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When I get my act together ... ha ha ... I would like to try my hand at felting with my NZ fur. I used to make felted hats. Silly question but how do you collect enough fur? I am imagining you with a ladyshave in your hand.

Just found this on the Brinsea site on wildlife rehabilitation: https://www.brinsea.com/t-incubatorsforrehab.aspx They mention success with bunnies.

It's a long time since I raised chicks. My incubator is very old but I still have it somewhere. I think the temperature control is pre-set to around 100°F. It has a fan and you control the humidity by adding water. I was happy to leave new chicks in there for up to 48 hours.

I am wondering if a chicken egg incubator might work. When I was trying to revive (sadly without success) a cold wee thing I realised the importance of providing a stable temperature. Has anyone tried this method? I hope your 3 are making good progress @eco2pia

Update. All 16 kits are doing great. Super healthy and bouncy. I will be tipping over the nest boxes this weekend as they are starting to jump out. I had a lovely moment watching a single kit sliding around under Mum, joyfully grazing from nipple to nipple. Because they were on the plastic...

My breeding trio had only been on a pellet diet when I collected them last September. I slowly introduced cut hay from my field and field greens - comfrey, ribwort plantain, dandelion. I added apples from my orchard and then apple and oak branches over the winter. I also slowly introduced...

Ha!, sprouts are not popular over here either, mine also turned up twitchy noses! :ROFLMAO: I wonder if we could create a survey for popular flowers, herbs and veggies. I would love to know if bunny breeds all love the same food, or if for example, it is just NZ's that go mad for comfrey? Do...

I had better admit right now that I have dyscalculia. This means that I can't see patterns in numbers ... or remember numbers very well. (Life has been much easier since mobile phones!) It's a bit like dyslexia (word pattern and reading disability) but get this with numbers. On the bright...

Quick update on my litters. From the original 21 I have lost 4. Both mums now have 8 each all strong, full and healthy. Which leads me to thinking about nipples. I guess one kit per nipple would be optimum.

Hi, great to meet you. I found your post about premature and detached very interesting. I had wondered if Babs had dropped her premature one from one horn and then two days later had the rest of her litter of 8 from the other. What you have explained makes more sense. Re the polytunnel, I...

Lovely, I am so glad I took your advice. Margo has 12 and Babs has 9 all healthy and all of a similar size. Nothing to remove or manage. Mums are doing a super job.

Thanks for this advice. I will get the boxes out and do an inspection first thing. I named my girls Margo and Babs and my buck is Jeremy. Babs kitted first - she produced one huge kit in the night between my watches. Sadly, it was very cold with blood pooling in its feet when I found it...

Quick intro, it has been raining in the West Midlands since November. I have been sloshing around in mud for months. I brought a breeding trio of NZ in October and this March I have my first two litters. I have joined Rabbit Talk because this community has a wealth of knowledge and experience...