Benny’s world

The little ones are growing fast and it is time to separate the boys from the girls.

Christoph made a new hutch and David was watching closely when his Dad handled the ‘big machine!’

Not everything was made with the noisy machine

Anyway, when the new hutch was ready for the boys there was a challenge to separate them. This was the first boy…

… and here some more.

At the end ALL of Emy’s babies ended in the new hutch because the boss (and his helper) weren’t sure which was a female or male (yep, rabbits are special in that lol)

Anyway, at least the rabbits have more space until Saturday when a ‘identification specialist’ is coming for a visit

Anna will stay with here mum since she is the one which Aileen is very fond of.

The little ones are growing rapidly and are eating now everything they can get their teeth on.

Sometimes they have no respect and just sit on other rabbits to get to the goodies.

But at least they don’t fight since there is plenty of food for everyone.

Occasionally Rosie’s babies still try to get a sip of milk from her…

… they wait until she eats some pellets and whoosh speed under her to get some milk!

She doesn’t like that so they go back to their ‘normal’ food…

… and eat with the others.

You sure forgot when there was the last sunny day…
It is now raining for weeks and I would love to have a sun bath…
At least we have a dry hutch

Rosie’s babies always cuddle together to keep them warm.

Sometimes they sneak between their cousins to get some warmth from them
This babies now started to eat rabbit food, you know, this dried pellets.

Brigitte bought them a casserole dish as a feeder so all rabbits have a space to eat.
Gosh this girls are cute!

So many rabbits in one hutch produce a lot of… organics…

So Brigitte had the duty to climb inside and to clean up

It was really fun because the little curious babies climbed onto the shovel and even Rosie was nosy enough to walk over the shovel and stand on Brigitte’s foot

Aileen did want to join in and played a little.

Anna of course went strait up onto her lap.

Finally the little ones came out of their nest…

… and i am so excited to find four of them curiously looking around

While one of them is very adventures, the others still hesitate…

… but sooner or later they are curious enough to smell a bit of freedom

Aren’t they cute?

Jonas and Christoph have been busy working on a covering for the new bunny hutch.

They worked until it was dark and now our girls and the babies are safe.

I am a bit grumpy because they don’t let me over to their place…

… but I understand… they have enough babies

Something terrible happened on Saturday’s dawn…
A wild animal went into the hutch and killed one of Rosie’s 4 day old babies as well as two of Emy’s older ones
Good thing that it killed not all babies…
And good thing it was weekend so Christoph could built something for my girls.

He made a new big hutch for them.

The whole family worked together to finish the hutch until darkness but they couldn’t manage to make a door on the top so just covered it with plastic and cardboard.
Then the girls were moved into the new building and Brigitte also carried Rosie’s nest carefully into the bed of hay.
I could hear the babies
I am already curious how many there are… guess 2 or 3…

In the morning all were happy the new hutch was save.
Brigitte could find some paw prints of the enemy in the shed and thinks it is a stoat, so we hope to get rid of it some day.
Christoph bought a stoat trap (works also for rats) but it was empty in the morning.

Here are some lovely pics of our ’small’ rabbit family…

The little one is climbing over the others!

Yummy herbs and grass.

Thirsty… lovely ripples on the water surface.

Climbing on the tree stomp makes me so much bigger

Cool colour, cool food.