I also put this on the ADC Forum but this thread has more viewers so thought I'd list on both forums.

What is the best bait to use in a live trap for rabbits. I have one that's been eating my wifes flowers and she wants it gone, lol.

They like apples and salt.

I rub an onion around the base and sides of the opening too, along with apple.
Pap taught me that one, worked very well for us.

They are doing the same thing to my wife's flowers. They wiped out her petunias and now they are starting on the other flowers. Saw three in the yard early this morning. Will try apples.

Apples or bird seed

Thanks guys. I'll give it a try today.

Salty apple slices.

I have trapped a lot of them for my Animal Nuisance Control Business.I have great results using a chunk of apple,,,and believe it or not,,add a squirt of Fox Urine in the trap.

I'll do the salted apples and some fox urine and let you know the results. The fox urine seems to work on dirtholes for rabbits.

Exactly why I started using it in my rabbit traps.Good luck.

BB gun works best this time of year. If you have to trap then cheese wheel traps work better than box traps this time of year. McIntosh apples for whatever reason work best for me. Rabbit scent works best. I’ve caught a lot of rabbits with no bait. Once a trap catches a rabbit just reset it and good chance you catch another rabbit just off the rabbit scent in there.

Cheese wheel trap? Never heard of that one .How does it operate?

just

And I just thought that rabbit left me a lucky rabbits foot( owl came to investigate durring the night) had just happened on the pan of my mb550.mahbe it was the fox p.

Lil copy and paste from an old post of mine, hope the pics help

So stumbled upon these today while looking up plans for wooden rabbit traps. Only really found infor on these on rabbit dog forums so guess this is a inside thing ? Any how any of y'all ever mess with these ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqhvmfosKlM


Seems to me that you could use 55 gallon removable drum lids in place of the wood , at least for the top part.
Maybe put a door in the wire, or lid to remove the catch.
Seems it's not legal to trap rabbits in Ohio. Unless they've changed the laws on them.
Same with squirrels..

Thanks for all your help. I tried the apple slices with salt and the offending rabbit was in the live trap this morning. It was released about 8 miles from my house. I was driving down a dirt road and saw a similar sized rabbit so released mine there.

For about three weeks now, I have been feeding a group of wild rabbits on my patio. I have adults, teens, and very young coming several times a day. They eat seeds that fall from a bird feeder.

While our granddaughter was visiting we fed them various veggies. They ate cherry tomato, celery, cucumber, carrots, and lettuce. Their favorite seemed to be the stem portion of a stalk of celery. Second favorite was carrots.

Neat concept. Made lots of homemade rabbit traps but never one like that.

Apples and salt

My Dad always used the flower half of an apple. He would trap them in our yard and take them to the holding pen at Town and Country Beagle Club.

Moosetrot