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you could always just eat him....

I lost a lot of my easy to access photos.... so I might take me time to find the weird magpie/pointed that i've had in the past....

usually the ears are lighter and occasionally appear "off" but I've never looked at them too closely as either they sell as pets or they turn into cat/raptor food. Either way I never fret on them too much, I just go oh, perhaps not repeat that breeding since someone is hiding something I don't...

having gotten pointed kits and harlequin/tricolour kits out of the same litter of holland lops.... What comes into play is the sable/tort genes and the EJ gene. I've gotten pointed magpies in the past as well. (they are rather odd looking). And 95% of them had sable point in their background.

how would you know it's a Himalayan and not just some cross bred mutt? Cause honestly to me.... looks like a crossbred. It's not all long and lean like himalayan's are.

wouldn't a broken blue harlequin be a tricolour??? Or are you meaning a broken blue magpie? I'm very confused.

feeding rabbits to dogs is very different in a dogs mind to a dog feeding himself rabbit. one involves prey drive, the other involves relationship with person involved. So feeding does not correlate to dog going crazy for rabbit. That's a dog management issue not a dog feeding issue. :)...

no, I was thinking the meal worms. I raise them for my fancy mice, and if I ever get quail will give to them as well.

I wonder if they would eat dry rabbit poop too..... Now I'm wanting to experiment.... this summer I'll try some things out...

i used to have long rows of cages for my rabbits and will NEVER go back to that. Trying to clean a cage well usually meant i had to remove lots of rabbits in order to get one cage out to clean it well. Gah... WAY too much work. Individual cages makes it super easy to clean cages cause they do...

sounds like you might have failure to thrive going on. I'm fairly convinced it means momma is carrying some illness that is subclinical but the kits just can't fight past. it compromises them just enough they won't grow well and generally will wither and die. I generally suspect a hidden...

this is great to know. I sift rabbit fines for my mealworms, should I get into quail, sifting it will be easy enough to do as well. :)

out through the cage wire, hidden dead in the nestbox (empty it completely), or died and doe cleaned up really well. Won't be the first time... and won't be the last. The most you can do is put up babysaver wire, and make the nest box more baby safe.

Sometimes does that are like that do really well sandwiched between two bucks (as in a buck in a cage on either side of her) OR in a big cage with lots of room to run with a buck in it. Some does are just scared of buck scent or anything new or different. So you may have to do things a bit...

she's squeaking like a bred doe does when exposed to a buck.

are you sure that's ringworm and not something else fungal or possibly mange? To keep her from nibbling you may need to wrap a stuffed sock around her neck.

honestly.... just keep it clean. Should heal up just fine. Remove all solid flooring from the cage, or provide tons of straw/hay over any solid flooring.

that kind of damage (from personal experience) is from coons, rats or possums. Providing an easier source of food is helpful in the short term....but long term you'll need to figure a better solution. Chickens should keep rats out, but won't do a thing re possums or coons.