Bunnies Gonna Bunny

It's farming season, and there's always lots to do on a farm, even a small one like ours. We're going to start building another chicken coop this weekend to accommodate the thirty young birds that are growing up in the garage right now, and we picked up a couple of female bunnies to give Bugs some companions. They're too young to be in the same hutch as him, though, so they're in a small, separate house while Bugs lives with the chickens in the coop. Hey, he's happy in there.

Here they are: the brown one is Jellybean, and the gray one is Artemis. That's the box we brought them home in back in April. Feel free to make 'Awww!' noises.

Anyway, as we were doing the farm chores last night, feeding and watering all the animals, we found an unusual amount of dirt in the rabbit hutch. And we couldn't find Artemis. Turns out, she was doing what bunnies do: she was digging. We moved the hutch to some fresh grass and I snapped these pictures.

I didn't realize at first just how far she had dug down. But she had disappeared down the hole, and it wasn't until she backed out that I was able to even see her, let alone grab her and put her back in the hutch.

Like I said, bunnies gonna bunny. We're going to have to move the hutch more often if she's going to keep doing that. Or put them on a much stronger ground, like concrete. I don't like to do that, because I know they like the grass, but we don't need holes like that all over the property.

We'll see what happens; for now, we'll continue to make do and figure it out as we go.