Rotten cotton butts

[HLAC]

Lol! I love rabbit meat, cubed and marinated in Italian dressing and then cooked with onions, tomatoes and peppers on a shishkabab on on the grill. mmm...

Yep, the bunnies annihilating my blueberry bushes pushed me over the edge.. tho' the were hitting my garden really hard too. I took 19 of them out of the yard the first year. 19! No wonder my plants were getting hit so hard.

 

[Karrie13]

Hmm... I have a couple that seem to hang around but haven't had any problems with them YET. Not sure why the cat's let them live though. They normally keep the rabbits, squirrels and any other small creature outta our place!

Eating them though, not sure about that. Do they taste like chicken?

 

[ConchRepublic]

We don't have much rabbit problems here, our dogs chase them off but they still go through periods where we see them every night. Those I like those nights because we have some good stew cooking the next day.

 

[nzpouter]

chickluver :

im mean u have chickens, ur bound to have a problem.
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1 ruby-eyed netherland dwarf, 8 hens:cd, 1 cat, 1 parrot, 1 injured northern flying squrrel, and 9 eggs in the bator!

don't keep any animals if you're not prepared to look after their safety...​

 

[GrannySue]

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No, they taste like rabbits!

 

[Ariel301]

We have the same issue. We don't have a real barn, so we have to stack our hay for our goats outside. Even with tarps, pallets, and chicken wire building a fortress around the hay so it's a chore to get to it, the rabbits get in. When they get bad, they eat as much or more than five goats in a day. We can't afford to feed them too! We had so many rabbits that they were everywhere; you couldn't walk through the property without tripping over one. They were starting to look really sickly and mangy and gross too, and having so many around attracted bigger predators like mountain lions, bobcats, and coyotes...definitely not things we want around chickens and goats! They also dig under the fence and destroy our garden--if we let the rabbits do as they please, we have no food for us or our animals.

It's sad, but we have to shoot them. They were not meant to overpopulate an area that cannot support them, so we have to manage them to prevent illness and predator explosions. Over the summer, my husband could shoot a dozen an hour, and they would not even run when he shot them! They are losing their wild instinct hanging out here, which is not good for them.

We can't eat them so we just bury them. It's too bad they go to waste, maybe I should find someone around town that would like to eat them.

 

[trinacliff]

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LOL, that was a great story. It made me smile/laugh/chuckle.
We had bunnies all over the yard... I don't see taking them out as bad as anything else for 1) they mass produce (... 2 rabbits one day, 15 the next, WTH????) and 2) we are helping them survive, hence their overproduction. The bunnies had to go when they ate the berry bushes... they could eat my garden or the chicken food.. but the bushes and fruit trees...

gotta go!!!

Ditto on the great story and laughed out loud to the "that was rude"...hahaha!

Kristen