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Welcome! I have had fantastic luck with craigslist in my area. I am a fan!

I once filled an entire planter with fresh dry rabbit poo from under the rabbits....there were chickens able to access it but it was over 90% rabbit. The pee mostly drained away into the ground, it was dusty dry, not exposed to weather. Anyway, I put it in this big planter, probably a full...

Has it been warmer than it was before? Bucks can temporarily become heat sterile. If weather cools off it can take up to 45 days for him to become fertile again. I checked the temperature in your location and it has been 92F/33C recently. For my rabbits that can be enough to cause bucks to lose...

For butchering: $10, amazon. I only use this one--though it is nice to have two in case one gets dull in the middle of a long day. I have a clean pair of pruning shears for severing head and feet. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00JPEMJVA/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 For...

agreed, I can do annual or twice annual cleaning if I want, and it doesn't smell. I generally take it out more often as it makes less of a long day and I have immediate need for fertilizer, always.

I notice they will also throw crocks and sticks around in the cage, and digging is instinct. I have not seen mine seeking anything in particular, and they are very interested in eating at first...then they get fuller and start messing around.

I really just might. :)

:cry: nobody in WA. looks like the portland oregon rabbitry no longer has them so I would have to go to Eugene...I am almost to the point of doing it. I had a bad summer for breeding this year.

I also went with the chickens-under-rabbits method, and I feed a mostly pellet diet. They get weeds and garden scraps when I have them (or have time to collect them, more accurately) and I have hay racks on the ends of the cages that I fill once in a while. They will hold a small flake of hay...

It would seem that it is likely edible...https://plants.usda.gov/DocumentLibrary/factsheet/pdf/fs_kosc.pdf https://rabbittalk.com/threads/field-bindweed-and-kochia-weed.4358/

The advantage you have is that you do use your culls for meat, and you took photos before you culled, so you are getting the feedback on the actual underlying musculature of your animals that a straight pet breeder never sees. It sucks that showing is scammy, but your work is not for nothing.

I never got posing or showing in general once it diverges from the functional use of the animal. You are describing exactly why I gave up on showing anything. Total burnout on the subjective and irrational reasons given by judges. I can only imagine that it is better to breed to the...

I like the ring pattern on Steve. I wonder, how does that spin up as yarn? I only have selfs.

It's funny @judymac, your logic makes prefect sense, and yet I love that my EA should give me a range of colors. It is part of the charm for me to have nest box surprise. I have been enjoying the potential to produce every self color possible with as few breeders as possible. I am really...

With 80 acres of timberland I would build a big communal grow out cage like @Olbunny has, pictures here: https://rabbittalk.com/threads/grow-out-cage-to-max-12-week-kits.34898/post-340315. I have chickens and no Alaska weather so I would not do the tray under, but I would really love to have the...

Welcome! nice to see someone from WA.

I have angoras, and I spin, but I wanted to get them just to have an excuse to sit and groom a rabbit. I spin because I have the rabbits, I don't have the rabbits because I spin. :LOL:

I have a couple of english angoras too--do you spin fiber?

I have 2x5ft cages for moms, and I often leave them together until 6 weeks, or even longer. I remove them a few at a time, boys first to avoid crowding. They either go direct to the freezer (for smaller litters left longer), or as a group/pair/trio to a grow out cage. In the summer I use...

I wish there were dog-proof weather-proof hutches. I can build a reasonable hutch, but it takes time and I wish I could just BUY ONE!! They all suck that I have seen though. Either they have solid floors made of cheap indoor grade plywood, or they have pull out trays without a cage floor above...