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Rats can't walk upside down. Build your cages on legs that are set inside the cage floor frame, so that the floor frame hangs over the tops of the legs. Then rats climb up the legs of your cages and are stuck, so they run down again. Real old fashioned idea that works time and time again - it's...

Hello all - restarting this thread again. Does anyone know what the youngest age a rabbit has to be before you can successfully tan the hide, and it is sturdy and good quality? About 8 months ago a lady told me they had to be 5 months old to have their adult coat and for the skin to be tough...

I've had a fair bit of experience with gunky eyes, I wrote quite a reply on this other post - Baby's eye won't open all the way Also dose him with 1-2 ml Colloidal silver once daily to help him fight any infection. Colloidal silver and saline are 2 very underrated old remedies that work so well...

She's got a bowl. Wet weather here too, they never drink as much in the wet. Could it be kidney stones or gall stones? They're usually calcium build up, what could I feed her to get her to dissolve a calcium build up? Or is it more likely to be some sort of cancer? She's wormed and flead so...

Bunny help!!not drinking water and bleeding I've just changed the cage setup or some of my Rex girls and this morning one of them had a big splat of blood on her floor and she hasn't drunk water since new cages 36 hours ago. I'm leaving the country in 2 days and leaving my rabbits to the care of...

Yes, I imagine it would swell shut between doses with just water, once you start using saline and doing it twice a day you may see some results....saline is so fantastic. No it wouldn't matter if it's blind when it gets to culling age, so long as it can see it food out it's other eye!

To introduce myself - I'm @shellz sister and the rabbits are my responsibility, @shellz is my researcher and alerted me to this post 😊 I've had the exact same thing with 2 of my rabbits, so I may be able to help. Well done, good job on opening the eye, that is the hardest part! I started with...

If you're struggling to get building materials, some businesses have pallets that they will be glad to have gone from their rubbish pile...if you're handy with tools and a saw, you may have free unlimited wood to use, and build your own cages. Maybe your husband would like a hobby of his own and...

This is so cool! How is it powered? How does it know how much to dispense? Can you change/control portion size between rabbits? I'm thinking breeding does are going to want unlimited pellets, the fully grown buck doesn't need that much and neither does a doe who's resting and gaining condition...

Does anyone have a good automatic feeding system setup? Preferably homemade 😊 Or is there a thread on here that I can't find relating to it? I have automatic water sorted, and plans for automatic cleaning, yet to be put into place. I have a few scratchy ideas for automatic food, but I am...

Interesting to hear you say that about wire. I have big cages with hard wooden floors, although I sweep them night and morning, I do struggle to keep them nicely clean, if I have a messy rabbit. I don't like wire, it's not readily available here, and it's awfully expensive. Although it is tidy...

Yes my cages are the same. Some people might say they are too big! What size is yours? Mine are largely 1200x600mm, and I've built a 'maternity ward' that is 1800x600mm so that there is space for mama with 6-8 little 5 week old babies to still be comfortable. Your grow outs are the setup in the...

I have the same trouble. Not quite so advanced though. One of my does was in perfect health when I got her and in about a week of being with me she developed it. Never dried up and none of my other rabbits have any symptoms of it so it's not contagious. All live in close proximity to each other...

Has anyone already tried an experiment of raising meat rabbits in cages vs raising them in tractors with space to jump around? And then decided which way is better? My thought is that if growing rabbits for meat, meat = muscle, muscle is developed by exercise. I would be interested to know the...

Wow, thanks so much HT Acres! That is really helpful! They were definitely 'floofy' on the weekend, but as I wasn't sure so I didn't let them actually get together. She is being real nice natured at the moment, I will check again tomorrow and other days this week. One of my rex does wanted to be...

I'm halfway through this process. I have dried with salt in the past and I have one dried with borax, but I havent got to next stage of setting them back to rawhide to tan, so I don't know how they'll turn out. I made contact with a professional tanner and asked her how the best way was to store...

Yes, I've been exploring it for about 6 months before I decided to join and start a presence :)

Hello all, I'm new to rabbits, with some ambitious goals for rabbits in NZ. I'm north island, so warm conditions. Yes I know rabbits are a wild pest. But theyre not farmed here in the main! I have 5 rabbits, 3 rex and 2 NZ Whites - bought the 2 NZW as 2 sisters with future ideas to breed with a...