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Those who use hay cubes instead of loose hay, how many do your rabbits typically eat in a day?

What do you mean? What did I sprout for fodder? It’s wheat. Or if you mean the pink stuff, I’m asking that too. 😂

Also, how tall should it be before feeding to rabbits? Things I’ve read, by day 6, it’s much longer than mine. Does that matter? I’m guessing my kitchen was cooler than usual being winter and near a window, plus turning out heat down at night, it ranges from 18-21°C in the room.

Okay. Day 6 of my experiment. One container was soaked in regular town tap water, nothing added. I wanted to see if what they do to the water with chlorine and such would be enough to keep mold at bay. The other container was soaked in same water with apple cider vinegar added. I read you could...

Started my fodder growing experiment today. Soaked two small batches, two different ways and seeing if I’m successful! This morning the bottom one in the images has sprouts starting!! I’m more giddy than I should be, but I honestly thought they wouldn’t grow because they didn’t expand much while...

Thanks for thinking to post it here @MuddyFarms! I’ll check it out!

Thanks for your input, KelleyBee! I agree about the breeders not being on the ground due to risks, that’s why I was leaning towards the commercial rabbitry housed separately in the barn, but was wondering if the colony on the ground may have some resistance or immunity built up Because of that...

Thanks so much for your thorough and informative reply, @MuddyFarms! I do have the Beyond The Pellet book, as well as, Keeping Poultry And Rabbits on Scraps, but haven’t had a chance to read that one yet. It’s a bit thicker, I read Beyond The Pellet in one sitting 😂 As for the apple branches...

Thank you for the simple breakdown! So basically as long as I choose the best and, if possible, don’t breed direct brother/sister litter mates (which seems to be the general consensus, even though it can/has been done), I should be good for years! That helps alleviate some of my concern!

Hi Mariah, I have no issue with cross breeding, selective breeding, asexual reproduction, or genetic mutations that happen naturally. I do not consider that GMO, by the definition it’s known as today. It’s the genetically engineered biotechnology in a lab I take issue with. But I rather not get...

@MaggieJ @MuddyFarms I would love your thoughts, you’re the two I currently see posting about natural feeding still.

Sorry for all my posts of question after question. LOL. Just starting out and I’m a researcher before jumping in. Okay, for raising meat rabbits, I refuse to feed GMO pellet feed. I cannot get the non-GMO pellets because the minimum order is 1 tonne and that’s too much for a personal, backyard...

I have read some about inbreeding, but I can’t for the life on me make sense of it in my head. Can someone please dumb it down for me? If we start with a trio (2 does and 1 buck) how far can we get breeding before we are too inbred? We are doing it for meat, once we need to replace our original...

I know you need to change a rabbits diet slowly. While trying to take a pellet fed rabbit ame slowly change their diet to natural, how slow do you go? Like is there a rule? One new food a week? Every 3 days? Obviously if their body doesn’t like something, it will tell you right away, how long...

Thank you everyone for all your input. Now, thinking of doing this the first go around, my newbie fear is I won’t have enough greens dried to last until spring when everything starts coming back and/or I can replant some things. If this happens, would the rabbits do okay just on hay, grain and...

Researching naturally feeding rabbits as we cannot get quality pellets here without a minimum order of a metric tonne which is way too much. My question is, as part of their diet, can rabbits live off forage we dried for the winter or do they still need some source of fresh greens? Do we lose...

Hahaha... I loved that story. I laughed out loud when you said the pellets started moving. 😂 I’m glad you got such cheap feed and I’m glad you’re rabbits are just fine! Thank you for sharing the experience, it does help.

Okay. The mill says 3 months for when the weather is hot and humid, but longer in the cool weather. Not that it goes bad, but the risk of mold and such. I’m wondering if it’d be okay to store in pails with oxygen absorbers and be okay. That’d also keep mold and rodents away I’d think 🤔

I plan to feed fresh forage all spring through fall, as well as drying it for winter, so if the only concern is degraded vitamins, I don’t think that’s too big of a concern with what else they will get too, or what I can supplement in winter for specific nutrients like A and E. Here are the...

We’re new to starting a rabbitry and want to get 2 does and 1 buck, to start. We want to feed them non-gmo pellets and the only source of that is a mill that will custom make them, but only as a bulk order, since they don’t floor stock them and would have to make it special. So I’m wondering how...