Rabbits - hurrah!

As mentioned previously, we treated the three most recent litters with Metoxyl. Thankfully this seems to have finally done the trick and they have all survived. We are so relieved as it is not only very sad to see them suffer and die, but it meant we were not getting many rabbits to eat. Well, technically a few have died, but that was because they escaped and the dog caught them.
They were small (one was 3 months which was a decent size and the other 2 only 4 weeks) but all were tasty and very tender bbqed on the pig.

This is probably one of the ones we ate, but it was a few weeks older than this when we ate it.

We now have 20 growing kits and the mums are pregnant again (or hopefully anyway as the mating looked successful). Soon we will have so many we don't know what to do with them!

We have bought new lawn cages now that the operation seems to be on track. They are gabions which are actually for filling with stones and building walls with.

They arrived flat packed

They came with all the pieces joined, we just needed to join all the upright edges and put in a slanting piece that you can kind of see here to hold grass/hay. I have also ordered little tarpolines to cover the top and one side. We hope that they can stay in them over the winter too. It is much easier to clean them out when they live on the ground like this as they just have to be moved to a new spot. They will still need to go in to the cages to give birth and raise the kits to weaning age (about 6 weeks)

We found that these will fit out through the holes. Which is quite surprising and how we came to have several to bbq as in the pictures above. We need to think again where they will live between weaning and about 2-3 months when their skulls get too big to fit through the squares.