rabbits and fire wood
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02/06/22 05:02 PM
02/06/22 05:02 PM
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When I started cutting at the farm we hardly saw rabbit track , the last 2-3 years we have been seeing a lot of rabbit sign around the brush piles so this morning my son and I went out and shot a few we shot 2 each saw 8 total left half as seed rabbits for next year left 1 rabbit for my friend the farmer all cleaned
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Re: rabbits and fire wood
[Re: GREENCOUNTYPETE]
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02/06/22 05:13 PM
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Gary Benson
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Fried rabbit has fed many a hungry 'Mericans. If you cut green limbs in the fall and make a brush pile, you'll have rabbits all winter. Gives them shelter and they eat the bark off the green tree limbs.
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Re: rabbits and fire wood
[Re: Gary Benson]
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02/06/22 05:22 PM
02/06/22 05:22 PM
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Fried rabbit has fed many a hungry 'Mericans. . And at least one peckish Kraut. I like me some rabbit
Let's go Brandon
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Re: rabbits and fire wood
[Re: Bruce T]
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02/06/22 05:36 PM
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Way to go.Fun to hunt with beagles also. My Beagle LOVES chasing rabbits for me.
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Re: rabbits and fire wood
[Re: GREENCOUNTYPETE]
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02/06/22 06:36 PM
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beagles would be fun.
we went with the shake the brush pile method and walk the fence row
absolutely habitat is key
as Gary mentioned green is good , we don't have a ton of green this year , but the last 2 years fences were going in and the brush piles were getting very big most of those got burned so a few smaller ones were holding the rabbits today we saw the major run ways last week.
in the summer it is all pasture mix and hay around the little patch of woods.
America only has one issue, we have a Responsibility crisis and everything else stems from it.
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Re: rabbits and fire wood
[Re: 330-Trapper]
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02/06/22 06:46 PM
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We have 3 main brush piles for them
Trying to keep them safe for the Grandkids to hunt next year That's awesome.
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Re: rabbits and fire wood
[Re: GREENCOUNTYPETE]
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02/06/22 07:45 PM
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I built some rabbitat at my hunting land a few years ago. I try to freshen it when I can. I did a select timber cut and had the grapple skidder push clean a 100 yard strip 15 to 20 yards wide through some low land maples. I then dug small holes and laid pallets overtop. Covering that with small brush then bigger brush. Brambles and blackberries took over the stump piles. The strip is planted in rye, food plot seeds and plain birdseed, It's a rabbit haven....Also fox, owls, hawks. I have trapped many fox here. The rabbits are taken, maybe 6 or so a year in the evening after a day of squirrel hunting. Most of my rabbits are shot from my own yard at home. I beat the buggers back every winter for cutting my raspberries and raiding my summer garden. We probably eat about 20 or so a year.
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Re: rabbits and fire wood
[Re: Camohoyt340]
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02/07/22 02:09 AM
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It’s amazing how easily rabbit habitat is built. Simply hinge cutting a few trees or clearing a few for firewood makes excellent habitat. That being said, the best rabbit hunting habitat around me is old junkyards. The neighbor has a couple hundred old cars out in the woods. More rabbits there than anything. When I was a yougun we'd hunt a local farmers yard. He had all sort of old machinery and vehicles laying around. The area was open with lots of tall grass. When the grass died back it covered the old equipment nicely. Had to be quick tho, one jumping on and climbing over the equipment would yeild a rabbit or two shooting out for the next nearest spot of cover. Not much time for a shot.
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