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It's always something with rabbits, isn't it? I have a litter that is about four weeks old. When I went out today, I noticed that the one has a blue wedge in his brown eyes. I have never seen this and have no idea what is going on. He is a black false charlie (solid doe to broken buck), but he...

I've recently decided that I want to be as done as possible with commercial feeds for my animals. Between dog food and rabbit feed, there have too many recalls and reports of animals getting sick or dying. I spent yesterday reading through the this section of the forum, but I still have some...

Now that I'm on a holiday break from classes, I would like, in part, to use my time between semesters to expand my knowledge of genetics. I just read the article on color genetics in the book the ARBA puts out called Raising Better Rabbits and Cavies. It was a very good article and made me feel...

Just though I'd share some pictures of one of my current litters :D The doe had six, three solid chestnut, two broken blacks or gold tipped black steels, and a black or gold tipped black steel charlie. One chestnut and one broken died. There are some pictures from when they were a few days old...

I'm in need of new nest boxes and would like to make some wire ones to replace my wooden ones. I have the wire and the plans from Bob Bennett's Book, but now I've heard a few people saying that cardboard lined wire boxes aren't sufficient for the winter, as they are not insulated enough. My...

I have five broken chestnut mini lops for sale. Juniors born August 8th. Three bucks and two does. They aren't exact "wow factor" juniors, but the Dad is a GC and was very slow to develop, so they have potential. He is a solid chestnut. $10 each with partial pedigree. May be able to get the rest...

I was just at the Petco in Boardman, which has a back room converted into a "clearance room." They must have just got in a new shipment because the room was PACKED with stuff. There are deals so good I had to share! Among many, many other things there were: Three foot long bully sticks for...

Hi everyone! I've missed you all! I've been so busy since the semester started that I haven't had time to come on here. I'm glad to be back. Anyway, I was at a show yesterday that had a raffle in which I won a bag of Kalmbach feed. I had no idea that that was even a thing! I looked into it and...

While I have done some research on genetics, I'm still learning A LOT, so please bare with me. Last month I bred my chestnut mini lop buck (out of a chestnut and a gold-tipped black steel with squirrel, chinchilla, opal, and seal point on his pedigree besides other chestnuts and steels) to my...

I went to place an order with Klubertanz for new feeders and water system supplies today. Turns out that they'll be out of the 5 1/2" wide-mouth fine-x feeders I wanted until August. I didn't want to wait, so I didn't back-order them and am now looking at other companies. Bass has them and KW...

In the past week I've been expecting two rabbit litters and ducklings. We got the ducklings earlier in the week and Monday we got one of the rabbit litters! The doe, Jazz, had four: one solid and three broken. They are all doing well, although one is rather small and hasn't grown much. He has a...

My Indian runner duck decided that she didn't care that runners rarely go broody and hid 13 eggs. She's in with a drake, so they're fertile. I figured there was no way she would go through with setting them, but she did. Friday evening they started hatching. I now have 9 ducklings and three eggs...

After a week or two of hard work, my new cages are done! I finished the baby saver around the does' cages today and that's all that I'm going to do with them until I have rabbits worth keeping to put in the bottom cages, at which time I'll need legs for each stack. Everyone is moved in and...

Lately, I've gotten much more serious about my rabbits. I've been going to more shows and breeding more. So, I decided that it was time for a rabbitry renovation. I currently am set up in my grandma's garage (she lives next door to me). I have 24"x24" TSC stacking cages that were given to me and...

Besides rabbits, I also have a few Indian runner ducks and a lab mix named Nash. The other day I had the ducks out of their pen running around the yard. My drake, who will be gone as soon as I fill all my orders for hatching eggs, ran after the dog and grabbed onto his neck. Nash, who weights...

A few weeks ago I posted the following thread about an injured kit. injured-kit-t14647.html The kit is doing great and is five weeks old! I'll post pictures later if my phone decides to work again. :evil: Thanks to everyone for their great advice! The problem is that when the injured kit was...

Hi everyone, I've been lurking around here for a while now and finally decided to join, as I'm in need of everyone's wisdom. I had a litter of three mini lops born April 16th. We lost one within the day (he was tiny and I wasn't surprised). As it was cold, at least for only two kits,I brought...