Before you get to excited, we still only have 24 bunnies! But what a blessing!! We still have 24 bunnies!!!!!
First a few pictures before the less exciting details...
Here is Laura holding my special little one from Beauty's bunch. He has 1/2 his face is gray! Can you see it?? He was cuddling up in her hand and stuck his face up long enough to get this picture.
Here is the whole bunch. Notice how they just love to sleep right on top of each other. Beauty's bunch seems to sleep and cuddle still alot but the other boxes are full of sleepy heads.
Yesterday I fed Beauty's bunch fresh grass (that I pull from the yard myself- THEIR FAVORITE THING TO EAT!) and all the little bunnies were enjoying the feast. So I gave Foxy some fresh grass and took all the little ones out of the box (those lazy sleepyheads) and put them by the grass. They wanted nothing to do with it and went right for MUM and some milk. Well this is not something MUM allows. She only feeds them when SHE decides. So slowly I put them back in the box so MUM would be able to relax and eat.
Beauty was having trouble with this also. So I made her a box she can 'escape' from all her little buns. She likes it up there. The babies can climb up there too but there is not much room for anyone except her, so they dont stay long.
These are some really cute pictures. One of Foxy's babies cuddles up in Laura's hand to sleep.
Here you can see the box I made for Beauty. I put some fresh grass on top for her otherwise 10 hungry babies will eat her share too! Here are the buns eating the fresh grass.
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This is not a pretty sight. Sorry. But I had to make a way to capture the pellets from our little 'manure producing factory'. This is what I could do that would not cost a fortune and I could do without anyone elses help. The sheet metal that we wanted to use was $70+ which is way too expensive and would have done only two or three cages. The tarp was only $4 or so. I feel this will be a good chance to check on how this works before winter.
I will go in there later today and push all this to one end and empty into a bucket. I can put it on our unused garden area or, once it dries (if we get a little warmer weather today) package it up and sell it. A mother and her babies can make as much as a ton of pellets in a year. More trivia facts for you: rabbit pellets are cold manure (does not need to compost first) and rabbits make a ton of it- literally!
Here is an update on their weight gain. I will just give you the averages. Its hard to tell which bunny is which so this is the only sane way to do this.
The first date is 9-2 and the second weigh date is 9-8 (six days apart)
9-2-15 9-8-15
Beauty's average is : 5.2 and 6.9 (largest is 7.6 and the gray face is 7.2)
Foxy's average is : 3.5 and 5.8 their eyes are all open now
Thumper's avearge : 2.5 and 4.4 Remember we have a runt here and he is only 2.9
I do have a concern with a few in Thumpers batch. There seems to be a white one (other than the runt) whos eyes are not as obvious as the others. They should have their eyes all open in the next day or so and I will know then if one (a white one) was born without eyes. It could just be they are not as big as the others. Lets pray he is just fine and just another lesson to learn that 'LIFE HAS ITS OWN WAY' and we cant always know what is going to happen. We must pray for the best and let life work out the rest.
Thanks for stopping to see our WASCALLY WABBITS and hope to see you in a day or so with more good news.
First a few pictures before the less exciting details...
Yesterday I fed Beauty's bunch fresh grass (that I pull from the yard myself- THEIR FAVORITE THING TO EAT!) and all the little bunnies were enjoying the feast. So I gave Foxy some fresh grass and took all the little ones out of the box (those lazy sleepyheads) and put them by the grass. They wanted nothing to do with it and went right for MUM and some milk. Well this is not something MUM allows. She only feeds them when SHE decides. So slowly I put them back in the box so MUM would be able to relax and eat.
Beauty was having trouble with this also. So I made her a box she can 'escape' from all her little buns. She likes it up there. The babies can climb up there too but there is not much room for anyone except her, so they dont stay long.
N
This is not a pretty sight. Sorry. But I had to make a way to capture the pellets from our little 'manure producing factory'. This is what I could do that would not cost a fortune and I could do without anyone elses help. The sheet metal that we wanted to use was $70+ which is way too expensive and would have done only two or three cages. The tarp was only $4 or so. I feel this will be a good chance to check on how this works before winter.
I will go in there later today and push all this to one end and empty into a bucket. I can put it on our unused garden area or, once it dries (if we get a little warmer weather today) package it up and sell it. A mother and her babies can make as much as a ton of pellets in a year. More trivia facts for you: rabbit pellets are cold manure (does not need to compost first) and rabbits make a ton of it- literally!
Here is an update on their weight gain. I will just give you the averages. Its hard to tell which bunny is which so this is the only sane way to do this.
The first date is 9-2 and the second weigh date is 9-8 (six days apart)
9-2-15 9-8-15
Beauty's average is : 5.2 and 6.9 (largest is 7.6 and the gray face is 7.2)
Foxy's average is : 3.5 and 5.8 their eyes are all open now
Thumper's avearge : 2.5 and 4.4 Remember we have a runt here and he is only 2.9
I do have a concern with a few in Thumpers batch. There seems to be a white one (other than the runt) whos eyes are not as obvious as the others. They should have their eyes all open in the next day or so and I will know then if one (a white one) was born without eyes. It could just be they are not as big as the others. Lets pray he is just fine and just another lesson to learn that 'LIFE HAS ITS OWN WAY' and we cant always know what is going to happen. We must pray for the best and let life work out the rest.
Thanks for stopping to see our WASCALLY WABBITS and hope to see you in a day or so with more good news.
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