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Anarchy, I wish I had known you needed Costco and Mill and Feed stuff yesterday
my partner did a run in to Anchorage and stopped at both places. He goes into town at least 2 days a week, we would love to do some sort of coop thing!
I feel so bad I haven't been on for so long, so much has happened! It took me forever to read through everything I missed. I'm still in the more analog world and unfortunately don't get to the computer much. Also, we have been so busy with the trying to get our animals set for winter and all our barns insulated (only one to finish, yay!). And we butchered two of our domestic tom turkeys, that was a learning experience!
I know some of you have rabbits, I have some 4 week old kits that unfortunately cant nurse from their mama anymore. Our rabbit (who we were told was a buck) gave birth to these beautiful 4 kits on August 29th and must have bred with her hutch mate, the actual buck, again between the time of kindling and when I came out for the morning cuddles and feeding. When I found a nest of babies and found out he was actually a she, I immediately separated them, but Snuggles gave birth to 7
more kits. She is now back in the mama/baby box in the house and all 7 are doing well. I got some KMR and a couple of bottles to feed the four week olds, should I supplement mama's feed to make sure she's okay. I feel so bad for her, it breaks my heart that she had these litters so close, she is so sweet and her older four really take after her!
I start with it about 2/3 full, add just enough water to almost cover it, then rotate it a couple of times a day until it sprouts (dumping from one bucket to another to rotate the wet bottom barley to the top.) Usually takes about 3 days, but it expands as it sprouts, so by day 3 the bucket is pert near full.
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