Holes in my field.....bloody bunnies!

Think yourself lucky, I have badger holes in mine .... can't touch them of course so I've had to put a fence round them.

For bunny holes, try gravel, it seems to be more difficult for them to dig it out. Aternativly, you could try to find a man with a gun and some ferrets.
 
Thanks everyone....feel its gunna be a constant problem. My little girl would be so upset if I set a man with ferrets on them!!! But even more upset if her pony hurt himself so guess she will have to put up with it.

Might do gravel first and then see what happens. Or both!

Thanks and have a great weekend.
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So far my bunnies have been sensible and have stuck to making their holes in the banks around my fields, so I leave them alone. However it would be a different story if they made holes actually in the field itself .... as I don't own a gun and it probably being illeagal to allow my lurcher to chase them (she'd never catch them anyway, far too old) I would have to turn to the local pest control bloke ... who has both ferrets and a gun and could either shoot them or catch them in nets.
 
Gun....plain and simple.
Deal with the underlying cause! I have moles.....far worse as you can't shoot the bleeders. I have got however a brand new set of mole traps, so just need to see if they work. Might even get some new gloves out of it:D
 
poor little bunnies

ahh get herself a man with ferrets and dogs

my whippy would love to get her teeth into some bunnies..heaven to her

not sure if you own the land but maybe worth asking the landowner to control them

there are lots of people who works their dogs looking for permission to control bunnies..unfortually my whippys arent ferret proof

otherwiseyou going to be over run my them,and they may cause an accident with thier bunny holes
filling them in is only tempary as the bunnies will only make new holes simple
 
We have major rabbit problems and living next to 700 acres of common land where they breed and run free, no amount of ferrets and guns will help us.

What I do is pack the holes with manure when I am poo picking - I have to keep topping them up and eventually they give up and move on.

It is an on going battle so have every sympathy!
 
Turn horse out onto lush grass & then shovel the runny cow-pats into rabbit hole 1st thing in the morning - lovely smelly thing to harden in it :D

Then back fill with mole hills

Then get mates with guns to pop in for target practice..........

The only down side of this is that then paddocks get decent grass on them & are no good for dieting Fuzzy's :(
 
You definately need to do something... the man with a gun sound like the most humane way of helping to combat the problem...

My friend sold her beautiful show pony some years ago to a lovely family who bought him for their 11 year old daughter to show on... sadly 2 weeks after they bought him he went down a rabbit hole and broke his leg :(
 
Sidney said:
What I do is pack the holes with manure when I am poo picking - I have to keep topping them up and eventually they give up and move on.
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That!! They don't like it! You do have to keep topping it up but they soon get the message. Or if the holes are very big, pack them with rubble or stones and cover with the manure.
 
I got the ferret man in once - the local hunt secretary will know one.
Then pack with poo - (Saves me pushing it all back to the trailer!!!)
Pack it right in properly with as far as your welly will go, lots and hard!!!

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I have them as well, mostly out of the field but then they come in. I fill them with a few bricks deep down and then shove a load of manure on top. Have had the ferret chap but then they are are back so just keep chucking the manure in(which they do dig out)!

Good luck
 
i would recommend shooting them at night or day(better at night)i have done this for people and the rabbits soon leave,as they are nomadic.the other option is "drop boxes"and fencing to catch them.ferrets are all well,but if they bolt and are not caught....they still remain.a bullet gun will make less noise than a shotgun,have more range,but not as quiet as an gas air rifle,with a shorter range,I have shot in paddocks and most "balanced"horses dont seem to be too bothered,yet the easy answer is to lock the horse in a stable for the night.thing i come across most is owners who dont want guns going off but want rid of bunnies.vet bills vs rabbit holes....no brainer really.the thing to do is to turn up when there all out ,pick off a few an keep comin back.the shooter will get legal permission to shoot them,police etc,all you have to do is sign a piece of paper to let him do so.go to youtube and type in .17hmr and you will get an idea of what noise to expect,etc.hope this helps you all.ps if you get "a man"to sort it, it should be free,i dont charge....
 
Hairy Old Cob said:
Lock the tool shed so they cannot get to the spades:rolleyes:
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lol:D:D
you can shoot bunnies with an airgun which is a lot quieter than a shotgun or rifle;) A lot of people would be more than happy to shoot your bunnies for free, go on any shooting forum and there will be people looking for land to shoot on, just make sure they have liability insurance:)
i'm lucky because hubbys best mate is a pest control officer, licenced to kill anything:eek:, hubby and son also have airguns altho boy is not allowed to shoot in my horses fields!! He goes in the empty paddocks for safety lol:)
 
I don't mind the moles, their tunnels are so near the surface that I doubt they present any danger to the horses. Rabbits are another matter. They excavate. We've just purchased an extra two acres and I've found one section of it is filled with rabbit holes. We do have a big dung heap so I'll be doing some packing out!!! The farmer who used to own this field reckoned the rabbits costs him £20,000 per year in damage to his cabbages. Now the cabbages have moved I hope the rabbits will follow :)
 
Its not only the holes you need to be aware of. I was looking at mine having a run round a while back and one fell, luckily he picked himself up and carried on. On inspection I saw that a burrow has collapsed while they galloped on it.

So don't just be aware of the holes the burrows present a problem too.

I filled mine with poo and they just dug them out again. I filled them with bricks and they dug out next to them. Now I fill them with brinks and poo and get my husband to pee on them - sorted. The only long tern solution is for you get someone in to shoot them, get them to gut and skin the rabbit and leave the innerds, feet etc in the hole. The fill them, the bunnies won't live in a fouled burrow so they won't dig it again - for quite a while at least.

I've had a couple of chaps shooting the rabbits for years. The horses don't pay them any attention whatsoever.
 
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