What is your go to rabbit bait in live traps?
Caught a few on hedge balls but never really had much luck caging rabs
Apple. Give them a peeling right in the doorway to whet their appetite. If wire bottom cover the wire or nestle in the ground. They don’t like walking on wire.
Been so long since I have seen a rabbit around here that I think pixie dust, or unicorn crap would work as well as anything! When I used to catch one every once in a while years ago, apple slices, and anise oil on a cotton ball would get them sometimes. If I was going to try and live off of what ever I caught in a cage trap, I would have to develop a taste for possums I’m afraid! LOL!
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Thanks. I don’t need help catching possums!
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LOL! Well if you ever do, I will be glad to give you tips!
My grandfather used to set figure 4 sticks under a wash tub, or a cross stick, pyramid type trap, and he would just slice up an apple, and bait with that. He caught a bunch that way! He always said that a rabbit would go " under something better" than it would go “in something,” and maybe that’s why he was so successful. He didn’t like box traps, but preferred the drop box, or wash tubs!
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Mushmellon is my first choice
Put a little salt on that peeling.
Kyboy, Are you talking about the rabbits or yourself! lol
It’d be a lot of trouble to come up with but a rabbit trap built like the Comstock cage beaver traps would be a killer for rabbits. Open on both ends.
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I think you may be right on that; the only cage trap I ever remember catching rabbits in was an old 2-A Hav-a -Hart trap with open doors on each end. I bet something like that, and a big cabbage leaf at this time of year would get em!
LOL, both. I started trapping rabbits to keep them from eating all my mushmellons
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