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I purchased float valves and decided against setting up a system that was that complicated - someone else on here did a similar idea for feed, and gave me the inspiration. Instead of valves, I cut a hole in the front of their cages and built a wooden holder for each cage and rabbit, made to fit...

How is she doing now? Recovered? Best to get her well enough to 95% indoors then put her back outside, but be careful not to put her back outside too early. I had a really close experience with one of my buns last year, and he pulled through, some of the things may help yours too...

Thanks to my sister @seashore, I have an app on my phone that we built with Google Appsheets - it's quite basic but has all the info in it. Appsheets runs an app based off info pulling from a Google sheet (basically excel). It allows me to keep a record of people who have purchased my rabbits...

Don't underestimate the advantages of a sloping area - you can stack them higher where the ground goes down! I've had that for the last few years (and a wood chip floor) and it's been marvellous. Just last week and today I've changed to a level floor on piles as I managed to "inherit" a big...

Panacur was the sheep and goat liquid - I'll have to look at the bottle, wrote the dose on it, think it's about 0.6 or 0.9ml. Ivermectin was the horse paste one, about the size of half a small green pea. I eventually took her to the vet and got an antibiotic, she's fully recovered now and is...

Ok, yes mine are definitely older, I let mine grow their first adult prime coat, as I want the pelts too, which would always be a minimum of 16 weeks and usually 20+ weeks. They're still so teeny at 12 weeks, they do so much more growing between then and the next month or 2, I feel it's hardly...

How do you do the choke chain method without breaking the legs? I've tried both choke chain and broomstick method and not gotten well with either. First couple of times with the choke chain ended up bunny with broken back legs and basically strangled and a fair lot of bruising at neck, rabbit...

Try bringing the worse natured ones into the house while you are there, such as over the weekends, just for more handling and exposure to people. It's amazing how just the presence of people can influence a rabbit, and give them frequent green treats while they are inside - start with feeding...

I do the same. I would like some opinions though. I've been offered a new / young doe, and while I do need new blood, I don't need another breeding doe. So that means that I would need to cull one of my breeding does. I have one who has bad hocks, but she's a real sweetie in nature. And she's...

I feel your pain @eco2pia, I've had atrocious rat problems these last few months too. Saw them running inside my cages, vertically from one floor to the next story up. I'm beat how they got through the floors, as there is a layer of solid plywood between them and they're reasonably well rat...

The original patch that had the first outbreak in ringworm is starting to regrow fur and doesn't have any of these crusty / dead skin patches, but is new skin and healthy. Sort of indicates that we probably won the battle with the original ringworm, and what we are battling now is not ringworm -...

More to this bun, she's my rabbit also. We have dosed her with Ivermectin a week ago, and that's done seemingly nothing. Obviously she's in isolation, but she's bright and happy, there's no change in mood - except that's she become more affectionate and docile, which makes it easier to treat...

I have had a lot of experience with sore hocks as I have Rex and this is a relatively normal / known thing for Rex. For the treatment of sore hocks in rabbits in general, I have found that having them on grass is a wonderful healer, as it doesnt have hard boundaries around how they put their...

I've just had a buck that I thought was paralyzed at first, found out later he was just in shock, but he was definitely more dead than alive. I sort of thought it was hypothermia and treated it as such. Took him to the vet yesterday as he's my only unrelated buck I have, turns out it was nerve...

Hello All, just thought I would add a bit more to this thread, as I have just had a Rex buck that knocked on deaths door and he pulled through. If I had left him in his cage he would surely have died during the night, and I was sure he died in my arms twice during the night, but thankfully he...

Hydrogen peroxide breaks down in the presence of sunlight & water. I use bleach to soak barley and wheat seeds before I sprout them to prevent mould, by the time they've sprouted 5-7 days it's fully broken down and safe to feed out. However I still get little bugs that breed in my current seed...

I've had this before, this guy will heal if you treat it now, before it gets worse. Isolate him, and treat it with saline wash, dose him with colloidal silver and a teabag (start with chamomile and if you don't see any improvement, switch to normal). If you can grow echincea to boost his...

I have a feisty buck, was sweet and lovely and about 4 months changed homes and has just been psycho ever since - he's 8 months now. Attacked me and attacked everyone else in my family. It's only because I need his genetics that I'm keeping him, and I know he came from good stock. Ive found...

I've had this before. Semi still have it now but it's mostly healed. You can fix it. In my case it wasn't contagious, but I think it's more a weakness in my rabbitry, and it came through in her kits like a genetic weakness. Isolate your doe and do some little tests on her. If you can, grow...

How do you filter the hay fall through from the manure so as to sell it as slow release fertilizer? I'd love to establish some self filtering thing or drawer that catches hay on the top layer (discard or reuse for compost), berries on the second layer, and the wee goes right through. Then would...