Anyone have good luck live trapping rabbits…… need to get them out of the backyard before they multiply this Spring. Want to live trap before I take a more terminal approach….

Get a fox

My kids made a few various styles of box traps as 4H projects.
Once a trap caught a female, males started getting caught pretty regularly, best bait there was, lol

I get nuisance calls on them all the time.Usually girdling someones fruit trees.I have trapped hundreds with a chunk of apple,,and believe it or not,,a little squirt of red fox urine.

330 showed me a top notch little homemade trap and it does the job. I hope he chimes in.

I second what upstateNY said^^^

***I'll look for my pictures of my one hand setting wood box trap

I caught dozen as a kid. Simple plywood box trap with half a salted apple on trigger.


Mac

I use to catch them in spring pole snares along the Railroad tracks. small box trap with apple slices worked for us in town.

Here's the link

With pictures
https://trapperman.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/6721015/rabbit-hare-wood-box-trap-2-0

I need to build some so I can trap rabbit in town and release on my farm. Planing to make some mor brush piles to go along with my habit improvements and predator removal.

My youngest wants begals but we don't have enough rabbits to keep them in shape or places that do close enough to run the dogs.

Use wooden traps, not wire.

Box trapping rabbits is what got me into trapping as a kid. I second using wood traps. The more seasoned the wood the better. Never have done well with fresh wood. Find wood from an old barn or even better a hollow log. Used to sell them live to the beagle guys for a dollar a piece as a kid. I was rich!!

Yes absolutely...Wood
https://trapperman.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/6721015/rabbit-hare-wood-box-trap-2-0

Appreciate the info all !!!

i do fine on them in winter , with wire and carrots

Friend of mine has wooden home made box traps. He doesn't bait at all. Rabbits seek the cover and warmth.

Yep. Wood like others have mentioned. Back in the day as kids we ran a line with wooden box traps. The local beagle club would pay us $ 5.00 per rabbit. That was a lot for a 10 year old in 1981!!!

Live trap under the wife's bird feeders. Grind for chili.