The chicks are teenagers now
and living in the “chicken tractor,”
the chicken pen that gets moved
around the garden
every few days
so they have fresh bugs
and weeds for feasting
and can fertilize the new space.
When they get a little older,
(not quite ready for car keys)
they’ll be let out to free range
in the cool of the day.
The rabbits are teenagers now too.
Thor, we call the gray and white one,
and Fru-Fru, the black one,
are play pals.
(And we hope that’s the extent of it.)
Their manure helps feed
the Red Wiggler worms,
who are busy making compost.
Everyone grows up so fast!
Thor (left) and Fru-Fru
May 12, 2012 at 1:27 am
What type of bunny is Fru-Fru? My 3 month old bucks look a lot like that, especially my black one.
May 12, 2012 at 7:15 am
The person who raised it called it a “Lion.” Wikipedia says “Lionhead”— a new domestic breed from Belgium.
May 12, 2012 at 10:15 am
That’s what I was thinking was a Lionhead. I picked up the whole family of bunnies (minus the dad as they kept him) as it was an ‘oops’ litter. They bought the doe thinking she was a buck for a 4H rabbit for their kids and she had babies. Supposedly the father was their Californian. They told me the mom is a New Jersey Wooly, and if I hadn’t have gotten them they were going to eat them.
However none of the babies look like dad. I kept two of the bucks as I wanted pets plus to raise them to use for therapy bunnies at nursing homes and my friend wanted the other three babies and the mom. They were all fluffy to begin with at 2 months and now at three they are starting to look a lot like Fru-Fru. They are getting crazy fur all around their faces (one of the sister’s to mine looks almost identical to Fru-Fru with really crazy fur, saw them yesterday) but a lot of the fur on their bodies is much shorter. I thought maybe it was the Jersey Wooly coming through but the mom has no angora like fur, it’s thicker and longer but nothing like the Lionhead.
Sorry for the long reply. I saw Fru-Fru and it is amazing at the resemblance between her (she, right?) and my boys. I wonder if the mom was pregnant when they got her and the real daddy was a Lionhead and not the Californian. Especially as they aren’t fluffy all over like a Jersey Wooly but more like Lionheads.
Your bunnies are gorgeous and I love the way you write. Very creative! : )