Love Them Babies !!

Just some baby bunny goodness this morning. I took the nest box out several days ago as this litter is almost 3 weeks old. Boy do they leave a whole bunch of bunny berries!!

This little black kit loves to stick out it's tongue :) I have a few pictures of it doing this!

Pee Wee

Well I finally got around to getting updated pictures of Pee Wee. He's such a doll he kept on wanting to be held instead of sitting pretty for the camera :) Pee Wee carries the Vienna gene and the only evidence of it is a small white streak on the nape of his neck.

I have to say that I have been so pleased with the babies that Pee We has sired and I am looking forward to 3 litters in the next few weeks all sired by him. Silver my American Chinchilla doe is due on the 1st of January and we are crossing our fingers that there will be some Magpies up in that litter :) 

Finished !!!!

     Yeah my little dragons are done, I am so happy with how they turned out. But even better my courses for this semester are done, now I just have to wait for grades to be posted. Next semester will be a bear as I am taking four courses - should be interesting to say the least.

     

   I am going back to working on the rabbit hutch today - I have 4 does all due between now and the 8th of September and I really need to get them moved to this new hutch right quick like. 

Update

Momma chicken has finally reappeared with 3 beautiful baby chicks. I am so happy that the fox did not make a meal of her!

I spent a good part of the day reorganizing the rabbit area. I is a work in progress :) I also got the new pen put in place - it becomes way to heavy to lift when it is fully put together.After finals are over I will get back to building on it. I need around 3 more hutches before winter sets in - need to hurry as snow should begin to fall around the end of October.

Cleo is doing great with her brood, I have yet to snap a picture of the wee little one from Cassie's litter.

Just Bits and Pieces

Baby Red played with my digital camera yesterday and took this oh so cute photo of herself and her little buddy Moose. She just loves him and she carries him everywhere with her :)

I started work on the second rabbit hutch, for this rabbit hutch I have scavenged wood from the first one that I started building. I have decided for the design layout I want in the rabbit area the first one would have been way to large. This one will be 8 feet long - by 3 feet wide by 46 inches tall. It will have 4 pens that are 2 feet wide by 3 feet long.

This is Bump's ever loyal companion Thunder. He s a Mastiff/ Rottweiler mix. Where Bump can be found rest assured that this boy is not far away. 

Yesterday my new shed got put into place. We had a car that I blew the engine in so it was just sitting in the driveway until I got around to haling it to the scrap yard. Neighbor Earl traded me the car for a very nice 10x10' shed that he built. I am really beginning to like bartering.

This is as far as we managed to get with the rabbit hutch yesterday. Rain set in and cut us a bit short as I was hoping to be able to get all the walls in place. It is raining this morning also - I know the garden can really use the rain but I have so much work to do outside that I really hope the rain does not last long today.

Rabbit Hutch

The rabbit hutch is almost done - it would have been done last night but I measured the door wrong so now I have to trim it down a bit. Moose and Pee Wee have already moved in and seem to be loving it. It's not pretty but it works very well :)

Sadly Cassie lost 2 of her 3 babies - I think that she just was not feeding them . I put the only surviving kit in with Cleo's litter but they are triple the black kit's size so I don't really expect the black kit to make it. I will re-breed her when I re-breed Cleo so that I will have a litter to foster to if need be.

Rabbit Hutch Makeover

Yesterday I did not get around to making new nest boxes like I had planned - instead I decided to work on the rabbit hutch. Once I started trying to clean it I realized just how bad off it really was.

I decided to get it really clean I was going to have to take a good bit of it apart. Once I started doing that I noticed that some of the wood had begun to rot so I had to cut a few replacement boards.

I have decided instead of using it for a Momma and litter I will divide it into 3 pens that are 2 x 3 and use it to house some of my bucks. It will be the future home of Pee Wee, Moose and Sir Poops A Lot.

I have also decided instead of having plywood for the floor I will have wire. I find that having the rabbits on wire keeps them so much cleaner then if they are on a solid bottom. I have some left over plywood that I will cut into resting boards. 

Just wanted to give you a peek at Fern's litter. 10 of the 12 survived and they are a bit over 2 weeks old. I just removed their nest box yesterday. I added some hay to the cage to prevent little leg being trapped in the wire.

A Freebie and Propagating Blueberries

My neighbor Earl was cleaning out some of the wooded and overgrown areas of his property yesterday and came across this old rabbit hutch. We have no idea just how long it has been sitting there - Earl has lived next to me for 2 years and the man before him never had rabbits that I ever saw.

It is going to take quite a bit of work to get this back into usable shape again. It is quite large - 3 feet wide x 4 1/2 feet long and it is very heavy.

It will be quite a bit shorter when I am finished with it as a good bit of the leg area has begun to rot away.I have some extra concrete blocks laying around that I plan to set it on once I am finished fixing it up.

I have finally gotten around to taking cuttings of my blueberry bushes. It just seems like there is so much that needs to be done here and not much time before snow begins to fly. It is not uncommon to see a good bit of snow on the ground in October.

I took 4 cuttings from each of my 5 plants. I sniped a good 6 inch piece for each of the cuttings.

I then stripped a god bit of the lower leaves off of each cutting. Then I placed each cutting about 2 inches into soil and gave a fairly good watering.

I am not sure how well they will do but even if only 1/2 of them make it that will give me 10 new blueberry plants to put into the ground next year. I plan on keeping them in the house over the winter as I think they will be a bit to tender to deal with our harsh climate here in Maine. I am also interested to see how much they grow before spring right now they are about 4 - 4 1/2 inches tall.