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I'm curious how you all decide when to move a rabbit out of your breeding program. I'm not talking about culling bucks that aren't producing or poor mothers. I mean proven breeders that you may have kept offspring from. How many litters or how many offspring do you keep before it's redundant to...

I acquired this satin doe and I'm looking for other people's thoughts on her. I am on the fence about what I want to do with her. since I don't know what people look for in satins I figured I'd ask here. If you guys think it's worth it to take her to a couple of shows I'll do that, but if she...

Typically I wouldn't consider vinyl coated wire because I'm not willing to pay for something that the rabbits might chew up. However, my dad has a couple rolls of vinyl coated wire that's just been sitting around forever and he asked if I wanted it. I don't think I want to make permanent housing...

I see a lot of people ask for opinions on rabbits, and more often than not it seems that the pictures posted here get the comment that the rabbit has a pinched hindquarter. I have seen it described as a good HQ looking like a "U" and a pinched HQ looking like a "V"... I have a hard time...

It's official, I'm getting my long awaited vlops! I've been wanting a couple (or a couple dozen) of these guys ever since I first learned about them several years ago. Well, when I decided to get my rabbitry up and running again I decided I wanted to start with this breed. I'm getting a young...

I was recently looking at a list of buns that someone has available for purchase, and then I noticed something funny. It said the parents were a chestnut agouti and a lilac otter. The colors of the babies were black, chestnut, orange and harlequin. Maybe there's something about the E-series I...

Not really sure where to put this post. Admins, if it should be somewhere else I apologize. While discussing my search for velveteen lops with my boyfriend and mentioning how all of the raisers I find are all so far away he asked if rabbits would tolerate flying in a personal/small airplane...

We find ourselves in a difficult situation and have to move. All of my animals need to go. 1 red New Zealand cross. She's 2-3 years old, not very friendly but she gave me a nice litter of meat mutts (7 kits) this summer. Standard rex rabbits, all between 2 years and 7 months old. All...

The first of three expected litters was kindled this morning. Yay! I'm not entirely sure that the second litter due is going to happen as my palpation attempt was inconclusive with that doe. Anyway, this first litter is out of my red mixed breed doe (and sired by my broken otter rex buck.) She...

I have an 8 week old rex buck with one floppy ear. I just noticed it two days ago. It's been unusually hot here the last few days, so I suspected heat may be to blame. Then again, he's the only one in a litter of 7, or in my whole herd really that has a floppy ear. Because of this I also suspect...

In the last month or so I have gotten 4 emails from 4 different email addresses that are so similar it's kind of freaking me out. All have been simple straight forward emails asking if I currently have any rex rabbits for sale. I respond that a have a couple of juniors, a litter about to be...

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My husband struck a deal with a friend to trade a bunch of extra fencing and some old rabbit cages for 5 guinea fowl. They're about 12 weeks old I hear. They aren't here yet but I have literally no idea how to raise them. Will they sleep in the coop with the chickens? Need their own coop? Roost...

Met up with a breeder at a show today and picked up my four new buns! It's been a long day, for them and me, so I don't want to mess with them too much right away. I did take a picture of my new buck, though it's not the greatest. Plus he's molting. He's much more handsome in person. His name is...

I was doing rabbit chores with my daughter and she asked if one of the bunnies could come watch "bunny show". She's taken to watching an episode or two of a show called "Miffy" while holding and petting one of our rabbits. It helps to calm her down before bed and I think it's probably a good way...

So one of my best friends has recently decided she'd like to get into the wonderful world of rabbit breeding/showing. She currently has 3 lionheads who are more pets, but she'd like to try to start a herd with them. Her main problem is that she doesn't really have the ability to keep them at her...

So this is the "rex" doe I was given yesterday. Obviously she's not a full rex but I'm wondering what you think she might be. She's approx 1 year old, and weighs just a touch over 8 lbs.

Last night I was browsing craigslist as I often do and I ran across an ad for free rabbits. They have a bunch that I'm not very interested in but one caught my eye. They're giving away a pair of standard rex girls and I couldn't tell from the picture but one is either Amber or Red. Either way...

DH is building a rabbit tractor for me to use as a growout pen. I like the idea of raising our meat rabbtis on pasture but I wonder what your opinions are on how that effects their total growout time and quality. I'm planning to still give them pellets, I just wonder how much I can save in feed...

Betty's kits are one week old today. Last night I replaced some nesting material because she's clearly been peeing in there. I typically just count heads when I check the kits but I obviously had to pull them all out to get the wet nest out. Well one of them was paralyzed from the waist down. I...