I think Valentina is pregnant!

No, Valentina is not my wife.

Valentina is our white rabbit, a present for Caleigh's birthday. She had been living at the nursing home my mother-in-law works at and the deal was that she could stay as long as the staff took care of her.

Aparantly the staff lost interest and they had to find another home for her. What better home than here, where we already have a male rabbit.

As soon as the in-laws left, we put Valentina in with Lightning to mate. Now we know why his name is Lightning! Watching rabbits mate is a riot.

Rabbits have a 31 day gestation period, today would be day 19. The kits are old enough to make rabbit chili with at 8 weeks. The feed to meat ratio is something like 4 to 1, not quite as efficient as chickens, but less plucking to be done. They don't crow, don't take up a lot of space, and produce good fertilizer that doesn't need to rot before use.

The best part is that you can adapt nearly any poultry recipie to rabbit.

We got the new issue of Smoke and Fire News today, and our ad for the fowler is in it.

OK, back to work...