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Per the advice in this thread, I wonder whether anyone ever actually mixed cake mix + plaster of paris together and "fed" it to rats (whether or not in cupcake papers ;) ). 50/50? 75/25? If so, 75% of which vs. 25% of the other? Just stir 'em together, no water; right? The rat provides...

It's prime weed-foraging season in my neighborhood. We finally received some rains in March, and the subsequent sunny days have encouraged many weeds to spring up, making up for lost time. As I walk my Bernese Mtn. Dog around our block (just a short walk, but if I'm foraging, it can take 20 to...

DH and I had a small community garden plot until last April. Just the other day I discovered a plastic bag in our crisper of the beets we harvested when we gave up the plot. They still look OK, but they may be woody--may have been so when we first pulled them out of the soil. We also have some...

Let's try again with a discussion on rabbit feeds. I have only one rabbit, Parsley Graybuns, an American Chinchilla weighing 11.5 lb. I'm not feeding a group of breeding animals, nor am I feeding wool rabbits (yet...). I was able to find a rabbit pellet by Oxbow without sugar or corn--my first...

Larry Benoit, hunter of large bucks, has passed. This article has the specifics. Undoubtedly a great and talented hunter! My question is: why, after one or two showy heads, continue to take bucks, likely to be the healthiest and strongest of a herd? I haven't ever hunted, although I support...

Yesterday, at DH's annual work picnic, I was showing some people how to do cardboard loom needle weaving. We were making coasters; both hands-on students finished theirs, and several other people took my handout and a loom with pre-cut warp home for later, since they were "working" at the...

I looked on previous threads about rose hips, and the consensus seemed to be that dried rose hips are OK for rabbits. However, I have them available 12 months a year (when I'm behind in my pruning, that is :oops: ), and at least 6 to 8 months a year no matter what.... This climate zone (Sunset...

Mr. Chinchilla Rabbit was part of a large confiscation effort in northern California last June. Between my phone calls to the Animal Care & Services shelter and the HRS chapter in the city/county involved, as well as my in-person conversations last Saturday at the adoption itself, I pieced...

Well, at last I have a rabbit! I adopted him yesterday, September 28 (Saturday), in Sacramento. He's either an American or Giant Chinchilla, gray with some white undercoat when I pet the coat backwards, and very sweet: he was eating hay from my hands very gently at the "adoption event" and later...

Well. Alas. I've struck out at both the library and Barnes & Noble. I was reduced to checking out a children's book, Rabbits, in the Great Pets series by Marshall Cavendish Corp. (Ruth Bjorklund, author) at the library yesterday, since there were absolutely no adult books available. Then today...

If a rabbit gets truly filthy (e.g., doe is sprayed repeatedly by buck, rabbit of either sex decides to "play" with poo in a litter box--eats, smears on its shoulders, belly, etc.), the advice I've seen so far says: "Don't bathe a rabbit!" But there are videos showing seemingly happy, or at...

Reading elsewhere on the Web about Angoras--breeds, care, grooming, whatever I can find--it seems that most current English Angoras have been bred to not release their coats but rather to require "shearing," whether that be with actual clippers or with scissors. Either method of removing the...

...showed me that all kinds of rabbit announcements can be posted--and survive--in the "Farm and Garden" section. I also wanted a reality check on some of the prices.... (1) Dwarf Netherlands 6-week-old kits $85 each (2) "Feral Bunnies and Rabbits"--a family has been trapping rabbits in their...

This might be the perfect thread for me to ask a couple of questions. (You'll note that I just joined this forum tonight.) I've come to the conclusion that a wool-producing rabbit is not, despite previous information to the contrary, to be found in northern California rescue groups, shelters...