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tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45670
Location: Essex

Posted: Thu Aug 02, 07 4:32 pm Post subject: Drop traps
I know we discussed this yonks ago but has anyone got experience of setting up and using them?

Bodger

Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 13524

Posted: Mon Aug 13, 07 9:09 pm Post subject:
To go to the trouble of installing a drop trap you would have to have hundreds if not thousands of rabbits. I'll find out what I can for you.

emilyluddite

Joined: 25 Aug 2006
Posts: 50
Location: cricklade wiltshire

Posted: Mon Aug 13, 07 9:43 pm Post subject:
Sorry to be ignorant but what is a drop trap - i don't have thousands of rabbits but there are loads in the fields around here and they keep getting into the garden, which is annoying, but if they get into my veg patch I will be , well, even more annoyed

Shane

Joined: 31 Oct 2005
Posts: 3467
Location: Doha. Is hot.

Posted: Tue Aug 14, 07 6:26 am Post subject:

I presume it's a large piece of wood on a piece of string with a trigger. Rabbit knocks trigger, wood falls from above and smack! no more rabbit.

I've got some sketches of them in some old survival books - if no one's answered by the time I get home next week I'll see if I can dig them out and scan them.

I would suggest that if you had thousands of rabbits, drop traps would not be the most efficient way of making a dent in the population.

Treacodactyl
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Jumping on the bandwagon of opportunism

Posted: Tue Aug 14, 07 6:54 am Post subject:
I gather the modern drop trap is a live catch cage/box type trap where the rabbit enters and cannot escape. A bit like a lobster pot. You then have to take out your live rabbit and dispatch the critter.

emilyluddite

Joined: 25 Aug 2006
Posts: 50
Location: cricklade wiltshire

Posted: Thu Aug 16, 07 6:57 am Post subject:
Mmm, another one of those things that sounds like a good idea but you really need some seasoned old country bod to show you how to do it properly - I find there's lots of things like that there's a national shortage of Jo Grundies!

Bodger

Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 13524

Posted: Thu Aug 16, 07 3:47 pm Post subject:

Right !

Imagine a large tub or bucket dug into the ground so that its rim is level with the surrounding ground.

The barrel has a lid that is fitted on a rod so that the lid flips. Rabbit stands on lid, lid rotates and the rabbit drops into the tub and then the lid returns to its original position waiting for the next rabbit to come along.

The tub is dug in on a well used rabbit route, either through a hole in a fence or a stone wall where the rabbits enter the field to feed.

Very productive but to make it worth while you need a lot of rabbits using that path.

whitelegg1

Joined: 05 Apr 2005
Posts: 409
Location: Woodford Green

Posted: Thu Aug 16, 07 8:20 pm Post subject:
What happens if I tread on it? Do I drop into a buckoet of hungry rabbits Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggh! Pete

Bodger

Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 13524

Posted: Thu Aug 16, 07 9:01 pm Post subject:
Raaaaaaaaaagggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh !

@Calli

Joined: 03 Jul 2005
Posts: 1682
Location: Galway

Posted: Thu Aug 16, 07 9:44 pm Post subject:
I am not too sure Defra would approve of feeding Whiteleggs to wild rabbits Best check first.

whitelegg1

Joined: 05 Apr 2005
Posts: 409
Location: Woodford Green

Posted: Fri Aug 17, 07 9:33 am Post subject:
Can rabitts get 'foot in mouth' Pete

@Calli

Joined: 03 Jul 2005
Posts: 1682
Location: Galway

Posted: Fri Aug 17, 07 2:54 pm Post subject:
Touche

emilyluddite

Joined: 25 Aug 2006
Posts: 50
Location: cricklade wiltshire

Posted: Mon Aug 20, 07 2:22 pm Post subject:
Thanks bodger that's a really clear description now i know what a drop trap is even if I'm unlikely to be using one - the man in the local country shop gave me some noose type things which I'm supposed to put over the entry holes, but then if i knew where all the entry holes were I'd just repair the chicken wire anyway.

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