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Legumes are the most sensitive to pesticides. Use some in a pot and put some beans and/or peas in. Then another pot of known clean soil/compost with more of the same beans/peas.

I'm not as familiar with coccidia in rabbits but it can be a big problem in sheep, especially lambs during weaning. Coccidia exists around the animals because they carry and shed it as part of what's naturally in their system. The problem comes when one thing takes over the rest, upsetting the...

I wouldn't do the shelf. Unnecessary extra wire and they'll just pee on whoever is under them.

For me the best system for freezing weather water is to have two water bowls per cage. Twice a day pull water bowls into a bucket, that gets brought inside to thaw, and replace the iced bowls. You don't always have to bring in every bowl depending on how many rabbits learn to drink water when...

I'm going to disagree with the inbreeding bit. Kind of. I think alot of people aren't culling hard enough and using anything that can produce to bump their numbers up. Production, production, production. But that means you let them reproduce more and more. Making more and more that have foot...

If it were me I'd be real tempted to keep them both and test breed. The bright side with meat rabbits is that even if you aren't happy with them later, they still turn into meat. I'd want to breed him to his sister to see if the growth rate holds and the body. If they're going more narrow still...

Copying my reply from a similar thread on using flemish. I agree with Alaska Satin.

I have built alot of cages in the time I've had rabbits. I've never been 100% happy with any cage. I also find it's more about the entire set up as a whole. Make sure the cage height is right to be comfortable. Cage doors and nest boxes aren't the wrong size for each other. Cage doors that open...

Sort of like that ya

If I was building a grow out hutch with a giant feeder for lots of kits I'd work off the PVC pipe extender idea that alot of DIY chicken feeders use. A metal base and above it a big section of PVC pipe going up with a cap for a lid to keep out weather/moisture/etc. The pipe can't be accessed to...

Just wanted to suggest the YouTube channel Coturnix Corner. Really solid information.

Interesting on the posing from the sale pic vs you posing them. This is some I've always looked at when posing. At what point is it adjusting them to be in pose and where does it become squishing and holding to look good or better or more correct? I don't care to get into showing but if I ever...

It was a while ago but I think I got all black (with minimal silvering) and a couple himi. From the Cali x SF. I bred two of the does back to the SF and got all black, some with almost no silvering and some with more but never nice like a purebred.

They're goats. Someone is always going to be the bottom of the totem pole and get bullied, at least a bit. That's just goats period. I highly recommend buying a milking doe from known milking lines. So many goats have horrible udders. Go to the auction and see a parade of the most horrendous...

Yes sheep people would definitely be interested in genetic testing for color/pattern!

I meant overcooked as in born late.

If I had that situation happen to me I'd keep the nest boxes in with the does until day 40, because my luck I'd pull it and one would birth then. By 40 days they're definitely not bred and if they do have over cooked kits in there the survival odds are almost none from what I've seen.

Ya it's curious that your experience would be only brokens from broken x broken breeding. Unless you're dealing with some rabbits that are heavier marked charlies? Why the harlis are mostly black, that I don't know. Very interesting.

😂 Guardian dogs are big enough as it is and eat plenty. Just curious though, you can't freeze them for lack of freezer space or...? I know I did the math for mine and to feed the border collie (6y/o) for a year raw it would be just shy of 750#. And the great pyr is already significantly bigger...

You can use the search function to see other posts about crosses with flemish giants. The thing is they are giants. They grow skeleton first. Then fill out. I had got two flemish does years back. They were out eating my standard saanen milk goats that I was milking. Not exaggerating. Each...