When I was a child, my grandfather had a rabbit farm. He sold the rabbits as
pets, for fur and as meat. Actually any sort of commercial enterprise was
illegal during the soviet time, but I did not give it much thought back then.
Anyway I think he had it covered somehow, since the rabbits were also featured
on TV a couple of times. My task was to help grandfather, mostly during summer
when there was no school.
Barrels like those in the photo (below) were used to hold grain to feed the
rabbits, but sometimes also fertilizer or a mixture called "power feed" (I'm
not sure what the appropriate term would be in English). The empty ones were
also great to play in. You can see other things such as baskets to pick
potatoes, scythes to cut grass or hay and even grandfather's old jacket he wore
even in the hottest summer months. The rope was used to secure a huge stack of
hay on a trailer pulled by a tractor. The chair is for resting between work.
My grandfather is 90 now and does not do farm work anymore. Majority of the
meadows the hay used to come from was sold by the owners and has been turned
into a suburb by real estate developers. There are maybe 5 or 10 rabbits left
now.
http://www.softshark.ee/~priit/tynnid.jpg
OM-4T, Zuiko 24/2.8, Fomapan+Fomadon LQN, scanned from grade 2 print.
priit.
==============================================
List usage info: http://www.zuikoholic.com
List nannies: olympusadmin@xxxxxxxxxx
==============================================
|
