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Keena: "I know, the meet ball bath tub!"  Liberty: "That's silly, how about bottle feeding baby wabbits?"

Here are 203 Cornish crosses placed in a cattle trough for transport to their new home in the pasture.

One of the wabbits had 15 kits.  The doe died and the kids tried bottle syringe feeding for days but unfortunately the extra kits we couldn't place with other does eventually died. We later lost five more to the recent cold so we currently have 30 being raised for meat.

Close-up of the babies.

Cornish crosses have only two things on their todo list every day: eat and poop.  Some kind of bedding is needed or else disease will spread and ammonia vapors will form.  We collected sawdust from a local pallet company but we needed to dry it before storage (bedding is used before they go out to pasture).

In pasture the crosses are placed in pens that are moved every morning.  They'll spend 3-4 weeks in here before being butchered.

Go karts are a lot of fun, that's also a problem because you drive them hard and get more mechanical failures.  TJ took a turn so hard that the rear tires lifted off the ground and when they landed the mechanism that adjusts the chain tension broke.

Early morning chores, getting breakfast for the crosses (you can tell the difference between bad feed and good feed by tasting it.  Cheap feed makes you want to spit it out, the stuff in this pic is expensive, I've caught TJ eating a handful.  He needs to bring milk, a bowl and a spoon next time.)

An example of some of the rules that have been established to keep the peace (well, they're more of what you'd call guidelines than actual rules).

And more new kids on the block, they just keep coming.  Giving birth is always a tense time for me so while I smoke a cigar to take the edge off Sammy reached for a pacifier (Sammy: "Whooowhie, dat goat just pooped out two goats... I'm gwad dats over.")

See, it's crazy, this one showed up last night.  Since it was so cold outside Calvin decided to give his teddy bear a rest and make room for this new kid.