Report from:A Small Farm in Vermont
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I have been raising rabbits for a few years just to sell.
When you breed a rabbit always bring the doe to the buck's
cage. A female is ready to be bred when she is about seven
months old. Bucks are ready to service at the age of six
months. After the doe is bred she will have babies in about
28 days. Never try to watch them being born ... this will
make the mother very upset and she may disown or kill the
litter. After the young are born don't look at them until
they are about two days old. Then you can look through the
nest and remove any dead ones. When the baby rabbits are
six weeks old or are eating on their own, they should be
removed from the mother and are ready for sale.
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We have three beehives that we started in May. The bees
have been gathering from flowers everywhere and have been
making honey fast. We extracted 75 pounds with an extractor
that we borrowed. We tried to let the honey drain out of
the comb but it didn't work. It would take years to get it
all out.
About two years ago we started to do some maple sugaring.
We had a lot of big old trees and lots of young ones. In
past years this was a big grove used for sugaring.
The first year we tapped only 40 trees but got quite a lot
of syrup. The next year we tapped 75 trees but we didn't
get much syrup because it was just a bad year. We had to
carry the sap in buckets to a big 55-gallon drum we kept it
in until we boiled it down. We did this in a big pan set up
on cement blocks with a fire under it. We had to cut and
carry a lot of wood to keep the fire going but we got a lot
of good syrup out of it.
There are three hogs on our farm. We bought them in June,
which is quite late to start hogs because they won't be
ready until late November. When we feed our pigs they are
given a moistened mixture of hog grain and cornmeal, and
they also get a full trough of water.
We have a large vegetable garden including strawberries,
asparagus, potatoes, corn and all the usual things, plus an
herb garden. Next spring we will have more animals and more
pasture to fence in and many, many more things to do.
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