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Doing my 2012 taxes, started looking at the Hobby expenses, and discovering all about "Farms". Wondering if anyone here claims their rabbit farms as "Hobby" or files Schedule F. I am wondering what I'm stepping into if I file as a Farm (Sched F). I already have two Schedule C's, and am tempted...

Wondering if anyone has successfully tanned leaving the tails on the hide? If so, how? I just love the tails. I have tried unsuccessfully many times to try to cut the bone out - slitting down the underside of the tail - I can often get about half out before the tip half of the fur comes off with...

OK maybe I've really messed up here. Reading all your posts, everyone mentions stretching. Why stretch? I thought the point of salting was just to take the moisture out until it was time to tan. Dunking it in a chemical solution would get it all wet again - eliminating any stretching...

I'm pretty frustrated. I recently salted, hung, dried a batch of furs, moved on to the next batch, pulling another 10 out of the freezer, salted, hung them. Batch #1 was hung in the laundry room and made a mess, so I hung Batch #2 outdoors. #2 did not dry well and I'm guessing the moist...

OK yesterday's butchering was a new experience. I've been researching old threads and the internet for answers to what I found on 2 rabbits that have been growing out in a pasture pen together. I'm attaching a pic of a liver with a white lump under the surface of the liver. I really wish I'd...

One of my does last week gave birth to 15 kits!! That's a record. I think she did 14 last time. Her sis does 12. But here's the rub: I always lose kits until I only have about 8 left. That really sucks! So this time I took 7 of the smallest babies out of the nest box, and created a little nest...

I am baffled by a kit that popped out, 2nd generation Belgian Hare x American Blue cross. I went back to the Hare breeder, he said the black & tan Belgians were crossed with other breeds to strengthen the line, in the U.K. Anyone familiar with a rabbit that looks like this? Maybe a U.K. breed...

Summer is here, I'm going nuts keeping up with watering! I'm checking out those chicken watering cups (like these http://www.cutlersupply.com/cart/index. ... cts_id=489) wondering if anyone has used them for rabbits? I'm thinking they'd be fairly easy to hook up to a plastic drum to fill up...

Thanks for asking, AnnClaire. Yes, journey through the illness... LOL (choke, gasp) So, its been a wild ride. I put down the one rabbit and regretted my decision - the two bucks next to him came down with Bordatella, not Pasteurella. Lots of research turns up that there are many different...

So if you remember, the last time this happened, it did NOT turn out so well. The rains came, the doe seemed to forget about her litter underground. A new mother doe who I've been so eagerly waiting for the past year to breed, who was so huge she must have had a huge litter, decided to burrow...

Does anyone know how to do this? The testing facility so helpfully suggested I have my vet show me how to do it. = not helpful!! I am not going to pay $55 just to get a demo. I can't find a video or online info on how to do this correctly on a rabbit... after being told how important it is to...

My new fancy Hotot doe I had shipped from Convention 4 months ago has been diagnosed with Pasteurella. I am mortified and terribly sad. To make matters worse, she is probably pregnant. She has never seemed to feel real well which I thought might be coccidia, she had a lot of soft droppings...

I'm still struggling with my vent disease infestation of my (small) herd, what has it been - over 4 months now and I'm on the 4th round of 3 weeks of antibiotics. Such a drag. In the meantime, some of my young promising hybrid does have not proven to turn up to be sturdy stock, and I'm moving...

Last night I awoke 4am to a baby bunny screaming. I ran out into the pasture to check on the rabbits, and did not see any predator nor was I missing any rabbits from my colony pen. It wasn't until the next morning that my BF found the injured baby bunny, about 3 weeks old. His rear leg is...

I saw this picture in the Drsfoster & Smith catalog - OMG!! What breed of rabbit is this? Is this a lionhead? I looked online at lionheads and did not see any with smokey eyes like this. Not that I need another rabbit for a pet only, but... maybe someday!!

Well I just stumbled upon this when I was looking for dosage for worms. Encephalitozoon cuniculi is a protozoa which is found in the environment. It can cause a leg to go weak, or a whole back end of a rabbit to become paralyzed. As I dug more and more into it, apparently many cases of supposed...

I was trusting her instincts were telling her what to do. We didn't know she was pregnant (she got out one day for 20 minutes when a 4 month old fryer had escaped for a couple days) and the moment we let her into her day run she dug a deep burrow, pulled fur, had babies, all in one day - wow. I...

I put this on a slightly older thread but I think its been missed so I'm reposting. How do you know if the rabbits have worms? I have not seen any. But I have two youngsters, one I was planning to keep, one who I was letting fatten up more and dispatch around now, at about 4 months. They are...

My buck was free-roaming til he came down with some sort of snuffles. We treated that, but what I've seen since is some kind of wart or bump next to his penis, that is growing larger. We had suspected he had been in contact with wild rabbits to get the snuffles, now I'm suspecting he also...

So... I have not been through the rainy season, or REALLY rainy season, with my colony set-up. I have a fully enclosed 10'x4'cage on the ground (large fencing on the floor so they can't dig out but can eat what's underneath and enjoy being ground bunnies). It has a couple shelves for a 2nd & 3...