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Alaska Satin, thank you for your detailed answer! If it's really great to have this here to help the OP plus anybody else who finds this thread at a later date! 💖

I'm going to vote to cull. I have read about people who had babies lose legs that survived and were able to grow up and get around just fine. But I don't know how that 10-day-old is going to eat and the fact that it already sounds like it is actively dying would make me want to put it out of its...

Can you clarify, did he start eating again? Enteritis, likely from stress and or change of diet. Did you get some of the pellet he was eating when you got him? They should be transitioned if being switched. I would syringe probiotics mixed with mashed wet pellets to make a slurry, or use...

Oh and here's the rifle. We have the .177. It's a 10 shot break barrel, so no need for CO2 cartridges. https://gamousa.com/product/swarm-whisper-177-caliber-10-shot-break-barrel-air-rifle/

You're welcome! I apologize for the novel but I wanted to cover all the bases with which I was familiar. 😁

I haven't been doing rabbits for even a year yet, but I've processed 24 now. I have seen this mostly with cervical dispatch, but also when I have been slower getting to the lungs, like with an older rabbit with a tighter pelt due to silver skin. I save my heads, hind feet and pelts for my dogs'...

Like SLRS I had a litter of American Blue kits that were very curious and mouthy. They were handled a bunch which may have contributed as they were pretty laid back temperament wise. As they grew into teenagers they started putting teeth on or grabbing clothes. They never holed my jackets or...

I think that's aspiration of blood from dispatch. I used to get it more with cervical dislocation, but since I'm using a pellet gun the lungs are cleaner when I get to them.

We even texted with Purina and they said they don't know why there isn't any in our area. And I called several tractor supplies and they don't know why they can't order it. 🤦‍♂️ It's fine for now, I got the buy three get one free on animal feeds, so I got four more bags, two of Complete and two...

WHOA! That is an absolute ton of work! It sounds like it will provide an excellent payoff for many years to come!

Yeah just keep an eye out. For a long time now if I try to put anything other than the Purina Complete in a TSC online cart, it says not available at that location, now it says not available within a 72 mile radius to ship to store. So it's not in the store and not close enough to ship for local...

I've doubled my garden size, but I suspect my rabbits will be somewhat fussy, and I don't know how much I can grow and it won't be consistent. I have experimented on which greens they can eat that won't give them too much calcium or oxalates etc etc etc etc etc. I looked into trying to feed...

Yes, I feed a full to overflowing hay rack every night to each single housed bun, and also plenty to does with litters and grow outs. I'm going to feed hay in the am too now. I feed timothy. I'm increasing oats too, so overall they will want less pellet. They also get some garden greens. Good...

Is anybody else having problems finding their preferred pelleted feeds? Locally I have one general feed store and one Tractor Supply. I was feeding 50/50 Purina Rabbit Complete and Modesto Milling from Chewy. I don't like the Purina, I don't like Purina anything and refused to feed it to my dogs...

My current red New Zealand parents just produced 50/50 REW and red. Same buck to a different doe previously produced two REWs to six reds. I was going to sell or cull for meat the REW doe from the first litter, but she is the one that would always come to the front for me to pick her up and hold...

Gristle is usually referring to cartilage, like what you find inside and around joints, like in legs or thighs.

I will second covering the cage in 1/2-in hardware cloth. My rabbits are in regular cages but are inside a covered welded wire dog run that has a real roof. It was originally a dog run then a greenhouse then a quail run, and now is a rabbitry. We covered every square inch of that 8x16 with...

Nice! I seem to have already hit carrying capacity of the run, now it's time to see what my freezers can carry... Edit: Alaska Satin I have a wee bit of rabbit envy for your herd! 😄 I like to go 16 weeks as well, I get a little better weight and one rabbit feeds us and the dogs for several...

If you wait longer than around 10 weeks, you no longer have a fryer, you have a roaster. The meat gets tougher. After 12 weeks the feed to meat conversion ratio also drops, so they put weight on more slowly. Since I either roast or Instant Pot mine and like them bigger, I go a little longer...

Two champion miniature Poodles, 50 quail, 33 rabbits. Plus way too many field mice, and a backyard full of mule deer every evening.