Regular readers know that I believe rabbits are Mother Nature’s secret weapon. No other livestock, with the possible exception of the Nigerian Dwarf Goat, offers as much diversity and usefulness as the rabbit. Rabbits of course are an outstanding source of protein. They are low in cholesterol and fat, mild tasting and versatile. Many doctors [...]
Posts Tagged ‘pastured rabbits’
Now Residing @ East of Eden Farms – American Chinchilla Rabbits
Posted in Livestock, tagged American Chinchilla Rabbits, Grass Fed Meat, pastured meats, pastured rabbits on September 26, 2011 | 1 Comment »
After The Rain
Posted in vegetable gardening, tagged pastured rabbits, vegetable gardening on September 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
After three nice days of rain, mist and drizzle, we are assessing the fall garden and all the animals. Apart from being really muddy, because most of them refuse to go in a barn or shelter, all the livestock are doing well. They thoroughly enjoyed the rain. I think the pigs loved it most because [...]
Where’s My Weekend?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged livestock, pastured rabbits on April 11, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Yikes! My weekend disappeared. I can’t find it. I suspect it’s gone forever now. Sigh. Yes, it’s gone, but it was productive. We got a lot of chores done including getting some watering and fertilizing in the garden. We will spend evenings this week getting the rest of the garden planted. At the very least, [...]
Prank or Peta wannabe?
Posted in Livestock, tagged farming mistakes and foibles, pastured rabbits on March 22, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Last evening when we went out to the farm to collect eggs and shut up the chickens for the night, we got a bit of an annoying surprise. Oh, the chickens were fine. As a matter of fact, none of them had escaped. That’s pretty rare. Usually I have twenty five or thirty following me [...]
Kindle
Posted in Livestock, tagged pastured rabbits, rabbits on March 11, 2011 | 5 Comments »
While out at the farm this morning, unloading feed and hay, Brittan flagged me down from the rabbit pasture and asked me to hurry down. It seems that our rabbit does, Nibbles and Amber had kindled overnight. It was a bit of good news, bad news. Both girls had built beautiful nests. Amber, though, had [...]
Predator!
Posted in Livestock, tagged pastured rabbits on March 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It’s been a dark weekend here in the burb. First, we’ve lost several of our chicks. It often happens. We expect it, but its still sad watching the little fluff bundles just give up. They are well fed and watered. It’s plenty warm. Some of them are just not strong enough to make it. Interestingly, [...]
Animal Processing – A Somber Ritual
Posted in Livestock, tagged omnivore's dilemma, pastured rabbits on February 7, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Michael Pollan called his mega selling book, “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” for a number of reasons, one of which we experience here in the burb each on each occasion that animal processing comes around. Simply put, if we are going to continue to have meat as a part of our diet, there is death involved. It [...]
Current Events and Coming Attractions
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged livestock, omnivore's dilemma, pastured chicken, pastured eggs, pastured rabbits, seed planting on January 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’m a bit late to the dance, but Happy New Year, everyone. 2011 is well under way and things are beginning to get busy. December was rather peaceful apart from some minor drama over the loss of some of our baby bunnies. It’s nice to have a bit of a slow down, with no crops [...]
Tough Week in the Bunny Business
Posted in Livestock, tagged pastured rabbits on December 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This has been ONE LONG WEEK! To be precise, ten days is more like it. We’ve had four litters of rabbits, most of which are doing splendidly. Sadly, though, we lost one entire litter. For reasons we don’t know, Amber, one of our brown New Zealand crosses, rejected her litter after three days. We couldn’t [...]
Update on Bunnies
Posted in Livestock, tagged pastured rabbits, rabbits on December 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
About 10 minutes after I finished my post last night, I heard Brittan call out, “Come here quick, Misty is eating something weird. Is it a baby?” Turns out, our little gray psycho was eating a placenta. In a matter of a quarter hour, she produced 7 little bundles of dark gray, wiggling matter. Since [...]
