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"Ermine" can be regular tort chin or a torted agouti sable. Agouti sable are often called sable chin or light chin. It adds a slight complication to calculating colors when you don't know if you have the chin gene or the sable gene in an ermine. If you have experience with the myriad of...

In the US there are very few serious contagious illnesses that are an extra risk beyond what you find with any domestic rabbit. Wild and domestic do not share illnesses much easier than any other animal would with a rabbit. The really serious things like pastuerella (snuffles) can come from...

If you ask a child to do something they don't understand in a situation like that they are most likely to either pick some of those things to try and potentially fail resulting in it's own situation and set of emotions or stare at it refusing to say the problem. Either due to embarrassment that...

Really it's a typical thing you come to take for granted when you work on a farm and are used to big equipment and unloading pickup trucks from a young age. To assess how something is built and where to put your feet with all the possibilities becomes automatic. Wooden wagons and hay racks are...

Yeah, for some reason as soon as weather gets cool or sometimes when it's storming on a long weekend I suddenly get responses to small animal ads. All summer people just seem too busy to consider adding an animal and those with outdoor animals probably don't want to deal with more in the heat...

Careful selling to pet stores. Particularly in california. There is a max amount you can accept a year before you have to declare a business and be usda inspected. I think it's about $500 and people have unknowingly reached it even just selling their extras for $10-$20. It goes on record...

I find summer sucks for selling them anyway but some areas you can't hardly give a common rabbit away. Unless I wanted to send them with cages I did not make many pet sales and then for only $20 each. If you don't have a breed desirable for your area, colors people like, good ads, good...

We had so many eggs even using a dozen bantam eggs to make scrambled eggs in the morning that I had about a 6 month supply at any time. Eventually I'd have to go through the back of the fridge and declare what was dog eggs. While not a herding breed at all my akita was useful for collecting...

With how badly they do alone I never separate sows individually. I always do at least 2 and just stick a young female I am planning to sell and don't want bred in with the other. Usually small herds can be kept track of pretty well. Particularly if you at least know basic color genetics or...

You don't need to import them yourself. You can contact some of the larger west coast breeders and they'll ship them by ground transports, they also go to major rabbit shows, and have even shipped some on airlines to alaska. Odds are there is even someone closer and often traveling to your...

All sources of US guinea pigs seem to have lost litter size over the years. No matter where we got them growing up until I went off to college we always ended up with litters of consistently 5 or more after their first year of breeding. Around 5 years or so later I started keeping guinea pigs...

Depends partially on the personality of the rabbit and partially how they are raised. Some will always be standoffish and not really like contact and some I've had lay around watching tv on me. Some like to lay near me but not touch me and will use the back of the couch or something for hours...

It used to be that with more litters and a few years guinea pigs would produce larger litters instead. It was not at all uncommon to start having consistent litters of 5-7 with occasional 8-9 after the first year or 2 of breeding. That would often continue right up until they died of...

If the eyes are open and the area is relatively safe it's better to just set them back nearby. They are already wandering, eating plants, and fairly independent by then so better chance in the wild. If their eyes are closed but the nest is intact enough and not going to be disturbed again for...

The timber and prairie rattlesnake are endangered here and hate human activity. I've only heard one first hand account of one while the person was hunting and no sign of dead ones either. They also aren't likely to be hiding in water or your backyard while being quite easy to tell quickly what...

Science says even if they somehow had some eggs released and fertilized at different times there is no way one uterine horn would maintain the pregnancy through birth of the other. It does not work independently. It is mostly just shaped differently and will cycle as one and expel everything...

Duckweed doesn't really need a book to grow. It's the biggest aquarium pest plant there is next to algae. If you don't warn people your tanks have it when you trade plant cuttings or exchange fish they are quite annoyed to find rather invisible specks turn into a bloom of the stuff. Any...

You can get led bulbs that screw in like a fluorescent but with zero heat output and far more durable than the twisted tubes used to condense a fluorescent for that purpose. They are sometimes a bit expensive but practically run forever with the most efficient light. They are replacing many...

Checkered Giants are the exception to rules. :roll: My only ones to go on colony slaughters were checkered crosses and they'd kill any rabbit smaller than them until they had their own litters. Useful counter to the mini rex I used for better meat bone ratio but lost size. Not good for...

Yeah, all you need is any 12 gauge building wire that you can have cut off the roll at the hardware stores here. Then it's simply stripping a bit of each internal wire and connecting them so that the wires to your outlet match the end to your power source. It's usually all color coded and if...