Rabbit thread!!!

My rabbits live free range with the hens and guinea pigs. They don’t dig. I have been raising them like this for years. Then all of the sudden two died. For no reason. I'm shocked and scared for my other two.
Was a carcass left? Could it of been a weasel or a hawk? I've seen a hawk p/u my rir (one of my best layers) just get picked up and taken away from me like a leaf in the wind. Two times. But I still let them loose when I can be out there with them. I've lost my dogs due to their age. And I don't feel like raising some dogs right now. I need some time from there passing too! What are they fenced in at night? I have them in a chain linked fence and there was a spot I never spotted for 4 years but 2 summers ago a 25 pd. raccoon found a 4 inch hole and squeezed himself threw! The 1st. day I went in my fav. girl was laying down with her eyes opened and when I got up to her she was opened up from her crotch to her rib cage. The inners were gone but she was still there. The 2nd night my son happen to hear the girls going crazy and he caught it with the pitch fork in that hole! This summer I had a bear get my best rooster I ever had! What we go threw for our loved ones!
 
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Free range I guess is an overstatement. They're in my backyard in the city so there's no predators. And they were alive and wheezing hard and wet on their chest but it was instant, like death within minutes. The other two seem fine. All my rabbits are fat and healthy and they just molted, same with the hens and everyone looks really pretty and shiny. I started feeding them some fresh herbs and berries in addition to hay, pellets, apples and carrots. And honey and chamomile. And acv in the water. From what I read they could have gotten stressed out for some reason and sick (fast?). Yikes about your predators, I can't imagine.
 
Hi I keep rabbits in the barn with my chickens, they share the coop and hang out together. They all get along but I have a radio that my hens listen to (they get country music) but I've had to put it away since my rabbits moved in, because I've heard that they like to chew on cords. Any ideas how to stop them from chewing the cord so that my hens can have their music back?? Suggestions would be appreciated :D
 
Hi I keep rabbits in the barn with my chickens, they share the coop and hang out together. They all get along but I have a radio that my hens listen to (they get country music) but I've had to put it away since my rabbits moved in, because I've heard that they like to chew on cords. Any ideas how to stop them from chewing the cord so that my hens can have their music back?? Suggestions would be appreciated :D
get some hard pvc pipe 1 ft. shorter than the length you need to hide the cord, run the cord threw it and he can't get to it or put up a shelf.
 
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