How To Make A Rabbit Trap


DIY rabbit trap

Rabbits provide delicious and nutritious meat. It has various benefits that can improve your overall wellbeing.

The challenge comes when you need to trap and choosing the best method of trapping.

There are several methods to trap a rabbit ranging from simple to tricky traps. Before you learn how to build a rabbit trap, you should know a few things concerning the rabbit and its meat.

You should understand the benefits of eating rabbit meat and the components that make it up. Being knowledgeable will help you have the best practices for dealing with the meat. Knowing the tricks and habits of these animals will help you trap them effortlessly.

This write-up will tackle efficiencies and calories of the rabbit meat. As well, its deficiencies and how to make a simple yet effective trap.

Calories of the Rabbit Meat and Its Efficiencies Explained

nutrition facts about rabbit meat

Rabbit has delicious meat with various health benefits when cooked or stewed.

In every 100gms of the meat, 33g are proteins, 4g fat, 63g water, etc. If compared to others, it has more minerals with good content of vitamin B12 and E.

It has more proteins and lesser fat. Rabbits eat leafy green vegetables— this makes them healthy, thus ideal for human selenium intake.

When compared closely with other animal proteins like beef, rabbit meat is double in terms of the percentage of the amino acids. Tryptophan is more dominant, and phenylalanine has the lowest composition. Rabbit meat has low-levels of cholesterol, making it a healthier option for anyone who has underlying conditions.

The composition of carbohydrates in a rabbit is low. Fat is saturated, while its most proletarian composition is polyunsaturated fat.

Rabbit meat has more iron, making it an ideal source for calcium and other iron terms of minerals. Limited sodium content makes the meat excellent for dealing with blood pressure conditions. There are also balanced levels of choline, phosphorus, zinc, and others.

Problems Related to Rabbit and Nutritional Deficiencies

If you don’t consume rabbit meat, you may have some health problems.

Still, if you overeat, it may lead to a few challenges, like protein poisoning. Below are a few deficiencies associated with the Rabbit meat.

Pregnancy challenges

While pregnant, the rabbit should not be part of your diet because it may result in pregnancy complications. For instance, let’s say it was caught by shooting an arrow; the meat may be poisoned by lead. If you consume it, you might also be infected.

Allergies

rabbit meat allergy

Rabbit is also responsible for allergic reactions. Alpha-gal is a challenge that comes as a result of allergic reactions. Within some hours of taking the meat, you may have rashes, stomach pains, and breathing challenges.

Gastric cancer

Even though white meat eliminates cancerous cells, rabbit is not perfect. The meat has some connection with gastric cancer.

Joint challenges

If you have a history of gout problems, do away with rabbit meat. It has purines that worsen your gout, making the condition unmanageable.

Tularemia

Francisella tularensis is the primary cause of this disease. Suppose you take an unripe rabbit; high chances of developing the disease dominate. Other symptoms of inadequately cooked meat include fever, mouth ulcers, and pains.

Hunters who get in touch with animals while hunting also gets exposed to this condition. Tularemia is contagious and fatal if not handled in the early stages. Its symptoms appear after 14 days of consumption.

How to Trap a Rabbit

The process of trapping a rabbit is straightforward. It involves three significant steps highlighted below:

Choose your trap

Many kinds of rabbit traps with perfect outcomes are available.  You should, therefore, select one that favors you but compelling. While choosing a snare, consider the one you are conversant with and is compatible with the place it will work.

Select the location

place for rabbit trap

Selecting a specific place to place your trap can seem to be a simple task, but you have to be cautious. Rabbits are smart creatures and can spot a catch, so put in a discreet place and cover a little. You will assess the site with a lot of rabbit activity. Consider its terrain and exposure to the specific area before placing your trap.

The places these animals love are hedges, tall grass, bushes, shrubs, fence lines, and hidden places. Areas with rabbit droppings or holes are also good. Placing your trap at such locations will increase success when trapping.

Place your bait in a trap

Trapping becomes easier when you have a bait to attract rabbits. The best traps have dried foods, vegetables, and fruits that rabbits love eating. Depending on the type of lure you are using, the bait should be at the most relevant position.

