lottie
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live cage traps for rabbitsFound the Defra info on these from Tahirs link but does anyone know how well they work?----they aren't cheap so I don't want to spend money if they aren't that good. Obvious we have a rabbit problem we'll have to address when we finally get moved.
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KILLITnGRILLIT
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Don`t bother, chocolate and fire guard spring to mind !
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lottie
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Thanks---because of position and surrounding livestock shootings not really an option so I'll have to try finding somebody with working ferrets when we move. 
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Cho-ku-ri
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What do you do with the rabbit afterwards. You can't release it on somebody elses property by law, and wild animal legislation will be tight for allowing you to dispach it, as it hasn't been reared for food. Do you know Killit'n'Grillit ?
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lottie
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| Cho-ku-ri wrote: | | What do you do with the rabbit afterwards. You can't release it on somebody elses property by law, and wild animal legislation will be tight for allowing you to dispach it, as it hasn't been reared for food. Do you know Killit'n'Grillit ? |
If the trap worked I would just have eaten it
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Cho-ku-ri
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I know you would, but are you allowed too? Hopefully you are. But Red Tape Britain is not hunter gatherer friendly.
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Treacodactyl
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A whack on the back of the head or breaking it's neck are still methods of humane dispatch of a rabbit when I last looked. That's what you would do when ferreting. Now it might actually be illegal to release live rabbits as they are non-native...
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judith
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As rabbits are vermin, I think it would be illegal to release them full stop. IIRC landowners actually have a legal duty to eradicate them.
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lottie
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| Cho-ku-ri wrote: | | I know you would, but are you allowed too? Hopefully you are. But Red Tape Britain is not hunter gatherer friendly. |
According to the Defra info on traps it tells you about best ways of taking rabbits from trap and dispatching so it must be O.K.
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Cho-ku-ri
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I'm glad. 
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dpack
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| KILLITnGRILLIT wrote: | | Don`t bother, chocolate and fire guard spring to mind ! |
i didnt know they liked chocolate 
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KILLITnGRILLIT
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Have you thought about using Fenn Mk6`s, as they can be placed inside the burrows ?
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lottie
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| KILLITnGRILLIT wrote: | | Have you thought about using Fenn Mk6`s, as they can be placed inside the burrows ? |
aren't they spring traps---do they always kill?---I don't want to cause unnecessary suffering----or am I getting the traps wrong? quite happy to kill a rabbit I've caught in a live trap or use another type that'll kill it.
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dpack
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as a man who has been nipped in a mk 4 im sure they do
snap ,job done
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lottie
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Thanks for advice---when they get cheeky enough to nibble plants a few feet from where they could watch us eating breakfast something has to be done----and hopefully the rabbit meat will help pay for the traps
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dpack
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at that range the nearest stick will do 
i met some lads in scotland who used to chase them down steep hills and grab them 
pistol would be elegant at breakfast but unfortunatly not legal in rabbit dropping strength
a duelling pistol would be so stylish for bunnykins in the lettuce
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lottie
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Even 20 yrs. ago I'd have had the little b*****s but anno domini and an arthritic knee mean traps it is
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Acorn
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I had some success with the cage traps, they are best if placed alongside a fence so the rabbits follow the fence line and walk into the trap. They are abit of a bugger to get out as they kick and scratch quite a bit.
I've had to stop using them for a while as the local fox would get there before me and I would the cage turned over complete with a dead rabbit minus its legs.
Not very nice.
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lottie
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Might give one of them a go then----the defra site suggests painting them green as camoflage----I could probably shoot them in the back of the head with an air rifle before I opened the trap as I think the mesh would be big enough to get the barrel through----thanks
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Acorn
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I wouldn't bother painting them, the smell of the paint would be worse than the shiny metal, which doesn't bother them anyway.
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lottie
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O.K. Thanks for that----I'll give it a go----if I have to escalate to spring traps so be it ----but I'll try the gentler methods first----and yes I know if me or mine were starving I wouldn't care how I caught them. But the mirror tells me starving I'm not
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