One week old

Our three little survivors are doing well.  We can't be sure quite yet but it looks like one little black one and two little fawn ones.  I say we can't be sure because Grace looked black as a baby but she is definitely not black!  There was a beautiful little lilac baby that we lost.  It still grieves me at the loss of all those little potential beauties but I'm very glad that we still have these three darlings.

Freak accident causes loss

We lost six of our babies last night to a freak accident due to the torrential downpour.  Water overwhelmed the gutters and flowed into the nest.  We managed to save three.

Three days old

Oscar is all turned around!

Actually, they don't have names.  They are still so new they have tiny black umbilicus nubs on their tummies.  We are hoping for mostly does, of course, but we are just happy that they are all strong and active.

Babies everywhere!

Nine bouncing babies, all apparently healthy and active! At least three different colors.  Lizzie and Antonio did a great job!

Kissed by a bunny

I wish I had enough hands to have taken photos!  I was grooming Ray, our younger buck, and Cherry and Grace were swarming around us, nibbling at his head and tail and generally being nuisances.  The next thing I know, Cherry has jumped into Ray's cage and is eating his greens!  She has plenty in her own bowl, but no.  After I was done with him and put him back in his cage, I leaned over to pick up the matted hair I had brushed out.  Cherry gets right up under my face, gets up on her back legs, and touches her lips to mine.  Kissed by a bunny!

From cages to colony

It was clean-up day at the rabbitry.  I raked out all the old straw from the winter.

 I hauled out straw, hay boxes, various tools...

 I took the soiled straw to the raised bed.  That should put paid to all the weeds that keep sprouting up there, no matter how many times I spray it.

 I aired out the moving blankets that I put over the cages on the 60 below nights.

 I took out the girls' cages and left the boys in theirs.  Fresh straw on the cement floor, some straw bales for jumping on and some nest boxes for the hoped-for babies expected to arrive by next weekend.  Grace is having a nose-to-nose conversation with Ray through the cage door.

 Cherry is checking out the jumping opportunities.

 The girls have food, water, and hay available.

 The boys get to see as well as smell the girls at least.

The girls were out in the runs while I rearranged the area.  They were their usual crabby selves when they thought I was taking them back to their cages.  When they realized that I was going to let them just jump out and run around in the enclosure, they looked around themselves as if to say, "Really?"

Haircut Day

I haven't been doing too much with the rabbits outside of  basic everyday chores but it was haircut day today so my husband kindly recorded Drew and me harvesting Antonio's wool.  Check it out.