Wild Rabbits

Wild rabbits can do considerable damage to flowers, vegetables, trees and shrubs any time of the year, especially in places such as suburban yards, rural fields and tree plantations.

Wild rabbits will eat your precious flowers and vegetables and can damage trees and shrubs by clipping stems, buds and small branches and by girdling larger trees.

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Baits

General Facts | Reproduction | Habitat | Diet

General Facts

Cottontail rabbits of one sort or another are found in every state in the U.S., as far north as southern Canada and south into Central America.

Wild rabbits live an average of 2 years. Full grown, they typically weigh 2 to 3 pounds and are less than 12" long.

In order to control damage caused by wild rabbits in your area, Havahart® offers a variety of rabbit control solutions such as rabbit repellents and rabbit live animal cage traps to help protect your yard, garden, ornamentals and landscape from wild rabbit damage.

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Reproduction

In early spring, cottontails begin to reproduce. A female rabbit can produce three or four litters a year, with four to six young in each litter. Over a period of five years, a single pair of cottontails and their kin would number around 350,000.

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Habitat

Wild rabbits prosper in a variety of habitats, as long as an abundance of natural cover to hide, nest and eat is available. Cottontails are most active at dawn and dusk.

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Wild rabbits are vegetarians. Their diet is 90% grass. They will eat almost any type of vegetable in the summer. Grasses, broadleaf weeds, garden crops, beans, peas, cabbage and lettuce are all foods of choice. In the winter wild rabbits will eat tree buds, twigs and bark.

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Havahart® offers a variety of rabbit control solutions such as rabbit repellents and rabbit traps to help you with your rabbit control needs.