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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
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 Posted - Jun 23 2006 : 6:34:03 PM
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oh my goodness .. is anyone else out there experience the huge rabbit population this summer that we are here? it seems everytime i look out the window or drive up .. they are hopping all over .. little suckers better durn sight leave my herbs and flowers and veggies alone!!! i walked all around this evening to see if things had been 'nibbled' .. but so far .. they have not!
any suggestions for 'humanely' getting rid of them? i am not willing to send them off to bunny glory land!
True Friends, Frannie
My KENTUCKY RAMBLINGS 'blog':
http://cabincreekfarm-kentucky.blogspot.com/ |
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Phils Ann
True Blue Farmgirl
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Ann
Parsonsburg
Maryland
USA
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Posted - Jun 24 2006 : 10:29:43 AM
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Oh Frannie, have Cabin or Creek met these rabbits yet? Bet they'd love them. I used to have rabbit trouble in my flowers, but white clover established itself in the yard (next to the same flower delicacy the rabbits loved) and they completly switched to eating clover. Now I get to enjoy watching them out the kitchen window and everyone's happy. :) You could plant clover for them!
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
8529 Posts |
Posted - Jun 24 2006 : 10:45:43 AM
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A-HA!!!!!! NOW i know why we have so many rabbits .. i commented to Hank a couple days ago ... have you noticed our lawn is mostly CLOVER .. how did that happen? actually, i like the look of it .. and i guess it is a 'bunny buffet'!!!!
Pretty much all wildlife .. wild turkeys, deer, (squirrels --have not see ONE of them here EVER!!!! coyotes .. all stay IN the woods .. when those dogs get to 'WOOFIN'!
LUCKILY .. they are NOT big barkers though .. that would drive us nutz down in this quiet little valley .. i'd have to tape their mouths shut!
they also no longer have the 'run' of the woods and hills ... hank built them a HUGE fenced in yard .. sooo .. they are either there or (and mostly) in the house! so .. we might start seeing more critters edging into the yard this summer once the gardens get to growing!
xo
True Friends, Frannie
My KENTUCKY RAMBLINGS 'blog':
http://cabincreekfarm-kentucky.blogspot.com/ |
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LJRphoto
True Blue Farmgirl
760 Posts
Laura
Hickory Corners
MI
USA
760 Posts |
Posted - Jun 24 2006 : 11:39:19 AM
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The other benefit of a clover lawn is less watering and mowing and the clover sets it's own nitrogen. Double bonus!
"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority." -E. B. White
http://www.betweenthecities.com/blog/ljr/
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
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brightmeadow
True Blue Farmgirl
2045 Posts
Brenda
Lucas
Ohio
USA
2045 Posts |
Posted - Jun 25 2006 : 08:00:05 AM
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Ha! I hear you, we found a rabbit nest right in the middle of our yard. Lots of bunny fur spilling out of the hole in the ground, does that mean the babies have left the nest? I'd like to fill in the hole so that nobody breaks an ankle, but even though it's only 20 feet from the garden I would hate to bury them in the nest...
You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands - You shall be happy and it shall be well with you. -Psalm 128.2
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santa_gertrudis_gal
True Blue Farmgirl
198 Posts
Kim
Groesbeck
Texas
USA
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Posted - Jun 26 2006 : 11:09:27 AM
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Baby bunnies in the yard. If you see the fur spilling out of the burrow, it is because the babies have moved it up towards the surface. Does do not keep the nest up, it is the kits that do this. I don't want to get long winded, which I can about rabbits. Solution is take a tomato cage, turn it upside down and stake it into the ground. Mom can get in, babies out when they are ready to leave (at this point they are not) and no one steps in the whole and breaks a leg. For safety sake, please cut off the stakes.
Kits can leave as early as four weeks, but will return to the nest until about eight weeks. Keep in mind a doe will rebreed at two to three weeks post kindling. She may continue to use the same burrow. Keep in mind one pair of wild rabbits is responsible for 482 offspring and descendants in a year.
Kim
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Edited by - santa_gertrudis_gal on Jun 26 2006 11:14:51 AM |
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