Recent content by Harelady

No pedigrees and I am guessing on breed. The black doe has a lot of French characteristics. The little chocolate tort looks like an English. The two REWs I think are Germans mixes.

Well after months of fighting a respiratory pathogen. I decided to cull down to 10 healthy rabbits.This is 1/4 what I started with this year. All sick were culled yesterday after a month of trying to cure them. Ten more that are healthy are being sold or culled. I just need a break and will be...

Nope. He is fine.

I have a real soft spot for Angoras in need. I was looking on Craigslist just to see what was out there and noticed an ad for Angoras for sale. The pictures needed look good so I contacted the owner to see if she need any help with them. Turns out the lady was very sick and couldn't groom them...

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Rescue Angora

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Yes and no. They get less ventilation in the winter. But I been giving them more lately. I had an autopsy done on the rabbit I culled last week. A swab and tissue was sent for testing. Initial reports are showing bacteria of the E coli variety. Which is super odd. Will get more information as...

So I finally got a diagnosis in one rabbit of pseudomonas aeruginosa. However that rabbit hasn't had any snot since the culture was taken. I have had five hares have symptoms in the past couple of weeks. Had to cull one who had pneumonia yesterday. All the hares do better in quarantine inside so...

So an update. I weaned the kits whom are not showing any symptoms and all the sick rabbits were culled yesterday. I am pretty sad about it. I got a swab of snot from one of them and sent it to a lab for testing. Probably test results will not come back till next week. But I should get an idea...

Thank you MaggieJ. The rabbit I just found with snot is in quarantine. I am waiting for the babies of the nursing mom to reach six weeks old. Then I will quarantine the mother. None of the babies are showing symptoms right now. I will test the one with snot and see what the results are. But more...

So I am freaking out right now. I have had three rabbits get random respiratory illnesses in the last two months. First died within 24 of getting sick. The second a nursing mom I am treating with antibiotics whom only symptom is a making sounds while breathing. Now I found a third with snot...

Interesting that I found this thread. I am actually considering getting back into Tans now. I just miss them and haven't found a breed to raise that I truly like besides my Belgians. I have room for two breeds and need something smaller and has more competition than the Belgians.

But wouldn't it be dry after 16 hours? Don't you need to break it while it is drying? Can I freeze it while wet or wet it after it is dry? So I can break it then?