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  • From: Christopher Kennel <ckennel@gmail.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] trapping rabbits?
  • Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2011 10:15:15 -0600

I should have mentioned that this year I decided to give up on trapping
rabbits and just fence off plantings with chicken wire. 12" or 18" rolls
with 1" spaces seem to work fine and are pretty affordable at farm supply
stores. I think a 150' 18" roll cost me about $22.

Chris Kennel
Denver, CO
zone 5

On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 6:35 AM, <Jwlehman@aol.com> wrote:

> In a message dated 6/3/2011 7:59:31 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> 6ducks@gmail.com writes:
>
> > what works for rabbits?
> >
> I personally don't have much experience trapping rabbits. But my neighbor
> some years back had about 40 acres fenced in where he kept field rabbits
> for
> training rabbit dogs. Hawks were his worst problem and he need to
> continually replenish them. He used rabbit traps baited with salt and corn.
> I
> cheerfully let him place traps on my acreage and he was successful! Salt &
> field
> corn.
>
> In case any rabbit huggers read this, he had shelters and many brush piles
> for the rabbits to hide in. He also had feeding stations, water holes and
> salt stations for them. They were treated well, just occasionally they had
> to
> run from the dogs. He never shot them. They were almost in rabbit heaven.
> They faired better there with his dogs then here with my coyotes.
>
> Jerry
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