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Keep or salvage?
One of my breeding bucks has taken a downhill turn as soon as the hot &humid weather hit. Its his first summer with me. He has gone off feed for 4 days and has stopped drinking. He would "nibble" at fresh greens but not much else. Yesterday I pulled him to force some pedialyte in him and check him over again incase I had missed something. And now hes got himself some discharge from one nostril, sounds wet and looks faintly bloody. . . Do I keep trying? Or do I just put him down and use him for dog food?
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Re: Keep or salvage?
For me, ... I don't keep breed stock, that has any problems...
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Re: Keep or salvage?
Another vote for culling him, same reason as Michael gives. I'm trying to breed for more heat tolerance down here, so that is a huge issue to me. YMMV, of course.
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Re: Keep or salvage?
Yeah I think that is the plan. Ill put him down tomorrow then, unfortunately Ive never been able to figure it out by hand so a trip out of town with the pellet gun will be necessary.
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Re: Keep or salvage?
I've used a pellet rifle indoors. Had the rabbits in a metal wash tub to catch the pellet just in case I missed.
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Re: Keep or salvage?
Pellet gun is stored out of town with family at my butcher station. And too many neighbors around to be carrying anything "gun" related.
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Re: Keep or salvage?
Shea wrote:Pellet gun is stored out of town with family at my butcher station. And too many neighbors around to be carrying anything "gun" related.
so glad i don't live in town...
Sometimes all the "local" gunfire aggravates me, and scares the dog, ...
but, .. it is much better than living with the paranoid people, in the city...
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Re: Keep or salvage?
Getting out of town is what I want. Been stuck here for 10yrs now, rent free but I have 8 houses bordering my backyard.
I checked his lungs after dispatch, they were dark red and a little streaky. Pneumonia?
I checked his lungs after dispatch, they were dark red and a little streaky. Pneumonia?
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Re: Keep or salvage?
looks like you made the right decision... without a lot of expensive tests, the exact cause would not be known-- but-- he was sick, and you do not need that in your rabbits...
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Re: Keep or salvage?
Now the big question is do I keep any of his progeny. I already have one of his sons grown out and bred to 2 does just for color test breed, Not a main buck keeper, and he had sired my last 3 litters one with another prospective keeper in it.
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Re: Keep or salvage?
lots of health issues are not genetic... they are environmental... dust, mold, a stray germ. --- etc: ...
With that said, I have at times,.. culled an entire line, because they were prone to infections, or too many of them had soft feet...
With that said, I have at times,.. culled an entire line, because they were prone to infections, or too many of them had soft feet...
meat-mutt rabbits, a few laying hens.
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