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I've always used the paste, put in the rabbit's mouth. If you have pour-on, everything I've read suggests you can apply it to her skin. Maybe someone who's used it topically can respond.

It sounds like she may be suffering from an E. cuniculi infection. It's a protozoan or fungus (the people who study it aren't positive) that proliferates in the eye, brain, or other parts of the central nervous system. E. cuniculi symptoms often appear during or after stressors like travel or...

A photo would be very helpful.

You could try to build a little enclosure around her nesting spot where it is, just big enough to enclose the nest and allow her to access the hole, so that she could still go in and out like she's used to for food/water. It wouldn't have to be very big, since she's just sitting there, but it...

@Sagebrush is right: keeping things moving is critical. In addition to trying a pellet mash (which, unfortunately, I have found most rabbits that are off their feed have no interest in), offer her anything that might tempt her to eat. Greens like dandelion flowers and leaves, chickweed, wild...

Velveteen Lops are not yet recognized for show. The ARBA has certain requirements for recognition of a new breed that ensure that rabbits of the new breed are healthy (i.e. do not have breed-specific health problems), will breed true (i.e. can produce offspring that conform to the standard)...

As far as I know, it's entirely a show issue. Since TAMUKS are not show rabbits, I wouldn't give it a thought. Except... it would be interesting to keep track of it, to develop a greater understanding of the apparent correlation. ;)

Since the V lop working standard recognizes all four base color selfs, any other self variety (black and its dilute, blue; or chocolate, and its dilute, lilac) would be a fine choice for your self chocolate buck. The self pattern is recessive so if you breed two selfs, all you'll get is more...

As a rule, that pairing is fine. It's known as line-breeding. The main problem that might occur would be if both of the rabbits carried some unwanted recessive allele(s), and those doubled up in one or more of the kits; or if both rabbits had an undesirable trait - weak ankles, for example -...

No, narrow shoulders refers to a rabbit with shoulders that are narrow compared to its hindquarters; a good meat rabbit gradually widens slightly starting from the shoulder, through the midsection, to the hindquarter (in this case, looking at it from above). You can feel that by placing your...

I don't restrict water or pellets from the babies. They eat and drink when they're ready, and having little tastes of various foods will help their guts get primed to eat solid food when they really need to. Anything the mother is eating should be fine for them, in theory anyway. Do be...

Your ARBA number will be on a card they sent you, and it's worth it to keep track of that card because if you want to register a rabbit, the registrar will need to see a current membership card, not just hear your number. I keep our cards in a zippered pouch in the same binder as I have my...

So I have had different experiences with this. Posing is part art and part science, and it needs to be done in person, and needs to be done correctly. Rabbits can be trained to pose, but there should be no "forcing." The point is not to fake anyone out; the point is to put the rabbit in a...

I have never identified a specific allele for that problem but it is not uncommon in selfs. It's definitely genetic, and in my experience, white spots on the footpads were frequently paired with white toenails or even a partially or wholly white foot. I had no reason to suspect either vienna...

No, that does not look like chestnut at all anymore. Looking at these pictures, I'd say either a tort or a harlequin, though it's a little hard to feel sure with the shadows adding to the variations in the color. However, putting together these photos with the ones of it as a kit, I'd go with...

What a pretty litter! Looks like you have an orange and a dilute (blue or lilac) harlequin. Stray white marks in this case, especially on the head, would likely be vienna marks (VM) coming from the vienna allele the BEW sire. If the whites are REW, you know the BEW buck carries a copy of REW...

It's pretty easy to make your own cage cards. Write or type them out and print them 4-6 on a page on cardstock, from a home printer or at a copy shop; you can get fancy and laminate them so you can use dry-erase pens if you don't want permanent records. An advantage to this approach is that...

He looks like a fine castor to me. The ARBA Rex standard calls for a dark chestnut or mahogany brown surface color; some castors look almost black, but they're not quite correct. Steel reduces or eliminates most or all of the agouti markings, especially belly color, and can make the rabbit...

Yes, steel is not a recognized color in Rex so he'd be disqualified. What makes you think he's a steel? Castors can vary in color intensity and hue. One good way to tell he's a steel is if he does not have a cream colored belly.

I usually do it for 2-3 days just to make sure we've hit all the mites. As long as you catch it before you see big crustiness building up in the ear, it doesn't seem to take much, but since it's such a low-impact treatment, I give a couple of days to make sure. :) You can tell it worked...