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I really know about zero when it comes to showing. I was looking through the fair catalog and one of the rabbit categories is "doe with litter". What does that mean? What are they looking for? Do you have to enter the entire litter? Is there a min/max number of kits? A min/max age for the kits?

I met a man who is a butcher. He said a woman brought rabbits to him for processing but they got loose. The problem is that they had some type of lethal kidney (maybe kidney?) virus. It was contagious through the urine. They pee, another rabbit sniffs it, contracts the virus and dies within 3 or...

Uh.. maybe because I've been gone for so long that my cookie expired and I needed to log in! LOL :oops: We have been super busy. I started working a few part time jobs that have pretty much fizzled out :( The farm is going gang-busters! We're ready to butcher our first batch of turkeys...

OMG the flies have been HORRIBLE!!! We have a zillion fly strips up but they are nothing compared to the hoards of flies we have dealt with today. We butcher inside our garage with the garage door open. Adding a window AC and keeping the door closed is not an option any time soon. How do you...

During our butchering today, I cut open a stomach because I wanted to see what was inside. Nothing but poop. Not any grass, not any pulverized pellets. JUST poop! We opened some other stomachs and they looked great - a little or no poop, lots of grass and digesting pellets. Why would a rabbit...

On Saturday, we taught the rabbit care and processing class for a Homesteading Days weekend. We had a great time. Each attendee was given the opportunity to process their own rabbit with our guidance and help. Pretty hands-on! So Greg butchered/helped butcher 14 rabbits on Saturday. We just...

My tattoos seem to be rather faded instead of standing out and easy to read. I use a clamp tattoo with green roll on ink. My procedure is: clamp the ear, roll on the ink, massage it with either a cotton facial cleaners round flat thing or my finger. I don't wipe off the excess. What can I do...

We have been consistently having litters of 11 or more. This past week we had two litters of 12 and one litter of 14. I breed two does at a time so I can foster out kits from large litters into smaller litters. That's the working theory. LOL Normally, we breed in the morning and afternoon. We...

This litter is 5 weeks old and was weaned about a week ago. Last night, we found one kit who seemed paralyzed from the "waist" down. No control over his hindquarters. Poop all over his coat. We cleaned him and checked him out. No signs of pain. He's eating and drinking fine. He just can't hop...

Three litters in two days. Silverado (Am Chin x NZ) had 11 Popeye (Am Chin x NZ) had 9, 1 stillborn. It looked like it died before it fully developed. R6 (NZ broken red) had 13 WOWZERS!!

This rabbit wasn't growing and looked horrible. He felt like nothing. There was no point trying to let him grow out because something was obviously wrong so we culled him. Greg pulled back the skin and we could SEE all the organs!! Normally, that layer of "skin" or whatever it is after you...

Popeye will be 28 days on the 5th. This morning, she was building a nest and pulling fur!

First time mom is doing a great job putting the fur in the nesting box. I'm really hoping for some blue kits!

Has anyone used Chaffhaye for rabbits? It's alfalfa, molasses and yeast (to start fermentation).

If you touch them, they cry and scream. They are all stretched out like this and twitch, very stiff. Their front legs are all seized up. They area all panting and hot. Greg said it's like they're having seizures. Two are already dead. One had poop stuck on it's eye. Greg cleaned it off and...

Wow!! We sold a Silver Fox doe to friends in FL and she picked up two legs the next day. I just got this message from them: We gave a Jr buck to a little girl they know and he's doing well also!

Here's our first blue Silver Fox! I think it's a buck

We have had a lot of preppers buying rabbits from us. It got me thinking about how perfectly rabbits can fit with the needs of preppers. I wrote a blog post about it that has started to go viral! Just found this link where I was quoted!! http://beprepared.com/blog/3801/raise-rabbits/

Does anyone sell their rabbits to the public? We are going to order shrink bags for our chickens and will use them for the rabbits as well. http://poultryshrinkbags.blogspot.com/2 ... k-bag.html Is there anything in particular you use on your labels? How do you package your rabbits for the...