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I tend to keep most my champagnes on pasture so that they don't become fat! You have one heck of an easy keeper there!

Hooray! A nice young couple from rural Nevada took the squirrel or whatever buck home to be a breeder of meat bunnies! He'll have a black New Zealand doe as his first girlfriend, there will be some interesting bunnies out of that cross for sure. Or maybe just all blacks and chestnuts. Still, it...

Aww, Pancake was such a cutie! Although there is wide variability in my steels, I am going with a working hypothesis that there are two main forms present, almost chestnut and the much blacker kind I have pictured here. This particular litter only had the super dark in black base, but I've got...

The rust in the squirrel buck is all in the dark ticking, nothing is contaminating the white ring.his belly and triangle are pure white, belly with a nice deep blue undercolor. Sorry I don't have pictures of that, was taking photos alone. So anyway, the lack of fawn in any of his pale hair parts...

Ok, most of these photos are for Zass, because I know how much she loves steels, but I would like opinions on the first topic of squirrel (blue chinchilla) versus "shagouti" (and a smoke pearl shagouti at that!). So, I briefly had an extra American blue buck hanging around that I took on as a...

I have hesitated to provide updates, because the last time that I did, I apparently jinxed us. Lost another group of baby rabbits within 24 hours of posting. However, we have been stable since then, and I am cautiously optimistic. At least in the case of the few remaining Champagnes... the...

Sorry I didn't reply quickly, crazy days at work! Anyway, most of the deaths are hopefully over - just lost one more a few days ago. I still don't know what was up exactly, though I am quite sure it was not coccidiosis (I imagine that's why someone suggested checking out the livers). These were...

Ok, to follow up on this, I finally thawed out my stash of rabbit belly flaps and made "bacon." I was intending to use BlueMoods' recipe, but couldn't find any saltpeter. While looking around for more advice on the internet, I found a recipe for hot-smoked bacon that used InstaCure #1, which I...

Hi folks. Normally things cruise along quite nicely over here in Flying Fossil Farm, Reno, NV, but my latest three litters have been throwing me for a loop. So I'm one of those people who asks my rabbits to breed year round, hot or cold, and usually they do just fine. Two of my experienced does...

I dread the day a raccoon gets serious about my set-up. I hope I have everything as buttoned down as can be, but still, I'm sure they could find a hole or two in my defenses if they really tried. Quick threadjack - Michaels4gardens, what is it that you are using to cover your inset feeders? I...

I know I'm way late to the party (been busy; lots of young chicks hatching, dealing with goslings growing up, oh and the rabbits struggling through our heat wave), but for what it's worth, I echo everyone's comments about making sure to try to get "good" stock regardless of what breed or mix you...

Looking good! I'm glad it's going well! Miss M and all - I'm afraid I don't know how much hydrogen peroxide. My friend said a "splash" into the bucket for the initial soaking water, and same thing for the rinsing. Maybe Grumpy will get by with just tap water for the rinsing/watering - she was...

Is the "mountain sage" you feed Artemisa tridentata? Glad to hear the doe is doing better, but it would be nice to know exactly what you have fed her - lots of people refer to anything sage green that grows in the desert as "sage."

I just did the same thing with a one-time rabbit tractor, but it already had a floor (re-purposed wire shelving) so no need for additional supports in this case. I used 1/2 x 1 standard rabbit cage wire and all is working out great. If you end up going with something more like a hardware cloth...

Never, ever use lead pellets, bullets, or shot with anything you plan to eat, or plan to let anything else eat. I work as a wildlife biologist, and have been reading many scientific papers that show that the residue (sometimes just as fragments as small as dust) from lead ammo travels long...

Looks great. I will be eagerly awaiting reports of how well the rabbits do when transitioned over! FYI, my fodder producer here discovered that she could almost completely prevent mold issues by using just a bit of hydrogen peroxide in both the soaking and rinsing water. I hadn't heard of that...

Welcome to RT! I use the online GlobalPedigree.com, I like how if anyone else has entered rabbits that are in your rabbit's pedigree, that info will show up without you doing anything. Some of my Americans have 12+ generations available! I also like how you can check in and update/view things...

Even day-old kits seem to have an amazing ability to get themselves on the right side of the layer of fur. When I have litters in July and August, the little ones are permanently camped out in plain view. And in winter, snuggled down deep. I bet everyone else is right in that you do need to make...

Mine has never sneezed. Well, I am sure he has once or twice in his life, but neither he nor any of his offspring make it a habit. Just a little schmutz in the eyes sometimes. Never to full-out weepy status.

As a temporary (or permanent for the season, depending on your tastes) solution, maybe try zip-tying a split-open feed sack (the polypropelene kind) along the upper half of the cage's western wall. Pierce holes along the edge of the sack material with something sharpish and feed the zip-ties...