aprilconnett
Winston_Salem, NC
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| Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 1:14 am Post subject: bunnies |
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Apparently, the trailer park is home to several dozen rabbits. They find my garden yummy. Iwas wondering if I put out bunny food for them, would they eat that instead of my plants?
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CritterPainter
Washington State
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| Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 1:51 am Post subject: |
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Hmm, dry pelleted alfalfa or fresh green salad. I think you'd just get fat rabbits! Is is possible to put something around your most bunny-vulnerable plants? I picked up some plastic mesh fencing from the dollar store, and that seems to be too much trouble for them to bother with. Or you can get fine-mesh chicken wire from the hardware or feed store- I got a 25-ft. roll at Home Depot for 5 bucks.
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Netty
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Southern Ontario zone 5a
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| Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 1:53 am Post subject: |
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April, I've been battling bunnies for years! At home, the bunnies attack my shrubs during the winter months. I'm surrounded by fields of clover and alfalfa and they prefer that in the summer so they leave my gardens alone. Maybe if you planted the bunnies some red clover they would eat that instead of your plants.
I've read that bunnies are afraid of glass bottles that are half full of water set around the garden. OR try half burying glass bottles without the lids so the wind whistles thru the tops.
Cayenne pepper sprinkled around the garden may keep them away too, but you would have to re-apply after rain / watering.
I've never tried these but it sounds like it's worth a try.
Dogs are the best things for keeping bunnies away!
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cajunbelle
zone 8b Louisiana
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I've said it before and I'll say it again, Please, Please, Please do not use cayenne pepper. If the bunny, or any other animal gets it in their eyes they will claw them out. I hope you can find another alternative besides pepper of any kind.
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steph
Mitchell, SD
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| Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 2:49 am Post subject: Bunny problem solved! |
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Bunnies have been feasting on my beans, squash, and cauliflower. I tried several remedies that didn't do much good, so I finally put up a fence. It took me all day on Wednesday. Fencing-$15.00 , stakes-$12.00, tie downs-$6.00, the looks on the bunny faces the next morning-Priceless! They visited off and on for a day or two, but I didn't see them at all today. I guess they realize that the buffet is no longer available!
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Melissa
U.S.A west virginia
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hello all, well all you need is a cat! my magic has been bringing me baby bunnies all summer. just in the past 2 days she has brought us 6 still alive,they are so young they have no teeth. we try to take them back to the nest so mommy can take them off some where . not working. any ideas on how i can help mommy ? we know we can't take care of them,i have tried and they die. we want her to be nice and she just keeps bringing the lil' babes any ideas would be greatly appreciated. thanks melissa w.va. 
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desertflower
Oklahoma
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| Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 7:14 am Post subject: |
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Melissa, I have raised many bunnies with can milk (diluted with water), fed with a dropper. The mothers usually kill the young if they have been touched by humans.
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Melissa
U.S.A west virginia
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| Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 5:52 pm Post subject: |
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thanks ...what kind of can milk and when will i know i can let them go? all info. will be put into motion we want to take care of them the right way i have been on the web before and it says that we would not be able to take care of them long term. so, we have been putting them back. only for for her to bring them back to us  also, are any risks health wise for us to be concerned with? thanks again melissa w.va.
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bethie
WestTennessee
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| Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 2:38 pm Post subject: |
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A fine wire fence is your best solution. It IS the most trouble but will last for years.
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