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More pheasants coming soon , work will resume as soon as it's warm enough

I like that , but I might save it for the next buck

I'm surprised you didn't go for Nescafé 😂

@@katedijkers7827 she does have a blue tinge to the grey, I like that idea

@@deervalleyhomestead Here in Europe we call the grey colour, blue.

@katedijkers7827 that's good to know. I'm English but live in Slovakia. So quite often I don't know the correct translations of breed names / colour in English.

I thought it might be at the beginning. I'm still not sure what it was. It's was the speed of what happened to her that threw me off. It went from a small red patch at the front of the eye to golf ball sized in 30hours. I gave her antibiotics and an antibacterial eye cream. Thankfully she has made a really good recovery

Thank you Luis , I'm trying to find any excuse to get the welder out. I have a big project coming up next year but need to improve my welds first

@deervalleyhomestead the right sizzle sound says you're welding right, we both could improve our welding, I still consider myself a novice.

@@MosaicHomestead I'm working on it, maybe I should copy your new raised bed

@deervalleyhomestead I'm not building anymore unless I get a successful test, what I like is the small amount of compost they use, I got seeds germinating right now, I'm up to my second round, bought old seeds, but I got some seeds sprouting now, the fence to block out the chickens is done, tomorrow I'm building a small piece of fence for the block wall.

Thank you

I wish I knew that six weeks ago 😂.

Thank you Luis , kind words.

I'm open to ideas , for now it's stored in a huge pile

It just falls through, I was worried about that when I built it. But I've never seen a rabbit with a wet head 🤷

You are right they are a french lop. No real reason to be honest. I was given the first one for my birthday a few years ago. And it just kinda snowballed from there

They get a mix. Generally pellets in the morning and hay all day (refreshed in the evening) in the summer they all get fresh grass or time on grass as well.

I just make it look hard 😂. My garden is too rough. Will you go for a metal one ? I know you're pretty handy with the welder

@deervalleyhomestead it's metal all the way, but I'm adding wheels,...I'm not getting younger lol

Do you mean a wagon that they live in, or eight paddocks in the shape of a waggon wheel ? Or both 😂. I like the idea either way. I'm definitely going to work on something for next season

Thanks, I will consider it

It disappeared off it to the undergrowth , so hopefully it was unhurt

Thanks , if I go for a permanent colony I will do that

Not really , I was pretty surprised when I built the first rabbit tractor. I figured I would add a base later, but just never needed to. As long as they are moved daily they don't even try. As for the colony it has wire under the outside edge, but again they haven't even tried so far

I tried day pens but they still got destroyed too quickly. I need a fenced field 🤣

Two days was all it took , I love the idea of having them in a great big paddock on grass but it's just not realistic

@deervalleyhomestead Agreed, Chicken tractor is better, fresh grass = less feed.

Thank you 👍

Thank you , that's a lot of very kind things to say. No pigs or cows yet but we are looking at a few lambs for next year 😃

​@@deervalleyhomesteadThat's great! 👍

It took six hours. I would prefer to build the new barn now, but I don't think it will be done before this one collapses

@deervalleyhomestead That old barn was in bad shape, you probably did the right thing.

Thanks

Thank you!

It's already grassless 😓 took them about two days. I wonder how big an area they would need to keep it nicely grassy. I will show how it looks in my video this Saturday

I'm a slow cook with carrots and potatoes kinda guy 😋

Most people put mesh on the bottom, To stop the rabbits digging out. I have a few escape every now and then, but have never lost one.

What's the 0.56? I am ok I'm glad to report, wine tastes good too. I did say in the video it's my first attempt and I am definitely no expert 😇

@@deervalleyhomestead 0,56 is important 🫵🏽 When red / white grape juice is 22 sugar level (on 20 gradus of celsius ) it means that final alcohol level will be 12.3 (approximately) 22 x 0.56 =12,32 🫵🏽 your grape juice level must multiply on 0.56 And result will be potential alcohol in wine And in this video 22 sugar for red vine is very very low 🥹😳 12.3 alcohol is ok if your grape is PINOT NOIRE 👌🏻👌🏻

You're probably right. I figure if we do replace it I can still use the new foundations. It's also just not in the budget to replace it at the moment, and in places hand sawn oak beams. The plan is hopefully to stabilise it and try to get another five or ten years out of it 🤞

@@deervalleyhomestead do you have access to construction Jack's, that would help a lot.

Thanks @larkins5. I was hoping to Syphon half this way and then move the barrel as it was so heavy. But the fermentation was so strong it kept creating an airlock. Thanks for the tips 😁

@@deervalleyhomestead that makes sense. It happens sometimes. Thanks again for the video! Great content!

@@larkins5 thank you

Thanks Blair , I'm going to check the footage and work on it 😁

I will happily tell you everything I got wrong 🤣. I love my set up but having run it for a year I also see all the mistakes. I was in sxm for for a hurricane, and I fully understand why you prepare properly. I saw the looting , lawlessness, and bad side of life and how quickly it can get there.

@@deervalleyhomestead those were actually isolated incidents, the media loves isolated incidents for ratings lol, I never experienced any craziness where I live, but I'm always ready to deal with any problem that arises. I first have to build a young chicken tractor to keep chickens once out of the brooder, I've been keeping chickens in my compost bins. The rabbit hutches will be on top of compost bins to collect poop 💩 for fertilizer.

Which part was the most obvious?

Slovakia

Your handle matches your comment. I quite agree with you, lots of things I would change. Hopefully in the top 50%

@@deervalleyhomestead well for me the first problem is the law, in my country we are not allowed to breed rabbits in such small cages. They set a certain amount of space u need for each rabbit. And since European rabbits love to live in colonies, it needs to be big. Funny thing if u keep rabbit as pet u can keep it in a hamster cage if u would want to. Laws only seem to apply when u wanna save money on food. But that doesn’t change the fact its a nice build. Just not the best, since it’s not functional everywhere.

@@harshtruth632 where are you from ? I'm debating trying a colony setup just out of curiosity. It's 1.2*0.8m per cage, they do all get time on grass as well.

@@deervalleyhomestead Belgium, i think u would need the size of 2 cage per female. And size of 3 cages for each buck here. Most people i know who raise them here, do it in old sheds (made of bricks) and they build a huge cage on the outside of it. Unfortunately I don’t live in one of those old houses that had those.

It was a little tippy but it worked. Sometimes you just have to find a way

They are 1.2m x 0.8m. that's about 4ft x 3ft in freedom units. It's much bigger than the standard size here in Slovakia. What's the standard size where you are ?

@@deervalleyhomestead all i hear is bunnies dosnt belong in a cage, our bunny run free in our House like a dog

these bunnies are given time on the grass , normally twice a week. But they are also not pets, while lots are sold in to the pet market locally, around half end up in the freezer.

Slovakia , sorry I must have forgotten to tag it on this video

@@deervalleyhomestead Nice, I was thinking South Africa Australia,could not work it out. Thank you.

It's the grass clippings that really fill it up

They seem to get heavier every year 😂. I love a good history channel.

I love the wire , they keep it so clean. I just used the wrong stuff, I fell for the picture of a rabbit on the packaging 😞. I will keep an eye out for the metal sheeting video