As I'm still recovering from this horrid sinus infection, taking care of the rabbits has become much harder to do now that Josh and Deb aren't available to help. I refuse to abdicate my responsibility in rescuing them, so we needed to re-think our setup here.
Josh made the manly decision today to move the rescue rabbits from the orchard up onto our back porch, where they have more protection from the wind and rain and are much easier for me to take care of. We've had a change in residency, as the boys Mufasa and Flopsy have been re-located from their small hutch to Martha Grahamcracker's pen. She is now happily residing in their hutch, giving them the opportunity to sniff about and visit with Noir and Nyx in the pen next door. There's about a four inch gap between the two pens, so we're expecting no shenanigans!
As each pen is an independent unit, essentially a box without any supports tethered in the ground this was surprisingly easy to do. Given the center support beam, he just hoisted each onto a creeper and pushed them up the walk to the porch all by himself. While I haven't his upper body strength, this shouldn't be too difficult to move them back once Spring returns with better weather and longer days as long as I have another person to help.
Picy goodness to come tomorrow, when there's enough light for pictures.
Josh made the manly decision today to move the rescue rabbits from the orchard up onto our back porch, where they have more protection from the wind and rain and are much easier for me to take care of. We've had a change in residency, as the boys Mufasa and Flopsy have been re-located from their small hutch to Martha Grahamcracker's pen. She is now happily residing in their hutch, giving them the opportunity to sniff about and visit with Noir and Nyx in the pen next door. There's about a four inch gap between the two pens, so we're expecting no shenanigans!
As each pen is an independent unit, essentially a box without any supports tethered in the ground this was surprisingly easy to do. Given the center support beam, he just hoisted each onto a creeper and pushed them up the walk to the porch all by himself. While I haven't his upper body strength, this shouldn't be too difficult to move them back once Spring returns with better weather and longer days as long as I have another person to help.
Picy goodness to come tomorrow, when there's enough light for pictures.