permaculture

["antonio scotti" <antonio.scotti@tiscali.es>]

Graham,
I am still into designing this system with rabbits and one of the things I
am still wondering about is what sort of activities can be done with
children and keeping the animals safe at the same time.
I was made aware that rabbits are extremely fearful and that on occasions,
after strangers have visited the pen area, some of the rabbits have tryed to
kill temselves by banging their head on to the cage walls.Also the
manipulation of rabbits by very zealot children is sometime the cause of
their premature death.
On the other and I have seen schoolchildren doing routine work in a city
farm, by cleaning cages, hugging rabbits etc. with not so many (apparently)
problems.
What do you think? how about the design of your pet area?
Cheers
Antonio

BTW: Graham would you please check that  my personal address is not on your
spam list (remember the talk we had at Braziers last September?).


----- Original Message -----
From: Graham Burnett <grahamburnett@blueyonder.co.uk>
To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 1:18 AM
Subject: Re: [permaculture] Rabbits in a PC system


>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michelle" <homekeeper@clas.net>
> To: "antonio scotti" <antonio.scotti@tiscali.es>; "permaculture"
> <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 10:15 PM
> Subject: Re: [permaculture] Rabbits in a PC system
>
>
> > We garden intensively, so have paths between our beds.  We made cages
that
> > were long, and narrow, and put the rabbits (or chickens) in them, let
them
> > eat the grass and weeds, fertilize the area, then move on to another.
>
> Don't the rabbits dig their way out though? This was my observation of our
> next door neighbour's childrens pet rabbit who got out of it's pen and
into
> our garden :-(
>
> I have an interest in this particular question as I've been sort of half
> asked to design the 'pets corner' area of my childrens school and would be
> interested to see some 'rabbit options' myself, particularly for small
urban
> areas.
>
> graham
>
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