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- Now what we're going to do now
is lay some pre-feed carrot using a bait layer.
The bait layer is this device here
that I'm towing behind the ute.
It's designed to do a couple of things.
It's got a plough disc on it, which cuts a furrow.
And then it's got a rotating drum
which drops small amounts of carrot into
the furrow that you've just cut.
So the idea of that is so the rabbits are attracted
to the freshly turned dirt in the furrow.
And then they'll find the carrots,
and start feeding on them.
And then of course the idea behind
free feeding is that you can then gauge
how much the rabbits are going to eat,
and where they're actually going to eat it.
Which gives you a good indication then of
how much poison bait to put out in those areas.
Another important thing with the free feeding
is that it trains all the rabbits basically
over a number of free feeds to go
and start eating the carrot.
Because with using actual poison,
it's very important that as many rabbits
as possible, if not all of the rabbits
get to actually start eating the carrot.
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We're now going to put out using the bait layer
some 1080 carrot, which has been prepared for us.
1080 carrot being a good option for this area.
We're well away from habitation,
and sort of through our free feeding
we've determined there's not risk to off target
animals or anything else with using 1080 carrot.
You've got the option of using Pindone,
which is another product.
And you've got a different substrate
that you can also use other than carrot and oats.
So it'll all come down to determining what's best
for your situation.
What's going to give you a combination of the best kill,
but also the minimum risk to off target species.
Okay, so an important consideration
if you're using Pindone is the number of actual
poison feeds that you use,
because Pindone being an anti-coagulant.
They need more than one feed for the poison to take effect.
Generally I get people to do at least a minimum
of three feeds, and that way you're making sure
all the rabbits get at least two feeds.
So any shy feeders that haven't really gone on
the poison the first time, you pick up with the third feed.
But even sometimes a number of even extending
the amount of feeds is quite beneficial
with the Pindone program,
depending on where you're doing it.
One of the requirements for the baiting program
is that after you've done your trail.
It's important to go back and check the trail
to make sure that any areas where there's
uneaten carrots, such as this,
you go around and collect it.
Because if it's left there it can
provide a risk to livestock and non target species.
Once you've collected all that you've found
and also collected any dead rabbits that you've found.
They can be disposed of by deep burial.
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