There really is an Easter Bunny!

[bizzeeb60]

I just could not resist posting this. L@@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!

 

[eggchel]

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

 

[bizzeeb60]

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!

 

[KattyKillFish]

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.

 

[bizzeeb60]

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!

 

[Rhett&SarahsMom]

Awwwww.. so cute! I would have kept him. And the dh would have been mad.

what is going on with egg ?

 

[AhBee01]

egg
Yep, it's coming up rooster! Cute bunny!

 

[chickens4me]

That is so cute! You were so kind to let him go~~especially this time of year!

 

[conny63malies]

i got one easter bunny scoping out places to drop his/her eggz for the last two weeks. Drives my dogs nuts.

 

[shortcake1806]

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.