Janimal]

[Black birds get white feathers if they have been damaged at that site,  or sometimes just from old age (they are the main problem for black duck breeders  :b )

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I didnt know that ...

 

[rodders]

This thread makes for interesting reading.A friend of ours had a pet white rabbit escape about 5 years ago(I think)needless to say it was a buck which went on to breed with the neighbouring wild rabbit population.I think he himself lived a few years in the wild but was never recaught.His resulting prodgeny still live on today,producing varying parti colours in the wild rabbit population.Aswell as this the area containing parti coloured rabbits as grown a fair amount.Anybody any ideas on how long or even if ever these colours will dissapear from the population of wild rabbits in the area Karen