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If you want to put some weight on him, try a small amount of BOSS (black oil sunflower seeds), uncooked oatmeal and/or Calf Manna. They're good sources of fat; alfalfa has additional protein but it also has extra calcium hat older rabbits don't really need. Most rabbit pellets are made of...

Drug use and withholding time suggestions regarding meat animals vary with the source. Though fenbendazole has a long history of safe use in animals and humans, my practice is to treat breeders (if necessary), but not meat grow-outs. Essentially this practice is based on my preference not to...

In the USA at least, pedigrees are kept on an honor system. There are no specific requirements regarding how you keep track of information. Some people use a 3-hole binder, others use a filing cabinet, some use Excel or another computer program; one of the best breeders I've ever known kept...

A pedigree is simply a list of ancestors. All pedigrees are in a sense partial, since no matter how good your records are, you can't possibly list every rabbit in your rabbit's history. :ROFLMAO: But a "full pedigree" is ultimately defined by the requirements to register the rabbit in the...

@maisaksson It could be snuffles/pasteurellosis or it could be something else; the only way to conclusively diagnose pasteurellosis is to get a culture. See two entries above for a description of using VetRx to treat just about any respiratory illness.

Safeguard (fenbendazole) is a dewormer marketed for pinworms as well as several other types of roundworms and strongyles. While pinworms are believed to be species-specific, fenbedazole will work for most or all of them. As far as I know, my rabbits have never had any type of worms, but I've...

It looks like it is already healing. Kits grow so fast that they heal very quickly. I wouldn't do anything other than keep an eye on it. And you're right, the others would most likely lick or rub off anything you put on it, anyway.

Often a rabbit carrying some pathogen will become symptomatic when stressed, which would certainly include pregnancy, kindling, and a cage change. Rabbits do get runny noses from causes other than snuffles, but I'd watch her closely, and probably keep her away from other rabbits just in case...

Yep, those look like sables to me, probably vienna-marked (VM) which suggests that your buck is also a VM <Vv>. Sables are born looking like pale blues, go through a chocolatey phase, then molt into that shaded sepia. They're getting so pale on the body that there's a chance they are...

Some of the kits will likely be wild type, often called chestnut, but the rest really depends on what your buck is "hiding" genetically, as well as what the does carry at some of their loci. You could possibly get anything from opals, to chinchillas, to self blacks and blues, to more sables...

I agree with @RabbitsOfTheCreek that it's safer to wait until 5.5-6 months. They can get pregnant before that (and probably will if you introduce the male) but it may compromise their own development.

It's a familiar theme. :confused: In my experience, it could be coccidiosis, or it could be bloat, or it could be an E. cuniculi infection (and the list probably doesn't end there). All of those can have a variety of symptoms. Coccidiosis Coccidiosis will often come with diarrhea, especially...

I've had does have babies over the course of three or four days. I've learned the hard way that if a doe has 1-2 dead, not to pull the box, because sometimes more come along later that are alive. In the most recent episode, the doe had one dead, then two days later had four more live, and the...

I've never had any problem shoveling everything off the barn floor and putting it directly around the plants in the yard and garden. When I put it in potted plants, it's usually when I'm planting, in which case I mix it with the new soil and plunk the start right in. It's garden gold! ;) If...

They look normal to me. The darker areas show up more or less depending on how much internal bleeding happened in/around the lungs.

I experimented with Flemish cross some time ago. I used Flemish bucks with Californians and Satins (I had NZs too but did not use them in the Flemish experiments). I never had any issues with does having a hard time kindling; as it turns out, most rabbit kits are pretty close to the same size...

That's disappointing. If it was me, I wouldn't have any worries about re-breeding her after dosing. Ivermectin has a pretty solid safety record. I've used it a few times over the years without incident (for fur mites that were resistant to all the natural remedies I tried). I don't like to...

I would not expect that to be a problem, though that kind of decision is entirely up to the discretion of the judge. As you already know, the point of the rule is to prevent someone from hiding a fault or DQ, so a rabbit with fur that's been cut to maintain the rabbit's health and cleanliness...

You can breed any male and female rabbit. Whether you want to do that depends on what you're hoping to accomplish. IMO, all bunnies are cute, and any breed or breed combination can be a great pet. :) But if the two rabbits are purebreds, some people would not want to create indeterminate...

I don't bleach fouled nest boxes before moving them, and it doesn't seem to have been a problem; once I move the cleaned-out box to a different spot, the doe usually quits using it as a litter box. Personally, I haven't seen any evidence that the smell of urine encourages them to use that spot...