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I take lots of fluid as a sign that there was something off healthwise with that rabbit. Retained or calcified kits are possible, so something was wrong with that does reproductive organs. I still think that breeding through wire is anatomically impossible, and more likely used to cover up...

Hm, I pickle the hides in salt (1/10 by weight) and use either formic acid (harmless) or sulphuric acid (not harmless) to get the ph down to 3-4. after 1-2 days in the pickle they are easier to flesh. I also maintain that ph after adding the alum (also 1/10 per weight) to the solution. I heat...

Also use salt, acid and alum. Got good results in the past. Just made one hat, and have a bag of tanned hides, too good to discard but waiting for a use. I still have 2 hides in the salt+acid bucket from last year, normally I leave them in there for 2 days before fleshing, adding the alum after...

If you feed the doe green forage already the kits can eat that too from the start. That's how it works in nature, and it's what I do. I still offer some hay, they don't eat much of it but if they do I think it is as a remedy for minor tummy issues. Mine start to venture out of the hutch for...

Is this the same rabbit you wrote about in November? Well, than at least she's not that young anymore and out of the woods by now, and you can adjust her diet slowly and gradually to something appropriate (see link above). Usually rabbit staple food is not found in the cabinet or fridge. You...

First of all, if she's still small, try out to find out what her mum was fed and what she is used to. Hay is a safe option if you don't know. Where did you get the rabbit from? If she is used to fresh forage, it would be quite easy - I feed mostly grass and weeds. But if a young rabbit is not...

From the other thread: My proceedure is that I dig up the nest, and put it in the nestbox in the hutch. I use closed nestboxes with an entrance at one wall and a layout that resembles the nesting tunnels - thr rear end is lower than the front with the entrance. Then I lock the doe in that...

Rabbits normally don't abandon nests because of checking, never heard of that, some are very protective and worried though, then it's best to lock the doe out of sight with a barrier. I had does kindle in tunnels too, but I transfered the nests to the hutch. And I always check, in that nest...

Mine grow slower, I feed mostly just forage and during the day they are out grazing. Also mine are not an optimized breed but random mixes. I butcher at around 5 months, maybe one reason is that they lose some of the cuteness factor by then, and that's the maximum age I dare to keep the...

That can ber quite individual, but with looking big and doing that for days it can't be long. What is more of an indicator that she's going to kindle soon is fur puling, but even that can start days in advance. I do not let kindle my does in tunnels (happened now and than accidentially)...

They don't have much fur on their balls? I'm not sure about fans, they move air alright but don't cool it, that's fine to keep a shed close to outside temperatures instead of heating up in the sun, but they don't lower the temperature. the cooling effect we feel is because we sweat - rabbits...

Well, one of my does rather consistently kindled around day 34-35 her first years, today was day 30 and I think it'll take a few more days, still eating well and digging, quit likely there'll be easter bunnies. All I do is making sure they have enough calcium when the time comes, feeding quite...

Veggies were created for human consumption. they are quite rich and not much fiber since we can't digest plants as well as herbivores. Rabbits evolved on a meager diet, grasses, weeds, bark, and so on - they need the fiber for their digestion, a too rich diet can sometimes cause problems. It's...

Is this the whole diet, or are the veggies additionally to hay? Sounds like a rich diet, and with apples carrots and so on also high in sugar, which can lead to problems like the wrong bacteria growing or yeasts. Pestizides. heavy metals, etc. - all that wouldn't be allowed in human food in...

In the first year raising rabbits I had an Myxo outbreak, once I realised what was going on I seperated the survivers and had a rabbit in every room. Only my little black Fury, living in my kitchen, made it. Kept her indoors until spring, bought a second "doe" early in the year and when "she"...

If it isn't a very small breed, I would say no. But there is no way to be sure but to wait it out, I rather think there's something else going on. To be visible pregnant she would need to be two weeks or more along, and being fertile at 10-11 weeks would be highly unusual (I never say...

Sorry. This wasn't meant as an insult. Just in my experience with rabbits and apples is that they gorge on them whenever possible, but there never ever was any trouble with it. I can't say that there can't be problems, with other rabbits at other circumstances, but I think that ones living wild...

As I tried to point out, this was just a number to show what "can" on the internet means. Practically nothing. Things can happen, impossible to prove that they can't. Manhatten can be destroyed by a meteorite tomorrow. For example, all those toxic or proper diet lists, and whatever published by...

No, not really. Maybe unless it's an indoor rabbit that had nothing but pellets and hay his whole life and gets too much at once. Rabbits in the wild, or ones fed a natural diet and are used to grazing, know very well what and how much of it they can stomach. I do feed apples (and Topinambur...

Before I started raising rabbits a caught two wild ones in the garden to see if I can handle the dispatching and butchering, and if they are tasty (they were). They are cautious critters, and rather reserved about food they aren't used to, and carrots aren't really that much liked anyway, so...