We Built a Rabbit Pen + Put Them In the Garden
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- čas přidán 25. 04. 2022
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It's time to get our rabbits on grass! We consult the Polyface Designs book to review the plans for building a rabbit tractor (rabbit pen) and get to work with construction.
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I actually watched this video then left to do something else and decided to come back just to comment. All videos are usually quite chatty or music in the background. BUT..listening to the birds, and natural noise of life on the farm was awesome! This video was a day in the life of the Rhodes family to me, thank you for changing it up! Love this!
I know a lot of your viewers are very pleased to see the buns out on the land enjoying the grass like everyone else 👍
Lilly the most versatile, well dressed homesteader on the net……you are amazing 😊
Love that there was no music. Love the conversations and less “explaining”. Don’t get me wrong, I need the explaining, but this was beautiful and quiet!! Great video
That was so nice to see the family just getting on with stuff, calm, peaceful etc. Great to mix it up with the more chatty episodes. Love watching, bless you all xxx
agreed. this format was very calming for me
Wonderful to see your little girl becoming competent using power tools!
Favorite video in a long time. Enjoying bird song and quiet and family, no music, more showing instead of telling. Wonderful.
So glad to see this. I’ve been following you for years but it’s been hard to watch your videos knowing what these guys were living in. Just make sure they have a place to rest their feet and it’s perfect!
Lilly , youre the best kiddo - hadnt seen your bunnies in awhile and worried you quit - but look at you girl , building rabbit tractors - 🤗
Lily reminds me so much of myself when I was little. Barefoot outside in a dress helping my dad build and fix stuff. Those are the memories that will stay with me forever.
Yay!! I have felt so sorry for Lily and her bunnies for months!! My daughters LOVE their bunnies… and they reproduce like, well, rabbits. Cuz they’re HAPPY. 😂
Can you give the rabbits a 18 x 18 inch (or smaller) flat board so they have a place they don't have to balance on slats. This would also give them a place to lay down comfortable.
it will get peed on and covered with manure, if you don't care they don't care, some rabbits are more likely to get dirtier than others of course..especially males it seems from my experience...
Lily I love your dress! It’s so refreshing to see a father and daughter working harmoniously towards one goal. Kudos to you Justin for encouraging your daughter to learn to use tools.🙏🙏😹😹
Justin,. I love the style of filming in this video. You are hands free, not holding a camera and free to work. You were more relaxed, not so rushed and I could better see what you were doing. The extra shots of the family are poetic. Awesome video.
Nice to see Lilly, Mr Brown and even Lil Henry get in on the building action. ❤️
I love this video! Papa and his barefoot princess building a place for the rabbits! So sweet… Justin, you’re an amazing dad and an amazing man…Mr. Brown, baby Henry are learning too!! Great idea Rebekah!! Ya all are such amazing parents…
The California roots were coming out with Justin out in the field wearing sandals!
@@creative227 thought that too lol
Lily is a hard little worker! Adorable! All of your children are awesome!! ❤️❤️❤️
This was a nice chill episode. I liked that it was more raw audio of the scenes themselves instead of music mixed on top. And the fun of building this with your kids as a project was great.
What a sweet video this was. What a joy to see a dad and daughter building together with the sounds of nature in the background. Loved seeing Mr. Brown all grown up and helping with a power tool. It was just yesterday I was seeing Mr. Brown on your back and now Henry. They are growing up way too fast! What's funny is I've been watching your channel for 4 years and this is my first comment. You both are wonderful parents and you have terrific children. Love your channel!
Make sure your baby buns are big enough before you put them in. We built a hare pen and 2 of our little ones dug their way through the slats at the bottom and squeezed out. Lead to a fun afternoon trying to catch 🐰
I like how Lily just jumped right in to work with you. It will be nice for you and Lily to be able to look back on these videos and remember the day you built the rabbit pen. God bless & keep growing
So exciting to see Lilly build a mobile hutch for her rabbits! I love watching this family so much. I see her cooking / help cooking all the time and helping with outdoor projects but she seemed to be the project leader with Papa this time. Way to go Lillian!!!
So happy to finally see the rabbits in something better and on grass.
Wasn’t there 3 rabbits?
@@janelle4835 maybe they're keeping the male in his own so they don't have unexpected breeding? In a few shots, it looked like he had the instructions sitting on top of an already built harepen with the one they were building in the background.
Thank you for teaching your daughter not to be afraid of power tools. 💪
It’s Great to see Lily jump in and help build the hutch! I love doing carpentry projects as an adult, and I know the passion and skill comes from my Dad letting me join in and help help him as a young girl. 💕
great video, hearing the birds singing along with children's voices and power tools! love it
This style of vlog is so refreshing. Extremely relaxing and therapeutic:)
I love the way you let your children build with you. That’s so important and it won’t be long the baby will be helping too♥️♥️♥️👏👏👏👏👏
More than anything, I appreciate how you treat your children and lovely wife!
