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I haven't been here for awhile, but I finally have my cages built and have decided on finding some Japanese harlequin rabbits to get started with. I've been trying to communicate with the folks at Lakola Rabbitry in Marshfield WI, but am getting no replies. Does anyone know if there are...

I see cedar wood is considered toxic. I don't know about the wood, but I know that snowshoe rabbits around here practically live on cedar greens/"needles" all winter long so I'd think domestic rabbits could eat it as well. You'd think the cedar diet would show up in the meat, but I've eaten...

Back when I had rabbits, I would give them some wild apple or poplar twigs and small branches to chew on. They greatly enjoyed these and I will do it again this summer. I was wondering if there would be much of a market for these branches as chew toys. I have a lot of these trees available to...

Up here close to Lake Superior, it gets cold and windy most of the winter. Although I don't have rabbits now, I will be getting some this summer. I raised them outdoors for years. I had 3 sides closed in the winter, and a little covered room with a floor where they could go inside and sit and...

They look great. I would like very much to restart raising rabbits again with Harlequins, but there doesn't seem to be any available within reasonable traveling distance of me.

It's been 10 years since I raised rabbits as livestock and this summer I intend to get back into it on a small scale. I had 6 hutches back then and that was enough for me. I can build my own hutches and I really don't have any questions as to rabbit raising, the only problem I have is I cannot...

When I was a youngster my folks raised angoras for profit and later we had New Zealands for our meat. When I grew up the first pet rabbit I had was a Belgian. It was a free gift and a full grown doe and an outside rabbit but it was very tame and my new wife often brought it indoors. It would...