Trapping Rabbits

[Joe1888 672]

ive been trying to trap rabbits in a garden the past few days with litttle luck so far, i tryed carrots in around, leading to the traps with no luck... i returned, sprayed apple juice over the traps incase there was a scent problem, then put some apple down... caught one rabbit the next morning...

 

the traps are in areas the rabbits use, whats the best bait for live traps, also any other advice using the traps would be appreciated

Edited May 4, 2016 by Joe1888

[taz2010 1,297]

i find carrots good bait find they take a few days to get them in,only put in the trap leave none outside,they will find them soon enough

[shropshire mole 190]

I have tried and failed to catch with traps in a domestic garden. I was using carrot, most in the cage with just a little outside. Wildlife camera revealed that mice were taking the carrot.

 

There is a lot of info on this site already discussed last year, search rabbit trapping on front page

 

I wish you well

[EDDIE B 3,166]

It's important to place traps where the rabbits are feeding, and not where their entering the garden, or beside burrows.

[micky 3,325]

give it time

[Deker 3,478]

I've had very limited success with live traps, baits used are commonly what they are feeding on in the given environment.

 

Also used cabbage stalk and apple.

 

Caught a few, but hard work and not much return personally.

 

[shropshire mole 190]

if all else fails and you have a dog! Then could use rabbit long net to divide garden out and flush the rabbits with the dog & catch that way.

or if you know where they are getting in, use a drop box

[Rabid 1,936]

I have used carrot with some success, but I found kale, cabbage and lettuce leaves worked better

[Joe1888 672]

scraped the carrots for now, continued to use apples, so far thats one doe(preg), a young and today a buck on apples... its a start, rome wasnt built in a day

 

[Joe1888 672]

another two this morning, with the air riffle needing work, happy to see the traps work

 

 

[Frontbum 76]

Nice one, where did you get your traps from ?

[Joe1888 672]

One of them is mine lol, the rest belong to a mate whos a pest controller

[DIDO.1 22,844]

I'm always interested to see good successful rabbit cage trapping. Iv tried it and didn't do much good...with the effort needed, unpredictability and chance of cage interference /theft I can't see it being much use for me. For garden jobs with relatively low numbers but what the customer sees as major damage I normally offer to rabbit fence the garden and offer the option of a drop box

[BRY 79]

I carried out a cage trapping treatment on a domestic garden which bordered on some rough ground.

 

The reason rabbits go into these gardens is for the fresh grass sprouting after being cut on a weekly basis .

 

And some favourable plants . Prebiotic with sliced carrot, face traps so you catch them leaving .

 

I'll try find some pics

[nod 285]

Have caught 100s and 100s in cages very good way of taking out rabbits