Repellent and Poisoning

• Rabbit repellent can be applied to a fertile area or directly onto a plant to stop them from visiting. Coyote urine and liquid and granule repellent can be purchased at home and garden stores or online and scattered in the area to control rabbits. A similar method is the direct poisoning of rabbits to kill them. The Moretown Rabbit Board recommends controlling the rabbits first by getting them to feed from oats for a while before you lay out the poison. This gets them to trust the food source. You can distribute the poison yourself, or hire a professional to do the job for you.
  
  

Fences and Netting

• Another popular control technique for rabbits is installing fencing or nets to prevent the rabbits' access to your home. Small wire fences, chicken wire or pliable netting grounded with wooden stakes can be salvaged or purchased in varying thickness, but the openings must be small enough that a rabbit can not get through them.
  
  

Trapping

• A more drastic and direct control method is to trap the rabbit, either to take to a different location or to kill them by crushing them once they step into the trap. Traps can be set with specifically purchased rabbit bait or with food plants arranged in a trail leading into the trap.
  
  

Warren Ripping and Fumigation

• According to the Moretown Rabbit Board, another method of controlling rabbits is to rip their warren, the series of underground tunnels rabbits occupy and use for travel. Warren ripping consists of burying the warren entrances and corroding the warren structure. Be sure you have adequate ripping depth, that it occurs in dry soils and when rabbit population is at its lowest. The board recommends ripping "two meters beyond the edge of the warren to destroy burrows that have entrances on the edge of the warren and lead outwards," and to "cross-rip or use winged tines to ensure burrows running parallel to and between the tines are not left intact." Warrens can also be fumigated by planting aluminum phosphide tablets deep within entrances or via a power fumigator filled with chloropicrin. Fumigating is not intended to be a permanent solution to rabbit troubles, but an additional control technique.