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Controlling Nuisance Cottontail Rabbits
Rabbit-proof fences offer practical and inexpensive protection
for small areas of high value plants. You can exclude rabbits
from vegetable and flower gardens, nurseries and ornamental
plants with an 18 to 24 inch high fence of 1-inch mesh
galvanized wire. Temporary posts are satisfactory. The bottom
edge of wire must be carefully staked to the ground, or buried
several inches, to prevent rabbits from burrowing under the
fence. Well maintained fences offer assurance that rabbits will
be excluded during the period the plants require protection.
Cylinders of 1/4-inch mesh hardware cloth 18 to 24 inches high,
set into the ground surrounding tree trunks, will help prevent
gnawing damage to the main stem. Multi-stemmed shrubs should be
encircled with hardware cloth or 1-inch mesh wire. The wire
cylinders and tree wraps will prevent gnawing damage from both
rabbits and meadow mice.
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Cottontail Rabbits |
1-inch mesh galvanized wire
¼-inch mesh hardware cloth |
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