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Bunny Damage or B.D. is an issue here in Highlands Ranch, Colorado!
Bunny Damage is an issue when trying to keep a green and perfect yard here in the Denver area of Colorado.
There are millions of bunnies in Highlands Ranch. My son counted six of them a year ago in the neighbor's Yard. I am looking at one now, eating my grass! Here is some info to help out with the Bunny Invasion into your Yard.
Rabbits are Hungry for Green Grass
The lush, green grass of the Highlands Ranch provides a perfect grazing source for rabbits. Rabbits require around 2,200 kilocalories of food per kilogram, or 2.2 pounds, of weight per day during their formative and adult years and, according to Dr. JoAnne Murray, director of Taught Postgraduate Programmes at the University of Edinburgh, there are about four calories in an ounce of standard turfgrass. That's a lot of grass, especially when multiple rabbits are grazing on the same lawn. Between flowers, vegetables, woody matter, and your yard grass, rabbits can decimate an area and ultimately kill off a yard of outdoor grass if hungry enough. While rabbits like variety, they will eat your grass exclusively if other food is unavailable.
Grass is a Shelter for the Rabbits
Rabbits rely on grass and weeds for shelter. They create dens called forms in which they sleep and hide their young. These shelters also protect rabbits from inclement weather and predation by other animals. By making these forms, rabbits bend the grass out of position and sometimes break the blades. Additionally, they may import grass from different spots in the Yard and mat it down or thatch the grass into a desirable form. All of this damages outdoor grass sources and your Yard.
It Starts with Bunny Urine
Rabbit urine, like dog urine or cat urine, scalds grass. Rabbits can produce up to six litters a year of young, with five to six babies per litter, all in your Yard. Assuming two adult rabbits and 30 young rabbits in a year in a 10-acre area, the amount of urine produced is astounding, and rabbits are creatures of habit when it comes to hygiene routines. When rabbits repeatedly urinate on the same spot, the grass in that area loses nutrients and dies back, leaving bald patches and bare spots.
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Bunny Damage from Eating Your Grass
Rabbits eat green grass down to the roots, which causes the grass to die in that area. If you notice, sometimes the bunny damage is a circle or like a doughnut because they sit in the same spot and eat and pee, turning round and round, making a circle of damage.
The Prevention of Bunny Damage
Because of their prolific nature, few prevention methods work. Even hunting and humane measures like live trapping are only temporary when there's a rabbit problem in your Yard. To solve a rabbit problem, make your Yard as inhospitable as possible. Clear brush piles and debris where rabbits can hide. Fence off woody stems to about 20 inches above the ground and place chicken wire around any vegetables or flower gardens in your Yard.
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