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I have a line of NZ rabbit for me at, and a line of satin/French angora for fiber. I recently bred some angora into the meat line because I noticed really tender muscle during necropsy of a few of a particular doe's children. I was excited to see what colors the kits would be. The doe in...

Your better bet would be dividing evenly with the 2 day litter, and swapping out the most fed of the successful doe to the least fed of the less successful doe each day. Alternatively, I have had success with trading out litters of different sizes. If she is approaching the box to feed each...

I've said "Sweetie, you're the girl" several times, when they decide the wrong bun for top. Also, "Buddy, I brought her here for fun-times, not for grooming/eating/cuddles" I've also referred to a particular pair as my "lesbian couple", because 2 does bonded and both hated any fun-times with...

Especially seeing that layout, it has to be a rat or weasel, something that can fit below the top row, but not tall enough to get at kits on the bottom row. If you can trade places with an adult on the bottom row I bet your kits will be safe again.

When a newborn kit is dead, sometimes the mother will eat it to recover nutrients lost during pregnancy and birth, but these kits are way too old for that. The wounds also don't look the same as they would in that case. I'd bet money it's some kind of predator. Considering it's only the leg...

As Alaska Satin said, I have had unfailing success with dried nettle. You can find it at health food stores, and it has not let me down. Best to have on hand just in case of a low fed kindle. I give one or two teaspoon a day til all kits have bulging bellies, and usually see significant...

Your wrinkles on the liver look like the natural absorption of water (same process as pruney fingers in the bathtub). All organs look normal to me. It could have been something to do with the sinuses rather than a whole body ailment.

Are you sure you have your numbers right? Each doe NEEDS a 5 foot by 10 foot space?!? Please provide sources, if that is the case. Are you sure you have your numbers right? Every single doe NEEDS 50 square feet? visualizing this as a 5 foot by 10 foot enclosure, that's an entire garden...

I have had massive success with dried nettle. You can get it at health food stores. I'd also suggest, if you're hoping to keep as many as possible: while you're waiting for the low lactating doe to up her production, trade the best fed kits of the high lactating mom with the worst fed kits...

9 is a lot of kits, hopefully she produces enough milk for all of them. I have dried nettle on hand for such occasions.

Not a worry if everything else is fine. Some bunnies will stop eating cecotropes if you feed too many pellets. I think it's a matter of getting enough vitamins the first digestion, and therefore refusing to eat them when pellets are tastier. I've got one doe that makes a habit of it. Take it...

I wear heavy satin grad dresses, groom with the bun on my lap. One fabric to avoid like the plague is the Lululemon pants: the only way to get fur off of them is to wash the pants, and pick off the felted balls of fur with your fingers-- One. By. One. Not fun. Also avoid washing...

If you click on the photo, it unblurs. Their ears are small, but that domed head feature is most definitely not there. There's something not quite right about the legs, too. It has got to be something other than dwarf, then. Nutrition might be the problem? They were both the smallest of...

I've been breeding this winter, hoping to have several mature does in time for spring. I have a lot of new does with their first litter, making new mother mistakes like birthing outside of the nest. This is the second litter of 7 that were abnormally small The father is the same for both...

Any does of the generation above this one, that's exactly what happens. It's because I conditioned this generation and younger to have a revolving door of roomies that it works. I was lucky enough to have a couple mothers that accepted any baby that approached them. Then I traded out a few...

Thanks for the caution, Cindy. Having butchered, nothing was really out of place, other than the fact that she had far more fat than normal.

I got lunged at, and bitten hard when I opened a doe's cage today. Significant wound, but probably won't need stitches. She wouldn't let go! She is going to be culled, I have enough friendly does and I don't want aggression in my lines. But, before I put her in the freezer, I want to...

There's threads out there of people who don't feed pellets at all, maybe you can use their mixes as a jumping off point to find your recipe

Okay, so after a full summer of testing, the original design works for full grown buns. (Except one houdini, and it took him all summer to figure it out) We added another layer of 2x4 fencing, sideways, for 2x2 holes in a second structure. Works for grow outs after reaching half-size, had...

After 6 days of gallivanting, I've caught the buck who escaped somehow-- don't know how, none of the other 3 in that hutch escaped, all 4 have been in it since spring. This buck survived on our farm, where we've spotted a fox barely more than a month ago. He outsmarted all the traps we could...