Not a Happy Bunny.............!

[Rolfe 2]

I was just out with the dogs to do some reconnaissance prior to some serious fence snaring where i was greeted by the sight in the pictures. My favourite snaring site had been ripped up, the ground levelled, and posts put in ready for a new fence........thats buggered that then. It was a snaring haven along that particular fence line with rabbits travelling from the hedgerow buries...across a short grass field..... and then through the fence onto the ceral crops to feed. Thats the end of the snaring there for a while until the bunnies make fresh runs through the new fence, but at least the water trough was left in place..........my dogs love a drink from that. You can see from the before and after pictures what it used to be like. I would regularly take 15-25 rabbits a night from that fence line.....thats snaring for 2 nights........resting it a fortnight......then having another crack at them.......usually i would have 50 wires down on the the main runs.

[Guest buster321c]

Well thats buggered that up then !

[The one 8,494]

It wont take them long to make new runs threw there ,a couple of weeks and it will be back to normal

[Holdaway 2]

They are not planning on putting up rabbit proof netting are they Rolfe? Mind you, a snip here or there and the bunny bag will soon be full again...

 

Now might be the time to install one or two drop boxes?

 

H

[Rolfe 2]

They are not planning on putting up rabbit proof netting are they Rolfe? Mind you, a snip here or there and the bunny bag will soon be full again...

 

Now might be the time to install one or two drop boxes?

 

H

If they were installing a rabbit proof netting system I would certainly put in a couple of drop boxes (I have a couple sitting here waiting for just such an opportunity) but alas it will just be sheep netting.......along with the obligatory strand of barbed wire on top.......which i have tried to talk them out of (thinking ahead for the dogs) without success.

 

 

Rolfe

[The one 8,494]

Whats the reason you dont ferret the burrows then mate ??

[DUCKWING 302]

IF THERES RUNS " THROUGH " THE FENCE WHICH ARE BEING USED............... THERES RUNS LEADING " TO " AND FROM ,

 

WHY NOT JUST PEG SNARE THEM ............ THERE LOOKS TO BE A SUITABLE EDGE OF HEADLAND FROM THE PICTURES

 

 

DUCKWING

[Rolfe 2]

IF THERES RUNS " THROUGH " THE FENCE WHICH ARE BEING USED............... THERES RUNS LEADING " TO " AND FROM ,

 

WHY NOT JUST PEG SNARE THEM ............ THERE LOOKS TO BE A SUITABLE EDGE OF HEADLAND FROM THE PICTURES

 

 

DUCKWING

 

I can and do set wires on the runs leading to and from the fence line as well as on the fence itself. Often I run a line of wires along the hedgerows a few yards into the fields as well. It's just that the excisting fence line was the IDEAL place to intercept the rabbits as the rough grasses made the wires all but invisible. But one of the main reasons i liked setting the fence was because the field is used for sheep grazing most of the time, so setting in the open was not always an option.

 

Rolfe.

[Rolfe 2]

Whats the reason you dont ferret the burrows then mate ??

The buries the rabbits come from is on someone else's permission.......and being a deep impenetrable hedgerow they have never ferreted it to my knowledge.

 

Rolfe.

[IanB 0]

Given the choice I'd rather fence snare than peg snare or a combination...personal preference.... Just use hoop snares on the runs rolfe even if theres sheep in there, thats what they were designed for as Glenn says...

[ianrob 2]

I was just out with the dogs to do some reconnaissance prior to some serious fence snaring where i was greeted by the sight in the pictures. My favourite snaring site had been ripped up, the ground levelled, and posts put in ready for a new fence........thats buggered that then. It was a snaring haven along that particular fence line with rabbits travelling from the hedgerow buries...across a short grass field..... and then through the fence onto the ceral crops to feed. Thats the end of the snaring there for a while until the bunnies make fresh runs through the new fence, but at least the water trough was left in place..........my dogs love a drink from that. You can see from the before and after pictures what it used to be like. I would regularly take 15-25 rabbits a night from that fence line.....thats snaring for 2 nights........resting it a fortnight......then having another crack at them.......usually i would have 50 wires down on the the main runs.

 

 

I think it must be the farmers using up their maintenance buget before the new tax year. There are loads of new fences near me too.

[IanB 0]

Just checked a small section of fenceline today and had a few in it, two snares were snapped, as I went to pull one rabbit from a snare, another next to it snapped the snare and broke free.... someone had pulled tight most of the snares on a woodside as well.. Twats, can't leave anything..

 

[ianrob 2]

Just checked a small section of fenceline today and had a few in it, two of the snares were snapped, as I went to pull one rabbit from a snare, another next to it snapped the snare and broke free.... someone had pulled tight most of the snares on a woodside as well.. Twats, can't leave anything..

 

It's a fairly common problem Ian. Some people even set the drop boxes along the railway near me. They don't know the suffering they cause as I found four skeletons in one of the traps. As you say they can leave nothing alone. Bring back the birch, ouch!.

[120-2 8]

It's a fairly common problem Ian. Some people even set the drop boxes along the railway near me. They don't know the suffering they cause as I found four skeletons in one of the traps. As you say they can leave nothing alone. Bring back the birch, ouch!.

 

I have just installed 12 drop boxes along the M3 at Basingstoke, Hants and put locking kits on them for exaclty that reason. People can't leave anything alone.

[warm barrels 0]

:oops: I too have had that trouble some idiot removing/pulling tight the snare.This happened once when thw boss "the major" decided to walk along with me. hell no joke then.Bunnies can be awkwarc too comming from the un-likeliest places.Still we all have to carry on and do the best we can.