Buck Jones
Well-Known Member
I'm sure of it, finally. After ahorrendously long winter, I weighed my buns the other day, to find thateverybun had lost a couple of ounces, or more, with Missy"big head" losing almost eight ounces of her seven pound winter "porky"weight.
I am not alarmed about the weight loss across our rabbit herd because Iweigh, manicure, and inspect them on a monthly basis and keep track oftheir statistics, and have found over the years that they will put onpoundage during the winter,then drop to their stable "summer weights"during the spring. I also find that food consumption tends togo down a bit , unsurprisingly, as well as water consumption, if theweather is not extraordinarily hot.
Keeping a written record of their weight and when I've inspected them,can enable to me to catch some problems before they become serious bymaking the process a regular routine. It's nothing formal, orinvolved. Just a sheet of small, 3"x 5",yellow,lined paper, with the bun's name on top. On each line, I enter thedate, weight, and indicate nails done and/or any problems noted andtreatments undertaken. I write small enough to form twocolumns of like information on one side of the sheet of paper,therefore one sheet, front and back, serves as a record for severalyears.
Should the bun depart from us, I attach his/her "yellow sheet" to anyother records we may have in our "Bunny Binder" The BunnyBinder is a loose leaf binder, divided into tabbed sections for each ofour rabbits. Within each sectionis kept pertinentinformation about that rabbit, as we gather it chronologically, such asadoption documents, sales receipts, pedigrees or "guesstimated" DOB's,medical receipts and records, etc. As buns have passed overthe Rainbow Bridge, we've stapled all their paperworktogether, to include their "yellow sheets" and filed it in asection of the binder entitled, "Departed."
The Bunny Binder is an excellent place to keep tabs on our buns'history, without having to resort to memory or guesstimation.Even the "Departed" section can bring back fond, if not melancholy,memories to mind, when we go through it on the odd,infrequent occasion.
Buck
I am not alarmed about the weight loss across our rabbit herd because Iweigh, manicure, and inspect them on a monthly basis and keep track oftheir statistics, and have found over the years that they will put onpoundage during the winter,then drop to their stable "summer weights"during the spring. I also find that food consumption tends togo down a bit , unsurprisingly, as well as water consumption, if theweather is not extraordinarily hot.
Keeping a written record of their weight and when I've inspected them,can enable to me to catch some problems before they become serious bymaking the process a regular routine. It's nothing formal, orinvolved. Just a sheet of small, 3"x 5",yellow,lined paper, with the bun's name on top. On each line, I enter thedate, weight, and indicate nails done and/or any problems noted andtreatments undertaken. I write small enough to form twocolumns of like information on one side of the sheet of paper,therefore one sheet, front and back, serves as a record for severalyears.
Should the bun depart from us, I attach his/her "yellow sheet" to anyother records we may have in our "Bunny Binder" The BunnyBinder is a loose leaf binder, divided into tabbed sections for each ofour rabbits. Within each sectionis kept pertinentinformation about that rabbit, as we gather it chronologically, such asadoption documents, sales receipts, pedigrees or "guesstimated" DOB's,medical receipts and records, etc. As buns have passed overthe Rainbow Bridge, we've stapled all their paperworktogether, to include their "yellow sheets" and filed it in asection of the binder entitled, "Departed."
The Bunny Binder is an excellent place to keep tabs on our buns'history, without having to resort to memory or guesstimation.Even the "Departed" section can bring back fond, if not melancholy,memories to mind, when we go through it on the odd,infrequent occasion.
Buck
