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I will try to get some pictures posted soon. I struggle with this technical stuff, seems the only way I've been able to accomplish this is by linking my facebook photo album. I have at least 9 new babies running around, perhaps more, terribly hard to count them. For the summer I have opened...

We had a extremely mild winter here, usually it gets as cold as 40 below, this year I don't think the temp dropped below 0 for more then a day or two. I put an old pickup topper in the colony and stuffed it with hay (mostly alfalfa, and crested wheat grass) after they chewed that up they...

Would be extremely difficult (and expensive) to make my outdoor colony 100 percent predator proof. As it stands, I have no other cats, so no more will get shot, unless it be a stray that comes in and bothers my rabbits. It's not that I don't care about and enjoy animals. I take excellent...

I grew up very different then most people I guess. I cannot count the number of "pets" we ended up shooting while growing up. We had over 40 cats, a few dogs, cows, horses, goats, pigs, etc etc. When it came to our cats, by in large if a shot of penicillin didn't cure it, it was shot. They...

A couple of very light frosts have hit. Chilly weather, but nothing severe. Only the one burrow, and it seems to be mainly one of the 3 older does (about 6 months old) digging it, though I see several milling around it. They have eaten all the plants I didn't fully expect them to eat, and are...

Weather is getting disagreeable. Rain, and cold. Still no more rabbits have started to burrow. Drug an old pickup topper into colony, filled it with hay, and put food dish just inside it. They seem to be using this to get out of most of the ugly weather. Fairly disappointed in the lack of...

Thank you Anntann. I do have a electric wire low.. about 5 inches off ground, though I could drop it a little lower. I believe I am mostly predator proof. I was considering smaller diameter wire, for the lower part to stop the snakes. However, my guineas travel the area heavily, even inside...

I cannot remember seeing these two plants on any safe list, but my rabbits love them. Field bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis) and kochia weed ((Kochia scoparia) both have very high protein, comparable to alfalfa. My rabbits seem to eat the dry bindweed before green, however, they bypass many...

Just released about 20 meat rabbits in a 40'x70' colony, with about 10 trees in it. These trees are rocky mountain juniper and/or western red cedar.(even experts can struggle to tell the difference). These rabbits have plenty to eat, the various grasses are short to a couple feet tall, the...

Need to revamp some minor things. Hawks, thought there were enough trees to protect them, however, the few open spaces prove sufficient for hawks to get em. Had one get a broken back, I am pretty confident was a hawk attack. Will string some high tensile wire over colony, about 1-2 foot of...

After researching for about two months online, I feel I've gathered enough information to attempt an outdoor colony. We built a 40'x70' pen with 2"x2"x3' galvanized wire with 2' of chicken wire on top, to give me a 5' high fence. Placed 30" wide tin under the wire leaving about 2' of it on the...