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Thanks for the responses, trying to make the best decision. Starting to think culling and washing everything down with bleach might be the best bet at this point. Trying to manage the kids and their attachments with whats best for the rabbitry.

A few months ago we brought a broken black NZ doe home from what I thought was a reputable breeder and also brought home a case of snuffles. I now know to quarantine in this situation, but we were and still are relatively new to keeping rabbits. She was sneezing a little after a few days and I...

We try to provide the stun blow first before butchering and processing and are wondering what we are doing wrong because there is still the squeal from the rabbit. This leads us to believe we are not being efficient or doing it properly. We use a crow bar. Any help or videos or tips would be...

Update time again, kits are doing pretty well, there are definitely two smaller than the rest but they seem in much better shape than they were. We keep rotating out the biggest 5. My wife has a question, when we do put all 12 back in the box will there be any problems? Her thought is that...

One other development, one of our other does kindled today. 10 kits! It being a few days after the other does kindled we decided to rotate and not try to surrogate a kit over to have 11 and 11. We didn't want to mess with another large litter.

Update time. So far all 12 have survived outside, even though it got down to -8 last night! There are two that are really small, one that is just small. The others are all fat little wigglers. We have a long weekend so we can manage manipulating the feedings a bit. We took the 5 fattest...

Thanks everyone for the great information! I checked today and no dead ones yet, I can't even really tell any being significantly bigger than the others. Hopefully they are all being fed, guess it will be really clear in another day or so. Now I'm onto another quandary in that it is...

Thanks you guys are great! I'm going to try some of your suggestions.

We have a NZ Doe, Verbenia, who kindled yesterday afternoon. After double counting we came up 12 kits! This is after one died, so 13 in total. Verbinia has had two previous litters of 6 and 7 kits. Our question is what to do now, we can't really imagine Verbinia keeping up with 12 kits...

Thanks for all the advice! We are grateful that there was no discharge from the eyes or nose, and still no coughing or sneezing with the head shaking today. I checked 4-5 of them for mites or irritation in their ears, didn't see anything unusual. So good news today after having got a little...

Thank you for the reply, I will check for mites. The other two conditions is it worth trying to treat or just let it run its course and cull the kits that get too bad? <br /><br /> -- Sun Nov 01, 2015 8:57 am -- <br /><br /> Went out this morning and they didn't sneeze/cough while I was out...

They are NZ/Californian mutts. There are nine of them in a 5'x3' grow out pen. Today I noticed that they are coughing (maybe sneezing?) and shaking their head while the do it. They don't seem too worse for wear and as far as I can tell are eating and drinking. Any idea what this is and how...

What I really think would be cool is to go for a broken blue NZ. This same friend has broken red NZs and we like how they look. The latest is that our friend is going trade us one of these broken red does for our blue doe. We have a red buck that has broken in him. We will have to figure out...

Thank you for such a complete answer! It is interesting how the odds play out, the blue doe has 5 siblings. One is black and 4 are white. It is good to know that if we sell (probable outcome) we will most likely have more.

Thank you for your replies, they were very helpful! The last thing I should have mentioned is that my kids have become attached to the doe which complicates things. I'm hoping I can work out a deal with the friend to let him have the doe but after breeding her back to the father to get more...