Recent content by Truckinguy

Wow! Unfortunately I haven't been around much for a while but hopefully now that my internet issues are somewhat ironed out I can check in more often. I remember your invite for me to join this group when you started it after a lot of hullaballoo at Homesteadingtoday. It sure has been a lot of...

Sounds like they are having fun! I wouldn't worry about it. As Mini Lop Fan said, as long as they have a dry place to go they will go there to dry off as necessary. My rabbits are outside and get snow and frost on them with no ill effect. Heavier rain might be a problem but if they stay out of...

I guess it depends on what the rabbits are used to. My rabbits have been outside for a few years now, one side of the colony open to the elements. At about day 28 I put the nest box out, change the straw bedding and fill the nestbox with straw. The doe messes around with it and when she kindles...

Soo... maybe a silly question but are they raised for their fur or just decorative? I understand they can be a bit bitey so how difficult would it be to shear one?

Cool feeders! I may do something like that myself as I'm currently starting a major renovation of the colony. I like individual feeders so I can see if a rabbit is off it's feed and I know if they may be sick. The screen to allow the dust to fall out is a great idea, with my current j-feeders I...

I moved mine out of a colony a few years ago from cages in the garage and never looked back. More room to move around, no poo pans, more natural situation. One thing I noticed when a buck and a doe are together for a long time and she has two or three back to back litters is she starts getting...

Straw and rabbit poop will compliment each other in the compost pile, straw is the carbon component and the poop is the nitrogen. There are recommendations as to the proper percentages (70% carbon, 30% nitrogen if I recall correctly?) but I just pile everything from the property in the compost...

Just got three female Muscovy ducks a few weeks ago, another new adventure in my continuing journey with animals. They've been great but after giving one or two eggs a day between the three of them there hasn't been any eggs now for a couple of weeks. I'm guessing they have a laying cycle...

Rabbit here in Sobeys (now changed to a Freshco) can be as high as $10/lb for the skinniest little rabbit I've ever seen. I just raised my price from $4/lb to $5/lb and the lady who buys from me is happy to pay it for my big, meaty rabbits.

A few years ago I went from cages in the garage to what I call a colony in the back yard. It is basically a small pen five feet wide and the original build was ten feet long. I added another eight feet to the length a couple years later. It is built on 24x30 patio slabs and is wood on three...

Very good.

I guess this is just a rant...lol... I hate changing feed stores after you get comfortable with the place you're at. When I got my first rabbits in 2008 I was buying my feed from a lady near where I bought the rabbits. It was her own formula that the feed mill made up for her and I bought it...

I'm just curious what everyone does with the feed dust in feeds. I have a couple of rabbit feeders I've found that have a mesh bottom but the fines fall down onto the patio stone floors of the colony and makes a bit of a mess. I usually scoop the pellets up with a sifter and give them a few...

I can share another positive experience. When the hens hatch out chicks in the coop there are usually a couple of eggs that don't hatch. I leave them in the nest with the hen and the new chicks for an extra couple of days just in case and then they go in the compost. One hen hatched out about...

Thank you. I've been told by many people that I should write a book. Most of my writing has been on my Facebook page as I have quite a few people who follow me and my animals as we follow our journey through life. If I could write for a living I could perhaps give up truck driving... no more...