Ok, some changes are happening around here! Now that the kits are ready to butcher the boys are making demands and trying to bargain for that call from the Governor. So in an attempt to continue our farm plan I have put an ad on Craigslist to find homes for Rosey, Buck and Sozo and all their babies. We are going to only keep the all white new Zealand. The boys get attached to the unique colored ones. Nothing I do seams to help the situation. I talked to them before starting this and they were on board! I have enough to do to not have to fight them at butcher time.
Sky wants us to keep raising multi colored and sell them then go buy meat at the butchers...unfortunately that will cost us money. Keeping my fingers crossed that I can find someone who wants to give these a nice home and maybe when all we have are white rabbits the boys will not get attached. They have not gotten attached to the white ones at all. We call them the triplets and they really don't have individual names. What ever has not found a new home in the next week or so is going to be butchered. It costs a fortune to keep all these rabbits (22 currently) and all the kits are getting so big we would need to quadruple the number of cages to keep them from being over crowded.
I don't have any plans to attempt breeding this winter. It was too much last year I want a death free winter! The plan is next spring we will expand the poultry part of the farm. Build a separate Turkey coop and run and add a Tom so we can start having baby turkeys. And we are thinking about adding to the chicken family too. Build a separate coop and run for the new chickens so they are separate. And of course I HAVE to get a roo! Might even consider selling a few eggs at the farmers market if we are successful.
Wish I could find someone interested in trading rabbits for a goat. We could really use the help with the brush clean up around here!
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