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Thanks for your replies everyone. Yes, it's horrible and heartbreaking. We have 2 left and they seem to be doing fine; I pray they're okay. OK, I've been thinking and I bet it's something in the goat milk. There were 10 babies in the litter and the mom couldn't feed them all, so I was...

6 days old. They've been fed, and look perfectly healthy until one starts wandering away from its siblings in the nest. It has what looks like bruising down the insides of its back feet. It keeps wandering around the nest box, despite my returning it to its siblings, and after a few hours just...

OK great! Thanks! I am excited to have a new color! :D

Mother's genotype is: Aa BB Cchd DD EE. This is our confident conclusion after a few years of breeding her to our other rabbits. Father is albino, remainder of genotype unknown. We are borrowing him from a friend. Mother, bred to our other rabbits, has always produced Black, Chinchilla, and...

"Duchess" had a litter and didn't give any milk. We successfully raised her first litter on goat milk, and gave her one more chance, and now we are raising her second litter. We won't be giving her a third chance! But they are dying! Four have died now, all with bleeding from the mouth. I...

I wasn't able to get pics. :(

One of the rabbits I processed today had small white spots on its intestine. What disease would that indicate? I've already googled and found very little on it; one site said it can indicate coccidiosis, but not necessarily.

I've figured out that the "frosties" showing up in our herd are frost points. Most are ordinary black chin frost points. But one has lighter, brownish ears. In the picture, the one on the left is an ordinary frost point; the one on the right is the light brown one. As far as I know, we don't...

Thanks all! @Dood, they have white tail undersides. :)

Oh, that's really nice! Happy bunnies! :) So I have a question about colony kindling with no burrows. Will other rabbits jump in and out of the nest boxes, hurting or killing the babies?

Oh, so maybe we have a dilute or chocolate factor in there somewhere! That would be awesome! So we've never gotten Tort or Sallander, but we should be able to. We're going to try to find a pairing that will give us that. I like to tan the furs; that's why I'm so into colors. :)

Akane, your rabbit is beautiful! I have always loved the "pastel" colored animals. :)

I think you're right! I've been sketching out the possible phenotypes of our rabbits, and I haven't found any pairing that can produce a tort. We'll have to work on that! But can a frosted pearl have medium-dark points? All the pictures I've found online show either an even full body frosting or...

We started out with 3 rabbit colors: black, chinchilla, and chestnut. From those first ones came all those colors plus REW and 2 colors I'm not sure about. The first looks like orange: orange fur, light belly, with a little "smut" I think it's called, on the nose and ears - but not nearly enough...

Thanks for your responses! Mamasheepdog, I'll go check out those stickies, thanks. :)

The one lobe is hardened and blotchy. Can anyone tell me what this is, and if the meat is safe to eat?<br /><br />__________ Sun Sep 29, 2013 9:36 am __________<br /><br />Hmmm...if nobody really knows, I guess we'd better not eat it. Thanks, all who have viewed it!

Oh, that is awesome news!!!!

Thanks! So, Dood, I get that moving the pen to fresh grass daily will minimize worm problems. How long do I have to wait before coming back around to the same spot?

We pasture our meat rabbits, and lately, every rabbit we butcher has had intestines squirming full of worms. It's really sad. Is there something we can do to stop it? Herbal wormers are expensive and I'm not sure diatomaceous earth really works. Any advice appreciated, but I would prefer to do...

An area on top of each back foot is bare. The skin looks healthy, so I don't think it's mites. Might it be from urine?