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["Graham Burnett" <grahamburnett@blueyonder.co.uk>]

Hi Antonio- first off, I've checked and you aren't on my spam trap list...

As for the rabbits, I guess this is something we chatted about at Braziers?
Can you remind me of the conversation as I can't recall it... I know little
to nothing about keeping rabbits, although my partner has just gotten
involved with helping to look after the garden at my children's school, and
there are a few rabbits there I believe. My partner and her friend are
building bigger pens and runs for the rabbits so they can lead less
stressful and cramped lives, but other than that are strongly encouraging
the school not to keep any more rabits once these have lived out the
remainder of their lives...

Cheers Graham


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "antonio scotti" <antonio.scotti@tiscali.es>
To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 5:08 PM
Subject: RE: [permaculture] Rabbits in a PC system


> 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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