I found 2 baby rabbits living in a small rat bait station. Slammed it shut and dumped them in a bucket of water. I’d luv to be out in the country where you can shoot out of your back window…or front window for that matter.
Yep, rabbits generally like early morning or dusk. Especially if I let the grass grow and they can hide in it some.
Trapping Voles in the Garden (youtube.com)
Try that for voles.
I break up rat poison into small chunks and put near the hole, almost in it. After the poison stops being taken in the hole, I fill it up. If it is dug out again, I start back up with the poison. Don’t do it if you got pets. Use a bait station or put the poison deep in the hole.
Or get some mink or rat dogs.
I have a 50+ year old Ruger 10/22. It is accurate out to 75 yards and reasonably accurate at 100 yards. But! I’ve spent a lot of time practicing and know how much it drops with increasing distance. It has to be cleaned regularly to maintain accuracy. I have shot rabbits with a 12 gauge but prefer to use the 22.
Apparently Kansas rabbits dont realize that they are poison. I have seen them eat the greens then dig at the bulb and eat it too.
I looked out my bathroom window early morning last Spring to see a rabbit going all Cool Hand Luke on my Blueberry bushes. Just down the row biting down the cane and then moving right along to the next one.
It seems I’m a fresh farmer here UpState NY conquering New York wilderness trying to grow something edible on a soil carrying 4.4 pH
Grape seems to be a survival plant. But porcupines and woodchucks decided that stupid guy invested his life to provide a simple meal to their family members.
Mr. Google has provided with zero results for any real solution ( like a poison) to that problem. Plastic net I installed around my acre works well against deer but not for hooligans like porcupines and woodchucks. They are real destroyers , senseless vandals. They damage more than they could digest.
Any solution coming from the experience is welcomed.
No suggestion for woodchucks and porcupines, but a 12 gauge works pretty good on oppossums. I shot one in the door of my chicken house a few minutes ago.
Porcupine and woodchucks often live in dens.
At the den entrance… steel traps can be set… 220 conibear type traps or common leg hold traps…
Wire cage box traps can also be used.
Porcupine love salt and are attracted to the smell of it. Salted meat should lure them into a box type trap. Wood chucks prefer a nice ripe cantaloupe.
Trap them. Or lay in wait for them… and give them a load of hot lead. Many rifles would work… 22… 22 mag, 17 hmr, a shotgun would certainly do a good job of it out to 40 yards or so depending on the guage and choke.
I had several large cattle mineral tubs holding mass plantings of select hickory, pecan, walnut, and chestnut seedlings; some well-leafed, others planted 4-6 weeks later, such that the chestnuts, in particular were just really getting started. Raccoons came in one night and destroyed 80% of the chestnuts and really worked hard on some of the later-planted pecans.
Using a hav-a-hart type live trap and two of the Duke dog-proof paw-hold traps, I’ve caught and dispatched 4 'coons and a skunk over the last 3 nights. I’m sure there are more out there, and I’ll keep trapping til the damage stops.
Suggestions for a deer fenced in (no pets) area with rabbits/squirrels? Traps or bait suggestion? My neighbors wouldn’t like me discharging firearms in the backyard. Government probably frowns upon it, too.