Holy cow! Just when I thought our crazy bunny weekend was over, it just keeps getting worse. Tonight after we got home from running errands and found our last baby bunny dead, I thought all was over. Then, Dan went to check on all the rabbits and D4 had ANOTHER baby... 4 days after she birthed the others. This time though, she wanted to make it abundantly clear that she doesn't want babies because this poor little thing was half cannibalized. Dan, bless his soul, only told me about it after he disposed of the baby and didn't show me. I don't think I could take any more bunny madness tonight.
We've decided to stop breeding bunnies, at least for the time being. For starters, they are a lot more work then raising chickens, turkeys and pigs. We're also not sure how we feel about raising animals in cages without access to unlimited fresh grass. The rest of our animals seem so happy. The rabbits however seem, well, unhappy. Until we can find a way to raise them in an unconfined way, we'll hold off. If we can't do it according to our values, we won't do it at all.
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