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Cats

Tim

Wire netting works but is very modern so may not suit. Also you must bury it a foot into the ground to stop them burrowing under it. Did the ancients not have an answer or did they just eat the rabbits with the vegetables? I'm surprised at you Kim using a modern machine. Surely they weren't around when that type of building was erected. What's wrong with good old muscle? :-)

John

I've just re-read this, realised that maybe cats aren't the real answer for your plot. They are what worked for us, after a maybe 3 years without cats we could grow nothing in the garden. Everything including young trees was being destroyed by rabbits, mice and voles. I tried fencing, the raybites always found some way in. Tried shooting them, got quite a few but they just bred more to replace those lost, the numbers never seemed to change. Eventually got a couple of cats again, they catch the occasional young rabbit & that seems to deter the rest quite effectively. Also they keep the numbers of rodents down very well.

Maybe your local zoo can supply you with poo from some fierce creature which would eat rabbits. Putting that sort of thing around the boundaries is alleged to work in some cases, might be worth asking them. Either that, or persuade a fox to live on site

Tim

"John" wrote (snip):-

ISTR rabbits didn't arrive in England until after the conquest (Norman that is) and throughout the middle ages were largely confined to manorial warrens carefully protected by a warrener. It's only more recently that the wild population exploded and they became considered pests.

Kim, Ferreting is a very affective way of keeping the rabbit poulation down although it wont completely stop them it's usually done between september and march when the rabbits are not breeding so much, although rabbits seem to breed all year round these days. Steve and I catch rabbits using ferrets, but your probably a bit far away for us you could try this site.

Theres sure to be someone locally that will be more than happy to come and clear the warrens FOC. HTH Regards Gary

It is possible you just did an excellent job of propagating bind weed :-(

BugBear

Yes, but I'm sure Kim will make them wear appropriate horned helmets(sic) and pretend to be correctly in-period hares 8-)

(Although I think Romans might have brought rabbits first)

"Andy Dingley" wrote :-

Sorry Andy, I forgot to raise the pedant flag ;-)

Since this thread is already OT - was that 'your lot' on Scrapheap Challenge last weekend Kim?

Yes, some of them.

Regards,

Kim Siddorn