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I am in upstate NY and we can hit the high 90s with high humidity for days in a row. Considering Silver Fox but reading this a bit concerned over heat. Did anyone experience mortality due to temps in the 90s?

I have a constant flow system as you describe with a heater in the bucket for winter. I turn the heater on when temps drop below 30F. I have been down to -5F with no issues. The reservoir stays at 85F and I have about 60ft of running pipe to service 12 cages. The whole setup is in an...

Size of the bucket does not really mater. It is more how high you have it mounted about the water spouts.

How do you keep them from freezing in the winter?

You will have trouble keeping that small diameter tubing from freezing when the temps drop. I use 1/2" pvc as my main trunk line. at each cage I have a threaded pvc T. A brass fitting screws into the T and the brass water nipple screws into this. The brass conducts heat to the nipple and...

If you have access to penicillin you this will help with the infection but it may take longer for the swelling to go down. I used .1 ml/# sub Q every other day for 10 days.There are a number of post here on mastitis if you do a search. My recent post asking for advice on breeding after...

Rosey1. Thank you so much.

At feeding time I noticed one teet was a little more red than the others. Next morning there was swollen and red. I did not get a vet analysis.

Tambayo, have you seen mastitis in any of her offspring or in her dam?

Thanks for the information and your insight. I will take a chance that it is not a dominant trait. I have a beautiful doe from her previous litter that I will be breeding in the next few weeks. Thanks again for your help.

Has no one had any experience with this? Could really use some insight.

I have a NZ doe almost 2 yrs old. This is her 3rd litter and at week 4 she developed mastitis in one teet. I separated the kits and put her on a course of penicillin injections twice per day. The swelling has not gone down but that is to be expected from what I have read. I am 8 days into a...

My processor has found 2 instances of a hard, green liver out of a total of maybe 15 rabbits. She was not able to tell me which rabbits had this condition only that the liver was hard and green. She did not keep the specimen for me to inspect. The first one showed up in a group that was 12...

I don't usually weigh until 8 weeks when most are between 4 and 5 pounds. If any are over 5# they are potential breeding stock. When I process, usually at 12 weeks, they are around 6#.

I have been having a similar issue with my rabbits. Kits dying from diarrhea and or bleeding from the vent. For me this has been mostly when the kits start leaving the nest box but I have had some die very young as you have. I changed food brand which did not help. 3 of these does were a bit...