Recent content by Blue Ridge Billy

Ilovehome said it much better than I did. I feed hay because the rabbits look forward to it each day. When I feed pellets and a handful of alfalfa. The buns go for the hay everytime. I like to think that it makes them happy and it brings them a break in their boring lives.

I just throw in a good size handfull each day. A lot of it fall through the floor of the cage. I have tried Hay racks but have abandoned them. The rabbits really love the hay. I was thinking the wheat straw to add fiber and to let them have someting natural to chew on. I agree that it would not...

I do feed tham alfalfe pellets. What other kinds of hay/straw can I feed? What about clean wheat straw?

I am raising meat rabbits and I have two litters that I have just weaned at 5 weeks old. Do I need to separate them according to bucks/does if I am going to kill them at 12 weeks?

I like to feed Timothy but Alfalfa is more accesible and much cheaper than the Timothy. I also read one of the leading Timothy shipper's website and they said that there were a lot of weed seeds in the Timothy 3rd cutting. I use my rabbit manure to cover my gardens and I don't want to fight more...

I have two litters that are 17 days old. I took the nest box out about 2 days ago. Should I be worried about the kits getting too cold with the temp dropping to low 40's tonight? They are inside of a building but not air tight.<br /><br />__________ Fri Sep 30, 2011 11:06 pm __________<br /><br />

Thanks for all the imput. I feed and water my animals really well and have them in good shaded barn where no preditors can get to them. I really hated to lose any of the kits. I had two other liters and both did not lose a single kit. They were all first time moms. I could have slipped them into...

I had a doe that had four kits. She has let them all die because she would not feed them. I don't plan on breeding her again. My neighbor says that next time she may be ok since this was her first litter but I don't want to go through this again. Anyone here with some advice?

I appreciate the feedback but I don't have time to make bunnie biscuits and apricot slurry. I am going to feed these guys all the rabbit pellets and Alfalfa hay that they want to eat every day along with clean water until it is time to knock them in the head and eat them.

thanks for all the comments. I think I am going to pass on stacked cages.

I stumbled on to this idea because of a problem that I had with a bag of pellets. I bought a bag of pellets recently that was about 20 percent fines. I am not kidding. I just imagined that the feed mill was cleaning out the lines when this bag was filled. I have never seen so much dust in rabbit...

Nice for a video but way too much trouble for me.

I need some more room pretty quickly and I am thinking about a few sets of stacked cages (three high). I am just wondering if I am going to get tired of the mess being made on the trays and how much work they are to keep up. Right now I have a rabbit room with cages hanging from the ceiling and...

How many weeks does it take for the kits to start coming out of the nest box on their own? And when do you remove the nest box?

I have three litters that are now about a week old. I am raising these to eat for myself. What would be the best age to kill for fryers?