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Hello @ihatedarkroast what app is that screenshot from? Looks like a better version of an app I tried to build myself and never got round to finishing!! Might save me some work

We call it choko here in NZ and it will grow out of control with no encouragement. Are the fruit (squash) rabbit-edible as well as the vines?

This looks hilarious. I once saw a man jogging along the footpath in a residential area with a bunny in harness bouncing along on a leash beside him 🤣🤣 people were slowing down to take a look!!

Love the bows!!!! We've found that going to the trouble of taking cutesy photos definitely helps when selling to the pet market, and writing a good lengthy blurb that establishes us as trustworthy responsible breeders. Our photo setup involves wood, hay, small herbs in pots, maybe put the...

Thank you all for your advice and experience!! Very much appreciated. 🐇💕 @Alaska Satin yes something like this is possible. We think he may have been upset by some temporary care he received while we were away once, and ever since then he has been opposite our NZW buck. It could be a...

Is there any chance that we may get good tempered kits fathered by a bad tempered buck (who has never bred before), or are the kits all likely to be little monsters too?? By bad tempered, I mean he tries to bite any time you open his door. Seems to be unrelated to the level of food in his...

Hello, One of our Rex does was found yesterday with a lot of blood on top of her box and on her ceramic tile which she loves sittion on. While she does have poorly furred hocks that have been known to bleed before, they don't look too bad currently. The blood on top of her box was oddly...

Thanks Cindy, that's a relief to hear. As it's now 2 days since the one kit was born, it's probably unlikely. Poor doe seems confused why there is only one! Notes on the coccidiostat from pellet manufacturers website: Contains 66mg/kg Robenidine hydrochloride as 1kg/tonne Cycostat 66 A001557...

Thank you both. I may be jumping to the conclusion that it's a buck problem since both our bucks had health issues this winter. @Preitler good point about the doe readiness. Didn't actually check this time though both of them welcomed their bucks warmly. Light had not been an issue, both does...

Hello, I'm looking for ways to boost buck fertility levels following two of ours having a pretty tough winter healthwise and both having fathered rather small litters since. I've gone through every herb resource I can find on RT and Googled but that didn't add any more info; does anyone have...

Thank you!! She's definitely winning in the genetics lottery here 😍 nice little personality so far and closest we've come to a chinchilla yet.

Hello, Some updated pics of our little Rex lady, who hasn't gone very sepia at all...!! @Alaska Satin and @judymac is this look still consistent with sable chin? Photos taken Saturday, she will be 5 weeks old on Tuesday. Bit blurry as she's good and active. She has the ruby light in her eye...

I love that you keep your financial notes on here. I'm an accountant, and this kind of financial literacy is badly lacking in most of the general population - simple tracking of sales, costs and where net profit is sitting, especially in small farming businesses / hobby businesses. You're an...

Thank you @Alaska Satin! The photos are most informative, especially the last two and the difference maturity makes to the shading. In the interests of getting a proper black chin, would the best idea be to one day pair this sable chin with one of our black self chins? May not be able to...

Thanks very much @judymac!!!! Sable chin makes sense now that you suggest it. Will be interesting to see how this little coat grows. We'll keep hoping for the genetics lottery to give a proper black chin one day...

We finally have a little chinchilla in our latest Rex litter!! But it has us puzzled a bit. We understood that chin babies were black; this one was more blue and pink before the fur grew in. We figured it must be going to be a blue chin... however the fur is definitely looking black and white...

This thread will probably help you here: Pellet Dust Recipe and Uses

Have a read of this thread: Baby's eye won't open all the way

Thank you both!!!!! Very helpful and interesting. I think we have a question of American vs NZ terminology going on as well 😄 in NZ, a red-eyed white Rex is called ermine. This is breed specific (and very confusing because ermine is non-extension chin in almost all other breeds here). We do...

Off at a tangent: what would you expect a torted blue Californian to look like? We have a meat litter of Californian x Rex at the moment. The Cali mother is known to be Dd; the Rex father is ermine so cc and based on his parentage, has to be carrying at least one d and one e. Some of this...