Animals enjoying fall before the snow moves in to stay.

 

Getting Ready For Winter- The Rabbits

 In summer the rabbits have a covered dog kennel run for their cage, it's very large and they love it.  In winter though the buns must move into the barn with the chickens and duck and must contend with a much smaller home. I do let them out into the fenced yard from time to time though so it's not all bored bunnies! Now they are old rabbits they don't dig out of the fencing and generally go back into their cage in the barn by dusk all on their own. It was certainly a different story when they were younger, Hayley and Tristan will remember trying to catch the naughty escaped bunnies many a time!

Getting the birds and bunnies ready for winter

Time to get the birds and buns, that is the chickens ducks and rabbits ready for winter. I gave the coop a full cleaning, moved in the cage the rabbits stay in during the worst of winter, spruced up the covered run area and added in various boredom busters. I did not roll down the plastic side wraps since it seems just a bit too early and that doesn't take long. I'll leave that for a couple more weeks unless we get snow in the forecast.  The chickens always love  a clean coop and clean nest boxes and they also love new bags of shavings or bales of hay. Anything cozy they love!