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We've used cardboard boxes before. Find a nice sturdy one about the right size and you're good to go. If you want to get more intricate, such as if you're building a permanent nesting hutch, then dropped nesting areas are good. If the babies get out of the nest area, then they can just...

When they're still really small, they don't leak much so the bedding doesn't get damp. About three weeks old, the bedding can become damp, depending on litter size and the type and depth of the bedding. If there's a problem with wet or damp bedding, more can be added or it can be changed out...

How many did she have? It's great that she kept them all being a first time mum bun and all. Isn't the dense Rex coat a double recessive in order to get it to show up? Does the Sable have any Rex in her background? All the buns here are English angora, so they lose the long wool coats on...

We keep all the bucks in their own separate hutches except it always seems some bunny wants to go visit Phineas Phogge. They will all stay in their own space unless they're next to Phin, then they figure out some way to go visit him. Haven't a clue why, but it's happened with several different...

Chicken tribbles? Now my mind has melted. They have eyeballs in the fluff somewhere. They're not quite at the absurdly cute stage yet, but they're getting close. They've just made seven weeks old now, they're not old enough to move to new homes yet. Still dunno the genders or which ones...

Must be springtime, there's more baby bunnies! Yay! Third litter so far this year, so I suppose it isn't anything new. Actually, it's close to summer time, the night time chill is almost gone and pretty soon we will have the windows open all the time, they've been shut at night the past month...

There's a white doe who is giving me the whole gamut of bunny reactions this week. She hasn't been handled as much as they usually are since we had a whole lot of litters at one time and she's part of that group. She's the last of last year's bunnies and has sort of been the tag end and not...

They grow amazingly fast, don't they? Mum bun should start weaning them around now and should anything happen to her, they're now fully functioning little bunners. Did she manage to keep the full litter? Was this her first time? You'd mentioned it was a first litter, but I don't know if...

Will they still sell you the pedigrees if you pay the extra? Might be worthwhile to get the paperwork if they don't ask much more. Otherwise, it sounds like they are at least purebred. If you know the colors of the parents or anything else about them, you can make that their parent's name on...

As far as folks wanting rabbits, sometimes there's a list of waiting folks and then sometimes it seems nobody wants them. Generally, I have them listed on their website (http://hillsidefarmhawaii.com/pages/available/available.html) if they're available as well as listing them on the "In the...

Vacillating can be anything going back and forth; a choice, a decision, a needle on a gauge, etc. Doesn't have to be a concrete object, but it can be. Gardening around here has become landscaping since the bulldozer left a week ago. We now have slopes scraped clean of Guinea grass and it's...

For pedigreed, are your rabbits purebred? If they are, then start writing down their ancestors and in several generations, you'll have fully pedigreed rabbits. Rabbit generations are pretty quick, after all. I use Kintracks, it's a brilliant database for breeding pretty much any animal. It's...

Yup, there's a lot of online assistance for learning code. Since my desktop has no sound, videos don't work all that well so I use https://www.w3schools.com/html/ as my main code learning page. They also have CSS on their website as well as the HTML.

Maybe the lost folks have their GPS set on the scenic route? We end up with folks in the back of a cow pasture around here when they try to travel around on scenic mode. We find it hilarious, not sure what the cows think, sometimes the cars end up there in the middle of the night. Rental...

If there's someone near you who is milking sheep, then if it were me, I'd consider getting that breed of sheep. In order to get milk, the ewes have to be bred and if there's someone nearby with a ram that's different than yours but the same breed, being able to borrow or swap rams would be a...

We had a small farm on a hillside when we started, so we were and still are 'Hillside Farm'. I was surprised at how many other Hillside Farms showed up online, so it extended to 'Hillside Farm Hawaii'. Our first website was a Google Site, which is free, although a very limited storage space...

Can the Katahdin hair be used to make things like carpets? Since we already have some coffee along the other fence, I may put in the tea. Maybe a mix of 'regular' tea and the mamaki tea. Maybe more flowers for more butterflies, too. The Kamehameha butterfly likes the mamaki, I've heard the...

If there were any bucks intentionally spraying people around here, I'd load up a spray bottle with vinegar and spray them back. They do learn pretty quick if it's done immediately afterwards.

What kind are ewe gonna get? I'd wanted some of those really cute miniature Cheviots, but Covid kept the state vet from meeting the planes to inspect critters last year so no mini-Chevs for me. (Sigh!) We did get two Clun Forest sheeps, they're really nice but not tiny. They'll be getting...

Just had a litter of ten born this morning. Each and every one got taken out and held for a bit then put back in. This will happen every other day or so until they're a month old or more. As adults, they get held as they need to be for grooming or shearing. I'm not sure if they actually like...