I do not have enough for the bunnies to eat that I will not notice. Several years ago I planted 4 35’ rows of corn. The second and third night after it sprouted and got about 3-4 inches tall, the bunnies ate it all (every sprout) down to the ground.
I killed four or five bunnies that summer. Took a long time and several plantings to get my corn started. I am unwilling to share my corn with rabbits. They can thrive by eating lawns, instead of corn. I refuse to do so. They could eat my weeds, and I would not kill them.
Guess I have failed as a rabbit educator. I am better at killing them than training them, or sharing with them.
It’s a instinct called survival and I use it in my garden on skunks, raccoons and a possum or two with traps and a 22. I use a impulse sprinkler with a motion detector to deter raccoons getting the corn.
Ah yes- but you have to deal with corn eating desperadoes.
The year my corn as well as my son’s was demolished, (which entailed two large plantings in separate parts of my acre) it was not rabbits, although we certainly had them. It was the annual crow invasion that plucked the inch tall corn sprouts right out of the ground, corn kernal and all. My only solace was while mine was not treated, his was. They ate right at a pound of treated corn.
The crows never came into town until an old gentleman died, and the powers that be gleefully took out his ponds south of town that were lined with tall mature trees. That was where well over a hundred thousand crows roosted when migrating. Crows like people go where they can find housing, so they just moved into town.
That was an experience, every year for many years, migrating coming and going.
Meanwhile yep- you have to defend your territory er garden.