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Hi everyone, i would just like to say hi again and massive thankyou to all of you lovley people who hav gave me great advise in the quite recent past to alow me to ethically rear, dispatch and tan ...THAANKYOOOOOOO:)I had a great 18 months of rabbit meat so far and must say that the tanning is...

hi everyone thought it only right to let yous know i managed my first time dispatch everything went ok, except i felt my knees knocking together straight after! :shock: but i did it and no regrets -im not so sure about my tanning skills tho i guess more practice on all aspects,have we got a good...

hi is this expensive/over priced? i just got a quote for 1kilo of alum powder at 69 euros i got the quote from a pharmaceutical co. as al other places i tried near my area do not stock it any more i guess it would be around 75 dollars converted price this is for tanning hides

Last saturday my NZX doe had her 2nd litter this year and 3 out of 9 are really smaller than the rest and really wrinkly and golden in places where their fur is just coming, is the wrinkling common? and the last kits were not golden looking either perhaps its too early to make any judgement but...

might seem a strange naive question but have just found someone in Ireland who deals with wild rabbits as a pest controller and would let me have some young ones(if i knew they would breed with my meat rabbits) couldnt find enough info through google but have faith in rabbit talk for some...

Hi i have 7 kits at 10 weeks old 3 of them are all white and the rest are typical Californian coloring, will the 3 white ones turn the same as the the others colors or do i have a dominant gene of newzealand white rabbit? the pure white ones are bigger than most of the others too.

Hi does any one know if either of these plants have been used for natural feeding for rabbits as theres loads of it growing here(ireland) right now....i come across a lot of plants not recorded to be rabbit food and often feel i should just try them with it myself but it would be too much for me...

hi, my kits are 10 weeks ive fed them the best of feed including oats wheat hay alfalfa sunflower seed veg greens/crops weeds grass and fruit, they have a 10x10 area to run around and are only 3 and a half pounds! the runt is stil only 2 and a half pounds im trying to feed them like this because...

i would like to keep the pelts from my rabbits and was wondering whats the most natural method to preserve for using them,i looked at the acid method loved how the sinew peeled off easy but dubious about the toxic stuff any suggestions?

when i got my doe she was already 2 years old and had 3 litters shes recently had her fourth and these were conceived soon after she had lost her 3rd litter, i would like some advice whether it would be ok to re-breed her after this litter is weaned which is now at 7weeks, i once read that a...

there are many types of the fuscia and ive still to identify what variety is growing here so thought i would ask if anyone knows much about this plant specifically is any of it safe for rabbits? my horses eat the leaves and flowers and a neighbor also eats the flowers im doing a division in my...

friend of mine wants to mate his2 dwarf rabbits and keep them together from this point on, the buck is 12 months and the doe 8 weeks is this a wee bit early for the doe? it seems so compared to meat rabbits any advice welcome :)

ok im a bit of a paranoid type when it comes to natural resources being tampered with but i was not alone to be suspiscious when our main water supply started to smell of bleach, it stung eyes and skin in the shower and gave me a headache washing the dishes all weekend, its probably over dose of...

hi i plan to keep one doe from a litter and would like to cage/run them together(mother and daughter) would this be a bad idea? would they fight?, i'm trying to utilize space and if its ok to do this what age do i return the offspring to mother once weaned? whats the time scale for milk to dry...

hi my Californian doe's kits are 5 wks tomoro there are 7 of them :) i understood to keep them with the doe as long as she would take them and feed them milk up to 8 wks, im just worried the doe will be beat by then any advise please?

hi all, my californian doe's spine seems a bit sharp i feel both her and her kits are small, the kits are 4 weeks i saw a 6 week old dwarf rabbit which is bigger and worries me my kits could be too small not sure what they should weigh at this age? i am going to get their alfalfa hay today as...

Is it 6 weeks when we can start feeding solids to the kits? do i have to wait till they are properly weaned from their mothers milk (when she wont give it anymore) ive noticed they have all tried toa nibbling at her food if its fed while she is in the cage usually i take her out to feed her as...

I was under the impression that meat rabbits were the'right' age to dispatch between 10 and 12 wks ive heard others eating their older rabbits (at least 6 months old) wondering if anyone can tell me the benefits/disadvantages please.

Hi ive a pair of mucovies and want to feed them organic/gm free/natural at a lower cost and homemade, is anyone here breeding for duck meat/eggs and feeding them like this? i also have 4 laying ducks 2 cambells and 2 pekin/ayelsburyx and when their bag of 95 percent organic store bought pellets...

my (1st)kits were born outside in their wooden nest box within a part wooden hutch adjacent to a part wire mesh run within their pen which seperates them from my buck nearly 3weeks ago, it snowed the night they were born sudden drop in the temperature may have been why 3 died, i bought the doe...