Not exciting

I feel badly that nothing has been posted since Halloween, but in truth, not much has been happening that's worth writing about.  Getting the farm ready for winter keeps us pretty busy, but it's not anything to fill a novel.

Adam made a new hay trough, with the help from his dad.  We were having issues with the round bales as the yaks would tear into them and then lay on parts or walk all over them, so we were losing more hay than they were eating.  The new trough works really well, except when greedy Niobe dives in and gets her head stuck. 

Nim and Storm got a new bunny hutch to match Nova's.  The new hutches have a little box in the back so that they can hunker down out of the weather and a large cage out front to hop around.  Which means that they can now all see each other.  Nova was a little intimidated by the bigger girls but realized pretty quickly that they can't actually get to her, so she settled down.  Nim and Storm went through a flurry of foot stomping and gnashing of teeth because, apparently, some rabbits just don't take well to change.  I'm hoping they chill once they realize that they actually have more room than the old hutch.

Nimbus and Storm are actually blowing coat again, so we're plucking rabbits.  I'm not sure about the genetic practicality of an animal that loses most of it's coat in November in northeastern Pennsylvania.  We're trying to pluck conservatively, rather than just taking it all off wholesale so that they have a little fuzz to keep them warm.