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Archive of posts filed under the Rabbits category.
…and all on my birthday!!!
Yes, folks, today is my birthday! Don’t get excited, I’m in a funk. A genuine, blue funk! I’m razzled at my next door neighbor! Not my wonderful, book swap going, nice, friendly, homeschooling, across-the-street neighbor. My next-door neighbor who, although we have lived next to them for 18 years, we have spoken to… brace yourselves… [...]
Another Rabbit Post
Yes, it’s all rabbits, all the time here on the Ranch. Really, they’re not hard to care for, but good grief, the getting everything all set up is just about to consume our lives! Finally, Tex has built Cookie’s cage shelter. Oh, he didn’t drag his feet or anything, it just takes a while to [...]
Just a Word About Meat Rabbits
For those of you who don’t know, we are raising rabbits. We are raising a breed of meat rabbits called Californians. Our reason for doing this is to put some high quality meat on our table. There ya go, plain and simple. We have our breeders. What they produce will be butchered by my hubby [...]
Rabbits at 1 a.m.?
I’ve been getting up in the night with my children for years on end, but I kinda thought I’d put that behind me. Not so. Last night at 1:04 a.m. I woke up to the sound of tiny rain drops falling in my garden. Remember, we aren’t using our a/c and my garden is just [...]
Rabbit Shelters
Everybody stand up and give Tex a big round of applause. He has finished building the shelters for the rabbits. These shelters will serve to raise the cages up off of the ground and away from some of the pesky, nocturnal varmints that might bother them. The shelters will also provide added shade to protect [...]
The Bunnies are Here!!!
We got our meat rabbits Saturday afternoon. They’re beautiful! We got a young group and a breeding age group. Each group having one buck and two does. The breeding age group all were champions in live stock shows last Winter. We are learning tons about the larger rabbits. We have lots of experience with the [...]
Rabbit Cages!!!
Yay! Today is finally the day!!! The Cowboys and my hubs are making the rabbit cages today. At this very moment they are putting the finishing touches on the first unit. Our plan is to have two units, each divided into three cages, to hold one rabbit per cage. We are going to buy [...]
Cloudy- No Chance of Meatballs
Or any other meals cooked in the solar cooker. We have no sunshine in our forecast until Monday. So, all my solar cooking plans are on hold for this week. So far the requests for solar try outs are: Bread of all types Granola Fruit leather Jerky OK, the last two may not work, I [...]
