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I recently posted for advice about our CL ad to help us sell any extra meat rabbits. Well, today we had someone ask us if we would sell ALL of our surplus rabbits to them every two months when they are ready. We would sell them live, and the person buying them will ONLY be using/selling them...

Hello! I am a little nervous, but I just posted my first ad to try to sell some of our excess rabbits that will be ready for cooking school in January! Any opinions on how I worded this? Hopefully I won't bring the crazies out of the wood work, we do have a very strong Slow Food Movement in...

I haven't been on RT much at all for several months now, due to a myriad of health issues that really got out of hand this year. I've missed keeping up with everyone! Despite all that fun stuff, we have been able to keep to our breeding schedule that I mapped out before we even brought home...

Today is 25 days post kindle, and right on schedule, we bred the girls for their second round! I am a major spreadsheet nerd - I always say things have to happen if you build a good spreadsheet! Though in the case of rabbits I am prepared for surprises. :lol: So far they are right on track...

Well, I finally decided to cull Ducky yesterday. She weighed in at 3.25 oz at three weeks old - just not big enough. The last day she didn't want to eat, which was not like her at all, and I took it as the final sign. I'm glad that I spent the time with her and worked with her, it was...

You may remember Ducky, who was 1/3 the size of her largest siblings. She is still kicking, but is only gaining weight by the .1 ounce at a time! I've been giving her goats milk with a little egg yolk and some molasses (can't find organic corn syrup! and figured molasses is better anyway due...

Just wondering - I know that you can raw pack rabbit without pre-cooking it, but I'm wondering... if you are going to do this, do you still have to wait for rigor to pass? Or will the pressure canning still tenderize the meat so much that it will override the toughness of a rabbit still in...

This is something that I forget about, and then will randomly remember, and I'm not sure what I should do. When we bought our rabbits (saw them and paid deposit at 10 weeks of age, brought them home at 12 weeks) they were due to be butchered that weekend. All of the other kits from the litter...

When I went to pull Ducky for some goat milk time, I found Daph's entire litter shivering and soaked with her urine. What are the possible causes of this, and should I give her the nest box back? I'm concerned that she will do it at night time and we will wake up to eight dead babies! Advice...

Yesterday I weighed the kits and took pictures again. It seems like our babies are a touch smaller than they should be for 11 days old? The largest is 6.75 oz and there is one straggler, Ducky, who only weighed in at 2.2 ounces!! Ducky was the original runt of the litter, we had nursed her on...

I haven't looked at each kit, but I found the ONE solid one in the litter, a little black doe, expired today. Boo! At least it is cooler today, so it didn't smell as much. The kits had pushed it into the same corner again, too. The runt that Velma had rejected at kindling is doing very well...

I just went down to check on the buns - it's 63 degrees here, so not too hot. Both does were laying in their cages, and there were piles of fur in both cages on the floor. Down in the Sani-nest, both litters only had a thin veil of hair over them, and the hay that formed the top of their nest...

We just checked on all the buns a bit ago. I didn't take all the kits out of the nest, but I looked at two or three from each litter and just lightly touched each kit to see if they responded, as well as felt around a bit. The kits in both litters look like they are well fed, with the little...

When DH went down to check at six this morning, Velma had just finished kindling! She had twelve total, with two stillborn kits that didn't look like they finished developing. So that makes ten kits in each litter! Not too shabby for our first time out! If anyone has some input on colors...

Here I am, up again in the wee hours, and another long day tomorrow - I have mayofascial pain syndrome, which means the fascia on pretty much anything in my body can contract and exert I think 2,000 psi of pressure wherever it darn well pleases. I've been having random knots and spasms in the...

I came down to check on her and just after I got there she started haystaching, and frantically digging everywhere except where the nest box is! I finally pulled the basket out of the nest box and put it in the corner she seemed to like best and she eventually jumped in and started digging...

Day 30 today! All the hay eating and playing with it is over for her - this morning we went out and found a really well constructed nest! No fur yet, and only Velma has built hers so far. Daphne put all the hay she didn't eat or drop through the floor of the cage down into the nest box, but...

I noticed a few fresh cecals under both of our pregnant does cages last night - just a few really. I just went out to check what the girls did with the mountain of hay we put in their cages last night - about 2 flakes or more each. They both ate all the hay!! No digging in their pellets so...

On Saturday evening at feeding time, we suddenly noticed big piles of pellets under BOTH of the does cages!! As some of you may recall, the girls had both started going through all of their pellets and hay about four days after we bred them. At the time they were both getting 6 oz a day, plus...

This was a totally spur of the moment thing (cuz we're crazy), but we decided to expand the fruit orchard this year - it has turned into a MAJOR project! We bought 18 two year old blueberry plants (five varieties) and 15 raspberry plants, plus 3 black currant plants. The black currants were a...