Re: Photo Phriday 105 - Rabbits
[Re: Sharon]
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10/13/23 07:02 PM
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Upstate, that was good , lol That's what I do tell myself , if times get hard, and I need some food...that's my story and I'm stickin to it ! Pet, pet pet...... That is why I don't shoot the Grouse in the apple trees here at the house. It isn't because I would rather watch them instead of shoot them, it is because they are an emergency food source.............
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Re: Photo Phriday 105 - Rabbits
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10/13/23 07:08 PM
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Upstate, that was good , lol That's what I do tell myself , if times get hard, and I need some food...that's my story and I'm stickin to it ! Pet, pet pet...... That is why I don't shoot the Grouse in the apple trees here at the house. It isn't because I would rather watch them instead of shoot them, it is because they are an emergency food source............. Food on the hoof,,so to speak.
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Re: Photo Phriday 105 - Rabbits
[Re: Sharon]
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10/13/23 11:45 PM
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Upstate, that was good , lol That's what I do tell myself , if times get hard, and I need some food...that's my story and I'm stickin to it ! Pet, pet, pot...... auto-correct
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Re: Photo Phriday 105 - Rabbits
[Re: Gulo]
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10/14/23 11:09 AM
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Ha, North50, I saw that “auto correction “ !
TD, lions mane rabbits are neat little things. I really like Rex rabbits, their fur is like velvet.
Mine aren’t Rex, not sure what breed or cross they are. They just showed up from somewhere down the road , there’s only about a handful of neighbors, all a good distance apart, so these first ones had traveled a distance before they found their paradise, my place …
They all become so tame with me, I can pet them, look in their fur to the skin, even inspect the inside of their ears. They are as clean as can be. I’ve spent time doing this every so often . I haven’t seen one flea, not one tick. Seriously. I do keep a clean estate, ground squirrels and tree squirrels are kept out , every one I see. Those can spread fleas , but they never have chance to live here. So that helps my rabbits. I feel those things would also kill baby rabbits that mine produce, and I don’t allow that nonsense, either .
I always wondered if these would cross with my snowshoe hares that also travel in here. Time will tell , I suppose.
All I know is that I’m having fun, petting my rabbits. And watching how fast they can bolt from standstill, how they make me smile when they do zoomies in circles around the place.
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Re: Photo Phriday 105 - Rabbits
[Re: Gulo]
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10/14/23 11:50 AM
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Yes that's the worry. I too have taken my share of predators out of the equation. I won't take no mess. I feel bad about this, that my rabbits have to be every bit as wild and fast to survive. Along with the winters.
I just don't want to go to the effort, time and expense, to have built a "coop" set up for them, with a wire run , windows, heat , etc. This has been a nice surprise for me since they've been here. If I went to the expense to keep them contained, I may as well have my chooks again.
They really seem to do well in a semi wild state here. With my help and my firepower. I just take things as they come with this.
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Re: Photo Phriday 105 - Rabbits
[Re: Gulo]
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10/14/23 01:07 PM
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I love hunting and eating almost any kind or rabbits but I have learned to hate jackrabbits when I am on a skittish colt. Something about the way they suddenly raise their ears up and then take a hop will freak out young horses almost as much as the noise of a Walmart bag or a yellow hose laying on the ground (read yellow skint copper headed rattle moccasin of DEATH).
“What’s good for me may not be good for the weak minded.” Captain Gus McCrae- Texas Rangers
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Re: Photo Phriday 105 - Rabbits
[Re: Gulo]
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10/14/23 01:26 PM
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WS151, interesting info, and thank you. I saw video of a marten chasing a hare in winter. It was tenacious until it caught the hare. Come now, Hoss, isn't that what the stuff of life and fun is all about ? Making sure your heart is beating up to par with a sudden jumpstart ? When they spook like that, you can actually hear their muscles as they contract into that jump. And feel those large muscle masses gather and pop right through the saddle. The sound those muscles make, only in those times of explosive reaction, I can't even describe. It is a sound in a realm of its own. It is a split second in duration, and if there is other noise around, you can't hear it . Life is fun !
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Re: Photo Phriday 105 - Rabbits
[Re: Gulo]
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10/14/23 01:30 PM
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Well you do have a point- you feel as alive right about then as you will ever feel. As far as the sounds, the one I hate to hear is my empty stirrups slapping a belly while I lay there with the wind knocked out of me LOL. It doesn't happen very often but it has happened now and again.
“What’s good for me may not be good for the weak minded.” Captain Gus McCrae- Texas Rangers
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