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So I apologize in advance because this will be a little bit long winded due to me being compulsively long winded. Unfortunately I have become a little too familiar with fly strike this past year. I am not including any photos because it really is a horror to see and it is impossible to not...

This past Tuesday I picked up 4 rabbits. Two were rabbits I bred a couple years ago but the owner was overwhelmed so I ended up taking 4 adults for her. They are in quarantine and their pee, arghh...I have never in my life ever smelled rabbit pee so foul. The first day all 4 rabbits had tiny...

Ronda is a bit shy so she got some cuddling against her will. She's named after Ronda Rousey because she put up one colossal struggle to survive. Her mama was a first timer and had almost all the troubles a bunny mama can have. First she pulled out three by accident during a cold snap. They did...

Accidentally came across this during my hunt for the crazy liver. Yeah I like studies lol. http://www.hindawi.com/journals/vmi/2015/365428/

*sighs* Handsome Stranger was a young buck that I had planned on keeping. He was 11 months old. A week ago he started acting less friendly but was otherwise eating and drinking and acting like himself. This morning I found him huddled in the back of his hutches, eyes mostly closed, and his food...

Umm hmm so second litter arrived. 7 kits, 4 agouti, 3 rew, possibly a fawn or two. 3 of the agouti have white strips on their foreheads. Is this VM? Biggest stripe is visible in this picture, there are two more with slightly smaller stripes on their foreheads. Sire is REW, and dam is Fawn. Not...

Arghh hehe. Should be tonight, soon :runaround: And tomorrow..though she is nesting like crazy right now.

Anyone get hit with that evil NW windstorm Tues evening? Whoa it was so nerve wracking. Sounded like a train barreling over the house for hours and hours. Branches getting torn off and bouncing all along the roof. I had to go put the buns to bed in pitch blackness with the trees all bending...

So I have complained a few times about some nasty genetic problems my angoras have. With the help of a lovely lady I have recently acquired a new robust buck that is a complete outcross. Some might say why not just scrap the whole line and start over. That would be ideal but at $250 per rabbit...

This morning one of Parsnip's kits was missing....I looked around and nada. Snake? Hmm. Went out later this afternoon and heard something skulking near the open hay bale. What should appear but an 18 day old, amazingly agile lil bugger. I chased the cute white fluff ball all around the barn...

This is why I dislike casual rabbit breeders, and why Craigslist should be the last place you buy rabbits if you can help it. Now I have bought some good rabbits from there but there are alot like this one. I've been seeing alot of bad French's in the last few months and every time I see an...

Kinda need a cooler head than mine right now. I don't know if disaster has struck or a combination of mishaps. I was out doing my evening feeding and I noticed Pony Boy, my junior buck, was bleeding from the nose. Shortly before this, the chickens were attempting to make a grain raid and there...

Hope for my Rabbititus that is. I have TWO, yes two, empty hutches and a third will be free next week :lol: Ahh it feels so luxurious. My does go into a colony next month as well so there will be ten more empty hutches! I may need more rab....No! no no whimpers Soo empty hutches anyone? And...

I just might be excited :D This is a test litter for one of my REW German Angora does. Mainly I wanted to see if she carried A so I'd know how hard it would be to get a black out of her. Her sire is black and dam rew. What I know about her is she is Aa__ccD_ _e I though I had a B in there but...

So after three years of raising Angoras and encountering so many mainstream myths involving their care, it has become sort of a pet peeve for me. By following all these specialized angora care guidelines I've nearly killed them repeatedly. One by one I've discarded most of the specialized care...

So I have had this gold tipped steel buck for a good while. He is a Satin, was up for sale for a while, but is a relatively unknown breed in my area, as well as being a color not accepted for showing. I named him Chubby Checkers because he was the hugest chunk of a kit. He ended up being a...

I need an easy/simple way to get rid of those sharp wire ends that come from cutting hutch wire. Some of them I just bend out of the way since my hands get tired of the wire snips really quickly but those edges around the doors get me on a regular basis. Any tips would be great!

This is my "national level" sports GSD. Or so he is supposed to be :) Turns out he is a dear sweet nut job. No thresholds whatsoever, totally reactive. We have spent a long long time working on the small stuff, the normal dog stuff. He is coming along but in the process (nightmare) I have...

I have a little 8 1/2 week old NZW white doe with digestive troubles. Any advice on how to help her is appreciated. She developed a case a weepy eye around five weeks of age. The litter was very newly weaned, and eating well. This was a sale litter so a few days later I removed her to prevent it...

Well it's too hot for me to do anything other than go check on the rabbits and haunt various forums. So out I go. Was not too thrilled to see it is 97 in the shade, higher than forecast but.... All just chillin, no stress, some are even nibbling hay. 5 days ago they needed ice. Couple of...