Rabbits in the Garden & Animal Repellent Spray

I use pepper spray on flower gardens, and a couple of applications early in the year train them to not eat the flowers. In the veggie garden I've put 2' fences around the raised beds and they work fine.

I've had to add netting across the tops to keep the quail from declaring it a prime dust bath area :-).

And the ultimate rabbit repellent is a pellet gun. Most learn from a couple of light stings, but I've had to actually kill a couple of the really persistent ones.

I'll add that if the OP is queasy about cleaning a rabbit for cooking purposes, but knows a hunter, it's worth the effort. Absolutely delicious. :-)

"junkyardcat" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@enews2.newsguy.com:

Mix your own repel spray by combining water, hot pepper flakes, garlic, a couple of drops of soap and maybe I forgot something. You're supposed to put in a jug and then let it sit in the sun for a while. Then strain and spray on your plants. You can call it your hare removal tonic. Har har. Kidding about the name, but seemed to work for me.

Well you can try to repel them but you have to keep doing it. I find something that automatically catches them and disposes of the corpses combined with good fencing to be most effective and least effort.

David

But if you don't know how to check for rabbit fever, find someone who does.

Does it survive thorough cooking?

OK, I'm doing this from long ago memories, so don't hold me to it. It appears as some sort of spotting or discoloration on the liver. I know that rabbit hunters (again, long ago) would open the gut, look at the liver (with gloves on) and discard any suspicious carcass. So my guess would be that it does survive cooking, although it could be they were just being overly cautious.

Fencing is the only sure solution to vermin rabbits.

Karl W.

Thanks for any help... Angie in the Boonies of East Texas

Too cute to shoot? Tasty, though.