I just could not resist posting this. [email protected]@K what I found in the Chicken coop on Monday evening when I went to collect eggs from my ladies... He was under the nesting box! He was just a baby, fit right in the palm of my hand. I guess he was getting an early start on gathering up "Easter Eggs". Of course I don't think the hens were too happy he was in there. I caught the little guy and released him back into the pasture. Then double checked around the coop to make sure whatever hole he squeezed into was fixed!
Awwww, he is really cute. We have a free range bunny who lives in the pasture with the ducks and geese. They all get along great. My neighbor calls him "Round-Up Rabbit" because he is always running down the driveway behind the geese so it looks like he is herding them. She is writing a children's book about him. chel
In my above post the word is not supposed to be Rooster! It is supposed to be I kept typing but it came out ROOSTER!
you are too gushy, i'd have killed and eaten him! rabbit is so delicious and even a small one is enough for me to get full on! you can call me a barbarian, but i call me an Alaskan native, born to hunt if i wasn't hungry i'd have kept him. you know, as a pet. my dad used to trap wild snowshoe hares, pen them up in a large pen until the bred and had babies. when the babies were just old enough he'd take them and we'd keep and raise them for meat & fur, then he'd release the parents out in the woods.
Well he was just a baby. I used to rabbit hunt with my Dad when I was a kid in Michigan. Never have ventured to want to eat the wild rabbits here in Florida. In the north they say don't eat them in warm/hot weather so that just goes to say, would not want to eat them here in this area!
i got one easter bunny scoping out places to drop his/her eggz for the last two weeks. Drives my dogs nuts.
How adorable. You did the right thing turning him loose. My experience has been that wild caught rabbits don't live very long in captivity.
