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If you have a backyard, is there enough room for any sort of garden? That'd be a perfect place to bury all parts you don't want as well as a place for the manure. The parts degrade pretty quickly and disappear into the soil. Improves the soil, as well. We no longer use any fertilizer than...

for the first few years, each year had a name theme. Flowers, spices, qualities of light, Roman names, etc., etc. Then it got to be a hassle to remember which year came before which year so now each year is sorted in alphabetical order. Eventually, the pedigree program will be sorted by age

If it is hot weather and they are young rabbits, it could be the heat doing it. Rabbits use their ears as heat radiators and move blood through them to cool off during hot times. Which makes their ears heavy and in young rabbits with undeveloped ear muscles, the ears will lop over.

Too late now, but the PenG may have been necessary for longer than a week. Some diseases can take weeks and weeks of PenG to repair.

Most white rabbits are 'albino', which are also the ones who have the ruby eyes. Many folks in the rabbit world call them "REWS" (pronounced "ROOS") which stands for Ruby Eyed White. The color gentics for them is __ __ cc __ __. Rabbit color genetics have five main genes which are usually...

I'm not a vet and don't even play one on TV, but I'd investigate 'Vent Disease', which is basically rabbit syphilis. Which means penicillin can cure it. If they still sell penicillin for cows, you can get it inexpensively at the feed stores. Along with small needles, those are very...

Nice litter! Looks like they already have a good start on their coat, ours frequently show up more naked looking. Hope the doe continues to do well.

With the gray heart on his nose, he's most more likely ermine and even more cute. Bunnies like to be spoiled, the angoras here are technically 'livestock', but don't tell them that! They're pretty spoiled, too, although they don't get a lot of people attention, which I don't think they...

1. Get an angora bunny. 2. Wait for it to become very fluffy - three or four months If it's a colored bunny, when you see the dark tips of the next coat coming in, that is a good time to clip since then you won't have short fibers cut off from the incoming coat 3. Clip the 'wool' off the...

I looked for the Haematoxylum campechianum but I've not seen any around here. I can't grow it either, since it has stickers (thorns) and my SO doesn't like plants with stickers. But there are onion skins and lichens, so other colors are laying around, I'm sure. There's marigolds in the garden...

Lovely hutch! Nice rabbits, too. Had you thought about raising purebred Rex and selling breeding stock as well as filling the freezer? Selling stock can help offset feed costs. Are you going to put in an automatic water system? Saves on cleaning water bottles.

Congratulations on your baby buns! Hopefully they will thrive, although it's pretty chancy with a first time mum bun. But, she's off to a good start so hopefully things will go well. Which doe had the litter? Are they silver foxes? Are silver foxes born black and become silver later?

Nanners could be what is called an "ermine" colored rabbit. It's a white rabbit with blue, blue gray, brown or even marbled eyes. Frequently an ermine will have stray dark hairs or bits of gray 'smut'. But not always. The color genetics for ermine is A_ __ cchd or cchl __ ee. It's not a...

Well, that's two oddball questions I've been mulling over that you've had the answer to today! You're on a roll! So alum is the same as aluminum sulfate? Alum is frequently mentioned as a mordant for dye and I've never known where to get it other than as an expensive item from a specialty...

Thanks! I was just wondering earlier today how long it would take to 'reload' a buck who was 'shooting blanks'. Any idea how hot it has to be and for how long to induce the sterility?

Some of us were around before they were printing nutritional labels on food, let alone "USDA Safe to Eat" labels. Plus, if you grow up around places that grow food, a lot of it gets eaten way before there's any time to label it. And that whole 'expiration date' stuff seems so bizarre as well...

If the entire ear is 'lazy', then it could be the ear muscles are weak. During hot months, there's more blood in a rabbit's ears since that helps cool off the rabbit. If it's a young one which doesn't have well developed muscles yet, that can create conditions were one or even both ears will...

LOL! Taking an extra cage or two! Brilliant! Hope they come back occupied.

The frozen treat blocks would be great for a hot summer treat, wouldn't they? They'd thaw a lot quicker, tho. Building easy to clean hutches is always a great goal. FWIW, the next time hutches are built around here, they will be single layer instead of the stacked two stories that we have...

If Ivermectin would wipe out rabbits with the Vienna gene, that'd go a long way towards eradicating it from the herd! However, the Vienna gene is in the herd and they get Ivermectin and nobunny has expired from Ivermectin use. But, that's just here, haven't done a study on it.