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Pretty awful virus! However, there is hope. Try not to let fear disturb your peace.... Losing our peace makes every problem worse. Keeping our peace makes clear thinking more possible....and finding solutions easier. We should take reasonable precautions to prevent this virus in our herds...

Thank you for the clear explanation! We have livestock guardian dogs, a rat terrier, a shepherd mix and a border collie. It is amazing how different they are! It is obvious that the dog that is perfect for a certain job would be an utter failure at another job. Those very special characteristics...

Thank you very much! More than I asked for! God bless you!

I am not sure what the emoticon means.... Could you please tell me? Thank you!

I live in New England and I am convinced it is one of the most challenging climates because of the constantly changing extremes. Hot (90'sF) and dry....or hot and HUMID; frigid (-10F), dry...or frigid and WET. Snow, ice, wind.... In the coldest month of the year (January) it is common to have...

We've tried both: colony and cages. Now, we have a hybrid method. We tried the colony method for a couple of years. We really wanted it to work! Here is what we experienced: The younger rabbits are prone to coccidiosis and do better in cages (in our experience). We lost a lot of them to...

Do you mean the narrow side of the bar...on the back of the neck? And, I am not sure I understand what the tightly wrung cloth is, exactly. Thank you so much for sharing this information!

Thank you very much for posting this video. Very clear! I don't think the rabbit even had a chance to be afraid or in pain. I appreciate the message at the end about the principles of dispatching an animal and the emotional response of the person doing it. God bless you!

I have never heard of the choke chain method. Could you please explain?

Does someone have a recipe? I am interested! I have been adding a handful of Redmond agricultural salt to a 5 gal. bucket of cold water when I harvest. I put the carcasses in the bucket of salty water while I keep working. Maybe this is "brining"?

Thank you! Your pictures are very clear and helpful. Do you have Silver Fox rabbits? The directing into a pan is where I need to modify the design--into a container instead. I will work on it! Thank you so much! God bless you!

Thank you!!!! I would like to use your plans and modify them so I can catch the urine and bottle it. I understand that it is a great pesticide when diluted with 2 parts water and sprayed on the plants. It is, at the same time, a nitrogen fertilizer (you have to dilute it or it will burn plants)...

You are building urine guards... Do you have plans? Actually, I was wondering if there is a simple plan (maybe using a plastic bottle?) for a guard that would direct the urine into a bottle that can be removed so I could easily save the urine. Any thoughts?

I thought rabbits were nocturnal, but I recently discovered they are crepuscular. So their most active times are dawn and dusk (my guess is that deer are also in that category). Also, two factors that make many animals more fecund are light and fresh greens. That seems to correspond with the...

Food grade DE (diatomaceous earth) is an all-natural, safe flea treatment. Don't create clouds of dust when you put it on (or prepare to have a breeze/fan to blow the dust away from you and bunny), because it isn't good for lungs. If you have fleas in your carpet, it is good for that, too! (Or...

Ha! I am sure if you gave it a name in French, it could be served in the finest restaurants! A point about the intestines, the dogs (and even pigs) won't eat them if they "stink" from diarrhea or some other issue, so I don't feel I have to be too careful about the condition of the rabbit.

Well, I hope I don't ever have a need to eat the stomach myself (I think it would be difficult), but I am happy that our dogs are getting that super nutrition. Saves on trips to the vet! We have been raising one of our working dogs on supplementary rabbit, and she is really alert and...

Also, if you don't eat the organs, they are great for the dogs--all of the innards, including the intestines and stomach. There are digestive enzymes, partially digested food that is easy nutrition and probiotics in there (as long as they appear/smell healthy). Head, feet, insides--basically...

I just put the dried hides in a paper shopping bag and let them breathe on an indoor shelf since last summer. (I wouldn't recommend using plastic! Air is important!) After some weeks, I used a butter knife to scrape off the thick fat deposits (they were starting to get runny/sticky--messy) and...

I have ideas for the future of shaving off the hairs and saving them for spinning with sheep wool--or using some to line nests that have to be re-formed after cleaning out. Then, the dogs can enjoy the skin and I can still use the "rabbit wool".