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Free to home meat raisers only. I have an unrelated pair of Silver Fox. One blue buck and one black doe. They have no health issues and they are bunny vac vaccinated to July 2014. The blue has a mismatched toenail and the doe's only problem is she is too weak in the hindquarters to use as...

Horrible day at the tables with our Lilacs. Five Lilacs go up on the table, three come back with health related DQ's. Junior buck with a pimple. We got that one figured out. Senior buck with a miniature abscess in his cheek (very happy we had a thorough judge who caught this early). We...

I've been looking for a bigger alternative for our flemish giants and there's a group of cages that came up for sale that are very affordable: https://scontent-b-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hph ... 1219_n.jpg What I'd like to do with them is attach all three together and make it one triple stack of 2'x9'...

When we started out last year with Silver Fox we began with some young-uns and they were barely reaching senior weight when they got to adulthood. We started supplementing feed with oats and barley and recently started working with some Oxygen pellets each day with two of our litters. The...

Our Flemish are growing much too fast to keep up with their cages. We had a litter of 11 and no shows for about another month, so I had to take drastic measures and put them on a tractor system because it just wasn't fair to them to be confined to such small quarters. So here's how you build a...

I don't eat my own rabbits, and I also will not pet them out. Yet I respect those who do and wish to support individual's efforts to raise their own food. So I'm planning on offering up a couple of our Silver Fox and Flemish Giants from each litter season for free to people who want to start...

Just checking to see if I have others in agreement on this to back up my argument for getting rid of this cat. Went out to the garage today to see one of our barn cats eating one of our one week old flemish babies. We have baby savers on all edges of the cage, plus we have urine guards on top...

Going through my new rabbit software I've got a lot of capabilities to put interesting things on my pedigrees. One of them is show points. The ARBA point system is standard from show to show so I can put down exactly how many points the parents or the rabbit has earned at shows. Would...

Trying to figure out the best distribution of buns here. So we have a black flemish doe kindled 13 today (all black, maybe some steel). Then the blue doe I didn't think was very big kindles 8 kits just now (all blue so my previous post about mixing bun colors is now moot). So the blue is at...

Does anyone have pictures of a newborn Steel Flemish Giant kit vs a Black Flemish Giant kit? I need to foster some out to a blue doe that has blue and black so I'm just trying to find the right combo to make it easier to tell them apart.

When I took our Lilac to the vet last week I also enquired about spaying and neutering costs so I can pass that info on to people we give our rabbits to as pets. I remember paying $75-$90 for spaying and neutering our house rabbits about 13-14 years ago. They said it was $225 for bucks and...

OK, I'm trying to fill out my new rabbit software today and I have a problem with the show reports at Nationals and specialty shows. So we have a rabbit that won BOS for the breed nationals show. So obviously I tick the BOS box. What about the RIS (reserve in show) box? It was a National...

In case anyone on here was waiting til the 15th of May for Bunny Trails to put their software up for sale, they moved the date up two weeks. You can now go on their website and purchase the software. I'm just waiting for them to send my invoice and I should be able to start inputting bunnies...

]Got an issue with our Lilac buck that is worrying me. We picked up a pair of Lilacs in early March. Within a couple of days of being home the doe develops a small bald spot above her nose. It was just bald so I thought maybe she rubbed it off on the cage. Nothing on the buck. The bald spot...

We went to a show in the Amana Colonies today to volunteer (because our rabbits are all under quarantine because of the KY Cup stuff). They had their 4 class show yesterday and their 6 class show today. Normally in most of the midwest shows we go to, you get to show B after lunch and the show...

Came home just as one of our does started delivering on the wire. First time ever I've caught it in mid process. She's pulled no fur again same as last time. Putting more cotton balls in the box and transferring the kits to the box once she's finished cleaning them. She had eight on the wire...

Our GC Flemish Giant Blue buck bit me for the last time tonight. As soon as our doe has kits that get weaned he is out the door. Question is, a biter is not very sellable usually, but is there value in a grand champion who bites? The only other blue he's ever lost to in eight shows is our doe...

We usually put pulled apart cotton balls in a does cage if she has a history of not pulling for until after birth. We put the cotton mixed in with the straw in the next boxlast night since she was acting the same way as she did the last time she had babies on the wire. Come out this morning...

For those of you who might get this in the mail, the club has a great article about the merits and history of commercial meat rabbits, so don't skip it if you usually don't read it when you get it if you are a meat breeder. Although it's a good article, the front cover is absolutely cringe...

I've had a couple times now where I've been referring new house pet rabbit owners to certain sites to help them out whenever they have questions about their buns. I mention rabbittalk, but I've also tried to include house pet rabbit specific sites. No offense to rabbittalk, although well...