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Last week my oldest most reliable doe gave me a litter of 10! Mostly I try to leave the mom's alone to do their jobs, but given my recent rat problems, the size of the litter, and her age I've been doing daily nest checks. This morning I found 2 fat and warm kits, and 8 "dead" in the doorway...

I just lost a 2 week old litter of 6 to rats. I'm so angry. I've been systematically trapping them for the past 2 months and I got 9, but then I stopped catching them and dared to believe I might have made a dent in the local population. Nope, they've just gotten smarter. Rats! So, fine. Next...

Basically just wondering if anyone has found some kind of smock/apron fabric for grooming angoras that does not leave you looking like a q-tip when you are done. I bought a hair cutting smock that I thought would work great, but the fabric was not slickery enough, and literally every piece of...

I got this idea from a comment made by @Olbunny I think. I have never liked that belly flaps are attached to loin, the loin is the most tender and the belly flaps are the most tough, and typically I would chop them all together and make stir fry or something out of them. On the most recent...

My first real harvest from my first real angora. Part of it anyway. I wanted to take a picture of the pile of wool next to the rabbit but the dog decided to photobomb and I thought it was cute. The rabbit is not afraid of him at all, and he seems to think this rabbit is a kitty, not for eating...

So, my last name changed, and I used to sell rabbits using my last name on the pedigree. Because it changed I decided to take the opportunity to rebrand, and make an inclusive name that I could use for any critter/product I sell. Something sort of general. As I was recently explaining...

I know there are posts on this topic, so if you are interested please do search, but I just had to post my latest "duh" moment. I have been feeding my young dog rabbit parts for his whole short life, and he's a lucky boy. As my colony was previously sized to a family of 5 and now feeds me and a...

I wonder how many people would be interested in rabbit genetic testing? If we were interested, what would be the most important things to screen for? Hidden recessive color genes like REW? Certain genetic diseases? Which ones? Something else? What would people pay for this service? PCR...

I have jinxed myself. I found a skin lesion on my buck. I don't know when it started because his fur is so thick that despite how yucky this thing is, its invisible until you part the fur. Anyone know what this is? It's only in the skin on the rabbit's haunch, not connected to the underlying...

Meet Solstice the lone survivor...I found him early this morning. Mom and litter mates didn't make it. We are feeding kitten milk replacer with a tiny bit of heavy cream. 5cc/feeding, 2x day. He's living in a small box in the Eco2pia Jr.'s room (kid is 18, well versed in nursing baby...

So I have so many ridiculous stories about my one duck already that I think I am going to need a place to put it all. Here is Helga when she first arrived: She spent her first night in a cardboard box in the garage. I went to take her to introduce her to the flock of chickens that would be...

I have heard some of you have multi level hutches, so that you have increased floor space. I want to know more. I have the height to add a level, but I have not been sure how I want to design it. Solid floor? Cleaning issue. Wire floor? Pee on rabbits below. How do rabbits move between levels...

It has been a while since I have had rabbits and I just got my first litter. Clover had six kits, and I just wanted to cheer about it. :) Show me yours. I missed the babies!!

Hi! I have a question about how/where any of you manage to sell fur or fur products. I am in the heart of a fur UNFRIENDLY city, where I might legitimatly be attacked just for wearing fur, but thanks to widespread shipping and the internet, I do not imagine I am limited to my local market...

Hi everyone! It has been a minute. I used to breed NZ Red and broken reds so long ago. Hard to believe it has been over a decade since I had rabbits. I got divorced, sold the house and the rabbits, and went back to school, among other things. I figured I better reintroduce myself. Fast forward...

so I need to be able to store a bale or two of hay at a time, and my current garden shed is too crowded. What I need is a nice rain proof way to store it right next to my hutches...I wanted one of those rubbermaid "sheds", they would be the right size, but there has to be a cheaper way than...

Ok I had a human tattoo gun, a 5 needle liner and black outline ink. We used a pen to mark veins to avoid, and liquid Oragel to numb the ear before hand--heads up, it takes a minute of two for that stuff to work, and a good amount, so goop it up. There were two of us, one to hold the rabbit...

Some may remember how frusrated I was getting about 6 months ago, I had a wonderful NZR doe, and at first she wouldn't settle, then she had a half-mutt litter, and then on her second (purebred) litter she up and died. :cry: I was having an awful time finding replacement stock, I was beginning...

So my rabbitry is under a cedar tree...I have never tried feeding the branch tips to the rabbits, just because it didn't seem appetizing to me. I, of course, am not a rabbit. A neighbor kid was by and picked up a twig of fresh cedar and offered it to coax a bunny to the front of the cage and as...

So I have some 2.5 week old babies, 4 of which are white. Their eyes are open, but they look black, like everyone else's. I assume it is because they are young, though the genetic possibility exists for frosties or charlies as well. When would I start to see the REW ruby eyes? Right away, or...