D&L had another doctor appointment in the big town about 50 miles away today so I came over to feed the boys their lunch.
While I was weighing out hay there was a great clattering in the far corner of the hayroom, and up over a piece of plywood against the outside wall there came a little cottontail. It hopped down on the haybales with an air of familiarity, and only then noticed an unwelcome human.
It’s under the pellet pallet in that picture, having objected to my presence, but you can click on the next pic…
…and that’s it standing at the door in front of the tractor. Nothing special, I just thought it was kind of funny that at least one rabbit – along with an unguessable number of rats – knows where its winter feed is coming from.
What a little cutie! BTW, they taste like chicken and the month has an R in it…
What do they do about the rats?
Appeasement? Or … an open can of warmed tuna and a .22 can act as temporary population control for Mid-Western Barn Rats. Dunno about them fancy desert vermin…
Couple of bucket traps.
How many do they catch per week
Varies wildly. Sometimes half a dozen, sometimes none.
How hungry was this guy?
Rat meat is a bit like pork, but very tender, like slowly cooked pork shoulder – Stefan Gates. And what did it taste like? “It was the most delicious meat I ever had in my life,” he says. Dec 7, 2015
I take it that Tobie was nowhere nearby.
No, Tobie was in the Jeep.