Author Topic: Problem with wild Rabbits eating my veggies! (Read 2941 times)

Pocagranja · « **on:** January 30, 2012, 11:07:52 am »

Hi, We are constantly battling with rabbits eating our plants. Have erected fencing, tried a cage trap which works when it feels like it, don't want to use less humane traps. Don't have a gun & can't get one as we live in Spain & its almost impossible to get a license unless you came here with one. Anyone got any ideas?

Dan · « **Reply #1 on:** January 30, 2012, 11:35:41 am »

Cats, better fencing, ferrets?

Depending on how many warrens there are in your area you could get them professionally dealt with - not sure what the regs are like in Spain, but should be able to find someone who can gas them using Phostoxin.

darkbrowneggs · « **Reply #2 on:** January 30, 2012, 11:52:06 am »

After many years of battling with rabbits in every conceivable way I sorted my problem. But it wasn't easy or cheap.

60cm small cell wire mesh turned outwards in a L-shape with the foot of the L buried just under the grass, then more wire mesh above. Needs to be a minimum height of about 1.2 preferably a bit higher otherwise they will climb it. Doing it in two separate sections means you can follow the lie of the land at the bottom, then normal fence at the top

Then ruthlessly ferreted everything out and filled in all the holes so it was obvious if anything was still there.

Rabbit free garden for around 8 years now. What a relief

Did it about Im high in total at first. Walked across the garden with the dog. Rabbit at bottom, and as we approached it casually climbed the fence and disappeared. I was gobsmacked. Had to go all round again with more wire

Derby_menagerie · « **Reply #3 on:** January 30, 2012, 02:03:31 pm »

Try to find a local with a gun! Any shooter offered some rabbit shooting in UK would bite you hand of so I'd imagine our Spanish friends to be the same, what's the regs with air rifles over there? because an air rifle and lamp and night will be the best way to control numbers, and also very tasty!

PetiteGalette · « **Reply #4 on:** February 02, 2012, 05:56:52 pm »

We wire-fenced our veggie plot by digging the mesh in 18inches below ground backfilling with large stones to start with and then the rest of the soil. You need good quality wire netting because the little b*gg*rs will chew through the cheaper thinner stuff.
Oh yes, and 3 Springer Spaniels help keep the numbers down with offerings of half-chewed young rabbits..........................

deepinthewoods · « **Reply #5 on:** February 02, 2012, 06:11:38 pm »

you can get much more powerful airguns in spain than we can here, i think up to 16lbs, you can only get up to 12lbs here over that and you need a firearms liscence. an airrifle of that power will easily kill a rabbit at 50yrds, and then you get to eat them!!