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UPDATE: Incredible experience. Not many meat rabbits, but a whole bunch of beautiful animals to make you smile. Learned a whole lot. One rabbit in particular was the Apple of my eye. Turns out the owner just recently had her and a mate shipped in from OK. They were the only ones there. So of...

Sure will.

My Cal buck wasn't doing his job so I butchered him. He was about a year and a half. Had half of him as rabbit with gravy and noodles and potatoes. The other half we had tonight in a spicy soup. Tender and delicious. Recipe: Simmer in crock pot 4 hours with onion soup stock. Remove meat and let...

Wow. Big difference already.

I love my rabbit chores too. Family wants to help but i say "please don't help me. This is my fun time."

I just processed 18 Cornish cross. 2 months to the day from when they were hatched. Easiest freezer filler I ever did. However, the cost was calculated and it was 14$ per bird. Most of them weighed over 6lbs. Super tender meat.

Meat. We ate the freeloaders on the property. So I decided I would try out raising them as a birthday present to myself. Should have my first batch ready to dispatch in 3 weeks or so. Now after having a whopping 4 months under my belt, I want to go to some ARBA shows so I can see first hand...

Sounds like ARBA has a lot better system in place than ADGA.

I have Guernsey Goats. Unless there are enough Guernseys entered they will not have the class. They will combine them in the ring with other breeds. Sometimes not able to show them at all.

I don't do facebook either. But if you start letting people in your circle know you need cages, they might just know where some are. I told my husband and he said he saw one in the neighbors field. That had the j feeders and all. Had to make a few repairs. But it is still a good start. A bit...

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They made it through day 2 fine. Technically 4 weeks old today. Another hot day 90° again. Not much activity on the pellets, but they munch down on the Timothy and alfalfa hay. Drinking water well too. I'm starting to feel good about their outcome.

Thank you. I'm not convinced the pellets were to blame. Otherwise there would be more dead rabbits. I'm thinking it might have been the heat. It turned hot really quick yesterday. 90° I had the misters on and the fan going. But I didn't do frozen water bottles. I thought we were done with this...

Found the mom dead tonight. The kits will be 4 weeks old Thursday. Can another doe foster them at this age or will she reject them? What do I need to do to give them a chance? Don't know why their mom passed. She gets producers pride pellets, a pinch of oatmeal, a pinch of boss daily. Alfalfa...

When I make liverwurst, I have to run it through the grinder 3 times. But it is worth it.

An option might be a chipper shredder. If you don't know a person who can lend you one, perhaps you can rent one from one of the equipment rental places. See if what you get is close enough for what you want. Maybe it could be modified if not.

I was reading about this myoxomatosis and the information says it is transmitted by fleas. Biting flies and direct contact with an infected animal. So was your rabbit near the new trio? If not that then the culprit might be cross contamination doing your barn chores, or the biting insects. For...

Can you collect your adult rabbits poop and send it a lab to test the fecal count? With goats we check fecal and they tell us if we have a high load. Usually adult goats can deal with cocidia. But kids cant. The kids get it because they taste a variety of things when they are young. As a...

It's a specific browse seed for dairy goats in my specific area. So yes. They eat that pasture.

I grow dairy forage for my goats pasture. I NEVER see rabbits in the pasture. I do have a lot of wild turkeys, a ton of squirrels and boat loads of gophers. It's a never ending battle. Yearly we re-seed. Planning on using the lawn tractor and bagging attachment to see if the rabbits like it...