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We just got some new New Zealand Reds this past month. I am so excited they are so pretty. I have not given up on my Silver Foxes but I have scaled back. They just broke my heart after loosing so many to the heat here. My New Zealand mixes and pure did so much better in the heat.

I just had to brag. I got my results today from the Doc. All my numbers are way better, bad cholesterol is 30 points down and good is up :)). All without drugs. :cheer2: Since this is why my husband and I decided to grow our own food and raise rabbits , I am excited. I have got to add I don't...

I have been so busy with work and taking care of the ever growing farm that I have been off for almost a year. I miss all of the news and information. :D We now have 14 chickens, 4 ducks and well .........last count of rabbits was around 50. This fluctuates greatly since we use the rabbit meat...

There is a reason you have not seen me on here. Here they are: 5 'x 8' chicken coop & 12 chickens, three outside rabbit cage areas with 9 holes, colony area with / grow out pen and two hutch areas to accommodate 24 rabbits. Cleaned out bunny barn with 6 cages, fans, and ac if needed for...

Is there any truth to this? I read that if you put vanilla extract - 1 tsp per gal, in the water in the summer that it would cut down on the attractiveness of their urine to flies. In other words it helps to repell flies. I am armed with rosemary branches all over the barn but my outside grow...

One of my SF does just had a small liter of 4 kits and since she has always been a good mom and my two other does had 13 and 11 , I fostered 3 to her from the other does. I just noticed yesterday how suddenly thin she has gotten. After a better exam she is scary thin. I immediately fostered...

It has already gotten to 90 today. One of my Silver Fox does was showing some signs of heat stress today. She was panting hard and laying stretched out flopping on her side. I put out the fans and all of the icies . What else can I do besides bring them in the ac.

For the last few freezer camp days I have soaked my rabbits in a low salt solution. I think I had read on here that it helps leach out the blood that is left even after bleeding. Usually I allow them to soak in a changed salt bath for a couple of days and then cut them up and package them for...

June is going to have my freezer popping. I could not believe the final head count. Buttercup had a record 13. I have fostered some of the 13 to Iris who had the 4. Lucky had her 11 four days ago, so she has all of hers. So far she is doing great with her second litter. I think I am going to be...

I picked up 3 chickens today from a friend that was sold Cornish Cross for laying hens. They were huge at 7 weeks and it was cruel to keep them alive any longer. After taking care of that today I made dinner and did not want to look at chicken on my plate. I cooked up some mushroom rabbit and...

So hubby has gotten bitten by the whole mini farm idea. This Fall, with the help of our 14 year old son, He tore off the rotted siding of the barn and put up new , painted the whole thing, and installed screen doors and locks to the bunny barn part in the back. Phase II is now underway. I now...

I got around to the tractor supply and they had two types of probios paste. Equine and bovine, which one would you recommend for rabbits? How much for preventative and how much if already sick?

I was wondering if the recent dying off of more than half of the kits from Lucky's litter was due to the fact that she had mastitis and I treated her with pen G while she was still nursing . Could this have affected their intestinal flora to the point of creating a perfect environment for the...

This was the first young one I have had to kill. He has been off to himself the last few days and I noticed that he was not eating yesterday. I thought it was because his brother was sold and he was now on his own. This morning I smelled a bad smell in the barn. I narrowed it down to his cage...

Buttercup had eight yesterday and Iris had 6 but one was dead in the box when I looked this afternoon. Pictures soon. I think we will be busting at the seams again soon! Lukey is due next week. Hopefully she will not get mastitis again. I thought I would give her this time to see if she can be...

Grocery store prices are headed up. Have you noticed. Some of us have had our ear to the ground this last year and we have been stocking up on items in the pantry, finding alternative ways to provide for our families, pushing towards self sufficiently . I am just starting on this adventure but...

I processed all 15 today. The 9 week old mixed Silver Fox/Cali/NZW weighed in at an average of 5 1/2 lbs with an average dress out of 2 3/4 . The Cali/NZW mixed were 10 weeks and came in at an average of 51/2 lbs with an average of 2 1/2 dressout weight. There was a much bigger discrepancy of...

I just used my new pressure cooker this evening. I have had a bad cold and I wanted chicken soup with rice. Rabbit soup with rice is nicer! In pressure cooker pot: 2 Tbs olive oil 1/2 onion chopped 4 celery ribs with leaves(better) chopped 2 medium carrots chopped bunch fresh parsley 3 cloves...

I never thought I would have this problem in coastal Carolina but here I am. I went out this evening and the nozzles were frozen on my outdoor hutches. I thawed them out, put hot water in and I insulated with bubble wrap and towels..my question is will this work? What do you guys do? Most of my...

Here are the pictures of my meat rabbit breed experiment. The white rabbits in the photo are 8 weeks today. The Black rabbits are 6.5 weeks today. They are all outside in chicken/rabbit coops right now to grow out. One group is 5 and one is 4. They are all males. The group of 5 has a little more...