Animal News
Thursday, September 20, 2007
I bet you’d all like to hear about the horse that bit too right? Yesterday, she went down to feed them, and Estrella had eaten her way into Dulcy’s stall. Amanda was trying to get her back into her stall to eat, and she was turned around going to grab her bridle and Dulcy bit her arm and pulled back on it. She was cornered, but luckily, not hurt any further.
She came up to the house crying. She had a huge black spot on her arm, and she put ice on it. She has a rainbow coloured arm now, with the black, blue, green, and red. We are selling them. Want one? Yeah, that’s kinda discouraging news, if you would want one. But I want to keep Estrella, she’s the good one. But I don’t think we will be, if it can be helped. I let Carrots go on Friday, at bidding. She told me I should just let him go...since he wasn’t any use to me, and I couldn‘t hold him without him scratching me to death. But a new plot was behind this: she was going to get me a domesticated rabbit! Dad had found her in the Peddlers’ Post, and Dad and had decided they were getting her for me, without telling me. She is a Himalayan rabbit. (Do you know what they look like?) When Dad got home Friday, Mom told me to go see if he needed help. I did, and when I looked into a big box in the back of his truck, I saw her! She was not the type of rabbit I probably would have picked, but she was a rabbit, and I wanted a rabbit I could hold.
I’m going to call the recent owner today, (hopefully) and ask what her name was and how old she is; Dad didn’t find out that stuff. I renamed her Daisy. I put the word “rabbit” in the Hobbit Name Generator, and that’s what it came up with. said I should name her Red-eyed Susan. It was “ha ha“, but no, I didn‘t really want a rabbit named that. So I ended up naming her Daisy. I took some pictures of her that I will post later. I have to upload them to photobucket and that will take forever on dial-up!The goats are doing good. We still milk Chloe and Heidi. The doelings are doing fine. So are the bucks. We hope to get their pen built soon. Right now, they are in the girls stall, but Mom built a wall-and-a-half around a feed trough. That’s where they are right now. We have to feed them all separately: The bucks in their pen, the doelings outside in the pasture, and Chloe and Heidi in the stall. We milk them in the stall, so we just feed them in there too. I think that’s about it for them!
Rachel
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Friday, September 21, 2007 - Untitled Comment
Posted by reflectionsofgrace
Hi Rachel. Thank you for stopping by and saying hello. I haven't gotten much time to be on the computer since we moved but it is nice to hear from you. I hope you and your family are well. I liked reading your posts. I have never tried to can but I have thought of it. Maybe next year I will try. Take care and God bless you.
Love, Mrs. Dunne
Thursday, September 27, 2007 - We Have A Rabbit
Posted by Vicki
Hi Rachel,
My name is Vicki, and I'm a reader of your Mom's, and lately of your older sisters.
My two girls and I have a rabbit...The girls, 8 and 6 never could decide on a name, so we just call him Rabbit, or Bunny...He is a Satin. Orange/tan, with white...He's a real sweetheart!!
Are Himalayans (okay, I KNOW I didn't spell that right, sorry!) not white with gray on the face, and ears?? It's been so long since my rabbitting days that I can't remember for sure...
God Bless!
Vicki
www.prairierosesamongthorns.com/vblog
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