theoutlands
Official Resister
That's the name of my newsletter I planned to start up for homesteading/prep topics once upon a time. Never got it off the ground, tho. So, I'll just use it as my header to post general homestead news from Dun Coille.
Another rabbit had a litter yesterday. My crew didn't put a front wall/lip on the nest box, so the little worms are crawling everywhere and getting out of the box and ending up on the ground. I finally managed to get a semi-functional lip in place this morning using duct tape. Yes, I covered the back side so no little hairless wrigglers get stuck to it! It isn't pretty, but it works.
The momma is a large mini-lop named SnowLily, because she is solid white with pink eyes. A friend who raises meat rabbits up the road gave her an a New Zealand buck to me - said he just wasn't satisfied with how they were producing on his place. So, we bred the girl to our mini-lop buck - a charcoal-grey gent named James Earl Jones - and she delivered 9 babies yesterday - everything from solid white (pink) to spotted to solid black.
Sparkles, our other mini-lop momma, has 8 babies who are 3 weeks old and almost ready for homes of their own. Their ears are starting to droop - very finny to see this perky little rabbit head looking about w/ ears standing almost straight out to the sides of it!
Our 38 experiments in "growing your own chicken-flock" "thump" occasionally as the incubator's automatic turner moves them around. They have been in for one week today. The wait is killing demontot!
Well, that's today's "Affairs" - more as more happens.
Another rabbit had a litter yesterday. My crew didn't put a front wall/lip on the nest box, so the little worms are crawling everywhere and getting out of the box and ending up on the ground. I finally managed to get a semi-functional lip in place this morning using duct tape. Yes, I covered the back side so no little hairless wrigglers get stuck to it! It isn't pretty, but it works.
The momma is a large mini-lop named SnowLily, because she is solid white with pink eyes. A friend who raises meat rabbits up the road gave her an a New Zealand buck to me - said he just wasn't satisfied with how they were producing on his place. So, we bred the girl to our mini-lop buck - a charcoal-grey gent named James Earl Jones - and she delivered 9 babies yesterday - everything from solid white (pink) to spotted to solid black.
Sparkles, our other mini-lop momma, has 8 babies who are 3 weeks old and almost ready for homes of their own. Their ears are starting to droop - very finny to see this perky little rabbit head looking about w/ ears standing almost straight out to the sides of it!
Our 38 experiments in "growing your own chicken-flock" "thump" occasionally as the incubator's automatic turner moves them around. They have been in for one week today. The wait is killing demontot!
Well, that's today's "Affairs" - more as more happens.