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They say the RHDV2 virus can last for several months outside of a host. Which means it can be just about anywhere. If someone walks across an infected area and then walks across the grass, is it possible to transfer the virus? Is is possible to grow bushes for them to eat? We grow mulberry...

Maybe put a card on the bulletin board at the feed store? List them as farm animals on Craig's List? Pets are usually a 'no-no' on CL, I think, but farm animals seem okay in some areas. Once you get some folks who buy them, then you can hope for repeat customers so it should get easier.

We have a recipe for baby bunny milk which uses mostly kitchen ingredients. It's here somewhere, I'll go find it. Okay, I found it. Didja miss me? Here's the recipe: 2 cups of 2% milk 2 egg yolks 2 Tbsp powdered milk 2 Tbsp. corn syrup 1 tsp. bone meal Considering baby bunnies maybe eat...

Aloha April, Bunnies get around to just about everywhere, don't they? Which breeds do you have? Are you anywhere near Victoria Falls? That is an amazing looking place I'd like to visit someday.

Not to take the topic off grass raised versus pellet raised, but cages made with shelving did cause a broken leg before we transitioned away from using the wire shelving for rabbit cage floors. It's excellent for walls and roofs, but no good as a floor since bunny feet can slip through the...

Lovely trio! So Silver Fox comes in colors other than Silver? (Who knew?) Do the blues and browns eventually become silvered?

If the reason you want the doe in a different cage is for when the little ones come out of the nest, you've got about ten days or so before that would happen, wouldn't it? Would it be good to wait a bit so she can settle into being a mum bun? Maybe if all the nesting materials were shifted...

As with many things rabbit, I'm guessing the answer is 'it depends'. There were two does here who were determined to have their babies in the same nest. The big hutch has temporary separators between sections since it's all one gender in each of the big hutches so if the bunnies do manage to...

Hope he doesn't get bit! I keep expecting that to happen when one of the boyos here can't find the right end of a doe, but so far nobunny's been bitten. Does that actually ever happen, do you think?

Yup, what ROC said! The business card shaped one is a better presentation. The other would be a good shape for a bottle label or a label for bags of 'natural fertilizer'? If it were me, I'd find a euphemism for 'meat producer'. Starting out with a 'friendly pet' is all warm and fuzzy, but...

Sometimes the ones that started out tiny end up being the largest as an adult. Glad to hear it figured out how to eat finally. Still, if you're able to remember which one it is later, I'd not opt for it to be a breeder unless it's got some other better characteristics. Breed the best, eat the...

Baby bunnies do like to be in the feeder, don't they? Not that you can really tell, but the bun in my avatar is a baby angora in a feed dish. It's probably okay for them to be licking the salt spool as well as tasting everything else. It will help them get a wide variety of gut bacteria and...

Draining an abscess on a rabbit isn't quite the same as on a human. The 'fluid' in a rabbit abscess is about the consistency of toothpaste, nothing 'fluid' to it at all. Which is why it has to be completely opened up to get cleaned. Which is why the scalpel. If I had a rabbit with an...

And here I was trying to figure out a rabbit sized guillotine! How to get enough weight at that size to have it work, etc. Hmm, maybe spring loaded? Well, loppers are a much easier answer, but still, a nice cute little guillotine and maybe you could blindfold them and let them have a last...

If they've been fed nothing but pellets, they may not eat anything but pellets. You could offer other foods, but you may be stuck having to buy pellets. Friend of mine got a bun from a breeder that fed nothing but pellet and the rabbit he got never did eat anything else. They should be free...

Buns love the chewy bits. When they get tree leaves, most times it's with the branch as well. Some folks bring me trimmings when they prune their orchards (organic farmers who are death on chemical use) and the buns get so much leaves to eat that they are hard to see under the pile. They...

Shouldn't three WEEK old bunnies still be with their mum? I'd not noticed that earlier, you mean, three MONTH old babies? If they're three weeks old, they should probably still be drinking milk. For the three month olds, if the salt is free choice, then they can eat it if they need it, I'd...

For fleas I use a kitten version of a cat flea capsule, I forget the exact brand at the moment. We only had fleas once years ago. Does Ivermectin work on fleas?

Somehow the rabbit virus got to Maui. It's not on my island yet, but the herd here is now completely closed. No new rabbits, no visitors - especially visitors who have rabbits, no used equipment, etc., etc. Apparently, on Maui 9 out of 12 rabbits on a farm died from the virus and they hadn't...

The buns here get the whole cornstalk when we harvest the ears. Well, I cut the roots off but the rest is bunny food. Pretty much any grass is good for buns, as far as I know. Here's what 'Feedipedia' has to say on the matter of corn leaves and rabbits: Rabbits Green maize leaves have...