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Thanks, Kusanar! That is a really helpful list! I'll start sorting through it and see what shows up. I'm hoping to ramp up fiber production if I can find another mill to do a good job in processing the fiber.

Last one cooked here was a crock pot rabbit. Potato chunks, chunked carrots, cubed onion layer the bottom of the crock pot. Put the frozen rabbit on top, toss on some bay leaf, rosemary a blop of worchestershire sauce, a tiny dollop of smoked sesame oil. Salt, pepper and cover with beef bone...

Rabbits are a pretty hands on livestock to keep them offproperty, IMHO. Probably whatever works will be something close to where you are since you'd be going there daily? Anything within walking distance? Maybe a gardener neighbor who would allow a rabbit hutch/space in exchange for rabbit...

Costco bakery will usually give you buckets if you ask for them. At least, they do around here. Then have your clients put down a deposit on the bucket and bring back the bucket each time? A feed bag will hold a lot more than a bucket. I usually swap bunny manure for garden veggies or just...

great density of color on her. FWIW, losing the ear wool can happen even between an English to English breeding so should you need another line to outcross into this one, getting a small English to breed in might help keep them small. Although English have a different body shape, they're round...

Hmm, yup, you're probably right now that you've mentioned it. Sometimes my fingers type faster than my brain. But neps in yarn are just as annoying? Anyway, back to the agouti rings thing, have you found a definitive answer yet? I'd think there's just one sequence of color bands per hair...

The message title is pretty much the question. Anyone know of a wool mill that can spin bunny fluff? I had a mill who spun 40% English angora/ 40% fine Merino / 20% silk yarn as a two ply fingering weight, but they've been "moving to a new farm" now for several years and I'm out of yarn. A...

Frequently the inside rings are the beginnings of the next coat coming in. It's best to shear them without clipping those incoming tips since those really short fibers can cause "neps" or "nits" in the finished yarn. Maybe where the term "nit picking" comes from, I'd expect?

Doesn't have to be anywhere near, you can ship them via air if you can get the breeder to take them to the airport. We're in Hawaii so that's our only option. The bunnies don't seem to mind and it's a lot faster than by ground transport.

English angora are 5-6 pounds, so they start out pretty small. Getting small English and breeding them smaller may be an alternate route. How small of a rabbit do you want? How's the coat on the French/Rex mix? A lot of times you'll lose the coat structure and end up with a long wooled coat...

The buns here are English angora so they always need to be groomed and sheared before mating so their 'naughty bits' will be able to reach. I'll groom the doe first (takes about an hour to shear an angora) and put her in his hutch while grooming him. That gives her an hour to smell his scent...

ARBA gets fussy about colors, but since Silver Fox is mostly about the color, having albino ones wouldn't be all that spectacular, would they? Kinda makes sense, like a Palomino or Appaloosa horse, if they were white, they'd not be a Palomino or Appy. Does ARBA get fussy about Vienna marks...

I've heard that depending on the variety of bamboo, they may have an irritant in them so not all varieties of bamboo may not be suitable for bunny feed. Plus, even if it's "clumping" bamboo, it's still gonna keep growing in a bigger mat and try to take over. Our neighbor has a monster bamboo...

We've fed some banana leaves, they prefer ti leaves (cordyline terminalis) to banana leaves, but they will eat them. At least, most of the buns will eat them.

Plus you can eat the moringa, too! I put it in soup and occasionally in salad. It has an interesting taste. Mulberry is very nutritious, we feed a lot of the leaves and branches to the buns. We also put mulberries in our cereal, make it into jam and pie. The mulberry leaves can also be made...

And if you breed a Polar Fox to an Arctic Fox, you'll get all Polar White Arctic Foxes as offspring. __ __ cc __ __ bred to __ __ cc __ __ creates more of the exact same white rabbits. Which, if it's an allowable color in your breed (an albino Silver Fox isn't showable is it? But I don't...

There were a couple of rabbits here who had the same symptoms and they got better after half their feed was replaced with dry oatmeal for about a week. There's something in oatmeal that seems to decrease sneezes and runny noses. Plus the bunnies like oatmeal.

Aloha Haven Farm, Sounds like you're off to a good start! Having someone else with the same breed nearby does wonders for keeping a herd healthy. They can be linebred for quite some time, but the occasional outcross seems to increase the vitality. Will you be posting pictures of your new...

Yup, it's a great time to get the rabbits out of the freezer! Had the best rabbit stew today although we don't have any way to do any freeze drying. Is that a thing that people can do in their kitchens now?

I thought those snap ties were interesting, but our framer who had previously wanted to buy the concrete forms for his next job has decided that he doesn't want to do another poured concrete foundation. At least, not one with the same snap tie set up. I'll rattle his cage tomorrow and see if...