SuburbanFarmChic
Overrun with beasties
Well since I clearly needed another project I took on meat rabbits this weekend. I made the jump from chickens because we are close to neighbors and chickens are smelly, I don't have a great set up for raising peeps. Since I do child care it is really hard to keep them in the house until they are of age. And one of my least favorite things to butcher is an excess rooster. (unless he's just beaked me as one of the kids puts is)
So... I have the remains of my brother's rabbitry after some local dogs thinned the herd for them. They went from 19 to 5 in one morning.
I don't have hutches built/acquired yet as this was kind of a surprise thing. I agreed to do it because I've been thinking about rabbits for a while now but didn't have a fenced area to put them in until this summer. Right now everybody is in crappy old travel type cages. Like 18" x 18". Not ideal but they will survive for a week or so that way while I build something for them. I have them in an area of the property where the dogs can't go and the rabbits won't see the dogs and freak. We put the cages up on stacks and used some old plywood to make a roof. It's not cold yet here so since they are out of the rain they should be fine for now.
I have 1 white buck w/ red eyes. 1 fawn colored doe who is all freaked out and jumpy. 1 broken brown/white doe who is sweet. 2 adolescent males from the last litter. 2 younger males are probably going to be my (this is how you butcher a rabbit) practice runs. One is super sweet though so I'm tempted to keep him as a buck for the fawn colored doe to balance out her spastic personality. Or I might just stew pot her and the two boys. Concerns for some day not today though.
I did finally find my camera. I put it behind my monitor! Of course, duh, where else would you put a camera to make it safe for longer than the 12 hours you intended and so you couldn't find it for a week to be able to post goat twee twee pictures. Actually I think the camera was a little tired of goat porn and hid itself. You know it's bad when somebody asks why all the pictures in your farm album are from the back.
So... I have the remains of my brother's rabbitry after some local dogs thinned the herd for them. They went from 19 to 5 in one morning.
I don't have hutches built/acquired yet as this was kind of a surprise thing. I agreed to do it because I've been thinking about rabbits for a while now but didn't have a fenced area to put them in until this summer. Right now everybody is in crappy old travel type cages. Like 18" x 18". Not ideal but they will survive for a week or so that way while I build something for them. I have them in an area of the property where the dogs can't go and the rabbits won't see the dogs and freak. We put the cages up on stacks and used some old plywood to make a roof. It's not cold yet here so since they are out of the rain they should be fine for now.
I have 1 white buck w/ red eyes. 1 fawn colored doe who is all freaked out and jumpy. 1 broken brown/white doe who is sweet. 2 adolescent males from the last litter. 2 younger males are probably going to be my (this is how you butcher a rabbit) practice runs. One is super sweet though so I'm tempted to keep him as a buck for the fawn colored doe to balance out her spastic personality. Or I might just stew pot her and the two boys. Concerns for some day not today though.
I did finally find my camera. I put it behind my monitor! Of course, duh, where else would you put a camera to make it safe for longer than the 12 hours you intended and so you couldn't find it for a week to be able to post goat twee twee pictures. Actually I think the camera was a little tired of goat porn and hid itself. You know it's bad when somebody asks why all the pictures in your farm album are from the back.
I know what you meant. As a newbie it is odd that you take goat pictures from the back, but now I understand WHY. 
