Thread: Rabbit trapping anyone...Help.

We have a small issue here with a few rabbits getting into our and our neighbours plantings. It is not a safe area to use a 22 otherwise the problem would have been solved......

Wondering if anyone has used cage rabbit traps and what techniques get decent results (Baits etc)

Does anyone in CHCH area have a couple traps I could use / try before I go buy some? I dont want to buy 3 or 4 then find out a different trap would have worked better or that I got the wrong ones. I dont want to use kill traps or leg hold (Gin type) as there are other animals in the area I do not want to injure (Pukekos, parrys, pets etc)

I have tried repellant to make them eat other stuff but to no great success.

I am thinking something like this

air rifle????..... sorry only got leg holds here.or conibear traps which do work great on bunnies but are even more leathel again..them suckers take NO prisoners.

Have you thought about gassing them? If you know where their burrows are, grab some Magtoxin or similar and get them that way. Because its a targeted solution you shouldn't need to worry about other animals as they won't be in the burrows with the rabbits.

Rabbits and Hares are bastards around young trees etc. Piling cut gorse round your young trees stops them instantly. Then you have time to snare and trap em. Cat and dog shit mashed in the watering can works as a repellant as does egg mix.
I don't think any cage traps will work, but you could look into buying some 'pindone' poison pellets and put them in areas the 'non targets' cant get to