What width between pickets in a fence is good to keep out rabbits?

Answer 1

for very fat rabbits 1 meter

Answer 2

You might need to add a wire mesh to keep out rabbits! You can add wire to a picket fence the wire showing very much at all.

Rabbits can burrow under a fence easily, and anything more than an inch or so they can squeeze through (baby rabbits eat a lot too!).

One of the best ways is to construct a two foot high fence around the vegetable garden out of poultry wire. I like the type that is coated in green plastic. I have found it much easier to work with. It is very important that your fence be tight to the ground or even buried a few inches. Rabbits are more likely to go under a fence than hop over it. Also make sure that your fence openings are not too wide allowing the rabbits to squeeze through. I would recommend using fencing with openings no bigger than two inches.

Also, clover is a favorite food of rabbits as is the plantain weed. Rabbits would rather eat that than your vegetables, so if you can tolerate clover and even a few plantain weeds in your garden, that may be the best solution of all.

Answer 3

I don't think a picket fence alone will keep out rabbits; they are good at squeezing through very small spaces, and they will dig under the fence as well. You could use chicken wire or something similar inside the fence along the lower portion, and bury it six inches or so in the ground along the bottom of the fence. You won't be able to see it from any distance and it will keep the critters out.

Answer 4

You would have to have the pickets ridiculously close to be efficient and they would still go under the fence. You can attach chicken wire to the bottom foot of the fence and bury it six inches under the ground but, assuming this is a vegetable garden, the raccoons will still climb over the fence. We learned, years ago, that the only reliable fence is an electric one. We place metal poles every 6-8 feet, put insulators on them, and string two levels of wire, (one close to the ground for the little varmints and one higher for deer), then attach the wires to a charger. The smallest charger available will do; as they charge about 1/8 mile of fencing.

Answer 5

The fence would have to have a VERY short space between it & it would HAVE to be deep. Or else the rabbits would squeze through or under.

A picket fence would be inpractical. How about chicken wire? Or cyote urine? That would work nicely.

Honestly, I LIKE the tons of rabbits that run around our yard, how about using chemicals that keep rabbits from eating your flowers?

Have fun!

Answer 6

On a picket fence you would probably have to use a 1" space to keep out rabbits. That's why a lot of people use specially made rabbit fences or chicken wire to keep them out. Best of luck to you!