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Raising Rabbits

Raising Rabbits

Rabbits are small mammals that belong to an order called lagomorphs. They are are very intelligent, curious and sociable animals that are instinctively most active during dawn and dusk. They are prolific breeders, and probably for this reason, are often used as a symbol of fertility (think Easter bunny), and playful sexuality (think Playboy bunny). Out in the wilds, rabbits are prey animals and because of this have evolved to become constantly aware of their surroundings. For instance, they have developed a remarkably wide field of vision and very powerful sense of hearing. A male rabbit is called a buck, a female is a doe, and a young rabbit is a kitten or a kit. Their normal life expectancy is about 9-12 years. There are many species of rabbits but the only type to be widely domesticated as  a pet and for food and fur is the European rabbit. The American Rabbit Breeders Association (ARBA) currently recognizes 47 unique breeds of domesticated rabbit with such names as the American fuzzy lop, Belgian hare, checkered giant, English Angora, Florida white, lilac, mini satin, Rhinelander, silver marten, tan, cinnamon, and harlequin. Since the early days, rabbits have been bred and raised for their meat, fur and wool. More recently, they have also been used for laboratory experiments and medical testing. Commercial rabbit meat, which is high in protein, tastes like chicken meat and is similarly classified as either Fryer, Roaster or giblets. Rabbit wool, called Angora, is said to be 5 times warmer than sheep's wool. Rabbit fur made into pelts go into the manufacture of clothing and accessories like hats, belts and scarves. And at the laboratory, rabbits are used in the production of antibodies for vaccines as well as for research, especially in regard to the male reproductive system. Aside from their commercial use, domesticated rabbits have also been raised as household pets. They are less expensive to maintain than dogs and they can be easily litter-box trained. Pet rabbits can be kept outdoors or indoors. Accommodations can range from an outdoor hutch to an indoor cage or pen to the free run of the home. Of course, if kept indoors, you must rabbit-proof your home as they love to chew on electrical cords, plants, telephone cords, wires, your furniture. As for feeding them, a pet rabbit's diet typically consists of unlimited hay, a small amount of pellets, and lots of fresh vegetables. They should also have unrestricted access to fresh clean water. Take note that rabbits have [...]

By |2017-06-21T22:52:49+00:00January 20th, 2014|American Rabbit Breeders Assoc., Rabbits|0 Comments
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New Year traditions to bring good luck to your home

For most of us, the New Year means hope for a new beginning, another chance to make a positive difference not only in our own lives but also to those around us. It signifies another opportunity for us to become a better, healthier, more beautiful, and more successful version of who we currently are. Typically, we’d make a list, literally or figuratively, of our New Year’s resolutions. Typically too, we’d invoke or evoke good luck to come our way to help us bring to completion what we resolve to do and/or be in the coming 12 months. Superstitious or not, we cling to certain traditional practices for inviting good luck into our homes and into our lives on New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day. If they work, that’s well and good. If not, there’s no harm done in having tried. Of course, the actual practices for invoking or evoking or summoning good fortune varies depending on which cultural milieu you came from. If your roots are Latin American, chances are you’d be wearing bright red or yellow underpants on your way to welcoming the New Year. If you’re from Italy or Portugal, you’d probably be eating 12 grapes from a bunch at the stroke of midnight. If you’re from the Philippines, you’d likely be in polka dots and munching on as many assorted round fruits as possible as you clink away at the coins which fill up your pockets. Among people belonging to a common nationality or culture, there are certain beliefs they usually share that doing certain things on New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day will somehow affect how the coming days and months ahead will turn out eventually. Most like the Chinese employ public ceremonial dancing and fireworks displays to ward off evil spirits and bad luck. The Dutch set their Christmas trees on fire and build bonfires on the street as they light fireworks and parade about and around the town. Panamanians on the other hand prefer to burn effigies of their politicians and other well-known personalities. The Scots hold parades of men who swing fireballs attached to poles around and over their heads. The Danes throw plates and glasses against the doors of their friends and relatives while Colombians walk around their neighborhoods carrying empty suitcases. And South Africans throw old appliances and other heavy things out their windows, just as the Japanese visit their temples to hear the bells chime 108 times. For many Americans, well, their New Year’s Day [...]

