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Rabbit manure is the best for fertilizer and is in high demand. I use a lot of it in gardening. I use no commercial fertilizers. Rabbit manure is the only one you can put directly on your plants without composting first. I dig a deep trench for seeds, fill it most of the way up with manure...

RunninMI, I am about in the center of the state, just below Mt Pleasant.

Where exactly, and when is the MSU show? I know it's at MSU, but what building do they have it in? I'm assuming that is a Saturday show.

Just wondering where you all are finding markets for your meat rabbits. There seems to be so few slaughter houses that buy rabbits. The ones I have heard of are 3 to 4 hours away from me. I have never sold to them directly but I'm told they pay around $1 a pound, don't know if that's true or...

That choice is always easy for me. I raise pedigreed New Zealand Whites so I have to know which mother and father they belong to or all I can sell them for is meat. They all look alike, so they stay with their mother.

Sorry Miss M, I wasn't watching my spelling. I do mean a swift blow to the head with the metal tool. It doesn't take a lot of force to do the job.

I raise both Boers and Nubians. I breed them pretty much any time of year. There seems to be more intensity with the cycle in the fall, but it works anytime. I usually breed for the percentage kids to be born early in the year for fair goats and the fullbloods to be born in the spring.

I have been feeding Purina Feed to my rabbits for some time. I have tried Kent. The price of both of these keep going up way too fast, even buying it by the ton. I need to find a cheaper feed to make any money. Someone showed me a cheaper brand the other day but when I looked at the ingredients...

Sounds more like enteritis than coccidia to me. I know enteritis swept through Michigan this summer and a lot of people lost a lot of their rabbits. It usually starts with signs of poor conditioning, then bloat, diarrhea, and death. I have not found anyone with an effective treatment for it...

I guess I must be old fashioned. I have a horizontal poll attached to the barn with two loops of electrical wire attached to it (slip loops). This poll sticks out a little above my head. I wrap the rabbits in the head with a cat's claw (short steel tool for pulling nails if you don't know) and...

OneAcreFarm, you are in the wrong place. Here in Michigan you can hardly give away a used freezer. Probably has something to do with how many peoply are leaving the state. I think we are the only state with an actual population decline over the last ten years. Of course that doesn't help...

I just addressed this issue on another thread so I will copy it here. I don't think anything has a better weight gain to feed ratio than New Zeelands. Mine will be around five pounds at eight weeks of age, just two weeks off their mother. I feed a tuna fish can of pellets per rabbit, once per...

I don't think anything has a better weight gain to feed ratio than New Zeelands. Mine will be around five pounds at eight weeks of age, just two weeks off their mother. I feed a tuna fish can of pellets per rabbit, once per day. That includes the mature breeding stock. They get their pellets...

I'll tell you the one that ticks me off the most. People who think that just because you have a farm you will want their unwanted cats and dogs, so they just let them out in front of your place late at night, and speed off. If they think that is giving them a good home to do that at my place...

Cait, Most kids are very cute at that age. Makes you want to have more. It's when they become teenagers that you have to say...what was I thinking.

Hi Cait, I joined your sight and left a message. Good luck. I can't decide if you're really talented or have too much time on your hands LOL.

Once you start really using a freezer, they are never big enough. I have four fair sized chest freezers. I don't have them all running all the time though. When we butcher a steer it will fill one freezer. We grow most of our own food so we also can a lot. However for short term storage the...

You can pack the boneless fresh meat in quart jars, add a teaspoon of salt (and a little black pepper if desired), and pressure can them for 90 minutes. You can make just about anything with the meat when you open the jars, ready to eat. We make a lot of jerky also. Just bone the meat and...