Mowing Rabbits

[rustydollar]

I have seen snapping turtles, possums, skunks, rabbits, squirrels, raccoons etc and all of them are a nuisance. They eat garden vegetables, grub and make holes in the lawn, chew on wiring and attract buzzards.

Does any one here just blast away at them indiscriminately even when young because young ones will grow up to be nuisances?

Kill off the buzzards and the possums then you'll have to clean up your own mess of carrion or create some creative culinary skills.

 

[PJSprog]

I have seen snapping turtles, possums, skunks, rabbits, squirrels, raccoons etc and all of them are a nuisance. They eat garden vegetables, grub and make holes in the lawn, chew on wiring and attract buzzards.

Does any one here just blast away at them indiscriminately even when young because young ones will grow up to be nuisances?

Um, no. I don't see the point in wiping all living creatures from the area. If I'm not going to eat it, then I'm not going to shoot it. The sole exception is if it becomes a threat. A 'yote trotting across the field is a living animal looking for food. Part of the natural ecosystem. However, that same 'yote trotting across my yard towards my cat is a target looking for ventilation. Big difference.

 

[CajunRider]

I got rabbits all around me but has never gotten one with my rotary cutter. Even the babies are fast enough to get away. The hawks however got a couple of them. Last evening I was mowing in a cloud of purple martins going after the mosquitoes I stirred up from the grass.

 

[SteveM70]

Um, no. I don't see the point in wiping all living creatures from the area. If I'm not going to eat it, then I'm not going to shoot it. The sole exception is if it becomes a threat. A 'yote trotting across the field is a living animal looking for food. Part of the natural ecosystem. However, that same 'yote trotting across my yard towards my cat is a target looking for ventilation. Big difference.

:thumbsup:

 

[theg]

:drink:

 

[wdchyd]

Um, no. I don't see the point in wiping all living creatures from the area. If I'm not going to eat it, then I'm not going to shoot it. The sole exception is if it becomes a threat. A 'yote trotting across the field is a living animal looking for food. Part of the natural ecosystem. However, that same 'yote trotting across my yard towards my cat is a target looking for ventilation. Big difference.

:thumbsup:........My mutley furbuddies would love to chase a few bunnies on this thread though ( Christmas Pass 2010 - YouTube )

 

[WM75Guy]

I hate to run over them. I was mowing the horse paddocks the other night and my wife asked why I was stopping and honking the horn. I explained the rabbits would run in the grass and stop in front of me. I was scaring them off. She just laughed.

 

[Ortimber]

Every year, we end up mowing a fawn when cutting hay. It sucks. The birds get a good meal out of it though.

 

[TheMan419]

I am sure I have gotten birds when mowing the paddocks. Sad.

Now mice and raccoons are a different story. Open season as they are bad around horses.

 

[ovrszd]

If you have land signed up in a government program, land set aside, you cannot mow until October. You must mow it in strips every other year but not too soon so animals can raise their young.

I had forgotten this until this post. I have to disk half of it and mow the other half this fall.

RSKY

Totally dependent on the program. They all vary.