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Thanks everyone....E-Coli can be fatal, which is why we don't buy ground beef from the store! I've watched enough documentaries that it's almost hard to shop for food anymore, the list of things I will buy continues to get smaller and smaller, but you can only be so careful and even...

Today was a big day...glad it's about over. She had the port put in and her 1st dialysis treatment. Everything went well...now we just have to try and keep her comfortable at the port site in her neck. She will get dialysis everyday until her kidney's can do the work themselves. I'm told after...

Well, we aren't quite out of the woods yet....looks like we'll have to stay another nite...her urine output has been very low even though she's getting iv fluids. The main concern is kidney problems associated w/E-Coli. This is Day 7 and she still hasn't been drinking/eating much. I've been...

Oh man, it's been a long rough road since Thurs. morning last week. My daughter somehow, somewhere contracted an E-Coli infection. She's been in the hospital since Saturday, we are hoping we'll get to go home tomorrow as things are looking good. She is past the critical period when complications...

Okay, thanks--I love the blue color, but am glad I'd still likely get black since they are recognized.

As for sprouts, I use 1/2 gallon mason jars, but I only have 3 does and 1 buck, and all their offspring. I use little dishes or Tupperware, but need to get something better that doesn't tip easily-the rabbits attack the bowl like they haven't eaten in weeks, it's pretty funny actually. As long...

If I bred a blue SF doe to a black SF buck (that carried the blue gene), would I still get black SF in the mix?

I have found that my rabbits do better with a small amt. of alfalfa pellets (organic high quality) along with their sprouted wheat and hay. Before I was mixing grain and giving them alfalfa mix hay, but their condition wasn't quite right, had 1 doe lose all kits, and the other doe had softer...

Thank you for the responses!!! One Acre Farm, I like your protocol!! Now, how to deal with kits of mom's that sneeze? Especially ones that you'd like to keep...separate them at 4 wks. or before?

Just put down the kit--here is the pic of the lung, no puss that I can tell.. Does it look normal to those experienced???

Okay, so here is what I'm faced with right now....have 2 does w/litters quarantined away from other rabbits... 1 started sneezing about 4 days ago (lots of sneezes in a short amt. of time) no snot, just sneezing... The next day rabbit next to her sneezed at least once or twice... So, I moved...

Got to get Borage, I've always wanted to grow it anyway--now I have a reason!-not that I need to have a reason to grow a beautiful plant... Oh, I checked her kits and at least most of them had been fed, I'll check more thoroughly later...Yay! Another reason to keep her, she is by far the...

My youngest doe, Stripes-who is only 6 months old...just had 13, only 1 died!!! I'm so proud of her so far, she built a nest and pulled fur before having them, and she had all of them in the nestbox! Now I got to figure out how to keep them all alive! Her milk hasn't really come in much yet...

I guess I'll rebreed her ASAP, not planning on breeding much if any during the summer months.

So, I have 2 does that have had 2 previous litters that were healthy. 1 of my does delivered on Wed. w/ no issues (she had 12, lost 3) The other doe had 1 in her water dish on Wed. Then yesterday, throughout the day had a couple here and there all on the wire. We tried to save them, but this...

Good to know! I get a lot of mallow too.

Way to go!!! Having recently accomplished our first butcher day, I can relate to the feelings. It's so rewarding to have meat that you raised in the freezer! We are about to sit down to a dinner of Rabbit Chili!

I'm about to do it up for dinner. IS a late start I know, but son has Baseball game and won't be home til 8 or so.

Okay, thanks! Most plants also say above ground parts only (for safe to eat), will the rabbits tend to dig at roots they shouldn't eat, like raspberries?

I'm thinking about making a colony for my rabbits. I want to plant some shady/privacy plants around their enclosure, so these are the plants I'm thinking about. Plum tree, mulberry vine, grapevine, roses, willows and raspberries. I'm mostly concerned about the fruiting ones since some lists the...