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So I'm learning to tan hides, I'll be fleshing them later today after soaking in alum and salt for a week. I was wondering who else tans hides and what you guys do with them. My friend and co breeder breeds calis and butchers for a lot of people so I have new zealands, flemish, holland...

When I started breeding I was 12 and this website was my main resource. I am now 18, well established, the youth director for my national club, judging showmanship, and skipped ahead into showing in open and placed well at convention. It's crazy on how many rabbit breeders are unaware of the...

I'd like to preface this by saying I breed towards the SOP of the ARBA in holland lops and I'm a perfectionist to a flaw. I've never out a rabbit on the table, I always feel they aren't good enough and I've been working on my herd for two years, breeding for five. I sell anything I don't think...

I've been breeding hollands for 5 years and just now realized I never made a solid feeding system. I feed what they can clean up in a day and a handful of hay. How much do you recommend feeding for hollands? What about for pregnant, nursing, and reconditioning does? What about for weened babies...

I've outgrown my old rabbit barn and we are building a new one! It's 10'x10', 6' sidewalls and 10' peek. I'll put in a loft for storage. My main question is: I wanted to originally make the wall areas by the cages removable for ventilation (cutting strips where cages are and removing them...

Where do I find affordable stackable cages? Can I make them? All the cages I find would be about $100 a piece which seems ridiculous. Any suppliers or websites you use?

I bought a doe pregnant (without knowing it) and she had 4 babies. With me, she's had 3, then 1, and now 3 again. Another doe I have (On I kept from the unknown pregnancy) had 2. I feed Bar Ale, 16% protein. The breed is holland lops so I don't expect big litters but I'm getting frustrated. A...

I know the technical side.... But how do you actually improve your herd? How many rabbits do you need to be able to improve your stock? Where do you find good breeders to buy from?

First time doe kindled 2 last night but she keeps jumping in her box and sitting in it with the babies. I put the box in another cage and left for school since she fed them already, advice?

a few days ago I got hit with inspiration. I took my 3 hole hutch and placed it in the back area, meaning my 12x8 shed is empty of cages and all 9 holes are outside and weather resistant. Point being, I want to redo the interior and get 6 stackable cages. I want to build an office area and get...

What do you have as your rabbit breeder supplies? Such as creams, medical supplies, ect? I don't have much and have been doing this too long to not have a proper kit. Right now it's nail clippers, bottles, basic syringes for force feeding, baby drops, tweezers, basic ani biotic creams for eye...

I wish wix sponsored me..... I made my site with them a few years ago, then a year later scrapped it completely, and started all over using wix both times and it was so easy and free! I've gotten a lot of complements for it and realized that a lot of rabbit breeders have old or hard to navigate...

So my doe have birth to 2 kits this afternoon, one stretched large kit (the one that got stuck) and a small alive black tort. They both had fur. The live kit looks like it's a few days old but was just born. She's never had such a small litter. She is a holland lop so no large litters to start...

So since winters coming, I started feeding alot more hay (In summer it insulates the cages so I can't feed enough) and I noticed how much falls out throw the cages, all still perfectly good but they pee in it and make it unusable but it's alot of hay. Half of the cages have a bunch of hair they...

I bought a doe 6 months ago and she has sensitive feet so she's in a cage full of shavings. She loves chewing a digging so she tends to shove all the shavings out of the corner she uses and often times covers her feeder and out the cage. It's really messy and she keeps having to get a bath...

So I have a pretty small rabbitry. 10 cages, a 3 unit inside the rabbit house, a single cage on the other side of the house (house is an overstatement, it's only 8x12 but we call it a house) and a 6 unit cage outside, 3 on top, 3 underneath. I use bottles since normally only 6 cages have rabbits...

Another rabbit sick! In all my years I've never had 2 rabbits in one week. My buck got GI stasis, he's fine now, and just now I go to put my jr doe away, she seemed fine all day long, until she starts spinning around and her head and eyes twitching. Is this an ear infection or head tilt? Both...

My 2yo main breeding buck didn't come to eat this morning and just sat in the corner. It isn't like him at all and he normally comes running. He was fine yesterday evening and was fine when I picked him up but the second I sat him down he went right back to the corner. Any idea what's going on...

So I plan out my entire year for litters and breeding and everything. I think I'm making it to complicated by planing a year ahead and marking everything down for each rabbit but is this just how we do it? How do you all sort which rabbits to breed to who when and not go crazy?

I sold a rabbit as a pet to a man and his family and oh my gosh nicest people ever! There are so many negative stories out there, makes sense since I had 4 terrible people after the same rabbit, but sometimes you sell a rabbit to someone who is perfect. Kids and wife came as well and the kids...