Hello, friends. I'm Stepan the rabbit. Quite recently, I became the most important rabbit on a small, very small farm. I have 6 girlfriends with whom I meet periodically and then little fuzzies appear. I lied a little. Little rabbits appear naked in this world, but they get fluff in about a week.
I myself was born on this farm about a year ago and my kind host @apnigrich left me to live on this farm, and did not send me to soup.
That's about how it was. In the fall, I thought - I should leave a new young rabbit, so as not to be without a producer. In the fall of 2020, I had a stalemate - I urgently needed to find a replacement for the main crawl and I took 2 guys. It was a successful acquisition. The guys worked very well. But rabbits have such a feature - an almost complete lack of immunity and in case of illness, they die. In January, I noticed that one dad-rabbit injured his eyebrow with a branch and it began to swell immediately.
For about a week, my wife and I tried to treat the rabbit, but then I made a decision - we needed to cook soup or cutlets from it.
There was one more loving guy. But damn it, a couple of weeks ago I noticed that he was sad and stopped eating. I understood - it was the old woman death who came to him.
By that time I had already checked Stepan's rabbit at work. He coped very well in love affairs with his girlfriend and is now the "leader of the pack".
These are the little furry guys and girls. On the right, the age is about 2 weeks, and on the left about 10 days. At the age of 19-20 days, rabbits begin to eat on their own, but they do not refuse mother's milk.
These fluffy-eared guys are already making sorties from the nest to eat compound feed. But for another couple of days, they will try to sit in a secluded place, and then they will completely move to the main compartment and sit next to their mother.
I must say that rabbits are very curious, they like to sniff at our hands like cats, but only until some point when there may be a danger that a person will grab them. Little rabbits have no such fear and always climb to their hands.
I've been doing rabbits for about 20 years. This is a hobby that benefits my family - good dietary meat. Sometimes I sell rabbits to my friends and regular customers. Often I just give rabbit meat to friends. It's still my hobby, not a business.
Thanks for reading...
Good luck and have fun
@apnigrich