Abstract
The cost-effectiveness of two types of portable electric netting fences and three designs of permanent wire netting fences used to exclude European wild rabbits from crops was compared in a 6-year field trial. The two types of electric fences were equally effective at excluding rabbits from crops and effectiveness ( ca 80–85%) did not vary throughout the trial. The effectiveness of the wire netting fences did not appear to vary from their initial level of ca 80%. By the end of the trial the difference between the costs of a 750-m-long electric netting fence and a wire netting fence had decreased from an initial £1.75 m −1 to £0.10 m −1. Use of fencing and choice of fence type should therefore be dictated by the situation at individual sites.
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