Re-evaluate

Ok, so we had our first Bunny Butcher.  Shane said he "dispatched the animals".  There were tears, I am not going to pretend it all went smooth.  We ended up using Brady's 22, I thought that would make things quicker and less chance of error.  It was horrible, the bunnies would sit and kick and kick although I knew they were dead it was still sad.  Sky cried, I cried and Shane was feeling a bit sick to his stomach.  We saved the fur and I am going to try and get what I need to process them.  The boys want gloves...we'll see what I can do.  I cleaned and quartered the 2 rabbits and cooked them up last night for dinner.  Shane had a hard time swallowing.  The meat was tougher then the ones we have bought at the butcher, not sure if that is because it was fresh and not frozen or breed or what.  Sky ate the most singing "bunny bunny butt" didn't take him long to get over the whole process. 

Are we going to continue with rabbit farming?  I am going to leave that up to the triple Zs.  It gets spendy feeding so many during the winter and Shane has to decide if he wants to keep going.  Even though we changed and went to all white rabbits, they are so darn cute!  Even Vic said after taking care of them for us when we were out of town for the holidays that he couldn't eat one of them.

So what I know for sure is we are going to expand our chickens.  Raise some for butcher and I want to add a couple new egg colors to my flock.  I got a really nice incubator for Christmas so I want to give it a try.  We are thinking about ordering some quail eggs and giving that another chance but I don't know for sure yet.

We have plans to hatch turkey eggs and if we get a new Tom then the current Tom will be dinner.  He is such a jerk!  And my turkey girls are so sweet.  Jenny will also be hitting the dinner table, she is pretty but very stand offish and I like to cuddle my girls.  I hope to get some eggs from Jenny come spring though.  I want to try cooking up one of the turkey eggs but after that we will be trying to hatch them to grow for meat.

Little Roo is showing interest in the girls but I want to be sure he is good to go before attempting to hatch any eggs we get since we are still not getting too many eggs each day.

So that is about all that has been going on since we got back from Spokane.  I have been so tired and I have to get the energy to get the house all cleaned up and laundry done and ready for the boys to go back to school.  It will be so nice to have a quiet house during the day again!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!