Re: rabbit fencing?

It may be a bit long to download, but I think that it is worth the wait.

All what you may wanted to know about cottontail rabbits, biology and management, including fencing.

It is a PDF file from the Prevention and Control of Wildlife Damage" produced by U of Nebraska, USDA-APHIS and the Great Plains Ag Council. I have the full CD in the office, many more species covered (reptiles, carnivores, rodents, etc). An excellent resource.

Enjoy

Mario


At 8:15 AM +1300 12/4/02, Tony and Moira Ryan wrote:
Nan Sterman wrote:

 Can anyone help me with the specs for a rabbit fence around a veg
 garden?  What kind of fencing is best (this is to line a standard
 fence that will surround the garden)?  how deep does it need to be
 buried and how tall does it need to be?

Hi Nan,

I assume you can just ask for "rabbit wire" at your hardware supplier -
they should know the appropriate, locally available, medium!

I'm not sure about height, but rabbits cannot jump high, so two feet may
be enough, three feet I am sure is enough.

One thing I /can/ tell you is the necessity to form a horizontal "apron"
of wire underground on the outer side. This need not be deep - 2-3
inches below the surface - but it must extend about 18" forward,
horizontally, on the outer side (i.e. the side where the rabbits are
coming from).

Rabbits encountering a wire fence will try to dig under it, as you
clearly are already aware, but if they then encounter more wire below
ground, they do /not/ have sufficient intelligence to try digging
further away from the fence to find out where the wire stops.

Tony
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http://mywebpages.comcast.net/cherie1/Garden/TonyandMoira/index.htm

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