The Walden Effect: Farming, simple living, permaculture, and invention.

Rabbit trapping?

using a live trap with close up of possum


We've been curious about meat rabbits lately and I've been seeing several run around doing their thing and thought maybe we could get lucky and trap one.

Anna did some research and we decided to go with a live trap that stays open at both ends. Rumor has it that rabbits will be more likely to go into a trap if they can see out the other end.

No rabbits yet, but we caught a possum today. The poor little guy was spooked pretty bad, so we tied Lucy up for a brief moment and walked him out to the woods and set him free.



Anna Hess's books
Want more in-depth information? Browse through our books.

Or explore more posts by date or by subject.

About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.



Want to be notified when new comments are posted on this page? Click on the RSS button after you add a comment to subscribe to the comment feed, or simply check the box beside "email replies to me" while writing your comment.


I see to remember having a pet rabbit when i was young.

one day I was told it ran away.

That night we ate dinner and something that tasted quite a bit but not quite like chicken was on my plate.

tasty critter...

Comment by Dirk Fri Aug 24 18:48:01 2012
What bait are you using for rabbits that attracted that grinner?
Comment by Heath Fri Aug 24 18:49:58 2012

Dirk --- Oh dear. Sounds like when my sister was obsessed with the movie Bambi and our cousins fed her a burger...which turned out to be venison instead of beef. "You just ate Bambi!" they hollered in glee. It's experiences like that which turn you vegetarian....

Heath --- We tried apple cores for a while, and did have one near miss. (I saw a bit of rabbit fur caught in the trap, so I think it was a rabbit that time.) This time, I rebaited with a couple of carrot tops and a cabbage heart. I'm clearly going to have to do some more bait research to figure out what will attract just rabbits!

Comment by anna Fri Aug 24 19:38:30 2012





profile counter myspace



Powered by Branchable Wiki Hosting.

Required disclosures:

As an Amazon Associate, I earn a few pennies every time you buy something using one of my affiliate links. Don't worry, though --- I only recommend products I thoroughly stand behind!

Also, this site has Google ads on it. Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to a website. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to users based on their visit to various sites. You can opt out of personalized advertising by visiting this site.