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Shelters Are Here!
Rabbit winter shelter is here!!!! Time to get building! It is a 12 x 12 foot structure that is 8 feet tall. In it, I can put 3, 12 foot long cages (8 foot and 4 foot) rows, stacked two or three units...
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New Stopgap Rabbit Houses
Well, the roof is added and the three sides of the hutch I don’t need to access is surround in a double thick layer of heavy-duty plastic painters tarp. (I also added this to the guinea pigs to stop...
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Introducing Huey, Duey, and Louey
It is oppressively humid tonight, and I can see lighting flashing across the Western sky. Anyways, I wax poetic from time to time, but things are humming along on the homestead. I managed to get the...
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All the Things…
Why is it that I run out of cages right before I go on a work trip?! I am going to Duluth to present my dissertation research for five days. I love people and being a charismatic scientist, but holy...
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Rabbit Cooling System
The forecast is pretty grim for those of us with small animals. But I went to install a cooling system for my rabbits. They are in the shade and covered, but that doesn’t mean it is super cool. First,...
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Rabbit Racks
After building the cattle panel barn, it was time to devise a rabbit holding system. Without these rabbit racks, we can only hold 14 cages. With it, we can hold 28. Naturally, we want more bang for our...
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Construction, Day #1
We only really had a few options to actually build the house… So, we simply were going to build a platform resting on the ground on some cement blocks, with 4″x 4″x 12′ going lengthwise across the...
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New Years Eve Construction Binge
I rang in New Years 2017 with my last night in the Coleman 4 person tent that had been my home for the last three months that I was living in Columbia. We managed to finish framing the entire deck...
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New Years Day!
So, first thing in the morning we had to run and get more EMC conduit and the proper bits to actually use the nail gun and compressor (yet another hardware store run), because I mistook which of the...
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The Mud…. and Driveway Start
We don’t have a driveway, obviously… being a brand new construction and all. This wasn’t a major issue until we got like, 2.5″ of rain in a two day span. The truck was starting to sink into the clay,...
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