my rabbits in the snow UPDATED PICS PAGE 4

[Skyesrocket]

They look like they are enjoying themselves!

 

[Goat_Walker]

I understand the concern with others but I wish that people would stop being so picky and pessimistic! Great threads like this get closed all the time lately. If you have aproblem or concern that will start something Pm the person.

LC - LOVE your bunny pictures! Mine are too young to even think about outdoor adventures but im glad your are enjoying it

thanks for sharing!

 

[redhen]

yeah! at least they arent locked up in a wire cage they're whole lives!!

they look very happy AND healthy..

 

[redhen]

eta..i see wild rabbits outside here in the winter all the time..
they still have their ears..

oh, and i'm assuming they run into wild bird poop also.. just saying..

 

[b.hromada]

Really cute pic! Thanks for sharing. And the snow doesn't even seem to bother them.

 

[LCwilson]

the tan and wild colored one are the babies of the white one. the white one is the daddy. the babies have been out since september. since they where 6 weeks old.
the daddy has been out since november 25-30 or so.

 

[CountryPantry]

We have raised rabbits and chickens together since I was little. My grandfather had 13 rabbits running in the pen with the kitchen chickens as they were refered to because they were for eggs not meat. I have always had some rabbits in with my chickens and they just love it. They have their own quarters with feeders and waters, and they sleep in them at nite. I am almost 60 and have never had any problem mixing them except for predators, but that you can't help even with rabbits in cages.

I love your pictures, they are so cute. Our only rabbit right now it living in the living room watching TV with us.

 

[SamG347]

I'm sorry but if it is one thing I hate is when a thread like this does get closed because a few select members feel they need to ADVIZE AGAINST DISASTER. I have hardly any expirence with rabbits myself but know many breeders. And also live on a mountain. Based on these pics I would say the rabbits and fat and healthy! And look like they are enjoying themselves. Just like people always tell me I should have heat-lights on my birds in the winter...people say you should be worried about your rabbits getting frost bit. I'm sorry but didn't these animals all SURVIVE and THRIVE back in the 1800s without artificial heat in the winter? We baby animals soo much when in fact they can and will survive. Wild rabbits have no heatlights to go under....or special feed. I know they are well adapted for the cold with short ears and such. But still.

Sorry for the rant....Beautiful Bunns!

 

[chinbunny]

i kept a rabbit outside in wire hutch once that did lose both of her ears to frostbite. will never ever do that again. It was years ago. Domestic rabbits are not wild rabbits, and are more prone to such things then domestics are. So yes, when i speak out against something on here its from experience. When I was akid we kept chickens and rabbits together. They shared the same space, but they did not run around together. my rabbits are all show rabbits. It woul dbe like taking them all turning them loos ein the barn, and letting them run around with the pigeons.Which will never happen. I know someone that raises both rabbits and champion show chickens. When he visited my barn one year to pick up rabbits, he let me know not to let them run loose with each other, because poultry will give rabbits coccidia. Apparently it had happened with him and his birds, and his rabbits. Domestic rabbits are also much better off in a cage out of the snow.And while they might live their there entire lives, its abetter life for them. Just because someone has kept rabbits and chickens together in the past does not make it the right way to keep them. And you esp want them somewhere where they are out of the snow, and weather.

 

[chinbunny]

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Domestics are not wild rabbits. They cannot handle the weather, nor survive out in the winter like a wild rabbit could. There are the select few that can, but many of them can't.

I used to raise chickens and I never had to have heat lamps on them in the winter. Don't do it with my rabbit litters anymore either. waste of electricity. Also a good way to burn your barn down. The thing is to provide them with shelter that keeps them insulated and warm out of the elements.