So I found 4 small bunnies on my patio....

[xseler]

My Mom substituted rabbit for the chicken in the dumplings when I brought some home from 'my walks in the woods'. Very tasty!

 

[caliberbob]

My dad used to raise rabbits for meat. That was probably 35yrs ago. Still talks about wanting to do it again. I’ll gladly eat it, but I have no desire to farm them.

 

[Snattlerake]

Little cottontails

 

[Mr.Glock]

don't date no crazy woman......

Named Judi!

 

[SlugSlinger]

Named Judi!

I’d like to hear her description of a crazy woman!

 

[Oklahomabassin]

Named Judi!

I think she meant a mom that abandons 4 kids on your porch. Lol

 

[AER244]

I see they’re using a pot/planter as cover. Their nest might have been in the pot. There have been several nests in our planters and pots that have had a top layer of mulch. Those bunnies you have still have the white streak between their eyes, they’re pretty young. After they grow out of the white streak, they’re a heckuva lot harder to catch and have a lot higher survival chance. I’ve had zero luck trying to feed them anything from my kitchen or even rabbit pellets/hay. They only things I’ve personally seen them eat are flower petals and young grass.

 

[Snattlerake]

When I was a kid on the farm, I got to work on the tractor all day. One of the little joys I had was stopping the tractor and chasing down little cotton tails and jacks. I rode them in the tractor in a special box I had made just for them. At the end of the day, since I had destroyed their home, I took all of them home, fed them or bottle fed them if they were really young.

Then when they grew up, I let them all go around the farm. The funny thing about it was they were all named Herkimer. Don't ask me why but that was the only name I could think of for a rabbit that our dogs or cats were not named. I had Herkimer I, II, III, etc.

 

[leemozoid]

If you feel like adopting you can buy kitten milk and see if they'll take a bottle.