Recent content by madrona

This conversation has been utterly fascinating. I feel like I've learned more, and gained more insight into rabbits in the past few days than the past year, thanks to you all. It's such a relief being able to have frank discussions about rabbits from people who understand their true natures...

Basically, we'd like to raise happy rabbits for meat for our family. That sounds so simple, right??? :lol: So while I'm not running a business, we also want to spend as little as possible. We already have the fencing, so I think what we need to do is change the shape of our colony to a...

Oh man - don't shoot - I'm sorry for bumping a 6 year old thread! AnnTan - can you pretty please post pics of your nesting tunnel?

BlueHaven - what you say makes sense and I like hearing your perspective. I don't like to think of domestic meat rabbits as the rabbit equivalent of the franken-chicken Cornish Cross. But maybe they are? I'm just trying to understand the domestic rabbit. They and their place in the world don't...

Yes, sorry I should have said that it was my husband that saw Kaneel eating Bess's babies. We are sure they were Bess's babies since she was due yesterday, and Kaneel isn't due for several more days. What's even stranger is that when I went to check on them when I got home Kaneel was sitting in...

Hello, I hope it's ok to start a new thread instead of posting in an older one. I'll try to be succinct, but include all pertinent information. I would like feedback on our doe colony. I know that it is not an ideal set up and I have some ideas on how we need to change it, but I don't know...