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I went and got my JW's today! OMG! So freakin cute! I had no idea. Little ears and little flat noses.. oh my!! And so very, very, very, very long haired and fluffy! I *think* I have a Smoke Pearl and a Sable Marten. One is a soft pearly gray with a slightly darker face and ears and the other is...

I am thinking maybe in the 'lab'. It is an outbuilding that looks like a tiny school house. There is a workbench that goes the length of it. Thinking about closing that in and putting them there... easy for Simon to reach and out of the elements and out of the big ol barn... Husband is just...

Where, oh where to put them. I am quite sure they are caged now, but I am more of a fredom kind of gal. They can't go in with my meats..they shouldn't go in the potting shed where we brood chicks... they might could go in the 'lab'..oh piffle. Toooo hard.

Ok.. so someone is giving me 2 Jersey Woolies! Now what?! I know I need to house them since I cannot just toss them into my colony of meat rabbits. What about personality? What about brushing and fiber collection?! Someone tell me about JW's please!!

I puttered out in the garden today too.. I put in 2 cold frames with old windows, cleared some beds, fed the buns some clearings and a mulberry bush. They do love their mulberry! And when the soil in those cold frames warms a bit.. I am going to plants some greens of some sort.. more chard or...

I can share one very helpful thing I did in my colony.. I started the burrow for them. I chose a spot and dug a hole. I slanted it on one side. Then I put a piece of scrap plywood on top, laid a scrap of plastic sheeting over that and then covered the top and three sides with the dirt. They went...