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Today we finally changed out the wire on the bottom of the grow out pen so it can be used as a bunny tractor! Here it is... They love it. :) (Feel free to share your bunny tractor pics as well!)

I thought I would share some pictures since I haven't in a while. One of the 5 week old kits.. What color is this? Mom is REW and dad is copper. Some of the babies look like dad, some like mom, and three like this. Californian doe.. she still doesn't have a name. She's due May 14. Oliver...

I've got 7 satin kits that are about 5 weeks old. I just rebred mama yesterday and I'd like for her to have a good rest during this pregnancy so I'm planning on starting the weaning process today. If I take out 3 or 4 kits today (I was planning on moving the larger ones to the grow out pen)...

Everyone was great this morning, went out just now to clean the rabbitry and check on the buns and found one of my grand champion California does that my grandfather bought for me, dead. :cry: I had just bred her to my Satin buck a couple of days ago, I was really excited to see what that cross...

Scarlett's 2nd litter is 2 weeks old! They are so cute. All of them are doing quite well. I cleaned out their nest box today as they were peeing quite a bit and it was getting a bit smelly, and I have noticed that a couple of them are climbing out of it. It's kind of high, so they're not able to...

My Satin doe had 10 popples (9 live) 3 days ago. Her previous litter was 7, and only 3 made it to a week old, and only 2 have made it to 6 weeks. I thought maybe she just didn't produce enough milk, so for this litter I started feeding her parsley to help with milk production... Some of them...

I really want to make my own grain mix for both rabbits and goats (does anyone do this for chickens as well?). I also want to grow fodder. I've grown a single tray of some leftover rye grass seed we had laying around and the rabbits loved it. I have NO idea where I should be looking for oats...

I've been hesitant to try frying rabbit yet as I'm not the best "fry-er" and I would really hate for the meat to go to waste because of an error on my part. I want to try it though, anyone have any tips? I'm pretty much a frying newbie in general, I've really only recently gotten where I can fry...

I'm not having the best luck with rabbits :( My California doe was due the 8th. She is not looking pregnant to me at all (I have no faith in my palpating skills yet), no fur pulling, etc.. Last time, she was RIGHT on time, pulled tons of fur the days prior. Her last litter (which was her...

Satin doe Scarlett has 3 good looking babies a little over 2 weeks old. I have not bred her back yet but when I went to feed them this morning, there was a dead kit on the wire. Well. Most of a dead kit. It had no head and no legs. It looked like a newborn. What's going on around here?

I have a Californian doe that kindled 1/1/13. Her babies had some sort of issue with lots of diarrhea etc, and all were dead by 1/7/13. I rebred her 1/8, so now we're coming up to her due date pretty quickly. She has a fairly hard, very large lump on her upper-left mammary region. I have tried...

My Satin doe had 9 babies 9 days ago. 2 were dead when I found them, and I think she was not producing enough milk and the others died kind of one at a time :( Luckily these babies ARE looking pretty good, the white one is the smallest and I would like for it to be a little more...

So I posted pictures of one of my california doe's teeth a while back and have decided that I am going to cull her. I'm not 100% sure on age but she is 4.5lbs right now. I am kind of just wanting to get it over with and process her- this will be the first rabbit I've processed and I do need to...

A friend of mine adopted a bun a few days back. I think she is a Lionhead or possibly a cross? I offered to post a couple of pics of her for more expert eyes to access :)

My hubby and I were finally able to work on our new bunny barn this weekend. We made it almost completely from free materials. The roof we did go ahead and pay for, since that's a pretty important part. :) The rest is pallets and random wood given to us or found. Not super pretty, but I love it...

This little doe was supposed to be an addition to my breeding program, but her teeth are quite bad in my opinion.. I'm not sure exactly how old she is but I have had her since a bit before Christmas. I've given her several different things to chew on but they don't seem to be getting better. Is...

I was blaming my doe for peeing on her babies, but I bathed them and kept them away from her last night and woke up to a very stinky nest box this morning. Babies had poop everywhere, super poopy butts and feet/heads/etc. I have noticed some mushy poop on the doe's end as well. She has no other...

Flower's babies are looking good to me so far, but I noticed yesterday she is starting to potty in the nest box. I also noticed a couple of the popples have pee on them, and one or two have irritated looking back legs. I'm going to bring them inside and clean them up but wanted to see if I could...

Found these this morning :P 6 wiggly little babes! Everyone looks clean and healthy to me, they are super warm in the nest Flower built for them (pictured inside in a towel for head count). This is my first litter, so a wonderful start to the new year for me!

I feel really horrible, but my blue satin (Bonnie) has not been eating her cubes and seemed to drop weight almost overnight. I went and bought pellets again as I want to get her back up to a healthy weight so I'll keep them all on pellets for now until I get my husbandry skills in order. Now...