By |2019-03-25T22:46:57+00:00December 27th, 2013|New Year|0 Comments
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I feel for the Missouri State Fair

Okay I am sure a lot of your saw this post this morning on Yahoo Missouri Fair clown draws criticism for Obama mask. Well, if this clown was looking for attention he certainly got some. This mask and act had absolutely no business at one of our big state fairs. Yes, this was disrespectful. I am somewhat of a public person too and have been for years. Once a wise mayor said this to me as I was trying to run a large public event, "If you are going to be in the public eye, there are people that are going to love you, people that are going to hate you and people in between". Think about it, that is a very very wise statement. Being President is hard hard work. I would not want the job. The President has the responsibility of making everyone happy. Hey, folks that is not going to happen. Nor is the world going to be a perfect place in the next five seconds either. So, if you "think" you could do a better job you should run for President.

By |2023-01-08T01:19:02+00:00August 12th, 2013|Missouri, Missouri State Fair, State Fair|0 Comments
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Bumble Bee Mass Poisoning

Pesticides are a problem. Like Bumble Bees, don't use them. There was a recent incident in Oregon of a mass poisoning of 50,000 Bumble Bees in Watsonville, Oregon. We have become a country of instant gratification and unfortunately that means instant insect control. Oregon has temporarily ???? banned 18 insecticides with the active ingredient dinotefuran. Apparently the mass Bumble Bee death occurred after a landscaper sprayed dozens of ornamental trees around a Target parking lot. The insecticide will be banned for at least four months while the Department of Agriculture tries to figure out exactly what happened. The Washington State Department of Agriculture decided on not banning this insecticide earlier this year . Instead, they will "urge the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to consider whether additional use restrictions are needed when the products are applied to ornamental plants. Excuse ME, mother nature survived for a long time without insecticides produced artificially by humankind. Chemical creations we are making are causing problems in more then one area of our life. They are affecting our food supply. They are affecting our health. This should NOT be about money. Humankind is suppose to be intelligent. Has anyone considered what happens if we kill off all the Bumble Bees? Don't say it cannot happen we have eradicated other species Remember the Passenger Pigeon?? probably NOT we managed to eradicate all of them "The Passenger Pigeon, once probably the most numerous bird on the planet, made its home in the billion or so acres of primary forest that once covered North America east of the Rocky Mountains. Their flocks, a mile wide and up to 300 miles long, were so dense that they darkened the sky for hours and days as the flock passed overhead. Population estimates from the 19th century ranged from 1 billion to close to 4 billion individuals. Total populations may have reached 5 billion individuals and comprised up to 40% of the total number of birds in North America (Schorger 1995). This may be the only species for which the exact time of extinction is known." This is from the website Chipper Woods Bird Observatory. This needs to stop or we might just as well kill off all mankind too - inevitably we probably will. Humankind is suppose to be intelligent. Really, really do you think so?? Here is another article about this subject Pesticide Causes Largest Mass Bumble Bee Death on Record

By |2019-04-11T23:30:11+00:00July 19th, 2013|Insects|0 Comments
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King County Fair, WA. Features Concerts, Rides and 4-H Youth

Join the fun July 11-14 during the 151st King County Fair. Experience amazing live concerts, relish thrilling rides, including Mutton Bustin’, view livestock exhibits, and enjoy much more. The King County Fair is held in Enumclaw WA. For more information visit thekingcountyfair.com. The 4-H kids throughout King County will have prepared photography, food and clothing displays, various public presentations/performances, Lego robots, etc. and trained their dogs, cats, horses, goats, etc. in hopes of qualifying to show at the Washington State Fair in Puyallup. Hands-on projects, like dogs, robotics, etc. keep kids interested as they learn and practice leadership, citizenship, and life skills, such as public speaking. To learn more about 4-H and the many different projects, including robotics, performance arts, animal and plant science, cooking, sewing, etc., that are offered attend the King County Fair or visit 4h.wsu.edu.

