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Rabbit Box Trap.

  • 13-06-2008 6:41pm
    #1
    Invincible
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,420 ✭✭✭


    Hi Lad's,
    One of my workmates has trouble with rabbits invading his vegetable plot,I was thinking of a diagram for a Box trap that you bury in the ground,it has a swiveling lid on top,as the rabbit runs over it,it spins and drops him into the box below.Does anyone know the dimensions for this box trap,as I would gladly relieve him of his rabbits and release them in my area,which has'nt any rabbits for years.
    Thank's.:)


Comments

  • #2
    bunny shooter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,096 ✭✭✭bunny shooter


    I think your not allowed to move rabbits from one area to another as they are deemed an agricultural pest if you were to strictly observe the legislation.

    Personally I'd shoot 'em and eat 'em ;)


  • #3
    Terrier
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 708 ✭✭✭Terrier


    No measurements but Dingle Poultry do one.. www.dinglepoultry.com


  • #4
    bunny shooter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,096 ✭✭✭bunny shooter


    S.I. No. 21/1956:

    RABBITS (CONTROL) ORDER, 1956.

    RABBITS (CONTROL) ORDER, 1956.

    I, JAMES M. DILLON, Minister for Agriculture, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by Article 31 of the Emergency Powers Order, 1939 (S. R. & O. No. 224 of 1939), as amended by the Emergency Powers (No. 173) Order, 1942 (S. R. & O. No. 166 of 1942) (which Orders are continued in force by the Supplies and Services (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1946 (No. 22 of 1946) ), hereby order as follows :

    1. This Order may be cited as the Rabbits (Control) Order, 1956.

    2. A person shall not, on or after the 1st day of March, 1956, release any rabbit from captivity or confinement.

    3. A person shall not, on or after the 1st day of March, 1956—

    (a) keep, or have in his possession or under his control any live wild rabbit,

    (b) dispose of any such rabbit by way of sale or gift or in any other manner whatsoever, or

    (c) acquire any such rabbit by way of purchase or gift or in any other manner whatsoever,

    save under and in accordance with a licence issued to him under this Order.

    4.—(1) The Minister for Agriculture may, at his discretion, issue licences for the purposes of this Order and attach conditions to the licences.

    (2) Where conditions are attached to any such licence, the licensee shall comply with the conditions.

    GIVEN under my Official Seal this 23rd day of February, 1956.

    (Sgd.) JAMES M. DILLON,

    Minister for Agriculture.

    Is this still in force ? :( (section 3 a)


  • #5
    kowloon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,582 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    bunny shooter wrote: »
    S.I. No. 21/1956:
    3. A person shall not, on or after the 1st day of March, 1956—

    (a) keep, or have in his possession or under his control any live wild rabbit,

    :eek:


  • #6
    ivanthehunter
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,284 ✭✭✭ivanthehunter


    That S.I. that bunny shooter quoted seems to be hell bent on the destruction of the rabbit. It certainly states that no rabbit should be released or kept.

    All its short of saying is The only good rabbit, is a dead rabbit :eek:

    But as far as i am aware it is illegal to release any wild animal into an area other than the original area in which the animal was found, injured or captured...


    SEE http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055298981
    ivanthehunter wrote: »
    As far as i aware its illegal to release any wild animal in an area other than where it was captured.. I suppose the main reason is the spreed of diseases and the possible infestation and hence the subsequent destruction of crops etc etc etc..
    But I'm not bothered about the ethics of such activities. Some precautions might be taken by a possible quarantine of animals for a reasonable length of time. I would suggest a detailed study of mixy and other debilitating diseases and such like in a bid to understand and hence avoid the contamination of local fair.

    I have often thought of breeding a super bunny! Imagen a bunny immune to mixy and of course a little larger.
    The problem is "How do you combat Mixy when it is made up may different strains and continually mutates to new strains..


    Lets face it mixy is a terrible affliction on the natural world. The act of releasing such a virulent virus into the natural environment was no different to any of the other despicable crime against the natural world. Its a black mark against the human population and its no different to the seal culling or whale hunting.........

    OK seal culling and whale hunting were a bit OTT for a forum of this nature but its up there with the H-bomb and pollution of the worlds oceans


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