http://moonwoodfarm.com/wp Roo writes about life with the alpacas and bunnies of Moonwood Farm Sat, 26 Jun 2010 14:12:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My husband tapped urgently on the window last night while he was mowing the lawn in the backyard.  'Baby bunnies!' he shouted at us as we looked out.  I grabbed my camera and sure enough, here they were :)  It appears that they are still living in various parts of ... http://moonwoodfarm.com/wp/?p=150 When I went out last night to see the bunnies, they were out of the nest.  In fact, they were all sitting on top of it and around the small garden statues I had placed there containing timothy hay and water.  Although they did not run from me, it was ... http://moonwoodfarm.com/wp/?p=149 Here are the bunnies at 12 days old, I took these the evening before last.  As soon as I put them on the towel , one little bunny (the fiestiest of them all!) took off at full speed across the lawn and towards the road, where s/he stopped and waited ... http://moonwoodfarm.com/wp/?p=148 The gentleman next door has bought himself a wonderful ride on mower... he loves to mow everybody's grass, so today when I heard him driving around my front yard, of course I was concerned about the bunnies with the loud noise, and perhaps they would be scared enough to leave the ... http://moonwoodfarm.com/wp/?p=147 The bunnies, now that their eyes are open, are EXTRA bouncy, and are able to hop straight into the air at great heights in reaction to being startled.  So to keep them safe during photographing I set them on a towel rather than run the risk of one of them ... http://moonwoodfarm.com/wp/?p=146 Notice anything????  Look closely :) http://moonwoodfarm.com/wp/?p=145 There was much rain today, so around noon Jesse and I raced outside to place a small pastic table over the nest so that the babies would not get flooded out in case of a downpour, which is what we were expecting for much of the remainder of the day.  ... http://moonwoodfarm.com/wp/?p=144 http://moonwoodfarm.com/wp/?p=143 Yesterday I discovered a nest of wild cotton tail baby bunnies in my garden while pulling weeds and trimming a tree.  It's a miracle I did not step on them!  After the initial 'oh no!' and worrying that momma bunny would be so upset by the weeds gone and therefore ... http://moonwoodfarm.com/wp/?p=142 Unreal and the two young males that Pam brought back from the AlpacaRosa have been quarantined in a pen in the barn since their return, to ensure that nobody was introducing unwanted parasites to the rest of the herd.  Their fecals revealed nothing of interest, so they were released from ... http://moonwoodfarm.com/wp/?p=141