
%0 Journal Article
%A Rowley, I 
%T Bait material for poisoning rabbits. I. Studies on the acceptance of bait materials by caged rabbits.
%J CSIRO Wildlife Research
%D 1963/03/01
%V 8
%N 1
%P 56-61
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/CWR9630056
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/CWR9630056 
%X Two groups of bait material were tested to see which were accepted most readily by caged wild rabbits, Oryctolagus cuniculus (L.). Of those materials with a high water content (roots and fruits) carrot was preferred to apple, pear, thistle root, turnip, swede, parsnip, or pumpkin; among the drier materials (grains) oats and barley were preferred to wheat, cracked maize, prepared rabbit-feed pellets, and subterranean clover seed. Soaking the grain before presentation gave inconclusive results and moreover the moist material makes mechanical distribution of bait difficult. 
