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How early do you remove the nest box. Kits are about 3 1/2 weeks now. We're in Central TX, so while it's cold, it's not near as cold as most of you. No lower than mid 20's at night so far.

Finally! One doe kindled 8 last night sometime. She is a first timer. All of them look good. Now if the other 7 does would just have their's. :?

I was talking to a lady who was talking about feeding beet pulp to her horses. I looked it up, just out of curiosity and saw that some people feed it to their rabbits. Has anyone done this? Is there any nutritional advantage? We're raising for meat pens, so I was wondering if it might give us...

So, I haven't been on in a while. We were kind of taking a break from the rabbit biz. We have about 6 month where the kids don't need meat pens, so we took that time off. We're waiting on 8 litters at the moment. Any time now..... They will show meat pens in mid-January, so here we go again! I'm...

Ok, so I saved the back legs from some of the rabbits DH processed for me last weekend. I plan on frying them up tonight. His cousin has been bugging me for rabbit since we got them in August! I can just fry them like I do chicken, right? That is the current plan. I'm just cooking a few since...

How do you treat fur mites?

Well, we didn't make the cut yesterday. Both kid's meat pens got cut pretty quickly. They only keep 30 pens out of over 100. We did get some good feedback though. When the judge went back through to tell us what needed to be fixed, he couldn't seem to remember why he cut our daughter's pen. We...

What are the best ways to put a little weight on a meat pen rabbit? It is 8 weeks now. I don't want it fat, or to loose condition, but it needs to gain about 7 ounces to catch up with the others. I have 13 days to get the weights as close as possible. It already has free feed, both a water...

We are showing meat pens in about a month for the first time. What do I need to take with me? We could potentially be there 3 days. We check in on Wed. and either make the top 30 and stay until Friday, or go home. I know we need food/water. What else do we need to be sure to bring?

We got our meat pen rabbits validated this morning. All 8 of them. The kids are getting excited to see how we do. They told us a lot of people lost rabbits because of the cold. They were all born during that cold snap right after the first of the year. We got down to 10, but didn't loose any to...

My doe who didn't even clean the babies last time, or have them in the nest has given me 6, clean, happy babies. :clap: Granted, she refuses to make her nest in the box, but she did much better this time. No babies on the wire. All nice, clean and warm! Now I have 2 more due any minute. Of...

I just weighed some of our 4 week old Californians. I need them to hit just under 5 lbs at 10 weeks. Anyone happen to know about how much they should weigh? They were between 1 lb and 1.5 lbs. They are getting split up this weekend or early next week so I can have more control over feed and...

Ok, I'm sure I already know the answer to this, but..... Do you use expired medications on your rabbits? I got 2 rabbits from a lady yesterday and she gave me the rest of her ivermectin since she won't need it anymore. It expired in 2004. I appreciate the gesture, don't plan to use it. I'm just...

Cookie Dough! They named the buck Jet. Both are 10 weeks and it looks like we won't be keeping Jet. I just thought their name was funny! :lol:

A girl who won Grand Champion last week at our Jr. Livestock show and her mom came on Sunday to help us get ready for the Houston show. They are extremely impressed with our stock, which made me feel alot better about our chances long term. Anyway, they are selling out and offered to sell us...

I had someone come look at our stock to help us get ready for a show. It will be our first show so we need all the help we can get. She mentioned that they might have worms. How do you treat them and can you treat while pregnant?

I was at a new feed store yesterday. The don't carry my feed, which I already knew. I've been driving 30 miles to get it every month. Then, it isn't always real fresh. Anyway, one of the managers there asked me to bring in the tag for the feed I use (which is out of Louisiana) and let her...

What causes the doe to pee on the kits? My doe just did that and soaked them and the box. I cleaned them and have them under a heat lamp to warm them back up good before I put them back outside. Anything else I need to do?

I currently have 9 kits. 6 from one doe and 3 from another. The mother of the 6 is caring for them all as the mother of the 3 was a first timer and had no clue what to do. It is very easy to tell which is which because the 6 are snow white while the other 3 are much darker. They are Californias...