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So we culled our first "three strikes and you're out" doe today, whose track record has been a litter of two stillborn kits, then a total miss, then a litter of only one stillborn kit. In both instances where she kindled the stillborn kits, she mostly just ate all the hay in the nest and pulled...

Thanks, I'll try this! But can I try again now? If they did actually become pregnant on Tues/Wed and it's now several days later, will it hurt anything to keep trying to actually see at least one fall off?

Happy birthday to both of you (today and tomorrow)!

Thanks for the suggestion! I'll check them out!

Hi! I tried breeding two does this week and neither would lift. I watched for 30 minutes or so without seeing a single fall-off and then left them together all day (so I don't know if there were any fall-offs the rest of the day). I know to mark the calendar anyway and treat as pregnant. My...

Aww! They look great! The study I've seen referenced actually says 17 and a half weeks, so I guess that's around 4 and a half months. I'm not sure really. That seems to be the biggest issue since it doesn't seem like it would hurt them to try at a younger age, but I don't know honestly. That's...

I think the earliest I've seen recommended is around 17 weeks for does. That's the earliest I've tried with does and one did great as a new mom, but the other had two stillborn kits, then a full miss the second try, and then one stillborn kit on the third try. I'm going to cull her. I don't know...

If your main goal is meat production, I would guess that just breeding the NZ would give better meat growouts if the others are much smaller. Maybe once you have some NZ litters and if you keep more does for breeding from those litters, someday you could try breeding Mus to one of them if you...

REW is recessive. I had only black and broken black NZ, but ended up with some REW kits, which means both patents carried REW as a recessive gene. If you breed REW together, you only get white. They could be carrying other colors though, so if you bred your new whites to Lily or Mus you could...

That makes sense. Thanks for the input!

Hi! I'd like to start providing fresh weeds and foraged greens to our rabbits, but we have a lot of wild rabbits and moles/voles on our property and I worry about any diseases, parasites, etc. that might be on these greens from the wild rabbits and rodents. Does anyone have advice on if this is...

I guess my last question about this would be, should pure New Zealands have cchd in their genetics? Or does that mean they are mixes? The breeder we bought from certainly didn't mention it, and when we asked them about Batman's eye color later, they said it was probably dilute and we might get...

All of that makes sense! Thanks for the response! I only have black and broken black in my herd, so unless something else is hiding in there somewhere, I may never know for sure (unless I bring in new rabbits, of course, which I don't really plan to do for a while). Congrats on your new litter!

Here are some of ours, now at 3.5 weeks old! That's the dad of this litter (behind them), except for the black kit, who is a foster from another litter.

I'm glad she is nursing! I hope she is okay! They are so cute (I saw pictures on the other thread)!

Hi Cosima. I've only been raising rabbits for a little over a year, so I'm not the most experienced, but we seem to lose at least one kit from every litter, often between 4 and 6 weeks, but sometimes earlier. Sometimes they just don't adjust to weaning and get diarrhea and die very quickly (as...

Thanks so much for the information! And I totally agree with you about fear mongering and people having informed choice! I think I may just have to figure out how to mix my own blend of feed and forage someday so I don't even have to think about it!

Thanks so much! I appreciate the info. Although unfortunately, I think "plant protein products" is a generic term for soy (among other things). 😞

Hi! I posted a video that explains some of the reasons, and not wanting GMO is certainly another one! It's not due to allergies. Thanks for your response!

Thank you!