To round out my posts about our animals, here's an update on our rabbit production. We recently lost two rabbits, including our breeding buck, to suspected venomous snake bites. Each rabbit was in an end cage and died of neurological complications with no visible wounds or problems. We decided to cover all of the rabbit cages with 1/2" x 1/2" hardware cloth in order to prevent any future visitors from reaching the rabbits. This was much easier said than done - each cage had to be removed, wrapped in cloth, and then re-hung. But, we'd rather do some extra work than lose more rabbits!
Wrapping the cages.
Re-hanging them. It is a tight squeeze behind the cages!
The finished product. That should keep snakes out!
I also had a to find a new buck for our herd. I lucked out and found one just down the road from us. He's not only a big boy but also quite handsome!
We haven't had any babies since spring, despite a few breedings with our old buck, so I went ahead and bred all of our does. It's usually feast or famine around here and, true to form, all three does are building nests. Here's Plum gathering hay.
This morning I went out to find six new babies from one of the other does!
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