If wild rabbits are threatening your property, you need to take your removal efforts seriously. Rabbits can breed super quickly, and these cuddly creatures can easily decimate your garden or the grass you have for cattle or horse grazing.
Luckily, there are a few ways to control them. Here are four ideas to help you out:
1. Bury Your Fence
Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to make a rabbit-proof fence. These creatures can jump over low fences, burrow over high fences, squeeze through seemingly tiny holes and chew through a range of materials including wood and plastic.
To make your fence as effective as possible, use metal fencing such as chicken wire with very small gaps in it, and be sure to dig a trench and bury a portion of the fence underground.
2. Be Ready to Shoot or Poison Rabbits as Needed
In most rural areas, you can shoot rabbits as they are pests. Check with local authorities to see if you need a permit, and then, be ready to be relentless. Rabbits are an invasive species that can wreck havoc on your land.
If you prefer not to shoot, you can poison them, but talk with a pest control specialist about traps that can hold the poison so your pets or livestock can't access it.
3. See Rabbits as a Potential Meal
Although rabbits can hurt your land, they can also fill your belly. Work to get rid of your rabbits, but consider putting out a few traps without poison as well. That way, you can dine on a bit of bunny stew.
4. Destroy Warrens
Unfortunately, shooting, poisoning or eating rabbits is not always enough. If you leave their homes intact, new rabbits will eventually show up and claim those homes, or the leftover rabbits will just tap into their prolific breeding nature and refill the warren with new bunnies.
To destroy a warren, you have several options. You can try to find all of its entries by observing rabbits as they enter the warren. Then, you can close all of the entries but one and release several cans of toxin poison into the warren.
Alternatively, you can rent a backhoe, dig up the warren and hope the displaced bunnies go somewhere else. If you want to use explosives to simultaneously destroy the warren and kill the rabbits, you need to call a professional pest control specialist to help you with that.
Share17 April 2015
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