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Farm & Lifestyle Block Tips

Use this forum to share practical advice, ideas, and experiences for managing rabbits on farms, lifestyle blocks, rural properties, orchards, vineyards, and smallholdings. Rabbit pressure can vary greatly…

Working With Neighbours

Rabbit control is often more effective when neighbouring landowners work together. Rabbits do not recognise property boundaries, and untreated areas can allow populations to quickly move back into…

Council & Public Notices

This forum is a dedicated space for councils, regional authorities, landcare groups, pest management agencies, and local organisations to share official rabbit control updates with the wider community….

Local Rabbit Activity

Use this forum to share what is happening with rabbit activity in your local area. Reports from landowners, farmers, contractors, community members, and councils can help build a…

Baiting and Poison

This forum is for sharing rabbit baiting updates, poison operation notices, council alerts, and local information that may help landowners and communities stay informed. Rabbit baiting and poison…

Rabbit Control Methods

Discuss practical rabbit control methods, including baiting, shooting, fumigation, fencing, monitoring, follow-up control, and what has worked across different properties and conditions. About This Forum Use this area…

Picking your poison

When choosing your poison it depends on multiple factors: Size of property Type of terrain Rabbit population Stock and other animals having access If a Controlled Substance Licence…

Getting your Neighbours on board

Lets us know if you want to create a local community group and work together in your street or with bordering properties and we can put some individual…

Using Bait to get results

So many people talk about their successes and failures on different baits and we have found that generally it seems to be a case of trial and error…

RHDV – Rabbit Haemorrhagic Disease Virus

New Zealand has three strains of Rabbit Haemorrhagic Disease Virus (RHDV), which is also known as rabbit calicivirus. RHDV1v 351 was illegally released in 1997 RHDV1 K5 (Korean…

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