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Just read this whole thread and never saw anyone explain how they dry ears, kidneys, liver, heart and lung. Dehydrator? Oven? What temp and how long?

I didn’t even do a full pea size for my 10-13lb adults. Maybe a baby pea. Just put a little smear on a popsicle stick and wiped it on their lips and they licked it off to groom and clean themselves. Scabs were clearly falling off next day and almost fully gone one. Will repeat two more doses, 2...

Yes, I know that. My concern wasnt just the ivermectin, because I know cattle, sheep, goat etc stuff says you can eat the meat or milk etc after so long and it’s used on humans. I didn’t know if there was something different about the horse paste because it stated not for use on horses intended...

I agree with trying to breed if she is adult weight. Weight and age are both factors. I bred my does at 4.5 months because studies show you get bigger litters if you start earlier (ideal when raising for meat) and they were adult weight. They were very receptive and had first time litters of 10...

Yes, you will want plastic around everything and wide trays. Rabbit pee is corrosive and stains, etc. Bucks especially will spray their pee. It doesn’t just drop straight down. And the babies are especially messy!

I saw you said above, you have New Zealand rabbits as an option as well. I would suggest that breed over giants. Giants eat more, making it so it isnt worth it to raise. They take longer to grow, and they produce more bone than meat. To be the most efficient with the feed to meat ratio, get the...

I searched and I know there are multiple threads on this, but none answer my questions. Two of our rabbits have ear mites, but we plan to treat them all. I have a bottle of mineral oil that I bought for this purpose/preventative. Since they already have the mites and I can see in their ear is...

How does this affect breeding and eating of meat? Do you have to wait to breed, will it render meat inedible?

Do you have a link to the details? I can’t find it.

Thanks! I’ll have to find a bigger area to hang things. I used a dehydrator this time on lowest heat, but it wouldn’t fit the stems, so I picked the leaves off and then is didn’t dry very well, either 😒 this stuff may be used for my own cooking. Rabbits can have next harvest and I’ll dry it...

I just harvested some of my basil and oregano for the rabbits because it was about to go to seed. I’m going to dry it for the rabbits. Can I dry the stem and they will eat that too? Or should I be pulling the leaves off? Thanks!

So, it’s heading into the heat of summer in our area, I didn’t plan to breed in July/August, we are very hot and humid in these months, even reaching 45°C (113°F) with the humidex. If it’s because of wanting to breed, will this behaviour calm down or is she going to be pretty uptight for two months?

Mine isn’t aggressive and loves her kits. They cuddle and lay all over her and she doesn’t move away or get annoyed at all, and licks and cleans them still, so that’s not why she’s agitated. I think she actually misses them and is concerned they’re missing. She was 100% fine until I started...

Oh, really? I never considered that. Our rabbits are housed outside and its been hot, I didn’t plan to breed for july/august due to the heat and stress of that, but spend the summer switching them to fodder before starting again in Sept.

I also allow their manure to drop directly on the ground and collect for my garden, if it’s contaminated from the wild, it will contaminate my garden, correct. Ugh!

Okay, this is my county and now I’m freaking out. We just got rabbits and we were switching to fodder and forage. We have one family of wild rabbits in our yard that we can’t prevent. I would still feel comfortable feeding them my herbs out of my raised beds, nothing has ever been in them, but...

I’m new, so not experienced, but I had this exact same issue. After posting here and researching, I found low milk supply can be common with first timers and usually remedies itself with experience. In any case, my doe was an excellent mother and so I wouldn’t write her off on a first litter...

So just an update. She calmed down and then we took another one away a couple days later and the next morning she was back at it running around and sniffing. So she’s definitely noticing her kits missing and a bit agitated. It’s her first litter, so maybe next time it won’t happen. It’s all new...

The nest box was removed at 2.5 weeks because they kept jumping out and wouldn’t stay in it anyway. They’re 5.5 weeks now and quite big, they’re getting crowded so need weaned. I haven’t seen the kits trying to nurse for a week or more. Where I would see them try often when the nest box was...

Has anyone experienced a doe getting agitated when weaning her kits? Last night I took half of them and put them in their grow out hutch and planned to take the other half in a couple days. This morning, she’s very alert and running in circles. This doe is usually super calm and collected. I’m...