The Quack Shack

[Canadian Wind]

What I do for the cows is make a v shaped runway with treats at the end and slowly get them headed that way. I imagine bunnies are harder.

Yeah, much smaller than a cow. They like going into the trees (we have cedars with very low branches, I'm covered in scrapes).

Also way too many places to hide. Really need to get all this junk picked up. Previous owner left a mess and we still haven't finished cleaning it two years later, mostly due to my daughter having been in a bad accident and unable to do anything for over a year.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

@Canadian Wind what about digging a pitfall? - I remember my dad doing that when our bunnies escaped from their bunny-box.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Happy Pre-Friday everybody!

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[Canadian Wind]

@Canadian Wind what about digging a pitfall? - I remember my dad doing that when our bunnies escaped from their bunny-box.

How does one do this, Hillbilly? I am interested.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

How does one do this, Hillbilly? I am interested.

I had to dig a pit, 1 x 2 meters and 1 meter deep and cover it with long straw or long grass.
Then we set up some kind of natural looking funnel - two long tree trunks - and slowly drove the bunnies towards the pit. About two meters before the pit we scared them a bit so the dashed forward and dropped in. Then you have to be quick to grab them b4 they jump out...

 

[Canadian Wind]

I had to dig a pit, 1 x 2 meters and 1 meter deep and cover it with long straw or long grass.
Then we set up some kind of natural looking funnel - two long tree trunks - and slowly drove the bunnies towards the pit. About two meters before the pit we scared them a bit so the dashed forward and dropped in. Then you have to be quick to grab them b4 they jump out...

Okay, thanks Hillbilly, but I think I won't be able to do anything like that.

1. I don't have a teenager to order to dig a pit.

2. My own back would not allow me to dig this much. For our non-metric friends, 1 meter is about 3 feet.

3. I live on the Canadian Shield, which means anything more than about 30 cm down (at the most!) and I hit rock.

Here, Zoe is on one of the exposes parts of the Shield. See all those gouges and runnels in the rock? That was made by the Continental Ice Sheet retreating at the end of the last Ice Age.

Beautiful, difficult to walk on, and impossible to dig out without dynamite!

 

[Muscovy Wunda]

So Canadas on a giant rock?

 

[Muscovy Wunda]

There are too many emoos about this year.

 

[Canadian Wind]

So Canadas on a giant rock?

Parts of it, yes. The Canadian Shield was made by the compression of stone by the ancient glaciers. It's fascinating, on a geological level, and really pretty in some areas.

 

[Canadian Wind]

Well, got one of the little miscreants. >.< Not through any effort of my own though, she went back to her cage. I placed it down with the door propped open but partially blocked (there were three ducks in there earlier eating the food!). Went to feed the others, and there she was.

Now hopefully the other one realizes that the grass isn't greener on the outside!