Happy Halloween to those who celebrate it. The kids are all out trick-or-treating this evening, so I get a quiet evening at home. A welcome break from the full time chaos of a big family.
After a two year hiatus, I bought rabbits at an auction this weekend. New additions include:
Ten new auction rabbits, that's a lot all at once... but what else did you find at the auction I hear you ask... An excellent question! I also purchased one cage containing three geese. I am guessing they're all this spring hatch as they're fairly small. They all appear to be male (long thin necks). There's one solid white (embden?), one brown that looks like a small African goose, and my favorite one - white with black and grey spots throughout. Theylikely came from a mixed flock of embdens and Africans, but I'll never know for sure. These guys don't have names yet. I did move the old black fence off the old rabbit house to fence in the barn. Our last birds had free range of nearly 70 acres, but our dogs proved to be untrustworthy with birds in the yard. These geese will have less space, but they will be safe from the dogs while still being able to leave the barn and enjoy the sunshine.. I'm hoping to look at a couple potential barn kitties this week. We've been finding mice where they don't belong since the old barn cats both passed away last year. It's time to invest in new rodent control friends. I'd like to have three or four. I had originally wanted three, but we only had two last time. I guess it depends more on how many spay and neuter surgeries I can afford before spring.
I'm looking forward to winter sowing this winter and hope I find the time and resources to do so. I've added hundreds of new seed varieties to the collection this year after discovering two new seed companies in Ukraine. Wow! I'm so excited to try new kinds of tomatoes and peppers (and cucumbers and pumpkins, and melons, oh my!). |
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