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It's best to have someone show you how to palpate before trying it. If they are pregnant and you press too hard, or wrong, you can hurt the kits. Breeding in the summer is risky unless your temps are below 85. Before I knew any better we almost lost a doe because she kindled in the heat. The...

Yea, we do have some extra hair that we keep just in case but maybe I should also keep some of that bedding stuff on hand, too, that you can get from the pet store. We've never used straw in our nestboxes although I've heard it's a good insulator. We use bedding and hay. Temps aren't frigid...

That would be my problem. The does do cover them but its the occasional one that wanders. The nestbox isnt completely covered in hair, only the back half. The last couple of nights I think the does have been sitting in the front half to stay warm because I find a little poop in the front. My...

Hi, I was just wondering what everyone uses to put a little warmth on nestboxes when it gets real cold. I've never used a heat lamp before but I'm also tired of losing kits when they get uncovered overnight. I got a Fluker's ceramic socket heat lamp and bought a 100 watt ceramic heat emitter...

I hate the Texas heat too! The only way we can breed to show at convention is to bring the buck and doe in the house for a couple of weeks and then breed inside. We ended up having a litter of 4 born inside because it was too hot to chance kindling outside. If you can't keep your outside...

Haven't been on here in a while, but we plan on going. It's hard to pass up the chance to show rabbits at convention wihen it's so close! We'll be showing Tans and Polish. :D

Looks like a runt to me

Everything I read says to rinse cages off after spraying them with a dilute bleach solution. My question is, if we didn't rinse the cage off but instead torched it lightly and then sprayed it with vanodine, how long should we keep it in the sun before using it? We had a sick bunny in it and...

I'm wondering if the 10 day difference will be a problem when the doe weans the older ones...will she wean all of them or allow the young one to continue nursing? That's the only thing you'd need to watch for. We've fostered kits to other does, but they weren't more than a couple of days...

I have cages made by Bass and KW Cages and I prefer the KW ones. We have stackable cages since our space is limited. We use pans on the top cages and let the poop/pee fall to the ground below for the lower cages. After we bought these we found someone locally who built the rest of our cages...

I'm not willing to try it on my rabbits just yet. We've been fortunate in not having any of our rabbits exposed to Pasteurella. I've heard of the company, only because my daughter had goats in FFA for 3 years.

We've never had a problem with NBE using hay. There's usually enough hair mixed in to keep it fairly soft. If you don't have any extra hair you can put in you could also put some shavings in with the hay. Pet stores also sometimes have nesting material you can use.

Warming them slowly seems to work better than warming too quickly. I've been able to revive some of mine by placing them in a bowl of warm water (up to the neck). My mistake was that after I got them moving I placed them in a towel on a heating pad, and they got too warm. What I should've...

That's great! We're still learning how to save frozen kits. We lost two litters recently, but we've now learned the right/wrong way to bring them back. I made the mistake of reviving one and leaving him on the heating pad too long...I hate learning stuff the hard way!

As long as the tattoo's are legible I wouldn't worry about it. As to the 4-H show, could you call the county extension agent or whoever sponsors that chapter? Soap and water won't usually get pee stains off white fur. Your buck would show better without the stains. I've read that a little...