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Personally, I've not looked to see the actual mortality rate of impulse pets, I just assume it will be high. But then again, I don't have any rabbits for sale until three days AFTER Easter. If they still want them then, they can buy them. But, I try not to sell to the pet market in the first...

IMHO, if you want to breed for pets, a white NZ may not be the best choice. The smaller and more decorative breeds are usually the ones chosen for pets. Some folks find the albino NZ 'spooky' because of the red eyes. Also, lowering the price doesn't always sell the rabbits. At a really low...

Around here Moringa is more of a people food than a livestock feed, but I guess we can share with the buns.

The wet fur kinda simulates 'microfiber' type cloths. I made a wash cloth out of bunny yarn and it has a weird feel to it when using it. The fine fibers sorta grab/glide on the skin. There was only one washcloth made, it was sorta an odd result although with experimental knitting one can't...

FWIW, I don't think angoras come in either martin or otter? Harlequin isn't a recognized color, either, at least in English angoras.

May as well grow grapevines for jam, jelly & wine as well as for bunny food? Pick a variety you like to eat as well as feed to buns?

Rabbits seem to like to pee and poop in the same location. Move the box away from that location and she will probably quit using it as a litter box. Also, switching it for a new box will keep it from smelling like 'the place' as well.

Welcome to Rabbit Talk! One of the popular meat breeds in the United States is the New Zealand, although there's several others as well. With the name "New Zealand", one would expect it would also be popular there, too, but I don't know if it is. What climate conditions do you have and are...

Pretty much the same here, too. There's a wire toothed dog slicker brush which cleans the bunny fluff off after a grooming session. There is a grooming apron which generally stays pretty fluffy although that gets brushed off occasionally.

Hmm, was hoping the oats would help. Have you looked up her symptoms in Merck's online veterinary manual? Rabbits - Merck Veterinary Manual They know loads about rabbits, especially since they've been laboratory animals since before forever.

Pretty rabbits! Never heard of the breed, but we're on an island and have limited breeds available. There's also a pedigree program, Kintracks, which will tell you how inbred any two particular animals are. When dealing with a limited gene pool, that's a very useful function. It's an...

Try feeding a half cup of dry oatmeal at each feeding, that may fix the sneezing and nose drips. Might help with the very thin. How long have you had the rabbit and what has she been eating?

If you have a backyard, is there enough room for any sort of garden? That'd be a perfect place to bury all parts you don't want as well as a place for the manure. The parts degrade pretty quickly and disappear into the soil. Improves the soil, as well. We no longer use any fertilizer than...

for the first few years, each year had a name theme. Flowers, spices, qualities of light, Roman names, etc., etc. Then it got to be a hassle to remember which year came before which year so now each year is sorted in alphabetical order. Eventually, the pedigree program will be sorted by age

If it is hot weather and they are young rabbits, it could be the heat doing it. Rabbits use their ears as heat radiators and move blood through them to cool off during hot times. Which makes their ears heavy and in young rabbits with undeveloped ear muscles, the ears will lop over.

Too late now, but the PenG may have been necessary for longer than a week. Some diseases can take weeks and weeks of PenG to repair.

Most white rabbits are 'albino', which are also the ones who have the ruby eyes. Many folks in the rabbit world call them "REWS" (pronounced "ROOS") which stands for Ruby Eyed White. The color gentics for them is __ __ cc __ __. Rabbit color genetics have five main genes which are usually...

I'm not a vet and don't even play one on TV, but I'd investigate 'Vent Disease', which is basically rabbit syphilis. Which means penicillin can cure it. If they still sell penicillin for cows, you can get it inexpensively at the feed stores. Along with small needles, those are very...

Nice litter! Looks like they already have a good start on their coat, ours frequently show up more naked looking. Hope the doe continues to do well.

With the gray heart on his nose, he's most more likely ermine and even more cute. Bunnies like to be spoiled, the angoras here are technically 'livestock', but don't tell them that! They're pretty spoiled, too, although they don't get a lot of people attention, which I don't think they...