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The rabbits in the rabbit colony cannabis garden are thriving.

https://v.nostr.build/KaWv.mp4

It seems that everything project on the homestead is providing a huge meal for the rabbits in the cannabis garden lately.

We have been experimenting with waiting longer to harvest. Before we were worried about over population but the cannabis garden is so large it can support more rabbits than we thought. However, with winter coming, it's going to be time to harvest all that are good size soon.

Since we have been feeding them so much, there hasn't been as much fighting amongst the males. Maybe they are fighting less because they have made more burrows which are more well spread out in the colony too. This system has performed very well for us this year so far. I can't wait to tally up the total amount of cannabis and rabbits meat it produced.

#permies #permaculture #homesteading #grownostr #meshtadel #selfsovereignty #rabbitcolony #rabbit #cannabis #weedstr #producenowaste

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rev.hodl 1y ago

A rabbit harvest is way overdue

https://v.nostr.build/6MWR.mp4

We have way too many rabbits that we've been feeding only because we haven't prioritized harvesting them. We usually catch them as part of the morning chores but with the winter chores it has fallen out of routine. We just ate three from the crock pot, have one resting in the fridge and one in a cage that I'll process tomorrow. I hope to have the rest harvested over the next week or so. We are still undecided whether to get new breeding stock in the spring or keep what we have. We are are looking for slightly larger rabbits.

#homesteading #permaculture #permies #meshtadel #rabbit #rabbitcolony #selfsovereignty #homegrown

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𝔼𝕣𝕪𝕟 𝔹𝕣𝕒𝕔𝕔𝕠 1y ago

Do you harvest the rabbits year round?

rev.hodl 1y ago

Typically they would all be harvested right now and we wouldn't start harvesting again until May.

Janis 1y ago

How do you keep the rabbits in the colony if they roam free like that? Don't they burrow out of it?

rev.hodl 1y ago

There is 1ft of chicken wire on the ground all the way around the inside of the fence which makes is difficult to dig out. That, and the large amount of space plus the mound for burrows means they don't try to escape.

rev.hodl 1y ago

Expensive vet visit for our homestead guardian dog

When I harvest rabbits, I give the heads and guts to our karakachan homestead guardian dog. This helps to supplement her food/nutrition. My thinking was that this rabbit byproduct would be best used as food for the dog vs giving it to the chickens or composting it. The dog loves the treat usually scarfs it right down. Unfortunately, we had to take her to the vet a few days after feeding her these rabbit parts. She was acting sluggish and vomiting. I thought maybe she had some bones or a rabbit tooth bothering her. To our surprise, the X-rays revealed she had swallowed the entire rabbit head whole. Thankfully the vet was able to get her to vomit up the head but not without an expensive bill. Similar to my mistake freezing the maple sap reverse osmosis filter, one mishap can erase much of the efficiency gains from aspects of a system all at once. However, the work the dog does far outweighs what we would have to do without her to protect the homestead from predators so I'm glad we were able to get her back into good health even though we had to let go of some sats to do it.

#homesteading #permaculture #permies #karakachan #livestockguardiandog #lsd #dog

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𝔼𝕣𝕪𝕟 𝔹𝕣𝕒𝕔𝕔𝕠 1y ago

As always, amazing information. I’m glad your dog is ok.