Never a good idea! Just giving someone else the problem. Not cool at all. If you are going to trap them, better plan on killing them! Rabbits are good eating.He would drive the animals down the road several miles and let them out. Cool idea.
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Intriguedbybonsai
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TransonicMan
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I used to hunt. I bet you "fox urine" that you can buy at your local sporting goods store would work like a charm. I am rototilling now and I had bought fence but decided to increase the size of the garden. Now I don't have money for more fence but I bet I can afford some fox piss. They are a natural predator in most areas. Many times you wouldn't even know it but they are there. Hunters use fox urine as a masking scent while hunting to cover up their stanking human scent. When you smell it you will know why it works. The deer know the scent of a fox and it overpowers any human scent. Well any living Rabbit should know the scent also. If not then they have already fallen prey to the Fox. I have NOT tried this but I am so confidant that this will work I am going to go to the store right now and buy some. So I will have no bunnies, half a fence and a slight smell around my garden. Good Luck my fellow garden dwellers! 
FOX URINE IS THE ANSWER
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TheWaterbug
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Heh. I bought some powdered coyote urine two years ago, and the squirrels just laughed at me. I bought dried blood, and they laughed even harder. Then they ate my pumpkins.
Barrier methods work, but I've heard a simple fence described as "useful against garden pests that do not dig, tunnel, jump, climb, or fly."
I make a chicken wire "cage" that goes over the top of my plants and encloses and protects them completely, [url=https://www.helpfulgardener.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=219439#219439]except on the bottom.[/url]
Barrier methods work, but I've heard a simple fence described as "useful against garden pests that do not dig, tunnel, jump, climb, or fly."
I make a chicken wire "cage" that goes over the top of my plants and encloses and protects them completely, [url=https://www.helpfulgardener.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=219439#219439]except on the bottom.[/url]
If the wire is laid out flat on the ground where the two meet, in an L shape, it will keep most burrowing animals out. 12 inches of the wire should be laid flat on the ground, then the rest bent upward to form the vertical fence. The critters aren't smart enough to know to dig at the end of the wire laying on the ground. They keep trying to dig at the bend that forms the L shape.
I keep my digging dog in my yard simply by laying 2 x 12 boards along the bottom of my fence, where it reaches the ground. She digs there, but doesn't bother the edge where the fence meets the ground. Trainers have told me, btw, that dogs can dig down and straight, but not upward.
To keep animals with gnawing teeth out of your garden, you have to use tough enough wire. They can bite through stuff like chicken wire and hardware cloth in a split second. Welded wire will contain them, though. I know this because I used to raise them to feed to predators that were being rehabbed, such as hawks and eagles. I've had to catch my share of the little devils that got loose in my house.
I know it's tempting to buy the cheapest stuff, but like anything else, if you want the job done right, you have to buy the correct materials.
I keep my digging dog in my yard simply by laying 2 x 12 boards along the bottom of my fence, where it reaches the ground. She digs there, but doesn't bother the edge where the fence meets the ground. Trainers have told me, btw, that dogs can dig down and straight, but not upward.
To keep animals with gnawing teeth out of your garden, you have to use tough enough wire. They can bite through stuff like chicken wire and hardware cloth in a split second. Welded wire will contain them, though. I know this because I used to raise them to feed to predators that were being rehabbed, such as hawks and eagles. I've had to catch my share of the little devils that got loose in my house.
I know it's tempting to buy the cheapest stuff, but like anything else, if you want the job done right, you have to buy the correct materials.
I live in New Mexico in the USA and could not believe my eyes when I saw a cottontail on top of my 44-inch solid wall (yes I measured it)! It proceeded to leap into my garden enclosed by this stucco-coated cement wall. I chased it around and then saw it scale the wall to get out by a standing leap (!) at the base of the wall and rapidly pulling itself over with its forepaws. Wish I had got a video. It must be in training for rabbit jumping contests or the rabbit military when animals attack us as in James Patterson's "Zoo."
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rainbowgardener
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You can put up solar powered electric fence and you might only need two wires. Would not be very visible or effect the aesthetics much.
Or any of the kind of fences mentioned, you can work on beautifying: put plantings around them (especially rabbit repellent ones!), grow vines on them, or cover them with something better looking. Bamboo fencing comes in rolls or panels in a variety of shades. Just attach it to the chain link or whatever fence. Cheap and easy and can be very nice looking:
https://www.google.com/search?q=bamboo+ ... uSCh1Y8wIY
Or any of the kind of fences mentioned, you can work on beautifying: put plantings around them (especially rabbit repellent ones!), grow vines on them, or cover them with something better looking. Bamboo fencing comes in rolls or panels in a variety of shades. Just attach it to the chain link or whatever fence. Cheap and easy and can be very nice looking:
https://www.google.com/search?q=bamboo+ ... uSCh1Y8wIY
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jal_ut
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I know I already replied once to this, but gotta say some more about the problem:
Personally if that was my garden getting ruined I would just kill the rabbits. Likely just shoot them.
You may think this is rude, but consider that I grew up on a farm back in the days after WW2 when
things were tough. Deep depression. We often ate just what we could scrounge from the land.
Yes, rabbit stew was on the list. The garden was top priority as we ate from the garden and
depended on it. Any wild critter messing up the garden was apt to end up in the stew pot too.
I don't know about you folks, but my garden today still provides us with a good portion of our food.
I would hate to see it ruined by rabbits. Fact is I would not permit it. I have a battle with skunks
and racoons in the corn patch. A radio in the corn patch seems to scare them off. Wonder if
that would work for rabbits?
Personally if that was my garden getting ruined I would just kill the rabbits. Likely just shoot them.
You may think this is rude, but consider that I grew up on a farm back in the days after WW2 when
things were tough. Deep depression. We often ate just what we could scrounge from the land.
Yes, rabbit stew was on the list. The garden was top priority as we ate from the garden and
depended on it. Any wild critter messing up the garden was apt to end up in the stew pot too.
I don't know about you folks, but my garden today still provides us with a good portion of our food.
I would hate to see it ruined by rabbits. Fact is I would not permit it. I have a battle with skunks
and racoons in the corn patch. A radio in the corn patch seems to scare them off. Wonder if
that would work for rabbits?