Keeping rats out of a rabbit enclosure

[eggsarascal]

Are we ever going to keep threads on track here, even when the boss posts. or is it done with?

 

[Mick Dempsey]

1 minute ago, eggsarascal said:

Are we ever going to keep threads on track here, even when the boss posts. or is it done with?

 

Quite right, put a ferret in with the rabbits, he will assimilate and deter the rats.

[Joe Newton]

1 hour ago, eggsarascal said:

Are we ever going to keep threads on track here, even when the boss posts. or is it done with?

 

You can leave an apple on his desk on the way out. 

[Bunzena]

Steve - I think what your proposing will work - and I don't see the rats causing problems.  You don't say what sort of rabbits you've got.  Big/small?

 

We had a French Lop [weighed 5kgs] and he'd see anything the size of a rat 'off'.  When he got p1ssed-off - he'd chase the children round the garden AND he'd been neutered!

 

The enclosure sounds pretty secure.  Maybe set it up and see how it goes.

 

Echoing Stubby - rabbits can be pretty protective.  [See attached].  I'm not aware of rats invading a rabbit warren in the wild...

 

Edited August 22, 2019 by Bunzena
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[Conor Wright]

Why put them outside at all?

Last time I had a rabbit in the house he posed no issue whatsoever.... then again, he was in the slow cooker at the time.

[Conor Wright]

On a genuine note, I had a couple of wabbits when I was a kid (and couldn't pwonounce my r's) in a hutch attached to it was a covered passage to a movable "run" on grass, was just a timber frame with wire on sides and top, once it was moved every other day they never dug out. never had any rat trouble, however we had a resident cat and a terrier next door.. they may have been the chief deterrents. Fowl, on the other hand... rodent magnets.

[Paul in the woods]

I had rabbits when I was a child and one was attacked by a rat. I would also be concerned by stoats and weasels.

 

I would have thought the best answer is to exclude the pests from the run otherwise they might get the rabbits before they make it to the garage.

 

I would close the hatch in the evenings just to be sure.

[harvey b davison]

I had rabbits when I was a child and one was attacked by a rat. I would also be concerned by stoats and weasels.
 
I would have thought the best answer is to exclude the pests from the run otherwise they might get the rabbits before they make it to the garage.
 
I would close the hatch in the evenings just to be sure.

In my experience I have found that rats don't really attack rabbits, but will steal their food. I would be very wary of them spreading diseases though.

As a side note, is there any of them high pitched Sounders ( like you get for cats) available for vermin.

[harvey b davison]

Sorry Paul in the woods, I didn't mean to quote you / your post.

[Dan Maynard]

We've had quite a few pet rabbits, some don't dig but when you get one that has the urge they are quite hard to stop, chicken wire all across the bottom periodically renewed is where I ended up. We never really seemed to have a problem with rats, though they were about at some times we would see they'd been stealing food from the chickens.

Overall plan sounds great though, rabbits will love it.