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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘rabbits’
Kindle
Posted in Livestock, tagged pastured rabbits, rabbits on March 11, 2011 | 5 Comments »
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 [...]
Moving Day for the Rabbits
Posted in Livestock, tagged pastured rabbits, rabbits on October 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Today was a big day for our E of E rabbit crew as they moved from the burb out to the farm. We have been testing the Rabbit Rangers for a couple weeks and they are a big success. The bunnies love them. Feeding and watering are a snap. They are easy to move and [...]
Breeding Rabbits ON PURPOSE – Not as easy as I thought
Posted in Livestock, tagged pastured rabbits, rabbits on October 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve all heard the derogatory statement, “breeding like rabbits”. The idea behind the slur, of course, is that rabbits breed indiscriminately, constantly, prolifically. Maybe in nature that’s true, but here in the burbs, life has not been so reproductively bountiful. We’ve had back to back misses in the rabbit breeding plan. Sad but true. [...]
Now On Display…..The “Rabbit Ranger 2.0″
Posted in Livestock, tagged pastured rabbits, rabbits on October 10, 2010 | 3 Comments »
We’ve been racking our brains for months trying to figure a way to get our rabbits full time on pasture, but nothing seemed to work right for us. For a while we gave up and brought fresh pasture to the rabbits in their cages, but that is time consuming and does not fit our model [...]
Eat Fresh. Eat Local. Eat Sustainable. Eat Rabbit.
Posted in Livestock, tagged livestock, meat, omnivore's dilemma, rabbits on June 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
If we were only dealing with nutritional, environmental and sustainability issues, Americans would be lining up to buy rabbit meat. After all, Rabbit is lower in calories (795 per pound) than chicken (810), turkey (1190), lamb (1420), beef (1440) or pork (2050). It is also lower in cholesterol. A study by the Department of Food [...]
Beautiful Day in the Neighburbhood
Posted in Composting, Family Life, Livestock, vegetable gardening, tagged chickens, Composting, rabbits, vegetable gardening, worms on May 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Mornin’ Y’all. What a beautiful morning it is here in the burb. The photo is pirated. We have no trees here, and it’s overcast. But I wanted to create a mood. Today started about 66 degrees, some clouds, a bit of humidity and a gentle breeze. It was a glorious start to the day for [...]
Reflections From First Rabbit Processing
Posted in Livestock, tagged meat, omnivore's dilemma, rabbits on May 23, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Warning: This post contains information which may be unsettling for some. It could cause outright apoplexy for PETA types and many vegans. Read on at your own risk. Saturday was our first rabbit processing day. We only had two to process, because we have decided to keep an extra female. Our little herd consists of [...]
Rabbit Chores
Posted in Livestock, tagged rabbits on May 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The rabbit chores are now routine after only a couple weeks. Cleaning five cages and feeding the bunnies takes about thirty minutes in the morning. A hand full of hay in the afternoon takes a minute or two. Fresh grass clippings takes maybe five minutes. Taking the rabbits out to pasture in the evening takes [...]
A Lazy Evening in the Garden
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged rabbits, vegetable gardening on April 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Didn’t do much tonight. We put the rabbits out on the grass to graze and exercise for an hour. While B was watching them be rabbits, I planted some sweet potatoes and watered the tomatoes. And that’s about it. I should have run the weed eater around the fence, but laziness took over. Guess I [...]
