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We just had a handful of people over for a Northern Nevada Permaculture Group work bee that involved helping us slaughter a bunch of chickens and rabbits. I really enjoyed the experience and the help, and was impressed how all but one person went from looking a bit horrified during the first...

Shoot, I'll PM you for details. I apologize - I try not to drop the ball on phone or email with folks, but I do tend to wait for voice mail before calling someone back, just in case it's a misdialed number or something. Even with the voicemail screen, just today I got a message for "Larry" on my...

As Dood said, tortoise-shell and calico cats are XX mosaics. The orange and black colors are controlled at the same locus on the X-chromosome, so a male (being XY) will always only express its single orange or black gene. Each cell in all female XX animals must inactivate one of its...

The American and Champagne breeder that advertises on Reno CL is me! I'd be happy to set you up with either if you want to give them a try. We have kits every 7 weeks or so. I do remember checking out an ad for Californians in either Minden or Gardnerville some months ago when I was toying...

Welcome to RT! Are you in northern or southern Nevada? There are a few of us on here who are based in Reno, and many more small-timers around who aren't on this forum. Good luck with the new rabbits.

I weigh at weaning (which I tend to do around 5 weeks age) and at 8 weeks, and whenever I am trying to assess a litter for potential buyers, curiosity, etc. I also weigh each rabbit immediately before and after slaughter (post-dressing). The slaughter-related weights go into an Excel file with...

Thanks for the box pictures, grumpy! I think that should definitely do to help me and my woodworking class instructors draw up and execute a construction plan. I'm going to get some funny looks from my fellow classmates though - they're all doing cutting boards and coffee tables and such.

Do you mean the combo hay rack and pellet feeder, a FineX product? I CANNOT recommend them, I found out that the design makes it very hard for pellets to flow through the system - you will feel forced to manually push them all the way down. And if you are trying to feed more than a single rabbit...

Hi, Demamma! Yes, that's me at the moment (there is another Champagne breeder in Reno who also uses CL, though - that's where I got a few of my does from). I've PMed you... Sorry to hear about the sleep issue, definitely don't try to come over the hill to see us until you have that figured out!

Thanks, Grumpy!

Demamma, we have a nice young Champagne buck kit here in Reno that we keep finding excuses not to butcher quite yet (chief among them is that his sire is still plenty young and vigorous, and less related to the does than the young one is)... So come on out and scout northern Nevada, go back with...

Could anyone share photos (inside and out), or better yet, plans, for a tattoo box? I'm taking a woodworking course as part of the "continuing education" offerings at my local community college, and think that I could make my own with help from the instructors. And we've finally decided to keep...

Hey there, Jessi down in SW Reno... We haven't been having smoke issues with the buns here, no special precautions taken. Perhaps the smoke is thicker up in the North Valleys? We're only seeing some confusion amongst the chickens, they considered roosting a few hours early yesterday due to the...

Sorry to hear how small they were... but at least you didn't sink a lot of cash into pellets, right? I just weighed my pasture grow-out pen residents (these ones have been on pasture all their lives, but do receive about 1/8 cup mixed pellets and oats a day each). At 9 weeks they're measuring...

I would think the breed would be less important than the breeder - in that if they come from a breeder who lives in a warm place (at least seasonally), who does fairly little to nothing to coddle them during heat spells, and who expects them to breed year round, then the rabbits should be pretty...

I'd give her a box just in case... I haven't personally seen nesting behavior (especially fur plucking) unless babies were imminent. Once the litter arrives you can figure out who the responsible parties are! Keep us posted! -Jessi

I have just started up again with rabbits, and don't have much to share yet. We have only one litter weaned to pasture (they spent the first 5 weeks in standard cages), and I've sold most of them as breeding stock. The remaining two are close to 11 weeks, and the Champagne buck is about 4 3/4...

The "true" cheatgrass out west is Bromus tectorum. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromus_tectorum. Yes, you should have it in Idaho, paintrider, we've got tons of it here in Nevada. You can recognize it by the way the seed heads nod over when drying/dry. Definitely edible when green (it's a...

I think heat tolerance is something you can select for, hence all of the people who raise rabbits in un-air conditioned barns in places like Texas. But unless you are lucky and buy the right foundation stock, you will have losses until you develop your own resistant strain. So far, I've had good...

Sorry to hear of your loss. Last week we lost 6 out of 9 week-old kits in a litter. Fine the night before, dead in the morning. They just looked bloated and uncomfortable, for the most part. I did not take pictures as I was too upset at the moment... One of their siblings still seems to be doing...