We have decided to amend our poultry mesh fence to keep the rabbits out. Safety for the rabbit plays a part, but we are also concerned about biosecurity for our poultry. I also feel that if a rabbit can shoot the gaps in that fence, so could a weasel.
I don't know about domestic rabbits, which I know can be larger and more sedentary than cottontails, but we get rabbits inside the electric fence every day. We have an electric poultry mesh giving us 8000 volts that keeps out all the predators. However, the cottontail rabbits just jump right up...