Mowing the grass

We have been mowing the lawn stripe each day and feeding the clippings to the rabbits as their cages have a mesh bottom which doesn't really let them get through at the grass. We still had to move the cages from time to time otherwise the grass dies under the bedroom and a mountain of poo grows up.The bottom is removable, so we have decided to experiment with removing it and moving the cages along the lawn instead. They will need moving several times a day - so if we are going out we will still probably feed extra clippings to keep them going. We hope the lawn will have less splotch patches on it where we failed to move the cages quickly enough and the poo build up and bedroom killed some of the grass. I expect we will still need to even it up with the mower but we hope they will make doing the edges easier as the cage can go right up to the edge but the lawnmower can't.

There was a slight technical hitch to the experiment when one of the rabbits escaped. Poppy gave chase and there was an exciting high speed race around the lawn until Doug shouted with the voice of uber-command and Poppy actually sat and stopped chasing. The poor rabbit stayed frozen in place for a while. I called for it, not expecting it to come, but one has to do something - and it came to me! So I was able to reunite it with its cage, it seemed quite pleased and stayed in the bedroom for some time. It seems likely that it escaped through the door as I had left it unlocked. Oooops!

Owen was also drafted in to do a bit of lawn mowing while Daisy went for a little ride up the land.

This little guy was meant to be on the drive with his mum and friends but they all escaped so they have had to be sent back to their field until we can electrify the fencing.