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Post by Swampy on Jan 22, 2023 3:16:51 GMT -5
Happy Lunar New Year! May you all have a prosperous Year of the Rabbit.
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Post by Sir John on Jan 22, 2023 7:07:15 GMT -5
There was a time when Australia had an 'estimated' plague of over a billion rabbits.
At about 14 I would go out along the banks of the Murray River with my .22 single shot bolt action rifle, and I would bag a dozen or more in an hour. Then Myxomatosis hit and they died in the zillions. A horrible death, blind and only the smell of water kept them alive a bit longer. I took to cutting a 2" or so Eucalypt branch and putting them out of their misery.
All that faded and they all came back to the old total, and then the Calycivirus did even more damage and the bunnies are now not nearly as bad. For a few decades it really put Australian agriculture in grave doubt.
Happy new year!
SJ
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