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We lost several of our rabbits a few weeks ago when the A/C went out in our barn - twice! It seems that we always loose the special, hard to replace ones and not the more expendable ones. (Not that it is ever easy to loose any, but I hope you know what I mean.) Three were hard-to-replace herd...

Texas Brown Tarantula This gal has been hanging out on the top plate of the wall behind some cages for a few days. I haven't been able to catch her yet, because if I move the cages, she runs back into the wall under the insulation. She may be going down inside the wall through the hole for the...

Meet our new Great Pyrenees (with a little Anatolian Shepherd) puppy, Tempe! She is 9 1/2 weeks old and weighs right at 20 pounds. 3436 3437 3438 3439 We went to pick up some used rabbit cages from a person who was selling out. The plan was to buy three cages, but when we got there there...

We moved from West Texas to Central Texas, and are currently living in travel trailers on our new homestead of 6.65 acres while waiting to build! We have a temporary bunny barn in a shed that is insulated and air conditioned (FINALLY have a bunny barn!! :D :D :D ). It have only been about two...

I think this counts as rabbit-related: our rabbitry is relocating!! We closed on our new property (6.65 acres) yesterday!!! This is a picture looking down the front along the road, so you can see the view. We are leaving flat West Texas for the Central Texas Hill Country!!! We will hopefully be...

My kids have been raising rabbit for a little over a year and they just now have had their own home grown babies that are looking promising. There was one little black otter buck that has been super hopeful, who will be 8 weeks old on Friday. My kids have been so excited about this little...

We ended up making a last minute decision to go to the Corners of the South Show in Shreveport, LA this weekend and I have to give a shout out to the show committee and show superintendent, Austin Roark! It was the first time for this club to run a "big" show and they did a great job - triple...

We went to a show this weekend, our second with a new Netherland Dwarf buck we bought over the summer. In show A he won Best Opposite Sex of Breed and in Show B he won BEST OF BREED! The kids were super excited as this was our first BOB win and this gives him enough legs to register as a Grand...

Our last litter of Netherland Dwarfs had a surprise chocolate kit; we didn't know either parents carried chocolate (black doe x black otter buck)! She's about four weeks old now and spoiled rotten. My hubby has claimed her as his! LOL!

Sorry for the totally unrelated questions: Tattoos: Is there a way to practice tattooing before giving it a go on a live rabbit? I just got our new Inkinator tattoo pen, but I would much rather get the feel of using it on something inanimate if possible before messing up a bunny ear. The first...

So we are in Texas and it is HOT! But all my bunnies are indoors so it's not a problem, right? WRONG! The kids and I (and some of our rabbits) are visiting my parents for the summer and their A/C went down today. I am so very thankful that my daughter's soccer practice was cancelled because when...

The girls have a rabbit given to us that they are hoping to train as a jumping rabbit. She is about 3 1/2 months old and is a cross of 1/2 Netherland Dwarf, 1/4 Tan, and 1/4 Thrianta. She is larger than a ND and looks more like a Tan or Thrianta body type with a light cinnamon color. She is a...

Some of you may have read my other thread about the sick kit that didn't make it. Through that experience, I can say he did teach me a lesson and thankfully in this instance, my mistake most likely had no effect on the eventual outcome. For some reason, when I started reading about "baby-saver...

We have a litter of 3 ND kits that will be two weeks old tomorrow. This morning one of the kits was out of the nest box for the first time. When I went to pick him up, I noticed his eyes were not opened (they had been previously) and he was making a little noise. The other kits have squeaked...

I must be a "real" rabbit person now... I'm dreaming about bunnies!! LOL! I very rarely dream, but last night I had a dream that we had two white kits in the nest box and when I got up this morning to check on them they had changed colors. What makes it more weird? We have no white kits or even...

So, I am looking closer at the pedigrees of my rabbits, trying to understand more about the genetics and potential breeding outcomes. I have a good grasp of the agouti/tan/self (A), black/chocolate (B), and dilute (D) genes an how they interact, but I am still working on understanding all the C...

My 10 YO daughter has a ~6 month old netherland dwarf doe named Jojo; this is the DD who first started asking for a rabbit and this is the first bunny we brought home; to say they *love* each other would be an understatement. DD has been away at camp for the better part of two weeks, and called...

My girls are hopping to teach one of our bunnies to hop (as in jump hurdles similar to dog agility). It seems there are not a lot of people in the US jumping rabbits, but we are looking forward to seeing the hopping at the ARBA convention in the fall! Just wondering if anyone else here had hoppers?

What color are chestnut kits when they are born? Our chestnut doe, bred to a black buck, had a litter of three babies that are very dark with light tummies. I know the highest percentage of possibility with that mating is chestnut kits, but otters are also possible, although with a much lower...