Repel Rabbits With Ammonia - Garden Pest Prevention

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1. nice
2. I've found that high speed pellets work best
3. Good to know.  Thanks.  I just tried ammonia last night to get rabbits from under a part of the porch.  We will see what happens.   But I also I made a mixture of cayenne pepper, paprika, and black pepper, diluted with water . I have sprayed it on the grass that the rabbits eat and it has stopped them.  Cost me a total of $4 (.88 cent Walmart spices and $1 water bottle) for what should last me all summer. As opposed to $12 of Animal Begone.
4. DID IT WORK?
5. A fence would be nice.
6. I think a better fence would be the solution
7. Funny thing is, I used to hunt right where this garden lays 20+ years ago. We would target practice with the bow and arrow here as well. This place has grown up quite a bit. I got my first deer 200 yards from where I'm standing in the video. now the place is a large subdivision, used to be an old quarter horse track, corn fields and soybeans. Used to be I could walk right through downtown with my uncased guns, still could legally, but it would bring lots of heat if I did.
8. How retarded. You can't trap the buggers?? Sometimes, I wonder who came up with these laws...
9. It wouldn't be legal here. What I find ironic is that I can go to the woods and fields where hunting is legal and there's no rabbits at all. But, here they are coming out of the woodwork. lol I like eating rabbit and these ones could use some thinning as when rabbits get overpopulated disease takes them out slow and painful like.
10. Now, I'm not sure on the legality of this, but I'd be tempted to nab the bastards with either a snare, deadfall, or a small airgun and add them to the cookpot...
11. That's interesting. I may try it. Thanks!
12. I am not certain it will work for tender vegetables but in Mississippi, the deer were devouring all the newly planted pine saplings. So, Mississippi State Agricultural center found that putting egg yolks and whites mixed with water and sprayed on the saplings effectively repelled the deer. Being herbivores they were naturally repelled by the egg. 
13. that might work even better. The only problem I see is that ammonia evaporates quickly, so you would have to re-apply it daily or even twice daily for it to work. Unless you could find a way to slow release the ammonia scent. I went out the next day to re-apply the ammonia and the garden was absolutely trashed, almost like the ammonia set the animals into destroy mode. so, I decided to cut my losses and not re-apply it.
14. bummer that it didn't work. I would like to see if an string hung up like a fence with cloth stripes tied to it and dousing those stripes with the amonia would work for deer. Hmmm, another youtube idea.
15. It's all part of the wonderful world of gardening. Critters gotta eat too, just wish they'd eat somewhere else and quit using my garden as an all you can eat buffet. LOL!
16. I'll save you the suspense. It don't work for squat. ALL my lettuce is GONE. :( :)
17. Amen to that! thanks!
18. So far it's not working at all whatsoever. :( :) Actually abandoned the idea. Was curious to hear if anyone else had success with this method.
19. experience will show you the way and it is also the best teacher....
20. Thanks randy. Skunks are pretty neat animals. I've known folks who had them as pets, but the scent glands were removed.