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Just curious. Do you guys find that your rabbits need more or less medical/supplemental attention in a colony setting. I.E. do you need to medicate them or give them anything special to keep them healthy or is food, water and hay sufficient and is it more or less in this setting? When answering...

Beautiful babies!

I wish I was so perceptive. Instead I am just misunderstoood. :razz2:

I agree. That's a beautiful bunny; I need to see it's housemate. Besides I also need ideas for what to put in my colony when I get one.

Thanks MamaSheepdog. I guess I will forego the electric in the middle and just put the mesh in the middle. A larger holed mesh will probably work fine for this (2x2 or what ever I can find). I also think I will keep the boy inside as a pet to be able to time the pregnancies better. So at first...

Hmmm. I guess I may just have to choose to run a strand of hot wire along the bottom-most holes they could get through (about halfway up) and across the middle of the barbed-wire (about 5 feet up). The field fencing is 4 feet tall, with an additional 2 feet of barbed wire and a strand of hot...

I will definitely use the welded wire since I'll need to buy a roll anyway for the cages. Thanks for the suggestion. The 4x4 area was supposed to be the cage only, the run will be significantly larger (probably on the order of 15x10 or larger. I guess if I don't put the cage in the walled in...

I think I am ready to get set-up and get some rabbits soon. I am looking primarily to raise some meat rabbits. I LOVE the idea of letting them "pasture" to some extent, but because of the large number of green onions and many threats from neighborhood dogs and miscellaneous predators, I think my...

I am considering raising rabbits either in colony or pastured. My land won't support it yet, but I'm trying to plan. How do you guys handle heat? It's been in the upper 80's here in TN and I can only imagine what Summer will bring. I've read so much about heat sterility, miscarriages, death...

Thank you ALL for your input! It looks like I'll have to wait a bit longer than I originally wanted to. I did read that with more organic material and less acidity the wild onion population will drop. So, if I densely cover crop in Spring and Fall for a year and free range my chickens there, I...

Thanks for the encouragement Maggie. I think I will just have to be a little more creative and patient. I may keep a small colony (pop and two moms)in a very large area with your shed idea and pasture the kits as soon as they're old enough to leave momma. I'll just have to wait until I get the...

I was afraid of that (I know there are several cottontails around here, but I don't think they burrow). Not at all sure what my options are then. I really want things to be as natural for them as possible/reasonable. Concrete is philosophically out of the question for what I want. As far as...

So, I've read a lot about this before and lately. Lately, because my plans for a few tractors may be thwarted by the plethora of wild onions. I plan on raising rabbits for meat mainly just for my family, but possibly as a supplement for the guardian dog we'll be getting for our chickens as well...

Now that you've indicated that the onion is bad for them for sure (thank you!), if offered to them will they avoid it? It's not like I'm going to feed them alfalfa/onion pellets right? How do wild rabbits know to leave them alone? Given plenty of choice would they be ok? Not trying to be...

I am planning on getting some meat rabbits later this year and "pasturing" them. Pretty much I want to plant a bunch of rabbit friendly plants/grass (timothy, alfalfa, clover, carrots, turnips, etc) in long strips and rotate them through these 'garden' pastures with them in wire enclosures with...