Rabbits

[Jack Russell]

I have a problem with an increasing number of rabbits around a yard. They are eating a a lot of crop off now. I thought we were winning the fight and then they got mixy so I thought that would be it. They seem to have regrouped over harvest and come back with vengeance. Apart from shooting them which seems fairly steady especially with my talents what options are there? Also a fair percentage of the little sods have tactically embedded in a private houses garden who are sympathetic to their cause.

 

[spin cycle]

put a fence up to channel into drop traps?

 

[Try to succeed]

Try long netting, neighbours won’t know you’ve been

 

[Brisel]

Put up a proper rabbit fence around your boundary, digging the netting in. One crop saved will pay for it and it will last for many more.

 

[Fish]

Night vision, .22 with moderater, subsonic amo and someone who knows how to use it.

 

[Dry Rot]

The little barstewards are here too, digging in the sides of ditches. Then the dogs come along and try to dig the rabbits out! The result is a blocked ditch.

I really think you have to hit them with everything. Ferrets, lurchers, lamping, snares, traps, drop boxes, and anything else you can think of.

 

[PaulNix]

Ferrets can get you on top of them without anyone knowing they have been there to see it, then out with the .22 in the dark.

 

[BuskhillFarm]

A good cat. We had a great fella for rabbits. We’re plagued by them. Took him a year or two and bless him he’s passed away 3 years now and not a sight of another rabbit here since.