Most of this week has been spent looking after a very poorly rabbit. My Buck, Dodge, developed sticky eyes last weekend which has then developed into a snotty nose and a temperature. It looks like a respiratory infection and he was started, by our vet, on daily antibiotic injections, which we give him. He looks miserable with matted fur round his eyes and a snotty nose. Thankfully, he has kept eating some greens so keeping the fluids going, and over this weekend has started to groom himself a little and occasionally run about his run. It has taken the best part of a week to make any improvement and it is still touch and go.
The other problem is making sure the doe (Mini) and kits we have don't catch the infection. As it takes two of us to do Dodge's injection, the children have been feeding Mini and her kits.
We have run out of our own apple juice this week, and had to go out and buy some. It doesn't taste the same but we have managed over two months of our own. Having said that we were lucky enough to be given a couple of bags of apples at the weekend. They are really nice eating apples so at the moment we are munching our way through them rather than making them into juice. Maybe this is the way we should go. It takes a kilo of apples to get a litre of juice, roughly. Which ever way it is produced some of the goodness must be lost from the apples, not least the fibre.
In my quest to find out which apple trees will be best for us to grow on the allotment, I went to Kellie Castle's Apple Day, in Fife. The talk this year was in fact on books about apples, the speaker was knowledgable, but not directly related to my quest. However, some of the books had potential so I'm going to try and get them out of the library. They also had a display of around a hundred different apple varieties that grow in Scotland, so good for cross referencing, and some superb tasty bites, including apple and parsnip soup with a hint of curry, it was delicious.
The other problem is making sure the doe (Mini) and kits we have don't catch the infection. As it takes two of us to do Dodge's injection, the children have been feeding Mini and her kits.
We have run out of our own apple juice this week, and had to go out and buy some. It doesn't taste the same but we have managed over two months of our own. Having said that we were lucky enough to be given a couple of bags of apples at the weekend. They are really nice eating apples so at the moment we are munching our way through them rather than making them into juice. Maybe this is the way we should go. It takes a kilo of apples to get a litre of juice, roughly. Which ever way it is produced some of the goodness must be lost from the apples, not least the fibre.
In my quest to find out which apple trees will be best for us to grow on the allotment, I went to Kellie Castle's Apple Day, in Fife. The talk this year was in fact on books about apples, the speaker was knowledgable, but not directly related to my quest. However, some of the books had potential so I'm going to try and get them out of the library. They also had a display of around a hundred different apple varieties that grow in Scotland, so good for cross referencing, and some superb tasty bites, including apple and parsnip soup with a hint of curry, it was delicious.
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