Bloody rabbits!

Kimitatsu

Ferrets are the answer or if you have room for a feral cat they are pretty good too. We live in Lincolnshire and we regularly see them with ferrets clearing out the warrens because they are a menace - we do grow veg with rabbits but I will be honest we have large raised beds with nets over them to stop the rabbits and all of the birds otherwise we would have nothing left.

Our veggie garden also houses our chooks so we have a 6 ft high fence but a foot of that is buried to stop the foxes and b**ger me if there wasnt a baby rabbit sitting in the garden the other day looking as cool as a cucumber - the cat was soon dispatched to sort it out!!!!

elsien

Raised beds and netting - stopped the rabbits getting into my bro's veggies, however the last I heard his sprouts had been raped and pillaged by a sheep instead.

chelms38

Kimitatsu wrote: »

Ferrets are the answer or if you have room for a feral cat they are pretty good too. We live in Lincolnshire and we regularly see them with ferrets clearing out the warrens because they are a menace - we do grow veg with rabbits but I will be honest we have large raised beds with nets over them to stop the rabbits and all of the birds otherwise we would have nothing left.

Our veggie garden also houses our chooks so we have a 6 ft high fence but a foot of that is buried to stop the foxes and b**ger me if there wasnt a baby rabbit sitting in the garden the other day looking as cool as a cucumber - the cat was soon dispatched to sort it out!!!!

What breed of rabbit looks like a cucumber? :rotfl:

janejustjane

We bought a cage-type rabbit trap last year - it works. The big ones get cooked and the little ones are fed to the dog.

chelms38

janejustjane wrote: »

We bought a cage-type rabbit trap last year - it works. The big ones get cooked and the little ones are fed to the dog.

Sounds like a good deal all round.

alm721

Hubby's going to speak to mate with ferrets, I've just walked right around the edge of the garden and its worse then I thought, the warren is over a huge area, you'd think the dogs would put them off! Thinking about getting an air rifle though as we are also plagued by pigeons. We have a load of scots pines down the garden and about 70 pigeons roost there on a night, there is crap everywhere. Hubby used to shoot but but doesn't have a gun anymore. Do you need a licence for an air rifle? I know they need to be in a secure locked cabinet but unsure if a licence needed? Hubby doesn't think so but its been maybe 15 years since he's been shooting so unsure of how things have changed? If not can anyone recomended a good place to buy one. Are they all pretty standard or are some better then others?

alm721

On another note, never eaten rabbit before, whats it like and how do you cook it? Not entirly sure that I fancy it?

elsien

The myxomatosis'd put me off - rife in some parts of the country.
re the air rifle:
http://www.youngmans.com/acatalog/law.html

MEMBER02

awww bunny rabbits are soooo freindly

A._Badger

alm721 wrote: »

Hubby's going to speak to mate with ferrets, I've just walked right around the edge of the garden and its worse then I thought, the warren is over a huge area, you'd think the dogs would put them off! Thinking about getting an air rifle though as we are also plagued by pigeons. We have a load of scots pines down the garden and about 70 pigeons roost there on a night, there is crap everywhere. Hubby used to shoot but but doesn't have a gun anymore. Do you need a licence for an air rifle? I know they need to be in a secure locked cabinet but unsure if a licence needed? Hubby doesn't think so but its been maybe 15 years since he's been shooting so unsure of how things have changed? If not can anyone recomended a good place to buy one. Are they all pretty standard or are some better then others?

Like any hobby, you can spend almost anything you want in the pursuance of it but you don't need to spend a fortune. Find a retailer local to you (the health and safety Nazis have banned shops from selling via the post) and buy the most basic gun he recommends for the job.

And no, you don't need a licence, though the nannies are nagging away towards it.