Rabbits in a colony

 Rabbits are very social animals. In the wild they live in a group called a colony and their home is a serious of tunnels with "rooms" called a warren. Rabbits in the wild don't live alone in a cage. So our rabbits don't live alone separated in cages. There are some good things about colony keeping and there are some bad things. We have been raising our rabbits in colonies for about 10 years (give or take). The 2 biggest drawbacks we have are trying to feed them without stepping on rabbits. They love to see us come in the colony and instead of running away they run circles around our feet. This makes walking difficult. The second drawback to colony raising rabbits is moving the little ones off to themselves to grow out. They do get moved to a cage but the whole litter goes together in one large cage to grow out and get bigger. In all fairness we did try at one time to raise rabbits in cages. It simply did not work well for us. We just couldn't get the timing right or something. We had very few litters and does that really didn't like us very much. Now our rabbits are happy to see us, happy with their lives and really have it pretty good. Many blessings, Kat

One Big Stall

I LOVE IT!  We took out the stall dividers between the horse stalls and made one very large stall. The reason we did this was for a couple of reasons. The first reason was that we leave the barn doors open most of the time and use the barn more as a run in shed. Our horses live most of their lives outside unless they choose to head to the barn. Then when they would head into the barn before the divider removal they would all 3 squeeze into 1 stall. Sometimes horse number 3 only had her head in the stall, but by golly she wasn't leaving her buddies. The second reason is that it really is easier to clean and it works much better as a run in shed. The middle stall door can now stay closed while the two end doors stay open. This actually provides more shelter than when all three doors were open all the time. I love it. The horses love it. They have loads of room and it is so much nicer in my opinion. Now all we need is to refurbish the floors! Soon my friends....very soon!