(Puns aside as we’re pretty cherry after seeing everyone’s oa-k)
Ah. There’s no feeling in the world quite like half a pine tree falling on your rabbitry while you’re in the middle of renovating your house. If you’re screaming the S word while another falls right in front of you and nearly hits two hutches with 3 does between them while you’re helplessly watching, I think you’re doing pretty well. Let’s just say it’s been a long and tiresome weekend. Yes, nobody was hurt, and we’re all A-OK. Californian doe Nova was wigging out and trying to climb up her hutch walls to get out, but I managed to ease her nerves with my soothing voice before the other tree fell nearby. The old potter shed was decimated and a couple cars were almost hit, and the bucks are now missing their shade, but we survived the first half of the storm. The wind is still raging, but the way the trees are, they’re blocking the hutches from further harm. Miraculously, despite a tree downing on them, the 20 year old wire hutches were unharmed other than a brisk jostling off their posts. Their inhabitants didn’t even really seem offended, either. In fact, when I went out to calm everybody down, they really looked more interested in the idea of me feeding them rather than saving them! There are five pregnant does out there; two were due on Saturday and the other 3 are due on Thursday, and the latter 3 were in the worst of the tree wrecks. The returned Nova is currently pulling fur and will probably (knowing my rabbits LOL) end up giving birth tonight despite the fact her roof has blown off 3 times and counting today. In fact, I wouldn’t be shocked if all the does coming up due go tonight. It’d be my luck! So now I’m already planning on an all-new set up with new cages and new faces, too. You can either get knocked down and lie there, or you can jump back up swinging fists and nun-chucks, I say. I’ve been working on a new hutch system and my first totally 100% homemade cage, a nice 36” wide by 30” long one. Also, it was blown around a little, but totally unharmed. Work will continue on it tomorrow alongside chainsawing the trees and setting the knocked down hutches back up. Heck, I might even spite this dumb storm and its little petty hissy fit by incorporating the downed trees into my new hutches somehow! I’ll share my expected designs tomorrow as I give them a look over. For now, stay dry and keep us in your prayers for protection! God will provide; we may lose a great set-up, but He’ll surely make room for the set-up we were meant to have!
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Here I'll talk a bit more about myself.
I'm Jenna Luikart. I finally turn 18 this April and I've been raising rabbits now for two years this August. I've raised poultry since I was like 2 and was pretty much born to be a farmer/homesteader. My mom raises dairy goats and my dad pays the bills (LOLOL). I'm over here being the aspiring auto mechanic with my chickens and rabbits like, "Dude, I couldn't keep a goat alive so I'm gonna do these rabbits." Yeah, I love cars about as much as I do my farm. Even since I was little, I never collected Barbie Dolls or Disney Princesses; I've always collected Matchbox Cars and Hot Wheels! I had a few Breyer horses but they broke too easily so I couldn't really collect them. I did have a bunch of Littlest Pet Shop toys and I still have my collection of 24 Zhu-Zhu Pet hamsters. But I always had more cars and a few of them are over 10 years old (fun fact, I have a 2005 black Dodge Ram die-cast truck that looks just like the real Ram in our driveway now I got when I was four. My dream truck was always that 2005 2500, a black extended cab with the roof marker lights. Guess what; the real truck came like 8 years later and I still laugh about the irony to this day). So back on the subject (because I WILL sit here and talk cars all day long), I currently have 27 rabbits, 40 chickens, 3 pigeons, 3 guinea pigs, and a dog. I'll go in more on the dog in his own separate post, but yeah. I run a circus LOL. While my mom runs a sanctuary farm on the same property, I'm still a proud breeder, but will take in unwanted rabbits and chickens when I get a chance. Those I generally re-home, however, unless they're decent quality purebreds, and those I'll keep and breed. I also write A LOT, whether i'm updating my website, FaceBook pages, or my stories. |
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