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Forestry 1988 61(4):359-368; doi:10.1093/forestry/61.4.359
© 1988 by Institute of Chartered Foresters
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Improved specifications for Rabbit Fencing for Tree Protection

I. GORDON MCKILLOP1, HARRY W. PEPPER2 and CHARLES J. WILSON3

1Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Worplesdon Laboratory, Tangley Place, Guildford, Surrey GU3 3LO
2Forestry Commission, Forest Research Station, Alice Holt Lodge, Wrecclesham, Farnham, Surrey GU10 41H
3Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Staplake Mount, Starcross, Exeter, Devon EX6 8PE

The need to protect young trees from rabbit damage has and will increase as a result of recent policy on broadleaved and farm woodlands. Fencing is a necessary but expensive protection measure.

Trials were conducted to establish specifications for wire netting rabbit fences that were cost-effective. Cost-effectiveness was measured in terms of price per metre and effectiveness as a rabbit barrier. Mesh sizes of 31 mm (hexagonal) 50x25 mm (rectangular) were required to exclude all age classes of rabbit. Fence heights of 0.9 m, the commonly accepted height, and 0.75 m were equally effective, excluding more than 90 per cent of adult rabbits in enclosure trials and about 80 per cent in field trials. The 0.75 m fence cost was 6 per cent less and therefore more cost-effective.


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