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well I raked up 4 huge bags of mostly willow leaves and they love them I laid them out on newspaper to dry for 3 days with fans I turned them on the second day to even out drying. I mounted old bread pans in their pens as willow leaves are narrow and tend to slip threw the cages bottoms. Now I...

I really though of this when I saw them gobbling up any stray leaves that fell in to their exercise yard, but ours avoid the oak leaves if they get any.

I have gotten fantastic advice on here about naturally feeding our bunnies, we have gone from all pellets and hay to less than 1/3 pellets and they even leave some behind, I do not want to remove all pellets as I believe they 'fill in' the missing trace elements in their diets better than just...

I swear I have gotten the best buck Giant Chin EVER!!! we have had Fergus for about 2 weeks and he has be a nice social bunny with the family. If you do not know I run a ceramic studio and I sell at flea markets mostly so to show people I will be having bunnies next year for 4h and local pets. I...

if a bunny is sitting on the roof facing west and lays .................

Neat! I never thought of that we used to make fall and Christmas wreaths for craft sales from grapevines with the leaves still on I would have never thought to make some from willow and the ones we don't sell would go to the bunnies I LOVE IT make money and the leftovers are winter food, and...

no worries my trees are all over 18 ft and several over 30

nice thought can't take too many branches as I just totally pruned them all back as far as I wanted them. Will Weeping willow be OK as well as there are a few moderate sized ones around my studio on the border of the woods I could prune with a vengeance.

not so much a feeding choice as I did not have bunnies when I planted them just happy coincidence as it is getting in to fall would it be a good thing to strip a few bushels of leaves and lay them out on paper to dry?

When you put down a rabbit you are actually at point blank range to the head. as the .22 pellet is bigger it will have more kinetic energy than the lighter .177 still a target pellet is not made to penetrate and is flat on the top to cut a noticeable ring out of a paper target, but since the...

faster shooting is not the reason simply a easy way to shoot quick and less pumping, pull down barrel, put in pellet, and push up, fast and easy. when I get the wild buns in my garden I sometimes need a finisher so quick reload while walking to the bun is nice.

When we first moved in to our house there were no trees in the yard at all I love/NEED trees in my yard so in looking around I found http://www.aussiewillow.com/ I bought a few about 5 years ago and they are now taller than my 2 story house the biggest one is about 12inches in DIAMETER! I had...

we use a .177 cal break barrel pellet gun rated for 1100fps anything over 800fps will dispatch a small dog let alone a rabbit instantly and painlessly I have had to use it on a dog once who was severely injured by a car. Only use a heavy pellet called a magnum or 'hunting load' avoid target...

one of our two bucks always throws his water dish around and will not drink from a bottle even his attached dish is attacked until it is empty. so in frustration I hooked his dish so high on the cage he has to go on nearly tip toe to get his nose in it. if he is sitting normally the bottom of...

I had a show this morning (I have a ceramics studio www.whiteriverpottery.com) and I went out there and since she was still not doing well I put her down about 4am here and buried her as she was on antibiotics and a unknown illness, so no visiting freezer camp. I should have posted pictures...