Changing baits increase the chances of success while hunting. Some traditional ideas that make the rabbit not sense any sign of danger. Putting some friendly spray may be useful.

How to Build a Rabbit Trap

You will find various methods of building rabbit traps. Therefore, check on the easiest one and effective trap making process.

Requirements for making rabbit trap

  • Wood- 35 inches, 12mm, half an inch x250mm, 10×10 inch
  • Staples to help in pinning the wood components
  • Stiff wire
  • Leftover wood for joining specific points
  • Saw for cutting wood
  • Pliers
  • Wire mesh
  • Wirecutter
  • A marker for marking points
  • Measuring ruler of feet for taking measurements

Preparation

Now that you have all the materials you need to make the trap, the next step is to assemble the real trap. To achieve your objective quickly and effortlessly, you need to have each item in a separate place.

The initial process will involve cutting wood and other tools to the required measurements. Cutting will depend on the size that you want the trap to be. After cutting, ensure the edges are neat for quick joining.

Also, cut the wire mesh that is adequate to cover the entire trap. It is essential to ensure that the right size of wire mesh is cut so that you don’t have to add more wire or reduce it. You will therefore have the right size of a trap hence effective.

Below is a step to step process of making the trap.

1. Cut the wood base and the wire mesh

Make the wooden base depending on the size you wish your trap to be. Cut the wire mesh that is adequate to cover the wood and form a cage. Ten inches square by a foot is sufficient to wrap the wood.

2. Fix the wire mesh to the wood

After cutting the wire mesh adequate to cover the wood, attach it to the wood. The wrap-ups should fold around the wood to hold it tightly. An allowance of an inch is enough. Under the base of the wood, use staples to tighten the mesh.

It is essential to leave an inch allowance on the parts that are not yet joined.

3. Join the whole trap

finished trap

Cut a mesh section to fit the back of the cage. (The best should be 10×10″) Fix it on the cell.

Make a door using heavy wood so that it perfectly closes. A size of 9.7″x9.2″ is excellent. Ensure you make holes in the hinges to facilitate quick swinging. It would be best to use a tight wire to hold the hinge.

Make a latch by making another small hole at the bottom that will offer a short loop of the wire.

Now fold the wire mesh’s edges over the 1-inch extension to give room to the door swinging. The door should be on the inner side of the mesh. Ensure that you have folded the cage all around.

The front side should be the door and the backside tightly enclosed.

4.  Make the trigger mechanism

rabbit in trap

A trigger mechanism is simple to make using scrap wood. You do not need to have specific dimensions for it.

Put a lever at the door end and attach it to the wire loop. It should hold the door up such that when triggered, it falls. Put a vertical trigger to fix the other end that gets attached to the bait. Making a bait holder uses a hook and string or wire that will hold the bait in place.

The lever must form a more massive balance on the side door side and lighter on the bait side. Ensure your trigger is effective only when an animal gets in the trap and touches the bait.

How This Trap Works

After putting tempting foodstuff as bait, the tempted animal enters the cage.

It will then attempt to eat the bait that has triggered it. Once activated, the lever loses balance, and the door falls.

The animal cannot move out, and you safely remove it from the trap. Good thing, it cannot push through the door because it is heavy and can’t swing up again.

Removing may prove to be tough, hence killing it first to avoid escaping. There are techniques you can employ to remove it alive comfortably.

Benefits of This Trap

rabbit trap benefits

Easy to make

This model of a rabbit snare is simple to set up. You will not need to have any complex material as it uses simple available materials.

Get the animal alive

So long as the animal is not killed by hunger or anyone, you will find it alive. You can then choose to kill it or carry it alive.

Conclusion

As you have seen above, rabbit meat is the best compared to all other animals. More so, catching a rabbit is easy with the use of a rabbit trap.

Once you have gathered the basics components, you can make the home-made trap that will serve you effectively. However, before trapping rabbits, you should familiarize yourself with the rules of your country regarding trapping.

Greg - Prepping Insider

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