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Fergienewbee

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I have a lot of rabbits, except for one area. A couple of years ago, I cut back a woodlot edge and now have a wide strip of black raspberry canes. They're so thick you can't walk through them. However, I rarely see a track in them. I'm thinking of adding a food plot, but not sure what to plant that might entice them. I have a travel lane of shrubs, and a couple of brush piles in the area. I've planted millet, buckwheat, and sorghum in the past. Corn too. It just seems wierd that what should be premo habitat has no rabbits. Any thoughts?

Larry
 
Clover and alfalfa are a couple of good choices. I think alflafa is what makes up rabbit pellets and I have a front yard with a lot of clover which is close to a thick cedar tree line. They live in the cedar tree line and at night come out and help themselves to the clover.

HTH,

Mark
 

I am always amazed at the number of rabbits I see every night at work. Military installation with minimum grass, a few big trees, and a big evergreen that is lit up for the Christmas tree, and the rest asphalt. Rabbits everywhere....

What do you have for predators?
 
Dave2;

I have all the normal predators: coyotes, foxes, hawks, owls and cats. The berry canes are too thick for predators to have much impact. I'll try some clover/alfalfa. The ground is quite light, so may need something like white or yellow clover. It seems to grow anywhere.

Larry
 
It sounds like they are just avoiding that one area where the bearies are and the thorns will bother them as much as they would you and they cannot pull them out so they learn to avoid the thorn area and anything less than getting rid of the thorns will not bring them back.
 

cottontails are what we see in the cities. Outside is the big jackrabbit lookin ones. You seldom see a fox but there are plenty here. Think the flying ones are what keeps things thin around here.....
 
Plant red or white clover, continue the brush piles, place some small, coarse ground wood mulch piles in the area.If you can find some salt block, put that out. Food,water,cover should attract rabbit.
 
Pile up brush,plant something like grain sorghum late in the Summer and let it stand all Winter will provide food and cover.Or start a junkyard every junkyard I've ever been to has a bunch of rabbits living under the cars.
 
Try planting fine-stemmed grasses like Fescues or Kentucky bluegrass. In the winter they make tunnels through the tall dead grass and have plenty to eat until spring. And keep making the bunny condos (brush piles). I used to have an area like this and the rabbits were so thick they would scatter in all directions when I jumped on a brush pile. Once we got it fenced off and put cattle back in, that was the end of the rabbit population boom. The cattle didn't leave them enough forage to survive on all winter.
 
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbits_in_Australia

If you have these blighters then I would not be too excited to breed them.
Originally brought from England for the Landed Gentry's pleasure.
 
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