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Thanks for the tips. Does it make a difference if the light comes on before sunset or after sundown? A local here on the Western Slope told us to do pre sunrise light so the chickens wake up early and can go to bed at sundown. I’m going to try a light and wheat sprouts to help the does this...

So do you have the light on for 12 hours or do you shoot for a combined total or 12 hours between natural daylight and the supplemented artificial light? Do you just use a standard LED light bulb like what you’d use in the house?

Has anyone ever tried using artificial lights with rabbits? We have chickens and we’ve found that using a red light during the winter months helps supplement light and helps with egg production. I’ve heard that rabbits (especially breeding does) can suffer from hormonal issues from the lack of...

We’ve hit a bump in the road and we could use y’all’s help… We have 3 does and 2 bucks and we can’t get anyone to mate 😢 Our Tamuk doe is 6 months old and runs away from the buck of the same age. He seems highly interested but she wants nothing to do with him. Our veteran dam gets in a cage...

Thanks for the map! Although I can’t access the Facebook page of the Tamuk breeder in Cedar City, UT. I don’t know if it’s just this device. Does it look like that on your side or would the person who made this map happen to have that contact info?

Are you rabbits fine on Koshia? I’m trying to figure out if I should given it to them given it grows like crazy here. I’ve tried researching it and I can’t find much on koshia for rabbits, only articles on cattle feed.

I’ve been doing some research into a heat tolerant breed. It’s been quite hot here in western CO and it seems like Tamuks should be more apt to handle that. Our NZ doe is still panting even when I turn the swamp cooler on. So is the NZW a type of Tamuk or is it something else? I’m definitely...

We just had 2 does kindle and both are missing kits. I push the fur aside and check on the pile of kits each day. One doe is missing one and the other is missing two… Has anyone else ever experienced this? I looked around the hutch and I couldn’t find any dead kits. I don’t think the does ate...

Good to know We just had 2 does kindle. One had 12 and the over only 7. I found a dead kit in the 12 pile. I was kinda confused given he couldn’t have froze since he was well covered in fur. Maybe he wasn’t being fed milk with all the competition? Would you suggest splitting the litter so both...

Hello Thanks for this extensive post. I found it very thorough. I felt it necessary to check the forums because we’ve been running into a really odd problem for us. Our main breeding NZ doe recently gave us a litter of 11 but the week following birth we were finding frozen kits completely...

We keep our nesting does on 12 gauge wire hutches. Pretty standard for meat meats although we’ve had a problem. When the doe nests the straw and fur fall right through the holes. Sadly we actually lost a litter because the fur fell and the kits froze. 😞 Is the straw too small or should we put...

Good to know! I’ll definitely leave our next litter with mom for 8 wks. We’ve really been trying to optimize our growth rates. I figured that milk is probably the most caloric thing kits can have and therefore the most weight-packing. I just weighed our 9 wk olds and the biggest is 3 lb 4 oz. We...

I’ll definitely reassess them at 12 wks. I was really hoping to cull around the 6-8 wks marks to economize on time. I thinking of adding some hulled oats and even some dent corn to their diet. Hopefully that can help weight gain. They are in hutches all day. Is that maybe making them depressed...

Interesting, Can hay stashing be a sign that the doe wants to be bred? We have a doe that hay stashes somewhat randomly but doesn’t really make a nest when I give her the box. I wondered what that meant.

I do something similar too! A lot of sites say that you should NEVER leave the two rabbits unsupervised for breeding because of possible “fighting”. I've never had that problem. In fact most of my successful breeds were when we left the two by themselves for a few days. The one downside is that...

Thanks for all the helpful info! So I guess my kits aren’t behind in weight. We have 4 NZ CA mix kits at 8 weeks and they weigh about 2-3 pounds. I thought they were under weight but maybe not… most sites say you can butcher at 6-8 weeks but I guess that’s just wishful thinking. I was...

We have a litter of NZ x CA meat rabbits at 4.5 weeks old. They don’t seem to be very large though and I’ve noticed them eating a lot of Timothy and not a whole lot of milk. You’d think the milk is more caloric and would make them grow faster… Should we try alfalfa given it has more calories...

Ok thanks good to know So you’ve actually had does kindle after nesting 2 weeks early? I was convinced it was a false pregnancy but maybe I’m wrong? I guess we’ll just wait and see… in your experience is early nesting indicative of false pregnancy or just a personality quirk in some does? I...

Interesting to see this not something completely new. We have a large CA doe that was left unsupervised with a buck. She gained a lot of weight then starting nesting on day 14 post being with the buck; now she’s pulling fur on day 15… and honestly the nest looks kinda lousy and half done. So...

Wow only 2/3 per day. I thought I was being frugal with only 3/4. So do you think I can get away with only 1/2 of 18% feed per rabbit per day? We get a good soy-free feed (country acres) it is kinda expensive so we don’t want to overload if we don’t have to. Do you give expecting or nursing does...