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Hawkdancer:
Rabbits and hares do have a population cycle, in fact their cycle is one of the main factors in a habitat cycle! Haven't had fried bunny for a long time! Maybe come fall! Bow Bunny!
Hawkdancer
PaulN/KS:
Come East one state Jerry. 365 day season on them in Kansas. :)
Hawkdancer:
I grew up in Missouri, learned to never hunt one for the pot until after the first hard freeze! Season here is Oct? Nov to Jan/Feb, I think. Got the little buggers in the front yard, I think they figured out when the dogs are sleeping and use the backyard too! The next one won't get a free pass!
Hawkdancer
PaulN/KS:
^^^
Yeah, I don't bother with them when it's warm either. Easier to just fence around the tasty stuff that they like and leave plenty of clover patches around to distract them.
Corvus:
--- Quote from: willie on May 16, 2020, 04:53:34 pm ---Seems like here, hawks will move into the area, as I am sure other predators do also. when the leaves fall you can see lots of rabbit skins with feet hanging in the trees.
Rabbit Fever might be what ends the cycle. People can catch it also. Be careful.
https://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/1297/report.pdf
Is number 4 just above the clump of yellow dandelions in the lower left corner?
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That fever is what has been culling the population here. See posters about the rabbit hemorrhagic fever all the time
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