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Before making all of that huge investment, perhaps you should test this on a smaller scale (perhaps 8 rabbits), without all of the automation and human labor. Do it yourself for a while. Properly cared for rabbits don't have fleas, and they certainly do NOT make noise aside from some very quiet...

I am curious as to how the degloved kit grew out. Did the leg ever skin over, just no hair?

Silver fox were originally developed for their coats to replace the actual silver fox that was being hunted for its fur to extinction. I raise Silver Fox, but I do not use their fur in that manner because I dispatch most at a younger age for meat (Silver Fox has a commercial body type and size...

By chance can you share a photo of your converted dog crate? Thank you!

Lovely story. They’d obviously been thinking about each other from afar. As for the Rex, do you have more than just the Rex buck? I ask simply because rabbits do have unique personalities and dispositions. I agree that there are breed specific tendencies, but then those general tendencies are...

In my way of thinking about this, "good care" starts with how a person values themselves. If one is raising rabbits for meat, as am I, then IF they value the health of their person and family, they must surely value the health of their food source. This is a very good reason to want to raise...

I butcher, rinse, bag, refrigerate all my rabbits, regardless of age.

What was your outcome I've got it growing, too.

To avoid such, I don't use the first letter of a name more than once. I have only one rabbit whose name begins with A, only one whose name begins with B, and so on. If I were ever to have a need to begin at the beginning of the alphabet again, then I would probably insert a 2 after the repeated...

All rabbits are edible.

Boy, that's go my head spinning. My system works like this: How to read the Kit ID/Ear Tattoo: KB=KelleyBee 3rd Letter = First Initial From Name of Sire 4th Letter = First Initial From Name of Dam Set of Numbers = litter number of mating pair (sire & dam) Last Letter = specific kit...

I have attached the pages in the book I've mentioned before that should help to answer your question. How a person preps the rabbit before butcher can affect the percentages (i.e., no food last 24 hours vs feeding as usual) as well as what is weighed after dressing. For me, I weigh all useable...

I always weigh within 24 hours of birth. If the weight is gathered within the first 24 hours, I count it as DOB. Then I weigh daily for the first week to be sure all are being fed.

You've covered much of what I put on my paper ledgers. I just butchered this week and was thinking how much I would love to be able to key into my program the following: Age at date of butcher, Live Weight, Dressed Weight (I include meat, bones, liver, kidney, heart, nothing else) Head, feet and...

Would love to see photos of your nursery hutch.

You're correct, it is frustrating to write out weights of hundreds of kits just to compare and decide who needs culled and who needs to be kept. I cannot tell you how many times I have shot myself in the foot by not keeping a rabbit I should have. It would be awesome if the software would...

yep. Rather than making the mistake of thinking that rabbits (or any animal for that matter) think like us, I prefer to learn as much as possible about rabbit behavior in the wild and then think like a rabbit. For instance, in the wild does stay AWAY from the nest 23 hours and 50 minutes each...

Well, then perhaps my assumption is wrong. Did you use straight vinegar or a dilution in water? I’d like to give it a try on my buns and see. I will let you know If mine get white again. Sure hope! What cage wire did you use? My hands aren’t strong enough to deal with rolls of wire and my hubby...

When this happened to my whites, at first I thought pee, too. But it is not. It is rust from the cage wire.

Financial Ledger What about expenses, feed, hay, equipment, medication, housing, etc etc etc. “Weight under the Health tab I was able to enter all 12 rabbits & loving the graph chart it automatically displays” what I don’t like about Kintraks/animal breeder‘s graph below the weight is that I...