You've been cordially invited

[Jared77]

as one of the little brown rabbits in the Fowlerville area that have been grazing on my ripening tomatoes in exchange for those efforts you get to an all expenses paid trip to freezer camp!!!!

That's right a direct route on the 12 gauge #6 load express where you can stay in a perfectly quiet and secluded spot all to yourself where you get to relax with you friends and family. You even get to make new friends such as bluegill, venison, and that always funny and highly entertaining frozen pizza. So just think as soon as the snow starts to fly you can get your ticket punched to freezer camp 2012. So get cozy, keep doing what your doing and before you know it you too will get to claim your own little piece of real estate in that great campsite we call Whirlpool.

So keep one ear cocked and be sure to stick around because we have plenty of invites and I know I've got one here with your name on it! Stay tuned!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[rebbetzin]

Funny rabbit hunting story. I grew up in Los Angeles, hunting was not part of my life. Then I lived in Alaska when my kids were small. One late fall, a group of us went out rabbit hunting. The men did the shooting and the women did the cooking. I cooked the rabbit in a pot and it made some really nice gravy. As I was pouring the gravy out of the pot, I noticed I had all these little metal balls in the bottom of the pot! Buckshot!! I wonder if we all got lead poisoning from eating that rabbit?

 

[Smiles Jr.]

Last winter I bought a new-to-me .22 cal. pistol to shoot at the fish and game club range near here. Sometimes I sit quietly in our little shelter at the pond and try to pick off rabbits as they sneak up on my veggy garden. I didn't think I would ever get good enough to actually hit one with my little gun but we now have 3 rabbits in the freezer. By the way, our wild rabbit population has sharply increased and our coyote population has sharply decreased over the last two years. I wonder why the change?

 

[so lucky]

I'd think the decline in coyotes caused the increase in rabbits. It will reverse for a while, I bet.

 

[lesa]

You all are much braver than I am! I would never try to garden without a fence, to keep rabbits out, at least. I still have to dispatch a few woodchucks, but no rabbit has ever had a free lunch!

 

[Jared77]

I don't own the land I'm on so fencing isn't an option. I've got 1 more garden here before we move and buy (looking at summer 2013) and then Ill have it fenced. Then its a greenhouse, bees, poultry, and probably meat rabbits.

We do have a lot of wild rabbits around here but that's because the local migrant workers who work at the dairy farm up the road hunt coyotes HARD out here. So the rabbits and deer have very little pressure on them other than other hunters like myself.

 

[HunkieDorie23]

The rabbits are everywhere this year. My German Sheppard is making the most of them. We have a fence and the rabbits go through it like it's not there.

 

[lesa]

Hunkie, my fencing is "rabbit proof". At the bottom foot of it, the wires are very close together. The only creatures that can get in, are diggers. Jared, how exciting- sounds like you are about to embark on a wonderful adventure!!

 

[Chickie'sMomaInNH]

i have never seen a 'wild' rabbit here in my area and i border a wooded area where i've seen the deer and an occasional wild turkey. i've been to a friend's house in MA and she had tons of them running around! as soon as you saw one it was gone and another would pop up in another spot just as quickly as the last one left!

 

[so lucky]

I don't own the land I'm on so fencing isn't an option. I've got 1 more garden here before we move and buy (looking at summer 2013) and then Ill have it fenced. Then its a greenhouse, bees, poultry, and probably meat rabbits.

We do have a lot of wild rabbits around here but that's because the local migrant workers who work at the dairy farm up the road hunt coyotes HARD out here. So the rabbits and deer have very little pressure on them other than other hunters like myself.

Wondering what the migrant workers do with the coyotes? Is their pelt worth something?