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[Wickedchicken6]

I was thinking when you mentioned you drove 3 hours to get her...that it sounds like me (well like most of us for one animal or another)
Except chickens overtook the bunnies for me. Chickens are evil.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Yep...parts are important.

 

[microchick]

Well that is not necessarilyView attachment 552429 true she has been in a standard cage since her last litter was taken from her. I moved her into the kennel three days before she had these I believe.
I think she's winding down a bit anyways, I hope she stays that way.

We drove over 3 hrs to get the new addition. She's a New Zealand and she's only 4 weeks old. The woman assured me they have been eating and drinking on their own for over a week. This little one is very tame and has been handled a lot so no kicking at all.
I am going to keep her that way.
Edited to add: It look's like a drowned rat because I washed it's feet from the kennel it was in. She was not happy about it. But she'll dry soon enough.

Bunny stink eye. I love it! Now if she could screech like a broody she'd be perfect.

 

[getaclue]

I had a pet rabbit for several years, that suddenly began biting. He had ear mites, and I didn't know it. Once we got his ears cleared up, he was fine again. That's about the extent of what I know about mean rabbits.

 

[Alaskan]

My genetic stock comes either:

1. tall and thin with thin shoulders. And the thin stringy muscle type...you can get strong, but bulking up doesn't happen. But by tall...I mean 6' to 6'5" max. It matches up with thin long faces and like 7 chest hairs and scraggly sparse facial hair.

2. Short, and wide, with bulky muscles, round faces and lots of facial hair and chest hair. Short like 5'4" to 5'10" for the men.

Funny contrast.

Spouse's family is all more of the bulky type and more average facial hair , but more odd all over body hair. And mostly taller, like 6 foot.

So, I am always looking at my 5 boys....wondering which way they will go.

Eldest is 18, his mustache is pretty good now...can't yet tell how good his beard is going to be...he doesn't shave, but he is so young it is still scraggly. I made him shave when his beard was in the diseased looking stage
..you know..one tuft of hair here..one there. ....

 

[microchick]

I had a pet black rabbit once. His hutch was in the corral with my horse. They got along fine. So fine that one day I went outside to discover that Billie, my Appaloosa had figured out how to open the door on the hutch. Bunny Wabbit was on the lam. I'd see him every now and then, kinda hard to miss a black rabbit when you are used to seeing wild ones. But I never was able to catch him.

Years later after DH and I got married I was riding my bike down the rural road we lived on and much to my surprise, almost ran into two rabbits in the road. One was black the other was white. I almost wrecked my bike not from avoiding them but from being so startled seeing them out in broad daylight. Seems as though they had gotten loose from a nearby house and would pop up every now and then. Amazing that they were doing fine in the wild.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Wicked, did your location change? Or am I hallucinating?

 

[microchick]

Not to so drastically change the subject....what was the subject anyway,?
I'm trying to keep up here and it's been one of those days. Sick rooster, blah blah blah, Marek's blah blah blah, running back and forth, blah blah blah. Anyhoo. What do you guys do about nasty dirty miserable, why doesn't the earth split open and swallow them all down in one big gulp-sparrows? Suddenly I'm inundated with field sparrows that are crapping everywhere which is why my poor immuno suppressed rooster is sick now. I've moved their food and water inside but I have one creative little monster sparrow that has figured out that if it flies in the pop door it can grab a quick bite and be gone in a flash. These guys really need to go but I have no idea how to do it.

I just read over this...no I'm not drinking but these sparrows are quickly driving me in that direction. Hey there's no law that says a coffee mug HAS to hold coffee is there?

 

[perchie.girl]

Not to so drastically change the subject....what was the subject anyway,?
I'm trying to keep up here and it's been one of those days. Sick rooster, blah blah blah, Marek's blah blah blah, running back and forth, blah blah blah. Anyhoo. What do you guys do about nasty dirty miserable, why doesn't the earth split open and swallow them all down in one big gulp-sparrows? Suddenly I'm inundated with field sparrows that are crapping everywhere which is why my poor immuno suppressed rooster is sick now. I've moved their food and water inside but I have one creative little monster sparrow that has figured out that if it flies in the pop door it can grab a quick bite and be gone in a flash. These guys really need to go but I have no idea how to do it.

I just read over this...no I'm not drinking but these sparrows are quickly driving me in that direction. Hey there's no law that says a coffee mug HAS to hold coffee is there?

sparrows are actually an invasive species brought to the US from Englad when we had a caterpillar invasion Linden Moth.... Back in the 1850s.

http://nestwatch.org/learn/all-about-birdhouses/managing-house-sparrows-and-european-starlings/

 

[chickadoodles]

Sorry about your rooster Micro. Can you put bird netting around the wire for their run to keep the sparrows out?