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You don't have to be declared a business to end up being called a business due to your actions. The restriction is what you have to follow in order to not be considered a business or other type of breeder that requires a license and USDA inspection. It's the animal numbers and income to stay...

I believe under 4 breeding females is exempt and then you'd also have to be surpassing the $500 or so. Most USDA licensing requirements have a number of breeding age females you can have before you need a license. It's how I was able to keep and sell hedgehogs that always require a license...

If you don't mind soy ingredients you can also get soft mineral blocks with grain and supplements added for horses that colony rabbits steadily gnaw away. Some are specifically for weight gain on hard keepers or full of fats and proteins that help grow a shinier coat. Provided you make sure...

There is a natural feeding section on the forum for forages and feeding less to no pellets but unlike guinea pigs it is far more complicated than hay and lots of fresh foods. Especially if you want to maintain breeding and show condition rather than low energy pets. There is a similar...

If you surpass a certain income in any animal sales it has to be declared and possibly have your rabbit housing inspected by the USDA yearly. It's $100,000s in potential fines if you get caught messing that up. Most people do not have to worry about it with private sales but everything to a...

I haven't felt like composing that long of message :lol: I've posted my 4 dogs before. I throw some of our hiking pictures into a thread on the forum every year until I quit bothering to pull out a camera as the year goes on. Azami was my first dog after I moved out of my mom's house and is...

I find rabbits and other animals respond quite different to temps here. We change so much and so rapidly both up and down and nearly always well over 5F cooler nights that you don't need heat tolerant and cold tolerant as much as temp change tolerant lines. It was 59F this morning and stopped...

I was 100F... It's now 67F out and I have my feet on a heating pad. Iowa weather. :lol: We pretty much have to prepare for every day to do anything and sometimes in the same day. The morning forecast doesn't mean a whole lot. The day it was over 100F it then hailed, rained, and here we are...

How long it takes to heal is going to depend how much damage there is to the tissue underneath, how wide the damaged areas are, and if you keep infection off it. If the skin is mostly intact then shallow wounds should close quickly and regrow hair. I would normally rinse those with betadine...

Otter reappears because it is recessive to agouti but can be bred out easly if you have otherwise mostly self rabbits because it is dominant to self. There are 3 genes like there are with harlequin. Every rabbit that gets an agouti gene doesn't show otter until you breed them to another rabbit...

If you feed a lot of fresh food consistently but if you don't normally feed fresh foods or stop and start them rabbit digestive tracts don't adjust quickly. The higher the sugar content the worse it is as well as cruciferous vegetables that already tend to produce a lot of gas (broccoli...

We had at least an extra year's worth of eggs in the fridge all the time so when we started getting grasshopper eggs we could just turn them into dog food for a month and it was no big deal.

Yeah, I previously had ~80 acres at my disposal with 50-60 of it seeded over 10 years ago and then put into CRP (Iowa pays for land by it's quality to be left for wildlife) and the rest poorly maintained yard with garden plants gone wild over the decades, some building material piles mixed among...

Chickens love styrofoam and will eat it to the exclusions of everything. Ask anyone who left their styrofoam incubators to bake in the sun within chicken reach. They don't have those particular ones anymore.... String and styrofoam are 2 things chickens cannot resist. There are lots of dual...

There's 4 "E" locus genes you will probably ever see (there is a 5th extra dark gene mentioned but I never see it come up) and you can combine them in any pair. Aside from steel (Es) they are generally pretty simple with any combination having full extension (E) showing no change in color and...

Meat chickens really are bred for artificial conditions and high protein commercial poultry diets. They just won't perform like normal chickens or use the same feed. If you want to keep them alive longer you restrict daily feed, feed less protein, and get some ugly but longer lived, skinnier...

You get a higher percentage of chestnut originally because chestnut is the result of basically all dominant genes. When you cross the offspring you double up all the recessive genes that chestnut hides. You can only see recessives with a copy from both parents. A chestnut can produce nearly...

I've never had white show up on a sable. Mine were solid tan-chocolate that varied a bit on depth of color and obviousness of points as they grew but never white hairs or tips in netherland dwarf or american sables.

Some breeds that are all supposed to have a black self appearance like silver fox are actually majority hidden steels with agouti genes. Bred together though they usually just keep producing more hidden steels. If they are related it's even more likely there is hidden steel in the group...

Steel colors the ends of the hairs while silvering makes entire white hairs mixed with entirely colored hairs. If the individual hairs are 2 colors it is not silver and usually it means they have an agouti gene with other genes like steel. It's possible your blacks are actually hidden steel...