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Rabbit Drop Boxes; Built & Installed
Topic Started: 19th April 2009 - 10:46 PM (1,715 Views)
fourteenacre
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I've been waiting to post this topic for a little while now, but wanted to wait until I had the whole photostory.

In February of this year I was contaced by Steve, who'd bought a copy of the book. Out of the blue I got an email with these pics attached; clearly Steve had been very busy.

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Now as you might imagine I was really interested to see where this went. All the designs are tested but this was an opportunity to follow a truely independant field trial of the drop boxes.

Before long the boxes were prepped and ready for installation.
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By mid Feb the boxes had been dug in but remained locked while the rabbits got used to them. Interestingly these have been installed with the tunnels running long the outside of a rabbit fence, not through as they often are.

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For reasons of access the traps were then left unset until mid March. On the first night of operation they caught 6 rabbits in one trap and 2 in another. Steve then closed them again and baited the area with carrot.

By the 28th or March they'd had another 38.

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slimwilly
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:o Good going there....very good tool where high infestaion has occurred.



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Neil
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46 rabbits, thats some trap!

very interesting thread ***goooodd****

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Realtree ste
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*aaaa* What a great post 14acre i must make some of these traps after ive finished my gun rack.
I belive ive been to your website,very informative,smart and profesional *good*
proper job :D
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photopro
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Excellent post 14A *good* I have seen a similar idea marketed using a trap door over a buried 45 gallon drum - never seen one in use though. How many times does a trap catch a none target species ? I suppose rats, mink, hedgehogs etc are all at some point going to find their way in.

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jasonpbell
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cracking post really like that so simple of an idea yet so effective what depth do they need to be *cheers*
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:D i like those traps 14a. i think i might have to make 1 or 2 *good*
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pigeon640
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digging the hole will be a bigger job than making the box


looks good though
and you will get nice clean unshot rabbits


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