What a beautiful education for your young ones. Thank you for sharing💝
You are a 100% AWESOME DAD! Thank you for teaching your daughter how to use power tools and that she can make her own way. JUSTIN ROCKS!
We run our 2 rabbits on our lawn. All they do is stretch out, flop down and chill out. Your making beautiful memories with your children and they are gold, stored for now and in years to come. Also we are using our chickens after winter this year, to remove some lawn, for more raised garden beds. I live in a suburb in Adelaide. Blessings from Australia ❤️
You GO LILY!!! You so totally rock young lady! You inspire me to build this...and I've been putting it off for fear of failure!! Blessings!
My rabbit had a litter of 8 a little over 2 weeks ago. The only portion of the cage NOT covered in hardware cloth was the floor of the nest area. A rat chewed through the wood and dragged 2 kits under the cage and ate them before I found the hole. I stapled hardware cloth over the floor. Mama rabbit had stomped and broke one kits back during the assault. Down to 5 fat sassy babies. Both my does have been rebred yesterday. Hoping for a better result now the cage is rat proof!! Good luck on your endeavor, sweet Lily
A girl, a doll and her drill! Love it!
I agree! In fact, I’m imagining another children’s book. A Girl in Her Dress with a Doll and a Drill! 💕
I am so happy that you got the rabbits a batter place to live! thank you!
So excited to see more of the rabbits. Since we have an urban homestead, rabbits and chickens are the only “livestock” we can have. When I see you working with the animals I have it makes me feel like a “ legitimate” homesteader. Lol
I love watching how you are teaching your children to use power tools, build things, take care of animals, etc. They will be well rounded, caring individuals who understand what work is all about! You’re great parents! Love 💕
I really LOVED and enjoyed this video! The calm pace, the "soundtrack" from the forest around you, everybody just doing their thing. Very nicely executed.
I love this video! So peaceful, everyone just doing their thing. Very happy to see the rabbits moved to a better situation. What happened to the other bunny?
I was wondering the same thing.
Good job Lilly and Gideon! Love seeing you working alongside your papa! 💖 Great job Justin!👏💖🙏
Awesome video! Another beneficial permaculture stacking function for having the rabbits near the garden is: their holy rabbit squat will be in close proximity to fertilize the garden!
I am loving your new video style: less than 10 minutes, nature sounds over music edited in, visual story of the actions instead of so much word story as is typical on channels. ❤️💖❤️
I missed something. Was there not originally 3 of them? 1 male and 2 females?
Hi.... Justin Rhodes and Rebecca and nice to see you all, thank you for showing your video homestead 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 🏡🎥👍👍👍
Love, love, love this video. Especially Henry finally down on the ground playing. 😊
I got that book for Christmas 🎄 can't wait to put it to use on our new homestead in June! We are moving from 14 acres to 27.5!
Loved how calming this was. Always love watching your family work and play together.
YAY !!! GOD BLESS all the sweet, precious bunnies everywhere !!!
I love seeing the children Learning to build & use tools. This is a skill I wish I would have had more knowledge of. My Father was a Dentist. Those were the tools he used. Not your typical everyday tools.
I totally love the way you guys involved your children. It really is amazing to see, again I love it, well done 👏
Lovely work day, everyone busy and the Rabbits have their own little homesteas
Besides mowing the grass the rabbits give back to the soil each day and that is a win win situation. God Bless.
I love the peacefulness of this. Might not be the case in person. I wish I had more f this peacefulness with my family and especially my father when I was a child.
I love it too!!! We'll done mom and dad! Raising self sufficient kids!!!
Can’t believe how big Mr.Brown is getting. Lily is such a sweet girl and very hard working, all of your children are!!
I love how incredibly peaceful this video was!
I love seeing Lily use a screw gun in a flower dress
Really loved hearing the birds singing in the background instead of music. :-)
Love the change of pace with the nature sound background.
Justin what a great name for a children’s book, papa and his barefoot princess building a place for the rabbits!
Pro tip, make a divider you can slide in and out right in the middle of the Harepen, makes it so you can do both rabbits in 1 if they don't get along and you can put the babies in the big one so you don't need 3
I like that design!! My one concern is predators going through chicken wire. Would it be better to use hardware cloth?
That was my question as well.
I would where I live. Coyotes can go right through poultry netting. Maybe he doesn't need it though.
@@alezajohnson1908 Yea I would defiantly need it were I live.
I always forget that most places have spring by now. We had snow flurries in 20 degree weather yesterday while trying to spring clean the barn.
Miss Lilly 's Build. Great job Miss Lilly 👏 👍
LOVE LOVE LOVE that you let Lily do some of the power tool work! She's soooo precious and I love what a helper she is. You go Lily!!!!
I have been racking my poor brain trying to figure out where to take my "sea monsters" when they get big enough for the shaw/tractor. Thank you! They'll be Mowing around the garden 😁
Love the way all the kids were spending time with Dad!! Great way to raise them!
