Search results

I've often wondered, how would you move an entire rabbitry? Every now and then I see ads for, say, 50 rabbits with cages and all equipment. How would you move that many without stressing them, or having to make umpteen trips?

I had a customer buy two rabbits yesterday - he butchers them himself. Then I had to go pick up a ram, which took about four hours. When I came home, I found that he'd been back, rather irate, because one of the rabbits was "sick" (he's an older Italian gentleman). My DH gave him a...

Third time breeding this doe. The first time, she started pulling fur a couple of weeks after breeding then . . . nothing. False pregnancy. The second time, she didn't even pull fur - so she didn't catch. I bred her for the third time on November 14th and tonight I see she is pulling fur...

I had to put my sweet girl, Polly, to sleep on Monday. She was the first goat I ever milked, the first one I showed and she gave me some beautiful kids, along with gallons and gallons of wonderful milk. I'm going to miss her. :cry:

Sigh. I went out to feed the goats last night, and found Jock, my yearling Saanen buck, standing on three legs. When I felt the bad leg to see what he'd done, it moved in directions no leg should move. He's managed to break his back leg, just above the fetlock. :x Right before breeding...

With my new job(s) and all, I need to cut back on some rabbits, so I've decided to concentrate on my purebred Harlequins and NZ. I have four young does, born last December and one buck, age unknown - all FlemishX. One of the does just kindled yesterday with her first litter of seven - perfect...

Well, two new jobs, actually. As some of you know, I was a school bus driver, but after having a couple of the devil's spawn on my last route, I had had enough. A few months back, I'd mentioned my stress levels to a friend (same one who went to the auction with me) and she suggested I go see a...

Went to a farm auction up in Erin today, with a fellow goat breeder. The owner of the farm used to raise goats, so we knew there would be some good "stuff". Picked up a cheese press for $5 - needs a good scraping and cleaning but those things are pricey new! Some metal feed bowls that the...

Harlequin doe - bred her three times, fourth time she caught, produced two kits. One dead. Took the live kit from her and rebred her. This morning, she produced twelve kits. Two dead on the wire, one head :shock: and eight more dead in the nestbox and one barely moving. Put the live one in...

Two nice litters! I bred two black NZ does to the FlemishX buck that I got at the auction a couple of months ago - one litter of nine yesterday, and one litter of ten this morning. Yesterday's litter had a nasty gooey mess at the bottom of the nestbox - three pale squishy dead kits with...

I noticed tonight that one of my young FlemishX does has a lump, about the size of a golf ball, in her dewlap. It is quite firm, not attached to the tissue underneath as I can move it around quite freely inside the dewlap. The doe seems quite healthy otherwise, eating and drinking well, eyes...

Last week, DH found an ad for three free rabbits, only a couple of roads away from us, so he ran over and got them (without consulting me, :evil: but . . .). They were all together in a pen in the garage. One male dwarf something (meat), one female dwarf something (meat) and one female...

One of my Harlequins, a first-timer, finally decided to produce (I think she's on her third try :? ). I saw her making a nest early this morning, and when I checked around 10:30, she had a single kit. I checked her again a few minutes ago and still only one kit. :evil: If she hasn't had...

So, Emily had triplets two weeks ago. All of a sudden, Polly, my milking goat who doesn't have kids this year, has no milk in the morning. I scratch my head and then realize that the triplets are sneaking from her! :evil: So, I start taping her teats to foil them. Hazel had one big single...

It has flashing red lights! What part of that can't people see?!?! :explode: I had an idiot driver put not one, not two, but three children at risk tonight. I stop just before an intersection in a subdivision - they live in the cul-de-sac at the end of the street, so they cross the road that...

Three does got their nestboxes on Sunday, two Harlequins and a NZ. The Harlies both pulled tons of fur yesterday, but no kits first thing this morning. When I did water around 11am, the older Jap doe had kindled twelve! :P I checked this evening and the younger Jap doe has five. I believe...

Anybody going to that? I'd like to enter some rabbits, but if I go, I'll be showing goats and would need someone to put my rabbits up on the table. . . :roll: A friend might be coming with his rabbits, but if he doesn't, I'm stuck.

I had two black NZ does kindle this weekend - both bred to a Harlequin buck (cuz that's what I have!). Both had one dead kit in the litter - both were Harlequin marked. The black kits were all healthy and lively. Coincidence? :shock: The Harlequin doe that kindled was just a trainwreck...

Went to Woodstock auction last night - I was meeting someone to pick up an Ameracauna rooster (pretty boy!) and thought I'd try for some rabbits. Usually when I go to the auction, I'm selling not buying, so this was a new adventure for me. I was almost ready to give up and leave because they...

I have a little lamb. :) Got a call from a fellow rabbit/goat/sheep breeder to say he had a newborn lamb that was too weak to get up and nurse, did I want her? Needless to say, I've brought her home. She's a black Barbados with a white tip to her tail. She's pretty limp although she will...