Recent content by TroubleMakerAcres

Hi there, I use a digital one for the rabbits, it’s fine for a ballpark weight. We have a larger mechanical scale for weighing our hay and I trust that one more.

2 proven Amber does DOB’s Sept 6 & Oct 28, 202, have had 2 litters each 1 junior REW buck DOB April 12, 2023 Located in Lac la Hache, BC

Hello, Are you on well water? The black liver mentioned earlier says toxin to me. Sometimes wells can go bad and rabbits are known to be a canary in the coal mine. Have you necropsied any of the recently dead?

Oh well I can’t offer you any tips on that lol we slaughter all kinds of ‘cute’ animals on our farm. The more you do it the easier it gets and the better you get at it.

Welcome. What is it about butcher day that is causing you concern?

Love to hear about another off grid adventurer. My husband and I are up in BC off grid, no services. It’s harder than city life but freedom is worth so much more than running water isn’t it. Well I’m sure we will have water into the cabin one day but not yet. Welcome to the forum.

Where we live the dog market is saturated with LGD’s that, if the two we have is any indication, are garbage. I personally will never be getting a ‘livestock guardian’ breed again, and cannot recommend anyone else do so either. I agree with the other comments, any pup you get young that is...

I’ve been given a buck when I purchased a doe 3 times now from three different local sellers. Has this happened to you before? Is this common? I’d be embarrassed as hell if I got this wrong.

Soap is made from fat, remember the movie Fight Club?

https://mr-colors.tripod.com/ Just ignore the ‘mini’ part.

You shoot down through the head of the rabbit from above, not head on facing the spine. Eco2pia made a nice illustration above.

You need to have 20 posts to use the classifieds section. Also it says you joined just over 3 months ago in Oct. Do you raise rabbits? Are you interested in raising rabbits?

https://www.omnicalculator.com/biology/rabbit-color

REW rabbits are rabbits with a ghost costume on. They still have all the other colour genes, it’s just hidden behind the white costume. You aren’t getting any white rabbits from your pairings because your does do not carry the recessive c gene to match his and create REW kits, as tambayo said...

Oh sure! My method is, pick up rabbit by scruff with my left hand (I’m right handed, so the gun is in my dominant hand). Press rabbit to the ground (or a table would work), aim gun straight down at the top of the head. “Draw” an X between left ear, right eye and right ear, left eye. This is...