Not only are rabbits free lawn service, but they'll leave that ground FERTILE!!!
Rabbit fertilizer is amazing!!! I'm using my rabbits droppings in my garden. And what's nice is you don't have to age it
Rabbits need to chew to wear down their constantly growing teeth and wood is a favorite. Watch they don’t eat the bottom wood making holes. Also, you might want to put a wooden box in it for them to chew and use a protection is harsh weather.
Sandra WestleyUK, so glad the rabbits are on grass, which it what normal rabbits do, it’s taken so long to those rabbits on the land. Most rabbits here in the UK are kept as pets, they normally have a hutch with straw in for night time and a door on the hutch which leads to a run set out by chick wire as you have done, I had one a a pet as a child, we didn’t keep them in pens off the ground, so glad to see where they should be, they will love it, I used to walk the lanes collecting dandelions and bags of long grass for them.
Ms Lilly helping build!!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻😃. Good for you Justin!! Time for a sunburn!!! Their water is going to get really hot up on their hutch roof.
Lily, Great job and Gideon also. Great video Justin. I bought the book when it first came out. I don’t have a homestead yet but I still enjoy reading through the plans hoping. I visited Polyface about 10 years ago and fell in love.
I really love the editing on this video. I felt like was right there!
Is he a homesteader? Or a film maker? I just can’t make up my mind. Love these vids Justin, so happy to see your family grow and prosper!
Like the Taco Bell commercial, "Why not both?"
I thought you just got the bathroom cha cha’s at Taco Bell ? 🌮 🤷♂️ 😊
I love this video! It reminds me of vacations to NC and almost feels as if we're all spending time with you and Lily.
I feel like I remember when Mr brown was Henry's age and when Lilly was Mr brown's age. Love watching everyone grow ❤
To fast, Children need "pause" buttons. :-)
Amazing as always, I’ve been watching for a while and still loving it
So sweet ! Daddy and his girl !
🤣 silly Lilly hopping around like the Lil wabbits🐇
So lovely how involved the kids are ❤️
But I think you'll quickly experience issues with the poultry netting. Rabbits bite through it in no time and predators have no issues getting through it either.
True, ours have done that 😳, and they get plenty of fresh food!
Where >s the nest for rabbits?
I got the book. Last year. Thanks for the videos. God bless y’all.
Nice rabbit tractor! That's a great idea to have the bunnies mow the grass around the garden. Nice use of another Polyface Design Justin! Thanks for this. Lily and Gideon did really well building it with your help.
Hey Gang, Lilly, you are a Blessing, hard working, responsible, inspirationol and motivating for others to follow, Papa also,God's Good Blessings to you and your beautiful family keep up the great work love U guys XOXOXO stay safe and healthy
I absolutely love this video and I am so so so excited to see how well the bunnies do their job ..
Thank you so much for sharing. Love seeing the rabbits again and the garden coming along.
I would be interested to know why the design calls for the slatted wood floor, vs, a more open floor with more grass, + nesting box.
Might be because rabbits are burrowing animals and this would keep them from digging holes. The can dig a tunnel fairly quickly. They might even be able to burrow out of the hare pen and escape. Maybe. I’m just guessing.
Rabbits burrow. I had a pet one when I was young and the cage we would put it in to get it out on grass had a hole in one corner of the wire…the rabbit almost got out before we fixed it and he was only in that cage on nice days as it was just a wire cage without a metal roof. (We were just re-using cages that we had on the farm from when my mom had previously raised meat rabbits in a barn.)
The downside of cages with wire bottoms is they press the grass down more flat when set directly on the ground. With the slats more of the grass pokes up through the floor.
@@kathleenoverton3263 (& @Anna) Well that is obvious enough, lol.
I guess I thought with daily moves that wouldn't be a problem, but obviously it would be, had I put two seconds of thought into it!
Thanks for the thoughtful replies :-)
That little girl of yours is just amazing Justin, you should be so very proud of her! 🌿
Such a great video. Dad and daughter project. Love it! ❣️
Beautiful family smart kids ,this is the way kids need to be raised. Precious!!!
We live in North Carolina south of Raleigh. My husband and I have most of our garden in and until I got heart problems I cared for chickens, but no more. My grandson who is 21 just bought his great grandparents house and will start the chicken house up next year I hope 🤞
The kiddos may or may not understand it now but later in life, they'll remember their parents loved them very much because they taught them so well.
Fantastic rabbit hutch! I have 8 guinea pigs who mow my lawns for me ; )
Nice work, Lily and Gideon (and Papa)!
I enjoy watching y’all video I love seeing all the family working together
Nice video. I worked on a rabbit pen for my garden today too, although it was still raining it wasn't as much as yesterday. We have to put the roof on now and make doors.
This is everything you could hope for in a family homesteading video. Loved it.
I have been following you for years and that video was hands down my favourite of them all! :)
Love to see family projects!
we just acquired a battery stapler - takes same battery as our other tools, awesome and very easy on the hands wrists and arms