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If there are no does present I find bucks easier. Does go through hormonal stages more often and I suggest bucks to anyone wanting pets that doesn't plan to spay or neuter. With does intact bucks are less of a good idea to share a cage but if they are given no reason to be territorial I always...

I put a litter on dishes of oatmeal soaked in goat kid formula at 2weeks with a water bottle and pellets. By 3 weeks they didn't need softened food. The dam was suffering mastitis with no milk coming out. I definitely would not introduce fruit and watery greens if they are not already getting...

For some reason it didn't automatically turn the whole url into a link. https://www.journalvetbehavior.com/article/S1558-7878(07)00219-5/abstract PS has been tested more for it's other effects and long term benefits to brain function rather than immediate relief of any symptoms and you mostly...

Newspaper probably won't help. Newspaper lined cages rather than bedding or wire are often the reason people end up causing splayed leg in other animals. I haven't seen it with rabbits but I've never attempted breeding a litter trained rabbit with a smooth cage floor. Many will use old rugs...

Even unrelated rabbits can often be kept together fine and personally even if I don't mind and can deal with the resulting kits I would rarely suggest an intake male and female (even one altered) together because they frequently drive each other nuts wanting to breed. Does have targeted the...

My guess would be it's just overall body shakes from being nervous or stressed but the muscles were only twitching enough to cause visible movement in the neck and shoulders. Possibly because they have to keep some tension to raise the head. Uneven muscle contractions will be more obvious when...

Throwing it out when I had land meant putting on or under the dirt. Why would you haul organics off your property if you don't need to? :lol:

My favorite mini rex was a booted broken castor that may not have been show quality type but I kind of preferred her look. She had a really cute head and refined look for producing pets. Crossing her to different solids I got everything from near solid white to these things I was referring to...

I've never seen skin parasites on rabbits so I did not treat anything for it or on a consistent schedule. I did have colony rabbits on the ground including in stalls that had recently contained horses and a probable e.cuniculi infection. The only thing I've treated all new animals is guinea...

Chicken wire does not keep anything in or out except pretty much poultry. It's weak, stretchy, and easily ripped by even herbivore teeth. Rabbits are quite notorious escape artists. I've had tiny, young netherlands climb out of 3' high walls and adults easily climb a sturdy wall higher or use...

Steel does not show on self. They can have 2 steel genes or 1 steel gene and it won't matter. If all rabbits in the line are self you cannot see steel. It alters the bands of color on agouti hairs and there is no banding on a self. There are also hidden steels in some lines in the US...

Photobucket no longer display pictures directly for free. You can only link to their ad filled pages unless you pay for the highest level of account. I've been pulling mine to imgur.com for now. That is kind of confusing... If you bred a doe known to be agouti and got a black sable kit she...

I've had solids to booteds consistently produce too much white. :lol: A solid is a mystery and could have the genes for booted or the genes to be nearly white. It just doesn't show with no broken gene so what you get when crossing solid x broken is quite random no matter what the broken is...

I have not had it happen using ivermectin on various small and large breeds but it is well known some rabbits can react badly to it. People have lost a good portion of their herd due to the whole line being sensitive to ivermectin. It seems to show up mostly in breeds like Dutch. Age and...

I have always gotten away with not dosing the babies themselves and just doing all adults including pregnant or nursing. It usually clears up on the kits/pups (also dosed guinea pigs and gerbils with litters) without needing to do very young babies. I have done few week old guinea pigs but...

My husband said they are too uneven for a pear by the time they give birth. He starts calling them gourd shaped the last few weeks before pups appear. :lol:

The kit color looks like sable agouti aka light chin. She's turned lighter than any I had with less contrast on the points but otherwise looks much the same.

I have no idea how long I had bags of hides in my freeze before I decided it was not happening and cleaned it out. :lol:

This is the more recognized range of red with dilution genes instead of just splitting them into red or cream depending if they are diluted. Cream, saffron, buff, 2 shades of gold, and the desired color for a not diluted red for show but I have rarely seen a red that got darker than the golds...

It would probably be called a beige and cream but it depends how specific someone wants to get on naming the shade of the red-cream color. Genetically a beige with a brindle gene like the rabbit harlequin gene. Beige is chocolate based self with dilution genes and the pink eye gene. The...