Crochet Me Crazy

 Here's fair warning for you!  If raising animals for meat bothers you, then please don't read these posts!  We will be raising the rabbits for meat for health and financial reasons.  I want healthy non-hormone, organic meat and food is becoming more and more expensive.  Spring is coming up and there will be a fair amount of animal and gardening project posts coming soon.  We will be starting to get our garden beds ready and we are about to order hatching eggs.  If our plan goes right, this will be the LAST year we ever have to order or buy chicks from an outside source.  My chickens are laying terrible right now.  I have way too many old chickens.  23 hens and only getting 8 eggs a day.  Not 100 percent sure how we will do this yet ridding ourselves of the older birds but will record more on that as we go along.  I will either give them away if I can find homes or we will cull the flock for food.  

For now though we got our first Tamuk Meat Bunny on Saturday!  This is Lucky!  I named her Lucky as a suggestion from my sister because well...she is very lucky!  She was one of the last two bunnies left in the butcher pen as my Rabbitry who is mentoring me through this process.  She will be our breeding Doe.  

I got a great deal on the bunny cages on Facebook marketplace.  She seems to be doing well...eating, drinking, pooping fertilizer for our garden already!  FYI: Bunny dropping are unique in that they do not have to be composted before adding to your garden.  All other have to go through a composting process of which I have yet to be successfull at.  Mainly because we just don't do it.  lol

So there's that.