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[pennyJo1960]

two states I would seriously consider moving to.... New Mexico and Nevada.

Nevada isnt all hot and Casinoie.... I love the area around Ely.... Kind of touristy but I like that Snow in winter

No income tax in Nevada....

deb

I think maybe Nevada would be my pick here in the US but
would end in good old Wisconsin... Still like the idea of Belgian or Norway

 

[Latestarter]

I'm retired to NE Texas unless I win the lottery, in which case there will be a tropical island waterfront property with deep water and a dock for an offshore fishing boat. There would also be a high mountain hunting ranch property in either NM or WY for summer/fall dwelling/enjoyment

 

[perchie.girl]

If I won the lotto I would buy the parcel of land right next to me and the one across and to the south.... That would be a total of sixty acres part of which would back on to BLM land. That would give me almost 80 acres of land.

My house would get rebuilt just where it is and the properties would get good fencing. New well dug and proper plumbing done.... as well as a solar panel farm. Second house would get built for a caretaker....

Then a welding shop and an art studio and a horse barn.... and a hay barn.

deb

 

[Beer can]

@chickisoup that baby bunny was probably just kicked out of the nest, mamma kicks them out young so she can have another litter. Saw that many times in our lawn, they just freeze and if they do move just run a little bit and freeze again. Probably best just to leave them alone they either survive or don't, mamma has many more litters anyway.
My dad has kept wild one's before. Don't ask me why this works but the only way he could get them to eat is to lock them up in the box of the hutch in the dark for a day or two, somehow it calms them or something and they'll start eating afterwards. I've successfully done this once myself. For some reason those little bunnies will just starve themselves to death if captured/contained.
We had a pet coon for awhile when we were kids also. Dad would hatch wild turkey eggs under his chickens.
I remember one time he was trying to catch tiny little baby grouse while we were being attacked by mamma. We didn't get any, those little buggers camouflage easy, they were all over the place and then disappeared.

 

[microchick]

Good morning everyone!

I woke up this morning to the sun streaming in the windows and absolutely no rain pouring down from the heavens! I think we wound up with just a tad under 4 inches of rain before all was said and done. Now the big dry out begins. I just hope the next rain holds off till things get a bit dryer.

How's the baby bunny doing this morning, Chickisoup? Hearing your story reminded me that it's the season to watch out for nests when I mow. Seems as though I always wind up hitting one at least once every spring in spite of the dog's best efforts to keep the rabbit population at bay.

 

[chickadoodles]

Chicki I hope your baby bunny is ok. If you release it maybe you could put some food out for a few days till it figures out what to do. Idk



My hubby went back out to pick the rest of the black berries Friday and he got to a large thicket of them around a pole as he got to picking
a rabbit ran out from under it. lol He said he has not seen a rabbit on this place for many years. He thinks they have showed up
because they smell our rabbits.

@chickisoup that baby bunny was probably just kicked out of the nest, mamma kicks them out young so she can have another litter. Saw that many times in our lawn, they just freeze and if they do move just run a little bit and freeze again. Probably best just to leave them alone they either survive or don't, mamma has many more litters anyway.
My dad has kept wild one's before. Don't ask me why this works but the only way he could get them to eat is to lock them up in the box of the hutch in the dark for a day or two, somehow it calms them or something and they'll start eating afterwards. I've successfully done this once myself. For some reason those little bunnies will just starve themselves to death if captured/contained.
We had a pet coon for awhile when we were kids also. Dad would hatch wild turkey eggs under his chickens.
I remember one time he was trying to catch tiny little baby grouse while we were being attacked by mamma. We didn't get any, those little buggers camouflage easy, they were all over the place and then disappeared.

I can imagine this scenario!

 

[chickadoodles]

Good morning everyone!

I woke up this morning to the sun streaming in the windows and absolutely no rain pouring down from the heavens! I think we wound up with just a tad under 4 inches of rain before all was said and done. Now the big dry out begins. I just hope the next rain holds off till things get a bit dryer.

How's the baby bunny doing this morning, Chickisoup? Hearing your story reminded me that it's the season to watch out for nests when I mow. Seems as though I always wind up hitting one at least once every spring in spite of the dog's best efforts to keep the rabbit population at bay.

So happy to hear the sun is shinning on you today!

 

[Peep_Show]

Is all of new mexico that way?

