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Finally Rabbit babies.

16/8/2012

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We have had the rabbits a couple of months now, and today we have had our first litter that looks like it will survive. The big plan is that we will initially keep them in the cages with their mother. Then when it is time to wean, they will go into a moving ark. This will give them access to clean grass as well as pellets, and hopefully grow them to a size with a flavour that is somewhere between wild rabbit, and farmed rabbit. The books say they will scour on the grass, but we want to try anyway. Joel Saladin's  "Polyface Farms" have selected their rabbits, to suit this system, and we intend to try to do the same. The big thing in their favour from my point of view, is that they will not need drenching, and they don't nag to be fed.
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