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Animal care

3/22/2023

RABBITS:
Morning:
Fill big bucket with water
Move rabbit tractor to new spot (pivot or pull)
Open tractor lid and open little door to let rabbits out to feed
Fill up water (2 water bottles) in tractor

Check on Caramel (breeding doe) and Truffle (buck),
Truffles cage has a little hook on the corner that needs to be unhooked to open,
Caramels cage has 2 wires to open and close by twisting, she can open the cage lid otherwise,
refill their water bottles (1 per cage),
fill feeder/bowls with pellets from rabbit feed in bin under chicken stairs.

Optional afternoon:
Move tractor to greener pasture
check on water bottles
let Caramel OR Truffle out to roam in goat pen
(note: if you let out both we will have another litter in a month)

Evening:
Check all 4 water bottles (2 tractor, 2 cages)
Fill up pellets (2-3 cups in tractor, 1 cup/bowl on cages), put a generous hand full of hay in cages and tractor

CHICKEN:
Morning:
Open door upstairs
Refill feeder if necessary
Check on water
Collect eggs

Optional:
feed kitchen scrapes (check on sheet on fridge for good items)
look for eggs in goat hay feeder

Evening:
Rally chickens in
Close door upstairs