A grad student here said it was a good state to retire too but not if there are too many predators

We have a lot of lawn (an anomaly in NM) and, therefore, a lot of rabbits which, ergo, attracts a lot of predators. The parcel next to us is undeveloped and full of scrub and sage, so lots of wildlife therein. We have a hawk that sits in the nectarine tree not 12 feet from the chicken coop who keeps the mice and rabbits out of the veggie/chicken compound. My laying ladies are well-contained and protected. Coyotes are just a fact of life in the southwest.

New Mexico is an awe-filled state of pretty scenery, great food, and interesting, fun and quirky towns. They don't call it The Land of Enchantment for nothing!

 

[chickisoup]

@chickisoup that baby bunny was probably just kicked out of the nest, mamma kicks them out young so she can have another litter. Saw that many times in our lawn, they just freeze and if they do move just run a little bit and freeze again. Probably best just to leave them alone they either survive or don't, mamma has many more litters anyway.
My dad has kept wild one's before. Don't ask me why this works but the only way he could get them to eat is to lock them up in the box of the hutch in the dark for a day or two, somehow it calms them or something and they'll start eating afterwards. I've successfully done this once myself. For some reason those little bunnies will just starve themselves to death if captured/contained.
We had a pet coon for awhile when we were kids also. Dad would hatch wild turkey eggs under his chickens.
I remember one time he was trying to catch tiny little baby grouse while we were being attacked by mamma. We didn't get any, those little buggers camouflage easy, they were all over the place and then disappeared.

I am aware how their lifecycle works. Please refer to my description of where it was found. We looked for any possible nearby nest site, none found. I also described how/where it was being kept but I'll add that it is in a quiet room with natural light cycles and it is eating, and pooping, like a little pig. It's snowing today but supposed to warm up tomorrow and it will be released in the previous described area. Thanks for all your input.

Taking a computer break for a while. Weather breaking finally and there's just too much to do starting with a half acre or so of pine that need limbing up (before anyone jumps in, we are in the far north, pruning is actually recommended for pine this time of year now, new research).

Have a great spring everyone!

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Update: I heard back from Mizzou's Lab. I'll be sending the next death there, rather we will be driving it down when it happens. Lots cheaper that way and it is only an hour and 20 minutes from home Looks like basic Necropsy and parasite panel will be about 70 dollars if I hand deliver the bird. 120 if they do any cultures. We had a nice talk. Nice doctor. I told him about buying resistant birds and he laughed saying, yes, and by the time you find out that they are resistant they are no longer laying fertile eggs.

I feel like this right now.

Gonna go out and see my babies and enjoy them while I can.

It sounds...disheartening...but remember he's speaking from a clinical point of view. Some people have production type bird which may not produce viable eggs as long. From the practical everyday life side of things, life trudges on everyday. If there wasn't natural resistance to diseases and constant selection of the fittest...there wouldn't be any living creature alive. Before there were antibiotics, humans survived devastating plagues. We didn't all die.

I've been thinking a lot about you and your birds since the news. I hope it's not Mereks although it doesn't sound the best. Still, until there is a positive diagnosis...

For someone who said mom might be near by, if that would have been possible, once we determined it wasn't hurt we would have left it be but I didn't explain well enough about where we found it. It was frozen in the actual middle of a bare 20 acre field, totally bare. it had been mowed down in the fall and nothing had started to grow yet so it was completely bare save a little moss so it was totally unnatural for it to even be out there. My only guess is something picked it up and for whatever reason dropped it. It was soaking wet and the temps were to drop below freezing again overnight so most likely it would have sat there until it froze to death. The rain is finally supposed to let up in a day or so and I will put it outside in an area thick with new grass between the house and the propane tank in a corner next to the porch that catches the afternoon sun and the big forsythia bush offers shelter from above where the other wild bunnies like to gather to snack in protection.

That was me...lol. After thinking about what I wrote...if it's weaned it's pretty much been on it's own. It could've been out there because of a predator. It's probably a good thing you've brought it to a safe area when it was in the open like that. Especially when it's inclement weather.

He sounds like he'll have a safer area to grow up in.

Chances are he'll stay around as well. We hardly see any wild rabbits here. Sometimes the odd jackrabbit but not that often.

My bunnies are loose and at that stage they are left on their own by their parents. The parents usually check in once a couple times in the day but the wee ones fend for themselves. We fed and water them near the steps of the vestibule (the females birth behind the vestibule where it's come away from the wall of the house.) Now there's grass and they eat with the chickens. I think they like the protection of blending in and the guinea alarms...

The little guys below had already been on their own for a while. They were only about 3 inches long when they first come out.