Recent content by Caldhara

I would think this is more of a sable steel when I think of how steel comes out and how sable usually looks. My buck is just so light, almost more like in sable points but there isn't any of that in his pedigree.

...I'm not so sure. Looks more like Siamese Sable Steel? Sire is black by a blk g.tip steel and rew, dam is by ch.agouti and ch.agouti. The key lies with the sire, he has made this color in another litter with a different unrelated doe. They both started out dark but turn lighter. I have little...

So I've been thinking, what about deconstructing these commercial pellet ingredients? All summer I fed a pellet-less diet. I foraged, fed alfalfa pellets, hay and a grain mix. I worried most about vitamins and minerals, but during the forage season most of them were covered in the fresh stuff as...

Well I guess I got a little to comfortable with the ratios and amounts I was feeding the momma does. Last night I came home to one of the mommas just sitting still with a blank, dazed look on her face. Normally she greets me to get her oats and molasses mix so it was clear things were off. She...

I find the alfalfa pellets to be the easiest and least wasteful for my rabbits. The size isn't a hinderance at all and they eat them up everyday! They turned their noses up at the cubes and would only eat them if they had nothing else, which wasn't often so they just sat in the corners and...

I had my first two litters from mothers fed a pellet-less diet two weeks ago. They are thriving! I can tell a difference between their litters born last year on pellets. They smell better, are cleaner, no issues with nestbox eye and not one baby lost. Love the benefits of naturally fed! This is...

I plan on mixing a few of these ingredients into a mash for supplementing, just haven't gotten around to starting a consistent regimen. I'll add the wheat germ oil and molasses for sure, and the kelp would have the iodine benefit. I already put flax oil over their grains a couple times a week...

Oh ok, if alfalfa is not part of your rabbits diet then you may not need to worry about too much calcium on that level. Like I said I have yet to see any evidence of too much in my herd, was just wondering if anyone else did...

How do you feel about the calcium intake in your current diet scheme? I feed very similar to what you describe and without exact measurements I get nervous that they are getting to much calcium, though I have had no evidence as of yet to worry. There is lots of it in the alfalfa they get and...

They were smooth, no pits or dimples. As for the thought about Leptospirosis, my state doesn't have this problem in wild animals and my rabbits have never come into contact with standing water or other animals urine. Pneumonia makes the most sense given the sequence of events my herd has gone...

Here is another post showing a lung much like I had. I did have a bout with respiratory problems over the winter due to bringing an outdoor rabbit into my heated barn abruptly. I felt stupid to say the least. Also my barn did not have great ventilation, something the new barn will have...

No. And I can't find even any pictures that resemble this when I search the interwebs...

Cervical dispatch

So I've been feeding my herd a pellet-less diet for about three months now. I am so against the ingredients in the pellets I have access to so I'm determined to work out a formula that meets their needs. One of the things I'm most vigilent on are vitamins and minerals and my yard happens to be...

I personally use a mineral supplement product called FortiSalt http://www.fortisalt.com/fortisalt.html on my human food. I feed a pellet free diet to my rabbits and have been cautiously trying to incorporate this as an option for their mineral supplement. I like that there isn't any calcium in...