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Odd wasting disease going on here...but only with select colonies. (a new thought at the bottom of post) Back in May (while I was gone) we had an adult doe suddenly go super skinny and die. (she was fine when I left the house on the rabbit run, but died a week later). Down to skin and bones...

Oh, what a difference 2 weeks makes. These girls are half sisters. The big girl is 2 weeks older than her sisters (one of FLB's offspring x Chocolate Bunny). The little ones are from FLB's offspring x Vienna (blue torte). There are 3 blacks from the older group and the one chocolate. Younger...

Older rabbit, nice and large :) Pressure cooked in LOTS of water with peppercorns, old bay seasoning, and 2 huge onions chopped. 15lbs pressure for just 2 minutes and then cooled. Strain and reserve broth.(I ended up with 2.5gallons of broth) Strip meat from bones....it will fall off the...

It's been a lazy day here. I didn't sleep well last night and have been sort of dozing on and off and just being LAZY...and pretty much nekkid. (just a long tshirt) but...we're apparently going out for dinner, so..I suppose .... sigh. While we're a pretty casual area, I'm not sure they're ready...

and Michael is there :) He's taken this week off and he's out galavanting around with his favorite uncle and uncle's fiance. Mike used to go with his father and uncle/cousins when he was growing up/teen so has some fond memories of the FlyIn. that was during the early years of the event, tho...

In another thread I've mentioned the surprise kits that are probably from an accidental breeding of my angora does to an American junior buck. I finally got some pictures of 2 of them. Turns out I have 2..TWO chocolate kits :bananadance2: One, unfortunately one, who shows excellent Angora...

I need to get a picture of this thing..I THOUGHT it was a nettle (we have a lot of them in the same area) and have been letting it grow to harvest the seeds so I can plant out at the farm..but today I got to looking at the thing..and no hairs..no prickles..nothing. I touched it...no stinging. No...

CB (an angora in a colony) kindled last week. I figured it was from the day Floor Bunny got into the colony when I left the gate open. Floor bunny is an angora, and stuff happens, right? Well, today Vienna kindled. 4 nice kits, all black except for one that looks...well....BLUE. BLUE...

A great site for colors and genetics is http://www.rabbitcolors.info/int/en/index.html . Hundreds of photos of rabbits(I'd guess almost every breed is represented somewhere), arranged by color, extension, type, fur, etc. A bit intimidating at first, but worth the time to get used to it. Also...

yah...I know. Not really a recipe...BUT....For a quick meal, which is really tasty (mike loved it), we used the Cheesy BBQ chicken helper. 2 cups (calls for a pound of chicken) rabbit meat browned in bacon grease (or olive oil, I suppose), 2 cups of water and the stuff from the package. 10...

Yes, in a few days she will AGAIN deliver some lovely squigly little black popples :mbounce: maybe. Well, she is definitely pregnant, and she should deliver Tuesday or Wednesday. She made a HUGE nest again (for those who haven't seen any of my posts about Mama-san, she's a VERY dtermined NZ doe...

Since there were a few comments about the upcoming Colony article in the Hobby Farms magazine, I thought I'd ask folks here what THEY would like to see as a topic in an article for a popular magazine such as Hobby Farm or even in Rabbits? Remembering that you can't do an IN DEPTH discussion of...

Well, here we go again. Just too many animals and I'm feeling really tied down by them. I'd like to be able to just take off with Michael next month when he goes out to help his mother move her household, but with all the rabbits I just can't do it. So I'm considering reducing the herd to just a...

no dandelions. no plantain. no hay. oh BOTHER. At least he didn't take down the mulberryies or apple trees, so the critters can have something. I REALLY need to get them out to the farm. (yes, everyone is still in the house in town). The plantain out there is HUGE this year.

The little guys are 2.5weeks old now and I had to tip over the nestbox a few days ago. These critters are REALLY into food. Whitey still has gallons of milk, and they all have fat tummies, but they're just EVERYWHERE looking for something to get into :lol: The adults were full of greens, and...

It was hot, as many of you know. Here, in Wisconsin, it was hot and humid quite suddenly. We went from 50F for a high(frost warnings at night) to 90 and super humid all overnight. The rabbits were NOT happy. While the americans were just laying around happy with fans blowing on them..I was...

Micheal's family history has a lot of high blood pressure..long lives, but HBP. And as long as I've known him he's been a HUGE red meat eater. AND he stresses out pretty easily. AND he bottles everything up because he doesn't want to worry me. AND he's put on some weight around his tummy the...

I have WAAAAAY too many rabbits. (yes...I'm a confessed hoarder :oops: ) Purebred French Angoras: 3 siblings: DOB 2/15/2011. Mom is a huge Chocolate doe with great wool. Dad is a nice sized REW with even better fiber(very long and good quality). 1 chocolate tort DOE, 1 black DOE, 1 chocolate...

Whitey did it again (lovely rabbit that she is! :D ) Presented us with 8? kits (haven't pulled them out yet to actually count everyone). All white, might be a few black himmies hiding in there, and so far...fat. There are a few that have a crusted "I got wet a couple days ago" look, so I'm...

I'm curious what determines the red? Is it a dilute of something else? or is it on it's own like black? Dominant?