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Do a search for "weaning enteritis", can't remember the possible causes, never had that issue. Mold had been mentioned, check hay and the pellets. Can you rule out coccidia?

I would guess so, since the doe has to clean that off of each kit. I consider hand feeding rabbits as a last resort in an emergency, it's too easy to upset that little stomachs and make things worse. Rabbit milk is rather special, very, very rich compared to pure goat milk. 7 is a decent...

2% isn't much anyway, it's not even easy to measure the given amount that exactly., I doubt you'll see any difference. It also depends on the rabbits if they can make use of that much protein anyway. Hay can be all they need, depends on which cut etc, composition can vary quite a bit. Next...

That's not much of a difference anyway, if the buck were 6kg I would wonder about that myself. But I cannot remember to have ever heard of someone actually having problems due to size difference, but quite often that it did work just fine. It sounds like a plausible theory, but on the other...

How I do it: I had 2 pairs of breeding does, 2 pairs because one old one was too dominant and didn't get along with the other two. Back when I got them I didn't know much about keeping rabbits and missed the opportunity to get them used to each other, and didn't bother later on. Also kept them...

Back in the 70s my grandfather raised rabbits in a windowless, pretty gloomy barn, in wooden hutches that wouldn't fly well with anyone nowadays, and even that worked.

Lol, that's a way to put it. My favorute way to know if a doe at least think she's pregnant is to put her with the buck - if she is quite vocal she propably is. I have given up setting dates for breeding, I wait until a doe starts lounging at the gate to the bucks territory, then I just open...

The only actual story I heard about that was the one of the real world Moby Dick incident, what was the ships name, Exeter? Doesn't matter, bottom line is that other starved men in your boat are not good survival food....

Interesting. Here, every square inch has history, lots of it, all written down and as kids we got hammered with facts, dates, lineages and whatnot, battles, reigns, attacks, you name it. Its too much to comprehend, imo, since it's all very much alike, from neanderthals to present day, just...

My bucks always were very friendly to kits that wandered into their territory (the front yard), my spayed girl now living with the buck not. But when the buck was alone there never was an issue.

I think it's fixing for being useable as pet. Solving problems and inconviniences permanently. You would fix a car that has characteristics that make life difficult or unpleasant, like losing air on two wheels within a week, battery down after 5 days without driving, not able to turn the heating...

Interesting. Normally does are more expensive since that's a rather big surgery, and I consider my vet cheap at 150€ for a doe. Never heard of neutering bucks being more expensive, those numbers look very strange. No, it does not double their life expectancy, for bucks it does pretty much...

Rabbits are more work, the yield is lower, and even sheep farmers have problems selling the wool nowadays. You can't keep them as cramped as chickens, mechanising everything wouldn't be easy, and they do not eat everything. There simply is no incentive to scale rabbit farming up a lot. There is...

It is possible, but not that usual. It is not impossible that more are comming later. How old is she, did she have litters before? That she's still nesting can't be helped, it'll pass. Just give her nesting material, and privacy, let her do her thing.

Of course viewpoints differ depending on if you think about breeding lifestock - whatever species - for good, healthy food, utilizing resources like grass and weeds that otherwise were useless, or if you are more, or solely accostumed to view them as pets. I have both, free raoming house...

There's nothing that makes a buck more horny than a kindling doe, they don't even wait until she's done, they can mess everything up pretty bad. Keep the buck away when the doe is about to kindle. He will impregnate her right again, Does follow this little voice in their heads, their...

Actually, I love rabbits with an attitude. Sure, I sometimes need to wear a thick winter jacket mid summer when I need to handle some of them, but I like that more than my docile ones :)

I think if you don't wait for rigor mortis to set in and cook the rabbit right away that's fine. When I was a kid my grandparents actually had a fridge, but there never was a rabbit in it. They went straight from the hutch to the table as far as I can tell. One of the advantages of animals that...

Looks like a completly normal boy to me.

Are you sure it's actually snuffles, and not something like blocked tear ducts? That can mess up the fur on the face pretty bad too, had that once with an older doe. I would have the vet actually test for pasteurella, or whatever can cause this. Depending on her age, overall condition, mode of...