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[drumstick diva]

Maybe the nasty little booger was rabid

 

[Bunnylady]

Maybe the nasty little booger was rabid

Nah, just too big for his britches. I have a scar on my right wrist from an encounter with one of similar temperament (also white, incidentally) the day before my daughter was born. I went to take him out of his cage, my hand slipped off his back, and he came around and grabbed me instead. For a couple of months after that, any time anyone walked near his cage, he jumped up on the wire and tried to get at them. I finally had Critter knock him in the head; I was afraid someone who didn't know better might get close enough and get hurt. Rabbits like those are the reason that I make a point of breeding for temperament - a rabbit doesn't have to be fall-into-your-arms friendly, but if they aren't at least docile, they vote themselves out of the gene pool with me, no matter how typey they are. I will not breed mean rabbits.

 

[perchie.girl]

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experiences like that are what made me never to want Rabbits...as pets. Oh I like looking at em and think they would be cute but that old PTSD reaction to getting my gut ripped stem to stern.... never goes away.

deb

 

[pennyJo1960]

Gee never had that experience with a rabbit

have had a dog or two
it was good I had something between me and them

 

[Cynthia12]

Bunny, that's interesting to see the difference in how some of those lionheads can grow..out of their coat!

Wow, bunny overload..a lot of cuteness going on!

SCG..you said you had mostly NN going on around your place..SG..or Turken as well?

I have 43 eggs set for the Hatch A Long that are supposed to give me some NN's! I have one girl right now..she is a stinker, chases my Dachshund when he goes out to potty. Was chasing my pup too, until today..DH caught the pup chasing her. Probably got tired of her coming after him. Maybe it will stop now.

My only NN for now..plus my Uggums..with the funny hairdo from wet feathers you've seen.





Hoping to get some nice big eggs from this girl. In about a month.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

I had a friend who had a couple of litters of Dwarf babies that didn't sell when she expected them to, and she turned them loose in the yard. There were 6 or 8 total; only one male. For a few months, she got a kick out of watching the rabbits coming up to eat with the chickens, poking around in the cow's pen, etc. Then one day, as she was carrying hay to the cow, something came up the front of her and knocked the hay right out of her hands! Startled, she looked around, but the only thing she could see was the little male rabbit (he was white, BTW). The little beast charged at her again, and as she turned to run, it bit her on her heel. She shook it off, scrambled up onto a tree stump and yelled for her husband. He came out with his gun, and - well - so much for the rabbit. She showed me the bite mark on her heel, and said, "knocking the hay out of my hands - that thing was going for my throat!" It was all I could do to keep from laughing at the image of her being treed by a 2-pound rabbit; all I could think of was the rabbit from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. But yeah, Dwarfs can be really sweet; they can be really nasty, too.

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I shouldn't laugh

but the thought of turning tail from a 2lb bunny, just the image...is quite a thought.
Wow though...that IS a nasty little beast. I've never seen a rabbit THAT aggressive.

Our Chinese bunny bit my bucket one time when I was feeding them...but he was already a pain to start from always aggressive with the other males. I took him in from an Asian couple who had no place to put him when fall came.

He was a sweet looking white (there's that color again...lol) lop ear. But he was no where near as evil as your friend's bunny.
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So far so good...and I hope I'm on the right track with this. We have bins in this yard, and grain's loaded and unloaded and DH makes feed for the cattle. I've been noting the rabbits are quick to find any excess and clean it up. I'm thinking this can't hurt. I'm setting traps tonight.

Quote: I don't understand how a anyone can fail to factor in temperament with breeding any animal/bird/creature. Granted, some bunnies I've taken in some that have had issues...but some people who don't have experience with rabbits cause the issues themselves sometimes. I had thought of breeding my own rabbits to sell but I haven't the heart. There's enough bunnies that need homes that I take in without adding to it.

 

[lilwildrabbit]

FEAR THE RABBIT
Bun bun
Sluggy freelance

 

[superchemicalgirl]

SCG..you said you had mostly NN going on around your place..SG..or Turken as well?

I have 43 eggs set for the Hatch A Long that are supposed to give me some NN's! I have one girl right now..she is a stinker, chases my Dachshund when he goes out to potty. Was chasing my pup too, until today..DH caught the pup chasing her. Probably got tired of her coming after him. Maybe it will stop now.

My only NN for now..plus my Uggums..with the funny hairdo from wet feathers you've seen.





Hoping to get some nice big eggs from this girl. In about a month.

Beautiful girl. Right before Christmas I hatched 19 eggs, only 3 were not NN (all I could hatch from my own eggs). I had a pretty large group of NNs a few years back, but they all died except Turken 1.0 who is probably over 7 years old at this point. I have a hard time selling turken babies or juveniles in this area, but the boys make a nice, clean carcass and the girls are full of personality.

I've been trying to get some pictures of the new kids but between the snow, the mud and the frigid wind, I can't get anything I'd be proud to post. Next storm starts at 0100.

This is Turken 1.0, years ago. She's also sexy, and she knows it.


My Maddy Ducks are so cute, and already growing. They're eating meal worms out of my hands. I'm glad they've imprinted on me. I worried about that with TSC birds.


Lastly, I got a bit of sewing done this weekend. I started a small project while waiting for my friend to mail me the binding material for her horse quilt. The birds/branches/berries are all sewn on by hand (this is why I forced myself to sew those quiet books... couldn't hand sew before that) and then machine quilted the background. I still have to bind it and then probably add a hanging sleeve. It's pretty small - only about 11x13 inches. I love how the applique poofs once the background is quilted down.

 

[pennyJo1960]

You are very talented

 

[chickadoodles]

Bunnylady I probably would have called my husband to take care of it also.

I did get bit once but the baby did not know what he was doing, I was hand feeding the bunch and I went to move my hand to offer some sunflower seeds to another baby and
he just tried to get me to hold still. lol It did hurt but those little baby teeth only made a small peirce. I quit hand feeding them. lol
Our Rex/Californian bit my husband. Well he got spanked and he has never bit us since. He's always been gentle but that day he decided to try his
hormones out. lol Now my grandkids could hold him he's older and more calm.