Citylife
Loving the herd life
Here in KC we had heat indexes into the 115 range and it was horrible! It was a full time job keeping the rabbits alive on those days.
We used, frozen bottles, misting the air, watering down ground around their shed, putting cold water on the roof, and very watered down gator aide icecubes. And when worse comes t worse I soak bricks in water and freeze them. I do not have electric out there so we do our best. At one point I had 35 rabbits from 3 weeks old to 2.5 years of age. I did loose parts of two litters that were born on the 2nd hottest day here. The siblings came in every day and were put in the spare room so they did not roast. The ones that died were 1,2 and 3 days old. The others have survived nicely and are growing quite well. They are 5 lucky lucky bunnies! It was so hot here at that point we had to give them bottles every 1-1 1/2 hours. It was definately work.
Here is Sofie with 2 of her babies enjoying a frozen gator aide bottle.
This doe ended up being culled as she ended up having litters that were small in size and ended up starving within a few days.
Now, all but one of my rabbits use them when handed out.
Sorry for your loss
We used, frozen bottles, misting the air, watering down ground around their shed, putting cold water on the roof, and very watered down gator aide icecubes. And when worse comes t worse I soak bricks in water and freeze them. I do not have electric out there so we do our best. At one point I had 35 rabbits from 3 weeks old to 2.5 years of age. I did loose parts of two litters that were born on the 2nd hottest day here. The siblings came in every day and were put in the spare room so they did not roast. The ones that died were 1,2 and 3 days old. The others have survived nicely and are growing quite well. They are 5 lucky lucky bunnies! It was so hot here at that point we had to give them bottles every 1-1 1/2 hours. It was definately work.
Here is Sofie with 2 of her babies enjoying a frozen gator aide bottle.
This doe ended up being culled as she ended up having litters that were small in size and ended up starving within a few days.
Now, all but one of my rabbits use them when handed out.
Sorry for your loss
