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Thanks for clearing that up, must be just an issue within a particular line, based on the lady's comment. I though maybe it was one of those endearing quirks that go along with some breeds. That rabbit had some real skills though.

So just went to my first rabbit show, my wife has been to a few but I took the kids this time. I figured out what to do as I went along, and parked our cages near the tables that had our breeds. At some point I turned around to see a lady cleaning up a puddle behind me in the path that she...

The bear houndsmen I was talking about weren't having a problem with wolves killing dogs on a chain, they were having problems where wolves have learned to listen to a pack of baying hounds and intersect them. Then they kill most of them and eat everything but the tracking collars, which the...

People in Idaho have been loosing bear hounds to wolves with great regularity. It appears that some wolf packs have been specializing on this food source. Even taking on packs of dogs. Bear dogs are pretty tough. Not only have they been bred to hunt and fight with a bear until it climbs a tree...

That is some good input. Yeah, a lot of people seem to think of rabbits more for the fluffy, cuddly attributes. I have always considered myself a farmer, so I guess it is in my nature to judge things based on their productivity. What I have been shooting for is breeding does at either four to...

Well, we've had several breeds. We started out in the very beginning with a split penis buck and a buck, and that didn't work too well! We had a pair of Champagnes, the male was undersize and the female, which we bred at 6 months, had and raised one litter of ten. After six months of trying to...

So I came on here a couple years ago trying to figure out the basics, and now there are buildings that have been taken over, automatic watering systems, multi-stack units, etc. The rabbits are actually my 8 year old's, but who am I kidding. We have even dabbled into the world of showing. 6 year...

So I go to a swap to get rid of rabbits and come home with a Lilac buck. Given that I have red and broken red does to play with, what are my color combinations, I'm thinking lots of agouti and broken agouti? How would one go about breeding up to a broken lilac color?

I was wondering about the light. I'm picking up a timer this week, should be easy to remedy, but if they are like chickens it will take a while for it to have much effect. You would think that nocturnal burrow dwellers wouldn't be affected as much by light, but I guess they are. The one doe...

So, I've got a doe that has done great in the past that has had her second litter that she barely pulled fur for that was cold and dead in the box. Another doe that weaned a litter about the first of November that refuses to lift. Another doe is doing marginally well but she lost a few in her...

We are having some buns for supper that are pretty neat. They came from a Belgian doe crossed with a New Zealand buck. It was not really planned that way, but I think we have hit on a superb meat cross. The doe doesn't cramp up a cage and eat as much food as the pure New Zealand. But she somehow...

Thanks all. I have a bunch of other cuteness I need to take pictures of. The Belgian doe being nursed by her half Red New Zealand babies is pretty neat. Looks like a rabbit mosh pit.

These guys are 4 weeks old. I don't know much about markings but those two look pretty nice to me. Maybe a little light. The three brokens are girls, best I can tell. The solid is one of their brothers, there were five solids and three brokens in the litter. Dunderhead done good. Thanks for the...

We have litter in the box right now from our broken red NZ and our red buck. Also have a litter of Champagne D'Argents about two weeks old right now. Meat mutts of assorted colors and flavors. Near Roanoke. PM for details.

Sold one, down to 37. Nest box needs to go in for our NZ doe. Our Belgian crossbreds are good solid baby making machines but the 12 week grow out sure eats cage space. They seemed to grow out better when it was cooler.

The litter from the Belgian and NZ are the noisiest bunch I've ever heard. Kicking the bedding up in the air and making sounds almost like new puppies. The doe stares at the nest box like it is full of monsters. She is feeding them though.

Seems like only yesterday I was logging in to try to figure out why our two male rabbits weren't producing anything. Our rabbit count is currently at 38. Have some freezer camp candidates in about a week, at the same time another litter is due. Our champagne just kindled with 7, her first time...

Selling wild rabbits is not technically against the law in all states. (Most, though.) Do a google search for Smokey Mountain cottontails, and Missouri cottontails. And the same people usually have San Juans and Tennessee Red Backs. Here in the Communistwealth of VA, the powers that be regulate...

I'm sure you have someone in the area that could take care of the problem for a price. Might do a google for "wildlife control" and your city. If it's not worth the price then you don't really have a problem. Coyotes are opportunists, so as long as your food (pets/livestock) is harder to get to...

I went ahead and bred her last night which was about 24 hours later. You weren't kidding about receptive! I think she would have been happier if I had put her in with 2 bucks! The buck's name, by the way, is Un-dunderhead, his cage in quarantine was under Dunderheads. Gotta love kids picking out...