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RABBITS
Apr 5, 2007 18:33:25 GMT -5
Post by featherduster on Apr 5, 2007 18:33:25 GMT -5
Besides brush piles,food plots and predator control anybody have any good secrets to attract and hold rabbits. I once was told that rabbits like salt.
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RABBITS
Apr 5, 2007 19:47:41 GMT -5
Post by tbgrindlay on Apr 5, 2007 19:47:41 GMT -5
Get rid of fescue. Warm season grasses are a better choice.
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RABBITS
Apr 5, 2007 21:25:13 GMT -5
Post by hornharvester on Apr 5, 2007 21:25:13 GMT -5
Salt does more good than any thing you can add to what you listed already. Break up a 50lb block and put it under the brush plies or under a small tree.
Heres one way we keep a lot of rabbits is to plant oats and seed clover in with it. The oats grow quick and the clover comes up underneath. The oats mature in July and the rabbits cut it down and eat it. They will nest in the oats and eat the young, tender clover. After the oats are gone the clover is there for them to eat.
Rabbits like young, tender plants and roots so keep the clover mowed. You can do the same thing with winter wheat and then sow clover in it in the spring along with fertilizer. The more fertilizer you use the better as the nutrients make rabbits grow.
Korean lespedesia is another good rabbit food and cover. h.h.
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RABBITS
Apr 7, 2007 19:12:21 GMT -5
Post by featherduster on Apr 7, 2007 19:12:21 GMT -5
I have clover planted around the area and I put out a block of salt for the deer in the summer months. I will try your idea and puy small salt blocks under the brush piles. THANKS
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RABBITS
Apr 20, 2007 18:15:20 GMT -5
Post by mbogo on Apr 20, 2007 18:15:20 GMT -5
I'll second HH's comments about salt. As long as you have cover then putting out salt chunks is almost like planting rabbit seeds.  |
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RABBITS
Apr 21, 2007 8:48:36 GMT -5
Post by tenring on Apr 21, 2007 8:48:36 GMT -5
Besides brush piles,food plots and predator control anybody have any good secrets to attract and hold rabbits. I once was told that rabbits like salt. I use "salt sticks", wooden stakes about 18 inches long [1"x1"] sharpened at one end. Fill a 5 gallon bucket with sticks [pointy end up], then fill up bucket with a heavy brine solution. Let soak for a long time, take out, dry, then pound them in ground about 6 inches [squirrels will dig them out and carry them off if you don't]. Got this idea from Clark McCreadys' [IDNR] Masters thesis. He did this several years ago in a salt study at Attebury. Have some in my backyard that have been chewed completely in two. Try it as an experiment and see what happens. Also gives you an indication of just where the rabbits are at. HTH |
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RABBITS
Apr 21, 2007 21:46:49 GMT -5
Post by tbgrindlay on Apr 21, 2007 21:46:49 GMT -5
Salt is a cure for the fungus which grows on fescue. I like the stick tip.
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RABBITS
May 2, 2007 16:34:40 GMT -5
Post by kbiddle on May 2, 2007 16:34:40 GMT -5
One other tip I got from my DNR guy this spring when we we going over the cost share stuff was if you have cedars trees, (which I do) is to cut them and line up end to end or in a U shape for the cover. He said it works better than just plain ole brush piles...
I am planning to try that and the salt both to see if I can improve my population..
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Post by parrothead on May 3, 2007 7:05:07 GMT -5
THat is what I did except with X-Mas Trees. I went and took a bunch from the recycling place where people drop off the trees.
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RABBITS
May 18, 2007 4:40:19 GMT -5
Post by quackingtim on May 18, 2007 4:40:19 GMT -5
I planted a garden. Seems to keep them around my place.
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RABBITS
May 18, 2007 20:24:26 GMT -5
Post by huxbux on May 18, 2007 20:24:26 GMT -5
They seem to really like the wifes tulips.  |
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