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This little bun is confusing the heck out of me. The past two or three days, as the weather outside has heated up, she has been almost constantly laying splayed out in her cage, breathing fast, and shaking. Her cage is in my kitchen, and while we don't keep the house super cold, it doesn't...

I am going to be traveling soon, driving about 1,000, staying for a month with my mama, then driving back again. Through the Deep South. My bunny will be 9 weeks old at that time. She's an English Angora. I am brand new to rabbits. I have read that travel is stressful for them. If I left her...

This is a silly beginning, but it's a real question! You know that brand of organic food, Annie's Organics? My kids love their Cheddar Bunnies crackers. Well, on the back of the box, the founder of the company (really named Annie) describes her start with rabbits. She says that her father, a...

Lordy, y'all, I have taken my sweet time getting around to actually getting a rabbit. But I put a deposit on one today, a 4-week-old chocolate English Angora doe being raised by one of my past students who's now a 4-H'er. Because I know you're going to ask about it, here are the pictures...

I feel a little funny asking this. I suspect that individual rabbit personalities vary much more than any variation from one breed to the next, but I know all people don't feel that way. So, if rabbit breeds have distinct personalities (or maybe personality tendencies?) what's the Rex...

I am building up slowly to raising rabbits. S-l-o-w-l-y! Lots of reasons for that--budgeting carefully, recently moving to a new state, simultaneously homeschooling two little ones, and exploring the existential implications of animal husbandry (no small feat for one whose main interactions with...

So, with stacking cages--or any cages, I guess--how do you keep rats and snakes and whatnot from getting in and harming your rabbits? Where I want to keep mine is a three-sided garage. Seems like it would be terrific protection from the elements, but I'm pretty sure some squirrels live in the...

Here's the link: http://www.freewebs.com/riverwindrabbit ... ontest.htm Their rabbits are my very favorite! It's an essay contest for a breeding pair of Silver Foxes plus mentorship and free stud services.

I'm planning on tanning meat rabbit hides for myself to use for making lap blankets and to trim clothing, but I want to use them as trade items, too. Can anyone speak to which types of hides crafters tend to like best? Do people mostly go for texture or color? Do they like to buy several pelts...

I find most recipes only differentiate between them based only on size, with the wild rabbits being far smaller than adult domestics. But others say the taste and consistency of the meat is entirely different. Still others say there is some nutritional difference. Can anyone speak to this with...

The time is drawing near that my bunnies will be ready for me to bring them home! I've been waiting on a breeding pair of Silver Foxes for a few months now, and I've put together a list of equipment that I think will best suit my needs. Will y'all take a look and tell me what you think? I plan...

Is anyone on RT there right now? Is anyone following a friend or relative? I've gotten to know a couple of breeders online who I'm hoping do well, but other than that, I'm looking toward 2012, which is a little closer to me...

Hi, everybody. I went and met my first angora today, a sweet 6-month REW doe who I'm thinking of buying as a wooler and maybe a breeder. She's got a full pedigree with lots of nice colors, and both parents are from ARBA rabbitries. I held her for a while, and she seemed very calm and sweet. I...

Breeders who show, breed for meat, breed for fun, breed for pets, will you tell me how you got started? I'm trying to envision what the next couple of years might hold for me. How did you pick the breeds that you breed? How many rabbits did you start with, and how fast did your rabbitry grow...

Rabbit: A Great Meat Animal for Small Homesteads Clean, quiet rabbits are easy to raise, even for urban growers. They don't have the whole text online as of today, and I don't know that it would teach anybody here anything new, but I was excited just the same. I'm a longtime reader, and I was...

(Is there a thread like this already? I did a search for it, but it didn't pop up.) Anyway, I'm new to rabbits, but have been reading like a mad woman for the past two months, and apparently, it's actually making me a little mad! I saw a sign over a store the other day that said, "Tans." Yep. I...

I am committed to having meat rabbits. I'm not after pets. I'm after sustainable, home-raised, healthy meat. But, as I've mentioned before, I'm new to rabbits, and am on the waiting list to get a breeding pair of Silver Foxes in the late winter. So I'm having a lot of time to think about the...

There are two places I'm considering putting the all-wire cages I'm getting. One is in a very run-down carport with one side open, which faces the road and isn't fenced in (so that passers by, dogs, etc. could easily get in if they wanted to). The other location is outside of that building, but...

I'm looking for a good resource to help me understand this better. Would someone be willing to point me to one here, if I overlooked it, or somewhere else on the Web? Specifically, I'm curious how people "create" new colors and features in rabbit fur. Can any rabbit breed be "silvered" or...

We're on the waiting list to get a pair of Silver Foxes in the early spring, and I'm trying to get things ready ahead of time. I've read Bob Bennet's Storey's Guide, and I've ordered Ann Kanable's book. But there remain a few things that I'm maybe just a little slow on, and I'm hoping some...