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Last night we added two independent water bottles just to be safe. As of an hour ago they look to be using both. We've pulled the pellets and have stuff the hay racks with the best hay we have along with two bowls of oat meal. Unfortunately, we lost another 10 week old cali in the last hour...

Recently we breed our creme buck to a black cali doe and was rewarded with some beautiful harliquen kits. After seening the results we purchased 3 NZ /SF cross doe to hopefully repeat the results in the coming months. The purchased does are 7 weeks old and due to space and time constrants I...

Congrats on the new little ones!!

Well we made a nice save with some help from the great folks on the site a few nights back and our cross NZ does with our Creme d buck produced some some really nice (but dark) colorations. Attached a couple of quick pictures to share. We also had a black NZ doe crossed with the same Creme d...

Hi all, Just checked on the new born kits and all 8 look great! Fat little belly's and mom is doing fine. We also had a early surprise this evening with our Cali doe that was crossed with our creme d buck with 6 more newbies. She pull hair and delivered on day 29 all in about two hours...

It's been an hour. Heading out to check on her progress. Thanks<br /><br />__________ Sun Nov 04, 2012 9:11 pm __________<br /><br />Update, the start of a save: added fresh shavings and all the loose hair I could gather and moved 8 kits to the box. Placed the nest she made with some of the...

I'll check on her in a about 30 mins and if she looks done I'll ad D some more hay and pine shavings and go from there. She's normally pretty good with me and I may try to move the nest to the box before calling it a night. Thanks to all!!!

Ok, so one of my experienced NZ does at the last minute abandoned the next box and built a make shift nest on the wire. She did bunch up a ton of hay and a lot of hair, but I'm concerned about the kits being born out of the nest. I took a peak and she is hard at giving birth and I can hear the...

Hello, While I'm still sorting out a few fine tuning items on my system, I installed a low pressure pump in my bucket at first and then just pushed the water through and returned it right back to the feed bucket. I'm running just over 130 feet of piping that 1/2" PVC on two levels and it...

Holy Wow! I never considered that. Great advice...Just goes to show what you dont know. Thanks so much!!

Hello All, Currently, I have two bucks to service 12 does. Since one of my bucks is a creme d, I've been asked to stud him out a couple of times and I was wondering is there an appropriate gap or waiting period between him servicing the does. He seems "ready" any time. But, I'd guess I...

Hello Gang! Well, I broke down and spent the $200 plus shipping for a freez-X system and spent all day yesterday setting it up. Where my rabbitry is located the neariest water supply is about 150 feet away and the daily bucketing of water was a real drag to say the least... My setup is...

The tub link was great and I'm gonna switch out my boxes this evening and give them a try with my does that are nearly due. Thanks for sharing the info!!!

I'd like to get more info on the totes as well. Seems like a great idea and should be easy to clean and such. Today I ordered a few of the heat mats to try out during winter. Any thoughts on using them?

I actually have all of them in a 24' long x 12' wide x 9' tall shelter logic enclosure. It has zip up / down doors at each end and while it's not heated there is no wind, rain or snow to deal with. I've got two cali's due this weekend, and a couple of NZ the following along with my two...

Thanks for all of the advise! Just finished changing out to pine shavings on the boxes that I have prepped. Should have Cali giving birth tonight or tomorrow with the new box set up. Also, what are the general thoughts on metal vs wood boxes? Ive used both and really haven't or am not...

Thanks so much for the advise! Will swap out the cedar chips for some pine and feathers and such. Also, with the Michigan winter upon us, what are your thoughts on heat lamps for the does and new Norns? Thanks again!

Hello all, I have three 10 month old creme's and each one of them has not done well with there first litters. Two failed to actually use the provide box that had a bed of cedar chips plus a generous amount of hay. I placed the boxes in at 28 days and they both gave birth on day 30. I found in...