10:30 PM, Saturday, 13 February 2010Temperature: 47 F, sporadic heavy rains
A productive day. No sheep out, no eggs; the 9 Soay in the more northern field had their field shifted up a bit, so they've got plenty of fresh forage. The rest display their by now typical fearlessness but have mostly gone for the hay, with only a couple stubbornly insisting on feasting upon the poultry crumbles.
The grazing arks have been completed; tomorrow the remaining two rabbits will be moved into them. We cleaned out the three already occupied arks and gave fresh hay for fodder and nesting purposes. Raked up their dung-filled hay and the old hay from the birds' original enclosure, laden with their droppings. It will make excellent mulch for the trees when planting comes.
All three kits still alive although their eyes haven't quite opened. Very encouraging. We'll likely breed the other three girls at spaced-out points to the buck once the final freezes of the season are done with. It's hard to say how long it will take until raking out of arks and cages does not bring the slight trepidation of wondering if somehow, somehow we will see tiny wriggling bodies in among the hay.
Running low on both bunny chow and on poultry feed. This will be remedied either tomorrow or during the week.
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