Rabbits are the misery of many gardeners’ existences, and if you’re having trouble growing particular foods or ornamentals without losing them to bunnies, you may need to use a repellent. While not the most efficient repellent available, blood meal has been proven to deter rabbits for a short period of time.

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The dried waste product of the slaughterhouse business is known as blood meal. A blood meal is commonly used as a garden fertilizer because of its high nitrogen content: the NPK ratio is 12-0-0, which means it has no phosphorus or potassium but a lot of nitrogen. It’s sold at both feed shops and garden centers, though the latter may be expensive. It can act as a repellent against some garden pests, such as mice and rabbits, in addition to being used as a fertilizer.

Rabbits are typically deterred from eating valuable plants when they are fed a blood meal. You may use it dry in the garden or on the plants, or mix it with enough water to produce a spray, then spritz it evenly using a spray bottle. Because the blood meal is washed away when it rains, you’ll need to reapply it. Spray more often at first on ornamentals, focusing the spray on the areas that rabbits generally target.

Check that the damage is being caused by rabbits before purchasing a blood meal and dispersing it over your yard. Rabbits cut flowers and foliage cleanly at a 45-degree angle, unlike deer, which rip them off with harsh teeth, leaving jagged edges. Rabbits are also smaller, so they can’t generally reach anything higher than 2 feet; if you have damage that’s much higher, it’s unlikely to be caused by bunnies.

The element nitrogen is found all over the world in blood meals. Nitrogen, when used in excess, can damage or hurt your plants. Read the manufacturer’s directions carefully and avoid spreading too much blood meal in your garden.

Rabbits are frightened of blood and bone. Deterrents come in a variety of shapes and sizes. Fertilizer deterrents include: Natural soil additives such as blood meal and bone meal are effective rabbit deterrents. Rabbits are herbivores, so the smell of these butcher by-products is typically enough to drive them away. 

Both may be found at garden centers as fertilizers. Because the smell of blood meal is linked with predators, it keeps squirrels, rabbits, and mice away. It’s an organic fertilizer that needs to be administered after rain or irrigation. Rats, mice, insects, and cockroaches, along with slugs and snails, are all repelled by wood ashes.

At your local garden center, you may buy odor repellents like blood meal or powdered fox urine. These often need to be reapplied on a regular basis. There are also spray-on flavor repellents available, such as hot pepper spray. There are a variety of smells that will deter rabbits from entering your house. The aroma of predatory sweat or urine is replicated throughout most commercially accessible rabbit repellents. 

Bloody, chopped red onions, vinegar, acid, and cloves are also unpleasant to rabbits. Plant clover, lettuce, and carrots, which are among their favorites. Planting foods that they dislike, such as potatoes, maize, tomatoes, and cucumbers, is not a good idea. Rabbits graze on the bark of woody plants such as beech wood, sumac, and dogwood throughout the winter, therefore plant berry bushes like blackberries and raspberries. Pets can help prevent predators, but rabbits may prefer to live among domesticated animals since they are safer from more hazardous wild creatures.

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