By |2019-04-11T23:33:53+00:00July 9th, 2013|County Fair, King County Fair, Washington|0 Comments
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The latest on Corn

Are you aware of the latest research on the "vegetable" corn. If you are not you should be. There is a wealth of information out there telling how bad corn has become for you. Today's mass produced corn little resembles the original plant it came from. Today's corn is full of pesticides, is nutritionally bankrupt and genetically modified. I am sure this article will not make me a lot of friends around the farmers. We all need to wake up - we are killing the human race. I am going to list a few articles, these are well worth reading. 1) This is from NaturalNews.com - Comparison of GMO and non-GMO corn - the real statistics will astound you! "Genetically modified organisms are an open invitation to disease, cancer, and infertility." 2. Here is a article by the New York Times Breeding the Nutrition our of Our Food, from May 2013. People in prior generations "Did not live nearly as long as we do, but growing evidence suggests that they were much less likely to die from degenerative diseases, even the minority who lived 70 years and more. The primary cause of death for most adults, according to anthropologists, was injury and infections." NOTICE: NOT - cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and dementia!!! 3. Here is an article about what exactly you should be eating and why you should not be eating corn and why its killing you. "Why Corn is Killing YOU! by Sarah Stanley. Now I am not as drastic at my diet as the last lady above in the last article. However, I want to point ou that I went for dinner last night at a friends house with my friend's 90 year old mother in attendance. She has dementia. What did her son feed her? A potato salad with Miracle Whip, and pickles and a soy burger with not real soy (if you are going to eat soy - look for a label that says whole soy bean in it, the stripped down stuff soy is high in estrogen). She had a bottled tea high in sugar and artificial bread. In other words no nutrition and a dinner high in corn fructose syrup. It was very sad. It was sadder because I am sure that within a few weeks time I could "cure" her dementia. We have given up the development of nutrition for money!! for profit, and for a few of our population and its time we fight back.

By |2016-10-23T11:34:32+00:00June 25th, 2013|Corn, Food|0 Comments
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The Best Tasting BBQ Sauce

Here we go again. I just read an article on Yahoo about what is the best tasting BBQ Sauce. In my humble opinion - we all have different taste buds so, it seems to me that we would all prefer something different. I have a tendency too, with my growing health concern to look at the ingredients in some of this stuff to see what exactly is in them. The point is that in my opinion. It needs to taste good but it needs to have wholesome stuff in it, or you are sorta of defeating the purpose, after all BBQ sauce is still a food product. It should be reasonably good for you too. Here is the Yahoo article, Yahoo's conclusion was Sweet Baby Ray's - a sauce I have never heard of before. What exactly are the ingredients of Sweet Baby Ray's? Well, I give them credit, they publish online their ingredients. However, thats where I stop, the first ingredient is high fructose corn syrup, - more sugar for our diabetic population. The rest of the ingredients were fairly acceptable, except, sodium benzoate. These days I try really really hard to make sure I eat nothing with sodium benzoate. Sodium benzoate is what they use to set off the firecrackers on the 4th of July and has been proven to have cancer causing tendencies. Here is a quote from Wikipedia "In combination with ascorbic acid (vitamin C, E300), sodium benzoate and potassium benzoate form benzene, a known carcinogen. However, in most beverages that contain both, the benzene levels are below those considered dangerous for consumption.[10] Heat, light and shelf life can affect the rate at which benzene is formed." I would gather that most people don't know this about sodium benzoate. The fact is that you can make foods and bbq sauces without this ingredient. One should strive to eat organic and GMO free. These preservatives are simply not needed and can cause the human body a lot of problems. As for the best tasting bbq sauces? First ask yourself what is better, the taste? or your health? and second go to the health food store and look for bbq sauces - that taste go and are preservative free. Most by the way have vinegar in them which kills a lot of bacteria and the chemical preservatives are simply not needed.

By |2016-10-23T11:34:32+00:00May 27th, 2013|BBQ, BBQ Sauce|0 Comments
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