smoking rabbits

[mussells 0]

has anyone ever try,d smoking rabbits out,the way you do for rats with a chainsaw engine(you know the score)?????? i,d be intrested to find out,in theory it should work!?!

[Kane 2]

Rabbits behave totaly differently to a smoker.....rats will bolt rabbits would rather die than bolt with all that noise .....JMo

[mussells 0]

I'd agree with Kane................They'd rather sit tight & keel over than bolt to the sound of dogs , people & a chainsaw..............

i never thought of that, bugger!

[john b 38]

I thought it worth updating you on an experiment I did in the spring. Before you get too excited it didn't work - but it was interesting.

 

I netted up a set of holes and then dropped in one of those smoke pellets that you use to test chimneys. To start with the smoke just billowed out of the same hole then suddenly it sucked back in, just like a scene from Backdraft. Over the next couple of minutes a brief puff of smoke came out of all the other holes in turn. But no rabbits.

 

I tried it on another warren and got exactly the same results - it even showed up a holed I'd missed under a pile of leaves.

 

I have a theory on this which, if correct, would mean that you can't get them to bolt with smoke. I think that in a natural situation the rabbits reaction to fire would be to go deep and sit it out, rather than bolt and make a run for it. The odds of survival would certainly be better as fire doesn't usually spread down and a few feet under the ground would be quite safe, provided the oxygen wasn't exhausted.

 

I think the unusual smoke behaviour was caused by rabbits in the tunnels near the surface heading down quickly and pulling in air and smoke behind them. The smoke then just drifted along the tope tunnels leaking out of the holes.

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

Brownie Point for that one, John! I liked that a lot! Thanks

[mussells 0]

Brownie Point for that one, John! I liked that a lot! Thanks

im not going to waste my time on that then cheers buddy.

LETS FIND SOME RATS!!!!!!

[Guest kill_that_rabbit]

Stubby, if you are reading this, you have found the non-existant thread you were talking about.

[mintmoore 9]

I also agree with the theory that a rabbit wont bolt with smoke

Although a keen ferreter . i thought i wud have a go anyway

i peg the warren holes with purse nets

then got a rubber glovee on stick , set it a light put it far down a hole as i could then covered the fire holewith a piece of wood then wait the black smoke will soon start to leak out of the other holes and through the nets.

but ye it proves for me anyway that rabbits ont bolt with smoke get a good female ferret down there instead then u will have tight nets all day.

thanks.

[lofti 579]

just use a ferret

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