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The preliminary steps are done, pick up the last soaking. It need not be seven days, though, just enough time for the skin to be fully saturated.

Silver Fox is a very nice breed. I have 2 a this time and will breeding them in the spring. Lovely coats of uncommon color. Mine have very nice temperaments. ANNNND you can get them from our very own @KelleyBee . She was kind enough to meet me partway for my purchase.

While that may be so, the overarching membership in the forum assumes that the person reading it has an interest. Several posts in this thread express exactly that. Facilitating understanding is presumably goal of anyone in ARBA (American Rabbit Breeders Association) and this forum.

Yes, it only takes a little google-fu to look something up.... It is still a pet peve of mine when folks assume everyone knows what an acronym means. I think it grand that there are folks here who are members of the American Rabbit Breeders Association (ARBA). I think I will look into membership.

My thought on corn plant wasn't about digestibility but one on storage. It is easy to cut hay and have it dry in the sun naturally in a day or so. But corn plants take longer to dry. If bunched together I would expect the to ferment as if silage. If dried entire, then I expect they will take a...

Alfalfa is broad leaved. Meadow grass is thin stalked darker green and varied in seed heads since it is usually comprised of several grasses. The really easy way to tell is by price, Alfalfa hay goes for $8 to $14 per bale while meadow grass is $2 to $5 per bale. You could buy a small amount of...

I want to focus on the supplement. Given that rabbits are vegetarian, has anyone thoughts on Black Soldier Fly Larava as rabbit supplement. BSFL is rich in protein and fat. It is often dried and ground to put into other feeds. But it is clearly a meat food. Chickens and fish thrive on them. BSFL...

I am thinking about a tarpaulin curtain. It was in the plan., anyway. Grommets and the tool have been bought at least. If the weather doesn't invade much I might leave door/curtain off. I also would like to do rolling doors. I haven't tried to source those yet.

It was only an adventure because I worked at it over a long period of time. If I had focused on it I think it would have maybe taken 2 days instead of 6 weeks. Nonetheless here are the photos of it being built. First I used concrete deck blocks to set a foundation and raise it off the ground...

In point of fact that is about what they expect. Government programs are not about helping people out or giving them a hand up. Programs are all about making you reliant on them. There are many services and funds run by churches. But, churches have been scammed so much that many are limiting...

I would station it as far from the rabbits as possible (well maybe 100 feet is possible for some and that would be extreme, but 50 feet easily). While it will attract insects that are near the rabbits, it will attract them from farther away too. Which brings them near the rabbits. I keep my...

I have observed their egg rafts under leaves in the forest. Once upon a time I grew mosquitos for fish food so I became very familiar of the life stages. I can not say I have ever seen a nymph not in water. @Therese bat boxes are really good for the migratory bats. For birds I encourage people...

I am beginning to believe I lost Tricksy (A) to this disease (2, I think she was vaccinated against 1?). Jack and Krolik who come from the same rabbitry are doing fine. Tricksy and Krolik shared the same apartment in the elevated hutch. Dosiedoe who shares the same diet, water, etc is doing...

Im pretty bold and give each rabbit a good handful of stuff. As summer gets on and there are lots of wild forage they get more stuff. I do a mix of long fiber and short. So in the morning they each get a large handful of grass, horsetail, kentucky blue, crab, even sedge. In the evening they get...

I suppose my spring transition is about 2 weeks also. Pretty much as the greens appear the pellets disappear. By the time I have plenty of forage for them I've stopped the pellets. In the autumn as the greens are harder to come by I start the pellets again.

Do you have a place to put a litter box? How about a piddle pad? If so, clean the cage our thoroughly and put the new potty place in. By thoroughly I mean strong bleach solution, rinse, dry and follow with ammonia. DO NOT skip the rinse. Ammonia reacts with bleach to evolve poison chlorine gas...

It is a 5 sided box if you will. The 6th "side" is the earth. Half of the top is hinged so I can put/remove the rabbits. Predators are thus locked out unless they were to make a concerted effort to get past the guard chihuahua. Mind you, this is not truly a tractor. The rabbits do not spend the...

How much space do you want them to have in the tractor? Making individual "apartments" is really just a materials problem. Put the tractor on wheels if it gets too larger to handle manually and pull it with a garden tractor. Imagine an axle on hinges that open down and swing back. As you pull...

Here is the rub on maples. The decorative Japanese are reported as poisonous to rabbits. Red, Sugar, Rock, Curly, Silver are all OK. I can attest to these varieties of Acer. You CAN bake the branches if you want. Frankly I think they will be more appealing to the rabbits if left to simply air...

Dosiedoe has always been aggressive with me. Eventually I got to a point that I accepted that it was just her way. I feed 100% wild forage in the summer. So my hand always goes in the hutch with her. I have learned to let her make her charge at me, then lay the food down. Just as she begins...