More animals in Rosie's young life

One day in my early teens I walked by a pet shop in Shoreham -by-Sea, Sussex in England and saw some Dutch rabbits for sale. They were grey and white.   Anyway I ended up buying them though we had no room for them at my house.  I had made friends with a 27 year old young woman  named Betty and she allowed me to keep my new pets in cages in a field she rented for her goats not far from where I lived.  

Later I went to a country market with an older woman, Miss Garret, who also kept rabbits (about 40 of them).  Rabbits have a habit of multiplying fast if kept together when they are of the opposite sex!  At the market I saw some ducks for sale,  Khaki Campbells.  I bid on them and came home with them.  I cannot imagine what  my mother thought but we set up a run for them with the goats.  Only one laid eggs.  The other was barren.  It was not a drake as the drakes are different colors than the ducks.

So from then on for a period of time we had duck eggs and goat's milk for breakfast , though I prefer chicken's eggs and cow's milk really.

I loved the goats and used to help my friend milk them in the evenings. I especially liked to see the kids when they were just born and watched one or two births.   

Meanwhile I acquired another grey Rex rabbit who had several babies so I ended up with seven rabbits.  My Rex rabbit  (named Curly because of her curly coat) was not very bright.  She did not know how to put them in the nest she had instinctively made so my older friend Miss Garret rubbed her hands in the dirt and carefully placed the babies in the nest. We saved all but one of the litter.

I kept all these animals until I left for college at age 18 when Miss Garret took them for me.