I've just let one of my pairs of buns free range in the garden for the first time! Eek, my heart was racing!
I cordoned off all the possible exits but still worried they might squeeze through a 2" gap between the fence, or jump the six foot boundary fence, or go under the hutch and never come out... Or a million other possible/impossible scenarios.
But all went well... Phew! I only let them have half an hour as my other pair were out in their run, and there started to be a lot of chasing up and down, both between my pair in the run, and between the two pairs together, there was no attempted biting through the bars but lots of sniffing etc. Overall, I'm happy and it was easier than I thought to herd them back into their hutch.
I'd like to do it on a regular basis. Do you think they will get used to each other being on the other side of the run, rather than the other side of the garden?
I cordoned off all the possible exits but still worried they might squeeze through a 2" gap between the fence, or jump the six foot boundary fence, or go under the hutch and never come out... Or a million other possible/impossible scenarios.
But all went well... Phew! I only let them have half an hour as my other pair were out in their run, and there started to be a lot of chasing up and down, both between my pair in the run, and between the two pairs together, there was no attempted biting through the bars but lots of sniffing etc. Overall, I'm happy and it was easier than I thought to herd them back into their hutch.
I'd like to do it on a regular basis. Do you think they will get used to each other being on the other side of the run, rather than the other side of the garden?