Easter Bunnies

[jack]

Gidday

This is the Easter Bunny hunt as done down under by us Kiwi.

www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming//3544607/Bunny-hunters-out-to-terminate-pest

[Rita]

Now When the kids are not so good I will let them know that you all killed the easter bunny

[Deleted]

I know what i would be havin today if i was over there

[jack]

Gidday

And they did a prudy good job to Eh!

[Deleted]

Wow, now thats alot of wabbits

[Pharmer Phil]

Now that's some major HARE LOSS

where's this picture taken at Jack...is that a clock and a cross on the hill in the background?

[jack]

Gidday

The photo is Pioneer Park in Alexandra, a town in Central Otago. And yes that is a clock and a cross on the hill in the background.

[Pharmer Phil]

Thanks for the Info Jack, must be a annual thing this hunt?

[jack]

Gidday

Yeah. A big annual thing actually. Central Otago gets over run with rabbits and years ago they had rabbit boards paid for by rates from the farmers and subsidized by the government to try to keep them under control, but then the government did what all governments seem to do, and they threw the scheme out and left the poor bloody farmers to handle a huge problem that is of national proportions.

I worked on it for a while years ago as a bunny hunter. Great job but an impossible task. I would get over a hundred every day and it made no impression at all on the numbers cos they breed quicker than you can kill them.

[Rita]

I am sure they really reek havoc on all the farms as thats an impressive amount of rabbits ... They used to post bounty for rabbits squirrels and coyotes when I lived in oregon , but the numbers were Not anything like the problem you all have

[jack]

Gidday

One day at lunchtime I sat down on one side of a gully and worked out what I thought was an acre of land and counted over 120 bunnies on it.