Bunny crazy!

So I got our hutch ready and filled it with feeders, water bottles, and sticks for the bunnies to chew on. I looked on Craigslist and found free 6 week old bunnies! They were Dutch X New Zealand mix.

Note: if you are getting an animal for free you have to look at it closely. People often give anyway the sickly ones. Watch out for odd behavior or messy poops. Rabbits should poo little balls. Not runny or bloody. Look for bunnies that are friendly, (If they don't run up to you and jump into your hands, that is not a problem. Normally they are shy beings.) if they bite you or run at you and attack, Warning!

But these bunnies we got were a very good pick. I asked the girl "Why are you giving them away for free?" I wanted to see her answer. She told me that she didn't want to raise rabbits, but had two "Does" (Which are girls) as pets. They had bunnies and she was just trying to get rid of them. I took the last three, and later found out they were two buck (Bucks are boys) and a doe.

The doe we named Smoky, because of the smoked nose, ears, and feet she has. She is a white with black/gray girlie. She is a few months old now and just got bred on June 7th and is due in a month. She was bred with a lop bunny named Thumper, who is owned by a close farmer friend Mrs. J.j. Orr. Hopefully the babies will be spotted like their momma.



The other buck we have is one I let my little sister name. Jacob Black (From Twilight) is black with white going down his face, with a little brown speckled on his back. He is a really good buck, but we have only used him twice. We will see what the doe we bred him with today will give off.


And the last is Ron. He is a beautiful gray color with brown speckles on his back, much like Jacob Black. And with age his ears are turning to a sandy brown. He has fathered many of our bunnies. He is gentle and calm, never mean or aggressive. Once the babies get big enough to be without a nesting box (About 2-3 weeks old) they lop through the cage to their dad's cage. Ron licks them and even made a nest for them out of the hay I gave him! I have never seen him bite anyone. He even got attacked by another Rabbit but didn't fight back, I know he's weird. One of the litters we got from him had three babies that looked just like his sister, Smoky. He is all in all a good rabbit! Oh plus, he has the gray eyes I really love! Some of his babies have them too!




All in all we made a good choice by getting these great bunnies, who grew up to be great Rabbits for our hutch!