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Sunday, April 27, 2014

Pastured Rabbit Ops (Austin)

CAUTION: This post is long and extremely informative. If you'd just like the 10 peso version (props if you get the reference), you can click on the link below and watch the video without all the supplementary info. If you care to understand why we're starting to do it the way we are, you should read the whole thing.

Spring so far has been pretty rainy. So when the last two days cleared up and turned out beautiful, I couldn't help but go work outside. The video below is to show you what we've been working on. Surprise! More about the rabbits. But it's a little early for the garden yet since we're not quite past the projected last frost date for our area (early-mid May), so the rabbits have been the priority. The link below gives you the idea, but it's two days old and more of the work got done today and the project was actually finished so I'll let you watch it then read about what we got going since the video was filmed.

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

One Down, One to Go! (Austin)

One of our two expecting does has given birth! Georgia began pulling fur yesterday morning and by sundown yesterday she had an occupied nest! Below is a link to the low-quality video courtesy of my cell phone giving you the update. Now we are just waiting on this not-so-little lady to give us her first litter.
Appa also had three matings with Fabio two days ago, so in about another month there should be some more kits born. We are excited for this great start to the season and are looking forward to seeing the differences each mother lends to their kits. Ain't Spring great?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYDX8ucdTTE&feature=youtu.be

UPDATE: No sooner did I publish this and go outside to work on the tractor than did I see that Jane is pulling fur to make a nest. Which means that if she's like her sister she's like to kindle by the end of tonight but definitely within the next two days. The Lord is good and has seen fit to put my doubts to rest with our new mother doe. He gives me great hope every day for the aspirations before Lauren and I and continues to amaze me with the processes of nature He created.