Smoking out rabbits?

[Mattventon 1]

Hi, im 15 & want to start rabbiting, i dont really want to get a ferret so i wondered if there's any other ways to get rabbits to bolt. ive been talking to people who smoked out rats with a chainsaw exhaust, but none have done so with rabbits, would it work? What other ways are there? any advice would be much appreciated

thanks matt.

[The one 8,523]

Don'T think it would work with rabbits I'm sure there's been a post about it before try the search facility

[coneycatcher17 3]

snaring

[rabbit tourmentor 29]

they only way to do ferreting is a ferret hence the name if smoking them out worked nobody would own ferrets

[fox hunter 53]

rabbits wont bolt from smoking them you may get a ferret or start snaring

 

 

fox hunter

[stubby 175]

Hi, im 15 & want to start rabbiting, i dont really want to get a ferret so i wondered if there's any other ways to get rabbits to bolt. ive been talking to people who smoked out rats with a chainsaw exhaust, but none have done so with rabbits, would it work? What other ways are there? any advice would be much appreciated

thanks matt.

 

this has been asked before, try searching in the snaring/trapping section, as already suggested, and if you dont want ferrets, then probably better asking this question in that forum, rather than ferreting section , some will tell you it can be done, others, myself inc think it wont, plus you may find it illegal, as exhaust gass cannot be used to kill moles, the same could be said for rabbits, you cant tell if a non target species is down the burrows

[will.f11 24]

Someone told me it wont work as the rabbit burrows are different in size to a rats. A rats is smaller in width and will fill with smoke quicker, whereas a rabbit set would probably take alot longer as it is bigger in size. It may well be possible but a lot more waiting involved me thinks

[victor 10]

smoking works with foxes, bt not rabbits. and it doesnt get a ferret out of it's burrow!

[victor 10]

Hi, im 15 & want to start rabbiting, i dont really want to get a ferret so i wondered if there's any other ways to get rabbits to bolt. ive been talking to people who smoked out rats with a chainsaw exhaust, but none have done so with rabbits, would it work? What other ways are there? any advice would be much appreciated

thanks matt.

 

or, learn the art of snaring, when you get good you'll get heaps. aslong as thay are there to catch.

[The one 8,523]

I'm thinking along the lines that rabbits are more passive than rats so even if you did manage to fill the burrow with smoke they would just sit there and suffocate

[victor 10]

I'm thinking along the lines that rabbits are more passive than rats so even if you did manage to fill the burrow with smoke they would just sit there and suffocate

 

im sure thay die. foxes bolt toho

[ellir0305 9]

Hi, im 15 & want to start rabbiting, i dont really want to get a ferret so i wondered if there's any other ways to get rabbits to bolt. ive been talking to people who smoked out rats with a chainsaw exhaust, but none have done so with rabbits, would it work? What other ways are there? any advice would be much appreciated

thanks matt.

 

yeah they just die one of my old friends tried it whjen his ferret was ill but he said he dug down for them as they just died. it was a little warren so twas ok but bad idea!

 

when is it best to bolt foxeswith the smoke and into fox nets and .22 rimmy i guess?

[victor 10]

either that^^ or stand there with your running dogs. if were to do it, ( we have a terrier) it's only because ithe den is on a bank and is a very dumb idea to enter a terrier as we usualy dig, if you know any thing about digging to terriers it is that a den going into a bank it'll suck