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I don't know about the peanuts - something I would like to know more about. I am glad that you found a way for it to get enough milk. You can do a lot of line breeding with rabbits. but my breeding was buck and doe were half siblings then I bred her back to the same buck. Yeah, just too much but...

Anecdotally, my Tamuks have litters that range from 8 to 12 kits (there are lines that have larger litters, these are mine). I have noticed that yes, the litters of 8 grow out faster and bigger so I am torn but I choose to be happy about every litter - the smaller ones because they will grow out...

It might be a peanut which, I think, is a kit that is just not right. If so, it will almost certainly die. Even knowing that, I can rarely convince myself to go ahead and cull it just in case I might be wrong. My head tells me it would be more humane to cull it and better herd management. And I...

If you have been using them for 9 months and your rabbits are doing great, I think that is pretty good evidence that it is okay. Do you feed them anything else? What portion of the diet do you estimate are these cubes? I've thought about using hay cubes but the first foray was not encouraging (I...

Thank you for that excellent example of breeding back to pure. Very interesting!

Seriously, I wouldn't spend time worrying. The chance that you will get an infected rabbit is really very slim to none.

I'm in Texas. I wouldn't knock out whole states over that virus. What I would do is look up the current outbreaks and stay away from those specific areas. Pretty sure there is a website but i don't have it handy.

You might try just asking the people who run the club. They ought to be able to connect you with the leading local folks for the breed.

I would suggest looking for ARBA shows and attending those to find the kind of breeders you are looking for. Not that I am any kind of show rabbit expert but I do know a lot about networking. I have a map that I have been making for a while but most of the contact info is Facebook links. Groups...

Just another idea - I have a page for my rabbitry on FB and I know a lot of people who do. It does at least help folks find you and as far as I know, they aren't penalizing private messages yet.

You are in the southern hemisphere? False pregnancies seem to be common when does are ready but the breeding didn't take. But no, please wait longer than 31 days. Rabbits regularly go to 33, 34, 35 days and can even go to day 39. In the relatively short time I have breeding, I know of 3...

Tamuks are not a recognized ARBA breed but that doesn't mean they can't have a pedigree in the sense that at its lowest meaning, pedigree is simply the ancestry of a rabbit out 3 generations. If you are serious about Tamuk, what you are looking for in that ancestry is rabbits that came out of...

We are working on raised beds and straw bales and also have dug trenches to fill with rabbit hay (hay plus pellets). We do try to repurpose every bit of water like what comes off the AC. It is dry so sometimes we can use evaporative cooling.

Yes, though ours also had another kind the last time we went but that is one of them.

Everyone has their own limit. Sometimes it matters when it happens. We had a young doe kill most of her litter (we saved one and put it with a sister doe) and that was it for her but at the time, we had too many rabbits anyway and were not emotionally ready to deal. I would definitely check out...

I can't remember where now but this summer squash is another vine plant for rabbits and is supposed to grow prolifically: https://www.rareseeds.com/store/vegetables/summer-squash/zucchino-rampicante-squash

Mine do fine with my plum tree. I also have willow and mulberry. I would ask in this thread about your trees: The New Safe Plants for Rabbits List I think you should have a couple that are okay like the ash.

So I am 18 months into this adventure and I read a lot and then do. I think it could have an effect on the does but the egg follicles will have to be replenished some time. I started checking their vents myself and found it not reliable as to them being ready, especially maiden does. I recently...

I just turned 60 as well and always wanted to have a homestead. Kids' father did not agree so I spent decades in neighborhoods. Finally getting my wish now is funny and didn't expect for it to be a necessity. I wish I was better at the gardening though part of that is just that I'm gardening in...

This is what I am using now - nice hay. I have also fed coastal bought locally in square or round bales. The compressed bales definitely take up less room.