Over the course of Winter, two of our Lionhead doe rabbits got pregnant because I had to put them inside and the Bucks somehow snuck inside their space and voila, we had 5 additional rabbits. So while I am busy looking for some people who can take some of these rabbits, my husband came home with another one. He said that he could not say No to this Flemish Giant. So now we have 9 lionheads and one fleming giant rabbits, it's crazy. We are being overrun by rabbits here folks!
I was against it at first but now I changed my mind. She is actually a pretty chill bunny. I found out that the bigger the size of the bunny, the more calm and relax they are. That's how Molly is, while the lionheads are busy running around in the yard, she is just on the yard laying on the grass.
My kids are crazy about her, she love being pet. I was worried that she might have ticks when she first came so I looked and inspected her on the first day and did not find any. The next day though, I found one latched onto her eyelid so we immediately removed it with tweezer and killed the tick. Then the same day we found one on our Jack Russell Terrier as well. Ugh, now I am panicking about ticks, I am kind of paranoid everytime I go outside.
So far, those are the last two ticks we found. According to the news, ticks will be heavy this year. We are buying a tick collar for our dogs
It said that there are plants that can help deter ticks such as garlic, mint, rosemary, rue, wormwood, fleabane daisy, chrysanthemums and pennyroyal. Glad we have so many mints where the rabbit house is.
There is also a plant that it is a magnet to ticks which if you have it in your yard, you might want to think about removing it. I used to have it at our old house but thank goodness, we don't have it here in our new home. The plant is called Japanese barberry, it's a thorny and invasive plant. It's gorgeous though when it blooms especially when the fruits are out during winter but yes, it is believed to be a tick magnet. There's a lot of it in the woods so if you are wandering in the wooded area and see Japanese barberry, be very aware of ticks.
Anyway, despite of tick scare, my kids can't stay away from Molly, she is really a darling. I decided to put her in a house rabbit for now because my vegetable garden is just starting to grow and I did not want her eating the new plants.
She love mowing the grass. Now that she is inside the rabbits house, I cut fresh grass and give it to her every morning. She also love carrots. We stop buying lettuce for now because of the bacteria outbreak recently. I planted some lettuce and still waiting for them to get thick, maybe I can give them some when it's ready to harvest.
Molly's droppings are huge compared to the lionhead bunnies. I used the rabbits droppings as fertilizer in the garden.
I like it that she is not scared of the dogs. The former owner said that she's used to being around dogs in the farm.
We used the other side of our yard to put the rabbit house. The kids call it the BunnyLand. We put together all the female in one house, the new one that we just built. Female rabbits can get along well but the males are needed to be separated because they fight with each other.
