Lagomorph Lodge

We finally had some nice weather this weekend so we got Rosie’s hutch built. Heather brought her male over to breed a week or so ago so there will be baby rabbits before long.

Lisa did all of the wire work. She has the skills and patience with those little staples.

Working on the framing.

Paige hanging out with us in the garage.

Cutting the inside door.

First day of work finished.

Day two. The door is installed.

Andy came over to help carry the hutch outside. We used the same metal roofing as the tractor port. The rack underneath holds two plastic tubs to catch bunny poo.

As with everything else we have to wait for warmer weather before we can paint it. The tubs are in place here, the extension on the left is a little shelf to set stuff on.

Rosie entering her new home for the first time.

She’s a New Zealand Rabbit. They are bred for their meat. We don’t plan to eat Rosie. We will, however, be eating her offspring. That makes Rosie a livestock breeder, not a pet.

Rosie amongst the Rose of Sharons.

Snow Melt

I’m sorry for not posting in a while. I was sick most of last week so there wasn’t much of interest going on. Unless you count me coughing and blowing my nose as interesting. The weather has been terrible. When it finally stops snowing it gets cold so the snow stays or turns to ice. Today it was 50 so everything melted except a couple of the deeper drifts. We got some stuff done outside today and hopefully the weather will hold through tomorrow. I’ll have another post tomorrow to share all of the weekend’s activities.

I had my camera on the tripod pointing out my office window since early January. I took a couple of shots a day and put them together in this video.

The Wind Wall

We put up a wall on the horse port to act as a wind break for the horses. Getting the screws in the metal posts wasn’t easy. We got bad screws from Lowe’s, they didn’t have the good kind so we took what we found. These were designed for fastening wood to metal but they must have been for metal studding and not metal tubing.

Like I said in the video. We know OSB plywood isn’t good for exterior exposure but we figure Heidi will break it long before it has a chance to rot.

We used 2x4s as battens and screwed the OSB onto them. When the weather warms up Lisa can paint it.

Cory came over to pick up Randy. Lisa and I herded him down the hill. We had Daffy and 44 with us so he would feel safe. Randy did great and jumped right in the trailer. 

That’s Edith’s Dodge 4500 4x4 Chassis Cab and aluminum stock trailer. Nice, very nice.

  Jersey Larry says hi.

 

Guess what we're having for dinner.

Randy

Lisa brought the corral panels up from the old sheep pasture and set up a pen for Randy. We figured he needed a name since he was going to be here for awhile. As you no doubt recall, he is Edith’s Ram and had been visiting for the past month to breed Samantha, Serta, Daffy and 44. His “work” is done so we were going to return him to Edith but she is in Arizona and really isn’t in a big hurry to get him back. We could have just taken him over and dropped him off in her ram pasture but we told her he could stay. Since he can’t be out with the rest of the ewes we had to pen him up.

Randy’s new home.

Lisa herding the sheep. Randy is the big one with the black knee.

This was the other day before the snow melted. They were all lined up like that for a long time.

It’s not a deviled egg but it was a nice double!