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We sent 6 rabbit kits to freezer camp over the last few days from one litter of American Blue Chinchilla cross bunnies. They were 9 weeks old and just over the 5 pound mark. Method of dispatch was a pellet rifle, after which they were hung up by the hind legs for 10 minutes to bleed out. When...

This is Cinnamon at about 12 weeks and 7 pounds. She's the doe I plan to keep out of my favorite NZ doe and the Silver Fox buck to replace Poppy, who, on her 3rd and last try as a mother delivered 10 beautiful babies but has so far lost 4 to neglect. Poppy will go to Freezer camp when what's...

It's always good to stop by and see what's hoppening at Rabbit Talk. I've been so busy I've neglected the chat, though not the buns. My rabbitry is growing by...yeah, hops and bounds. Chloe delivered 12 kits, 11 of which are still thriving 3 weeks later to the SF buck. They're all either black...

I'm feeling pretty bad about my recent decisions with my latest litters. I took two kits from my doe Poppy, who kindled the day after my SF doe, Summer. Since she had such a small litter (3) and one had what was presumably an omphalocele and was culled, I figured I'd breed her right back...

Poppy delivered three kits for her first litter. One has a big reddish ball around its navel - an umbilical hernia? It also looks bruised around its back legs and head unless it's going to be an odd color? All the others from this cross were solid colors. These are NZ/FG cross kits. It seems to...

My silver fox was given her last chance and just delivered 6 live kits (2 dead) today. She pulled tons of fur but one was out on the wire. I pulled out the two not fully formed dead kits and put dry shavings and hay in the nest box, then tucked all 6 beautiful babies back into the back of it in...

What Would Rabbit Talkers Do? I asked myself..and I couldn't answer so I'm asking you! Here's the story. We have a SF doe, Summer who's presumably bred to my SF buck and due next week. She's not yet raised a successful litter. She lost two litters before I got her (yeah, I got her anyway!) and...

I'll get better snapshots when it's not 11 PM and a nighttime run to check the kits because one climbed out of the nestbox and I couldn't sleep without a final check to be sure they were tucked in. I got them out to look them over. I thought they were all black but this one kit is ...I don't...

Well, things haven't gone as well as I'd hoped with Chloe's first litter. She did great for 2 weeks. They were well fed, growing beautifully and all seven thrived...till recently. One vanished completely, one was at the far end of the nestingbox, dead, another out of the nesting box in the cage...

Ella, my NZW rabbit has 5 fat, sleek, black kits to my Silver Fox, Sullivan. Here they are at 6 days of age. Chloe (Ella's daughter) has 7 smaller kits. These guys are NZ/FG cross and are 5 days old in the picture. It looks like two chestnut, three white ones and two black ones in this litter...

Five are big healthy looking live black kits. One large black kit is dead and two (maybe three?) tiny pink popples came out too. One was whole, one was not. What do you think went wrong? I'm pretty shaken up. Ella pulled TONS of fur and she's up there panting, bloody and looking utterly...

I have twins! One boy, one girl, out of one of my twin does. I was sure that Annie was due after Oakley, but Annie went first. I got to be there for the second one's arrival. Mama is a first freshener but you'd never know it as she's an expert parent to these two. Aren't they adorable? Just...

Well, I grew up naming all the critters I ended up eating and I turned out alright, so I figure it's good enough for my son, too. Here's my little man, who turned 4 on Sunday, with one of my first litter of kits, Mr. Zakk Black, (3/4 NZ/ 1/4 FG) out for a stroll in the nice Spring weather we're...

I almost got a Silver Fox a few months ago but it fell through when the litter got sick and (thankfully) the seller informed me of it and said she would not sell a sick rabbit. I was disappointed but certainly understood....and was delighted to find a pair of them, local, 13 months old, for $30...

I have three does due this week and put nesting boxes in today. Two are first time young mothers, the other one is the mother of those two and the only litter I've had from her. Her last two breedings didn't take so this is her chance to prove she's worth keeping! I'm really nervous about the...

I've watched the Youtube videos, read the tutorials and I can't feel anything that resembles grapes or babies when trying to palpate my three does this week at 12-16 days post breeding. I'd guess that none of them took if I went by what I could feel. I suppose I have to wait and see at day 30+...

My young buck, Zakk, is in a growout cage with his brother, Alfred. Alfred looks fine but we keep finding big bunches of fur around the cage and Zakk has a bald spot. The two are always racing around carrying on. Is this from Alfred pulling Zakks fur out do you think or is Zakk possibly doing...

I have a healthy 1.5 year old buck (NZ Flemish cross). I have three does to breed. Can I have him cover all them in one day or is that asking too much? How many times a day is it fair to ask a buck to do the deed without wearing him out or having him be ineffective? I would like the does bred...

Well, I went out of my way and managed to get a great set up for my doe, Ella to be cared for when her due date approached (since I had to move an hour away and take care of my former MIL who fell on her new knee replacement and broke her shoulder badly) but, it's day 37 and no kits. I'm...

It's bitterly cold here in western PA (-15 last night with the wind chill) and it's a full time job keeping water from turning to ice before the bunnies can drink it, but so far, everybunny is doing very well. My doe is bred, due on Tuesday with her 3rd litter. My mother in law just had...