Recent content by Diamond

it just doesnt seem right.... to leave such a large populatgion of livestock (cattle, swine, poultry, rabbits, and pet canines and felines) at risk. The real question is, where do we go from here, in regards to coccidiosis? It will be a rough road ahead..... I am using the crap out of...

I am wondering if folks in other parts of the Nation have noticed that Sulfadimethoxine, Albon, and Sulmet have been disappearing from retail? I have been working with my veterinarian on eradicating coccidiosis from my herd. I first noticed the DiMethox became unavailable in mid summer but...

Just go to the feed store and get lice duster for poultry, horses, or cattle. Sevin is made for plants and gardens, not animals. Rabbits are extremely sensitive to pyretherin/ premetherin products. I agree that lice are species specific, the little feet of chicken mites are made to hold...

I was able to locate a New Zealand breeder who had been putting a lot of legwork into making BIG white and solid black breeding stock with amazing pelts, her breeding stock have helped improve mine and give me an idea as to what I want out of my rabbits. I picked up a lot of poor quality stock...

Thanks, my girls are all pretty sweet, I do not keep the alligator personalities. "PJ"' s granddam was a bit on the nasty side, I got her from a commercial rabbitry, the doe was enormous - 14 pounds - and gave me a litter of 10 first breeding then 15, but would about bite my hand off. I did...

what were you treating them with, at what dose, and for how long? The bacteria responsible for vent disease is not very strong outside its host. A good cleaning with either a pressure washer or scrub brush and elbow grease to remove built-up dirt, then saturate the wood parts several times...

Things are truckin' along with the bunny business here. I breed New Zealands (well, most of the time, but crossbreeds find their way in from time to time) and have expanded quite a bit. Right now I have 16 breeding age does and 6 bucks. I had a bout with coccidiosis last fall and have made a...

when I had the NZ x Cali hybrids, some of the noses and ears started out white but them shed out to a subtle form of gray when the adult coat came in. Just two cents.

instead of having rabbits run loose, consider a movable rabbit tractor? there are some members here who have designed some pretty awesome movable rabbit pens. They may not be completely snake-proof, but will keep the buns from digging burrows, which attract snakes, and will reduce raccoon...

yes, the math is still right

with the meat breeds I raise, if they have not kindled before 1 year of age the chances of a successful pregnancy and kindling are reduced by about 75%. That said, taking a rabbit to a new environment stresses them a lot. When I offered buck service (which I no longer do for biosecurity...

best bet is to get the SafeGuard liquid goat wormer, same ingredient - fenbendazole- in a dose you can accurately measure. For rabbits, its 20mg/ kg, roughly 10 mg per pound. The liquid wormer comes in 100mg/ mL (or cc) so its 1/10 of 1 mL per pound, so a 5 pound rabbit gets half a mL (or cc)...

worth experimenting with, for sure. The trouble with E. cuniculi is that it is only susceptible to treatments during its active phase, it is pretty sneaky and can remain dormant both within and outside its host, so implementing an alternative feed-through treatment in the daily diet may help...

fecal testing is the way to tell if it is cocci, as the parasite is passed from doe to kits via oral fecal route not through milk or blood exposure. I have had the joyful experience of coccidiosis in my rabbitry; had to implement antibiotics (Albon) and a very time-consuming cage hygiene...

Well, I just had 3 large healthy litters born without problems, so I think it is a run of bad luck. One mama, the red doe, had signs of trouble before delivering her kits. The others were probably bad luck. Keeping my fingers crossed for the red doe, she is due in a couple weeks.