Dinner rabbits, Journal

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Good news, everyone!


The cull buyer has reappeared!
*phew*
But the ones that are left are buried in beef. And new ones all sold out live. Gotta choose the next rounds of culls. Maybe I can double it again to move more out faster, as I cannot keep up with all of this manure!

Since I'm finally out of the rabbit I pulled for dog food...
$128 in the green. Plus 40 in bun dog food and leftover bits of beef.

Currently $168 in the green.

 

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17 chosen. Will give them until Friday night to sell or into the freezer they go.

 

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The uncovered was dry and bagged. Then dumped fresh poo out onto it. Previous batches covered, as its about to storm.


And I had moved Rudy & kits to a big cage. 6 kits got out through a nest gap. Now nest is removed...

 

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Literally taped and stacked freezers shut....Having to take all the beef out to reach the rabbit messed up spacing.
16 culled out



I need a fence! Wtf

 

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Got 4-5 bags filled, but woke up to surprise rain....did not fully cover the bags.
Didn't cover the cow hide. Didn't store the rabbit feed.
I hate the weather man. Such a liar.

 

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Tappy × Cast & Rew
Shouldn't of used rew, as now I can't tell if Cast managed any or not.



Raven and Opal's doe will be culled if they fail to kit this coming round. I've been too attached and lenient.

 

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I was feeding out 30 pounds a day, then culled out what felt like a ton of kits. Wow. Really hated using so much feed that fast! Feels "empty" now, but it's much better. 1-2 best kits in with mom, besides the young ones. Moved the Jet buck back into the bun building.
Raven has a few days to have kits. Opal's doe(Cassy) has a month.
Devil×Lefty doe, need to get her bred or cull her out. She's been unwilling this whole time. I'll give her until Cassy's final day to get over it or be frozen.
Who else was I supposed to toughen up on? The broken black SF buck, I think? He just sits there....Hops×Vapor/Muddy buck. Kept him for his genes, but he's 11mo and refusing. I have Hops latest litter, broken doe and buck, plus one black, that I can choose from to replace him with. And they'd be fully pedigreed & pure vs his mutt genes...Yeah, I probably shouldn't keep trying and just get rid of him now...
Choc Rex is refusing to figure it out, do I give him more time or not....oh, looks like he's 60 or so, guess I have to give him more time.

 

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Got the rest bagged and stored away. Then new poo out.
Added a hot fence to keep them out. They're obsessed with standing in and eating it....

 

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Tappy kits
Looks like we have...
2 chocolate! One solid, 1 broken.
2 black, 1 broken, 1 booted.
2 rew.
1 lilac.

And with these kits, I'm going to cull the choc buck and not keep waiting on him.

 

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Coral × Rew
July 18, doe



Played musical cages to get 2 litters, Buttons & Tippy, in cages with jfeeders. As they're eating and drinking everything overnight now and I can't put on any more little plastic cup feeders. Lol


So, this guy got in...there's a corner he could go up and under the fence. Blocked it off after getting him out. You know the fence works, bc he would not try to go through it, even though he's scared of me. Sheep would just mindlessly bolt and worry about the consequences...never.