Recent content by Julie Stade

There is a SC breeder listed on the National Rex Club directory: https://www.nationalrexrc.org/breeder-directory

My husband fell in love with the Chinchilla coloring on a Rex coat this weekend at the Mini Rex National, so now he's determined to pull black Chinchilla (the only Chin we can show in Rex) from our herd. LOL As if we don't already have a whole slew of varieties to work on. I do have two fake...

Every one of our rabbit areas has a contractor's radio playing 24/7 both to desensitize the rabbits to noise but also to help deter against predators approaching. We generally keep them tuned to a country station as the music is more calming than say hard rock.

Since three generations of weights are required by ARBA for registration, I'd be really annoyed if I bought a "pedigreed" rabbit only to find that it was missing the necessary data to qualify (especially in a commercial/meat breed like I have).

The first time I see a kit pop out, I put one of the wood step sets in that my husband made for me. There are two screws which protrude slightly on the bottom, so they don't slide around on the wire. They work super well for us.

And then you have the added complication here of how the Rex coat alters color phenotype (like turning Chestnut into Castor). I have two phenotypically Seal rabbits which were a complete surprise for the breeder who produced them (pedigree is all Black and White), and I highly suspect they're...

That's because you're hearing from the Americans (generally urban/suburban) who have an issue, not from the rest of us who aren't bothered by pesky zoning laws. I'm "free" to have 50 or 500 rabbits here, my choice (although that makes me tired just thinking about caring for that many), and no...

We've never had a judge DQ any of our Rex bucks for having a dewlap (and a few of them do have small ones).

If you know anyone with raw-fed dogs or backyard chickens, they'd likely love to have all your leftover parts. And if you separate the hides out, you can roll and freeze them for later shipping when you find a buyer.

Most of what our rabbits produce go into our raised beds, but since we live on a working farm in a rural farming community (with plentiful manure), a full feed bag of rabbit poop only goes for about $5-10.

Our rabbits start off in our rabbit program with just an ear number, so they'll be initially entered as something like "BJF A7," where a letter corresponds to one particular litter. (All our bucks are odd-numbered; all our does are even-numbered.) Then, if they're doing well at the shows (or...

Once ours are around 2 weeks of age or so and starting to pop out of the nest box and get stuck outside, we have step inserts that my husband makes to place in front of the box entrances for easy re-entry. There are two screws which stick out of the bottom to lock them in place so the doe can't...

We don't really take vacations anymore but are sometimes gone to shows long enough we need someone else to feed/water the rabbits that stayed home (and let our dogs out). Fortunately for us, two of our three adult children live within five minutes of our farm, so our 28-y-o daughter usually...

We always order the Herbivore formula that's the apple/banana one.

Within a week, she had stopped itching, excessively grooming, and constantly fidgeting on her feet. I'd say roughly a week after that, the sores started improving dramatically. And by the time we were a month out, she had calm, healed, furry hocks again.