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11-20-2022, 08:35 PM
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Rabbit Population
Has anyone else notice lots of rabbits. Both Jack Rabbits and Bush Bunnies. On the prairie their seems to be lots around. Way more than usual. Every Texas Gate has 2 bush bunnies in it.
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11-20-2022, 08:41 PM
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Lots around, and quite a few brown yet. Confused.
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11-20-2022, 08:43 PM
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Yep it's seems like it's happens every few years. The last time I've noticed this many was in about 2011 around here. Then we don't see any for quite a few years. I hunt them every winter with my kids and sometime they're pretty slim picking . My wife's family loves rabbit stew .
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11-20-2022, 09:16 PM
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Seven year cycles I do believe. Rabbit numbers rise, coyote numbers come up, rabbits get sick, coyotes die off. Mother nature is a ......
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11-20-2022, 09:31 PM
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Originally Posted by 6.5 shooter
Seven year cycles I do believe. Rabbit numbers rise, coyote numbers come up, rabbits get sick, coyotes die off. Mother nature is a ......
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It has been noted that rabbit and hares population cycles in Alberta are usually 8 to 10 years apart. Coyote and lynx populations follow the peak rabbit and hare cycles. When rabbits and hares get too populated disease will cull the numbers too.
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11-20-2022, 09:33 PM
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I’ve seen more rabbits than I can remember for a while. Tons out by Vulcan.
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11-20-2022, 10:27 PM
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Put a few in the freezer tonight. Gotta love a good rabbit stew. Definitely seeing more out this season
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11-21-2022, 04:28 AM
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11-21-2022, 04:42 AM
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It looks like we got lots here this year too. The lynx usually show up at some point and clean them up.
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11-21-2022, 06:04 AM
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I see you feed and pick out which one becomes your meal 
Who needs to go to town to shop.
Smart thinking right there.
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11-21-2022, 07:23 AM
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I have noticed a huge decline in the raptor species this year because of the Asian bird flu. So makes sense there is more prey than normal.
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11-21-2022, 07:55 AM
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Very strange year for sure. VERY few goldfinches this summer and zero redpolls so far this winter. And I'm sure bird flu is involved but the only positive evidence I've seen is dead snow geese in the fields in the spring.
And I don't harvest the rabbits....I just enjoy some life around the yard. And I just saw the brown one a minute ago.
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11-21-2022, 08:23 AM
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As the hunter Fudd says "Kill the Wabbit" MMMMM Fricassee'n, Stewed or roasted. Fuzzy bunny more tender than the Big Jacks
There are a ton of em little fuzzy ones right around the cemetery on McCleod Trl. top of the hill. Just go one block west. Calgary of course
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11-21-2022, 08:43 AM
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I have noticed a huge decline in the raptor species this year because of the Asian bird flu. So makes sense there is more prey than normal.
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I wondered about that. Here in Sundance the osprey population this summer didn’t seem low.
However since putting bigger trout in, the hunting became harder so they come and try for a while and if unsuccessful leave and go elsewhere.
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11-21-2022, 08:47 AM
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could be why Ive seen so many DOR badgers this year. I saw 4 total around my area, usually 1 a year is even pushing it. even had 1 show up in my yard to say hi, that one wasnt dead though, if he had waited til I got to the house I may have changed that
also drove by 3 dead jacks and a coyote all in one spot, must have been quite a party!. the coyotes Ive seen lately have amazingly heavy coats
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11-21-2022, 08:52 AM
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Lots of Rabbit tracks all throughout the bush where our ski trails are…more than the last few years for sure, but not a crazy amount! Coyotes are most likely full of that hoppy meal..
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11-21-2022, 11:00 AM
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.......was young back in the '60s here in southern ab. if you weren't here, you wouldn't believe the jack population back then. people think you are lying when you try to explain it. when i left in the late '60s then came back to visit family, it was very apparent the jack population was in drastic decline and now that i have returned to live here, it is obvious they have never returned to their previous populations.
for those of you who think there are lots of rabbits now, you should have been here years ago when we used to routinely fill a pickup box with them and sell them to the fox farmer for 25 cents each......kept us in .22 shells.
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11-21-2022, 11:20 AM
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I used to see jacks on my road all the time....but I haven't seen even ONE in many years!
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11-21-2022, 11:29 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by barbless
As the hunter Fudd says "Kill the Wabbit" MMMMM Fricassee'n, Stewed or roasted. Fuzzy bunny more tender than the Big Jacks
There are a ton of em little fuzzy ones right around the cemetery on McCleod Trl. top of the hill. Just go one block west. Calgary of course
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I would be staying away from the ones in a cemetery- wasn’t there a report a year or so ago that those bunnies have syphylis? 
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11-21-2022, 11:58 AM
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Rabbits and Bobcats! So many of both out here
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11-21-2022, 12:32 PM
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Tons at my place, also a few Great Horned owl's. A Snow Owl,( that I have seen so far) Lynx, and I think about 9 million Yotes.
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