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We don't really take vacations anymore but are sometimes gone to shows long enough we need someone else to feed/water the rabbits that stayed home (and let our dogs out). Fortunately for us, two of our three adult children live within five minutes of our farm, so our 28-y-o daughter usually...

We always order the Herbivore formula that's the apple/banana one.

Within a week, she had stopped itching, excessively grooming, and constantly fidgeting on her feet. I'd say roughly a week after that, the sores started improving dramatically. And by the time we were a month out, she had calm, healed, furry hocks again.

Now, I'm confused. Are you saying that a steel gene in a self-colored rabbit could still have an effect on phenotype?

In my experience, fur mites and/or mange mites can absolutely produce sore hocks in rabbits likely due to the amount of time they spend "dancing" and constantly moving their feet from the itching. We had a big, heavy Rex doe who came home from a show with them one time, and she not only...

Yeah, I was more mentioning it for people who had nothing on hand and needed something asap rather than in a month or two. ;-)

Maybe their area is like ours where the "shock" wouldn't have anything to do with the temperatures. We're pretty much hawk/owl-central around here, and by the time the foxes and coyotes are added in, even outdoor cats tend to have a very short lifespan (and she did say that 2 of the 3 rabbits...

Chewy also sells it ($16.14 for 3 oz. on Autoship) in their horse section.

That looks more like just the mechanical injury from bad wire friction than it does any sort of secondary mite problem, so hopefully, you're just dealing with the one thing.

I prefer to use chlorhexidene spray ( we just have it in a squirt bottle) which we then rub all over their feet and legs to reduce bacterial numbers and make a secondary infection less likely before fully rinsing it off (and then applying antibiotic ointment to any actual raw, ulcerated area)...

Since you probably don't know their exact husbandry conditions at the prior place, I'd give them an opportunity to improve under your likely better husbandry practices to see if it will resolve. And then if they improve under your better management of nails, cleanliness, and resting areas...

Oops, I just saw your second comment. Because Rex are a high-risk breed for sore hocks, we're pretty aggressive on keeping those hard plastic mat grids on their floor wire, keeping their nails trimmed, and not letting them get obese. If something goes wrong and they do get sore (we had a max...

Yes, that is the only breed we raise right now. We're currently showing the Black, Blue, Broken, Otter, Seal, and White varieties in Kansas, but our herd has the color genetics also to produce Chocolate and Lilac. And frankly, if I can find the right rabbit to buy, we'd like to add the agouti...

Border collies only have about a 5% likelihood of carrying the MDR1 gene. It's far more common in Aussies (about 50%) and regular Collies (about 70%). Unfortunately, the gene exists in a ton of other breeds too from Shelties to German shepherds. It's one of the problem genes tested for on an...

(<<Past infectious disease PA) We've been seeing resistance to ivermectin in certain parasites since the 1990s, so it certainly can be an issue. All species adapt over time to their environments, and if that environment includes the vast majority of the population being wiped out by ivermectin...

While ivermectin is very useful in rabbits, and I too use it a couple of times a year on the herd to keep all forms of mites (ear/fur/mange) at bay since we actively show, I'm not sure I would describe it as "very safe." People need to keep in mind the dangers of overdose toxicities when...

That's what we had to do for a bunch of our Rex juniors for the Kansas State Fair this year since entries were due well in advance. They'd gained faster than we'd predicted after that, so we had to move about 10 of them from the Jr to the Sr class right at the changes deadline since they'd hit...

A friend of mine had suspected a raccoon or fox when she'd lost some chickens night after night from her coop area, so she set a large live trap. However, in the morning, she discovered it had actually been a large Great Horned Owl . . . which was now very pissed off. LOL

Thank you, and I actually had volunteer sunflowers growing in front of the maternity building this summer that sprouted from the BOSS in their supplements. LOL And we're right there with you on the wind front; Kansas is the second windiest state in the continental U.S. (one of the Dakotas beat...

We specifically designed a metal maternity building for cooling rather than getting hot for our rabbitry area on the farm. The sides are reflective white, and the roof is reflective silver. There's a thin insulative layer under the roof itself, and the entire 32' ridge cap is vented to release...