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Produce => Pests & Diseases => Topic started by: buxton diggers on September 21, 2006, 15:25:26

Title: Bunny 24 Us 0
Post by: buxton diggers on September 21, 2006, 15:25:26
Brussel sprouts, that is. And half my lettuces.
Any ideas (non-violent) and does anyone know if ferret droppings actually work? (Before I go to the smelly trouble of getting some).
Title: Re: Bunny 24 Us 0
Post by: saddad on September 21, 2006, 17:44:55
Don't know about the droppings but the ferrets do! There is a man offering his service in reducing rabbit populations on one of the threads. We have urban foxes and so no rabbit problems..
::)
Title: Re: Bunny 24 Us 0
Post by: buxton diggers on September 23, 2006, 15:08:08
Can't help feeling that the bunny was there first so must employ non-direct action-style cunning...
Title: Re: Bunny 24 Us 0
Post by: glow777 on September 24, 2006, 09:34:20
We had problems with rabbits about 8 years ago but mainly near the old rugby pitch end.
Buxton isnt famous for its big rabbit population but I have noticed they're creeping up in numbers. If you can see the bunny and you change your mind about the non violent route we can whack it with my 22 air rifle.

Title: Re: Bunny 24 Us 0
Post by: Robert_Brenchley on September 24, 2006, 13:15:24
Think of the delicious wild rabbit that's going to be on your plate, and murder it.
Title: Re: Bunny 24 Us 0
Post by: Chantenay on October 06, 2006, 14:06:19
I have rabbit trouble too - the dratted things are just eating machines with good publicity. The only real solution I have found is to have a general, well dug-in, chicken wire (small guage) fence around the whole plot, and then temporary chicken wire fencing round each bed. You can't even predict what the little sods will or wont eat.