Cottontails

Anyone else seeing a ton of rabbits this year…..things are everywhere it seems. We had two litters of them in our back yard.

Yes
Great hatch here.
Looking forward to running them this winter.

Lots of them here in central Indiana. My Beagles are dead now should get another started pup but dont have time with work. Sure miss my pair of beagles but will be out kicking brush after deer season.

Here too . Should mean some good predator numbers.

Quite a few here

Thick here in E WV all summer. Hard to find one come Nov.
Lotta stuff eatin on em.
Mainly birds.

Upswing here too, more then I've seen in many years

If I put rabbit eggs in the incubator, how many days till they hatch?




Catchin’ Deers!!!!

See , I was thinking just the opposite. …… maybe predator numbers were down.

here we have to many birds eating them

The hounds will be busy this fall and winter!

Predators are down on my farm. Figured since I just cleaned out one of the freezers and tossed a bunch of hides I had frozen may as well remove them from the property earlier. A pregnant Sal removed gets rid of several with less effort.. they end up in the same ditch in the spring or winter. Quail, turkey, and rabbits are nice and thick.

They eat our hemp doormat in road daylight.

I've never seen as many as this year.

Interesting, that may mean next year will have a good martin/fisher population for those states that have them. For us, bobcat, mink, hawk, owl and coyote maybe.

They go in cycles , same a grouse .
About 7 years for it to complete.
Predetors number goes up , grouse numbers goes down.
Predetor number goes down, grouse numbers go up.
Seems feral cats are the worst predetors in this area.
They kill just to kill.

Lots of rabbits here also....Cannot wait for fresh rabbits on the menu, squirrel also seem plentiful, another loved menu item!!