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Hello everyone 👋 It’s been a few years but I’m glad to see the forum is still running and so many familiar names I still breed ”meat mutts” for my dogs raw diet but life happens and I stepped away from the group for awhile. I was feeling a bit nostalgic as my only house bunny is looking a...

:twilightzone: I recently added a new breed to my rabbitry that I want to show competitively :clap: only 4 colours are currently showable and broken is not one of them :up: This is the 4th litter and 21st kit my new stock has produced :shock: :o :pullhair: :overreaction:

Figured it out ;)

:bananadance: :bananadance: I just did 3 litters of 10 to 12 week old bucks and I am so happy with the results :bananadance: :bananadance: Their weights ranged from 4lb 6oz to 5lb 13oz :wr_sun: I now feel that it IS possible to get 5lb in 8weeks on a forage, grain and hay diet and I'm just...

Some of you may have read my posts about a little ermine who moved into my rabbit barn last fall and didn't bother my bunnies but quickly decimated the mouse population :cheer2: Well this afternoon I found a drowned ermine in one of our water barrels :cry: It's a female but I cannot tell if...

I learned something new today :) "Umbrous" is the term used to describe the dark modifiers that make some torts almost black and others almost orange :P It can do the same for all colours - super dark Havana chocolates have a lot of umbrous modifiers while the redder chocolates like Amber...

Finally After 3 generations I "might" have a sallander :mbounce: :choir: :cheerleader: Out of the 7 kits 6 are magpies :x But that one, on the top right, the beautiful pink kit, might just might be a sallander :wr_power: Fingers crossed

So I finally caved and joined facebook and I think I've been banned from a group :shock: I applied and was admitted to a "closed group", and I can no longer access it - was I banned? Is that what happens? Don't they put up a notice or something? Or is it just a glitch that I haven't figured...

I was torn on whether to put this post under "Hopping Mad" or "Colour Genetics" but figured it is a common enough question that I should put it here :shrug: I had a very "heated" discussion with a young lady wanting to get into rabbit breeding - she wanted two rabbits that would produce "lots...

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:beammeup: Have landed.... ..... in southern Ontario http://www.oakcreekgiants.com

I was trying to explain coat colour genetics to my non-sciency sibling :) She was getting drowned in genotype nomenclature and said - "this looks like math.... I HATE math !!" so I tried a hands on approach Her craft box was on the table so I pulled out some bottles of paint - one for each...

I was trimming one of my meat bucks nails and noticed a bit of gook in his ears - upon closer inspection it is not waxy as i expected but scaly :shock: so I take a swab and check it out under my microscope - MITES !!!! Where the HECK did theses little buggers come from ?!?!? And who else out...

It's the first time I've had this colour and I really REALLY like it :P Thankfully its a buck so there is NO WAY I am keeping him, otherwise I might need to expand my house bunny collection :roll: Anyone want to guess the colour or genotype ?

My wonderful doe Silver had a litter of 13 on Monday :D She is the star of my rabbitry and the best production doe I have, but I had a restless night waiting for the two other does to give birth as I won't let her try and feed 13. Yesterday morning one of the other does popped 9, so I still...

I have never had a case in 3 years of breeding until now. Only the kits from my new Californian buck are affected :( and it seems the himilayan marked ones are even more prone to the infection. I know its been a brutaly cold winter but my guys are in a heated barn and the kits from...

Someone from the University of Guelph (the major Agricultural and Animal Science University in Canada http://www.uoguelph.ca/ ) is going for their masters and needs respondants to this rabbit survey so I thought I'd pass it along. http://www.petrabbitsurvey.com...

A couple months ago I was given a lovely black Californian buck and two does of my breeding that the buyer could no longer keep. I bred him to a couple of my AmChins and the results are in and apparently he carries two copies of the steel gene :shock: since ALL twenty three kits are silver...

Hummmmm I've been thinking (dangerous, I know :mrgreen: ) Do you think there would be a market for a rabbit that is double recessive in the 5 main colour genes to be use as a test breeder? Genetically it would be - aa bb cc dd ee - which is a REW lilac tort Opinions?

Well, THAT was unexpected. One of the does from my show bloodline, you know the ones I am often complaining about because they are hard to get pregnant and have smallish litters of 5 to 8 just had a litter of..... wait for it..... 12 I am completely unprepared as I was hoping to use her as...