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We had a maiden doe Kindle yesterday with 7 kits and today our other doe who's had one litter before kindled 8 kits. Both were both bang on 30 days. My question is the maiden doe's kits are half the size of the other one. Is this just genetics or is it normal for a first time doe to produce...

Does anybody have any rock solid house fly measures to share? I hate the little buggers!

I've tried to figure this out myself but I just can't get my head around it, sorry. If someone could give me an idea I'd really appreciate it. If I crossed a pure Californian with a coloured or broken blue eyed French lop what could I expect to end up with? Hope someone can help. Thanks

I'm going to honest, when it comes to identifying plants we're not the sharpest pencils in the box. I bought some herbs last week, lost the label and had to ask my neighbour what I'd planted! I get the feeling we're missing out on a lot of free foraged rabbit feed but I'm always too cautious to...

This is just our experience of keeping our rabbits in tractors but it might be useful if you're considering it for your own set up. The Good Plenty of exercise space which we think has helped a lot with behaviour. If your tractors are in an area that you spend time in you can keep an eye on...

On today's cuddle routine we've noticed one of our kits (17 days old) has slightly protruding ridges above both eyes and his eye rims look very pink. Does the camomile tea remedy work or do we need to do something more off the shelf medication wise? We've checked him again this afternoon and...

We noticed that out fruit trees were being de-barked during the night so I set up a lookout spot to see what was visiting. Sure enough a wild rabbit has been visiting the garden and coming right up to the rabbit tractors. This now explains the markings on our Bucks head as I think they've been...

I've read in quite a few places that you should cull out bad mother's and aggressive rabbits because these are not traits you want in your breeding line. My question is the opposite true? Can you breed in good traits like temperament? Or more so can you improve temperament through breeding or...

If all has gone to plan Pixie is due tomorrow. We've changed her usual sleeping area so that it now includes a 6" high "baby scraper". I finished mucking about with her tractor to avoid disturbing her unnecessarily and she's got a load of fresh straw to make a proper nest. Her tractor is due...

On this morning's rounds it looks like our buck Cheddar has been injured somewhere on his head. He has light brown to red staining smeared everywhere on his head. Has he injured himself somewhere and spread the blood trying to clean himself or is it something more sinister like a rat attack?

Does anyone else find that their rabbits are unfazed by their dogs? Ours take no notice at all of them and I would have thought they would react badly with a potential predator so close. Or are we just lucky? Our border collie spends hours watching them :)

Small bit of history. This is Fifi our doe that we couldn't get a fall off for exactly two weeks, we had tried on various days during that time but no dice.. Then on Saturday we finally got one fall off. So yesterday (Sunday) all was normal. We go out this morning and boom she's pulled fur like...

So, I thought you guys might find it interesting to know how the French cage their rabbits. I doubt anyone is going to want to change to a different system and it might make you feel good about yours. Wire cages are available but most people here (except me) use concrete sectional cages. I...

Finally (after 2 weeks of trying) we got a fall off today. Our buck Cheddar always does the same thing after a 'result'. Squeak, fall off, and then a quick thump with his hind leg. So we know it was a goal. We're going to take her back to him later today to see if he can definitely seal the...

This is our first year here where we are organised enough to grow fruit and veg. For us, we've planted fruit trees and started some onions are garlic (This is France its the law :)) . Does anyone grow any vegetables to supplement their rabbits or is it not worth the growing space? Or is...

We'd like to give our rabbits some cardboard boxes to hide in, chew and jump on but we're bothered about the glue, tape or staples. Does anyone have any suggestions about making cardboard rabbit safe? Thanks

We did our first breeding yesterday with some success. One of our does Pixie was brilliant and we had 5 fall offs over two matings. Our other doe Fifi let's our buck lay on top of her but she won't lift and we had no fall offs. We tried again today with Fifi and she was more relaxed but still...

We're not keeping rabbits to show them but I'm still really interested in their quality as rabbits overall. Our buck Cheddar is here to do a job and as long as he works well, is good tempered and produces good kits I'm happy. However, over the past few months he has slowly developed colour...

Our rabbits are still relatively young and don't have any teeth problems but I'd be interested to know how you manage your rabbits teeth condition. Our rabbits live in Spruce wood tractors which are pretty soft and get chewed here and there. We've also added a play block of Oak and a good solid...

In the five months we've had rabbits I've quickly come to the conclusion that rabbits are just a tiny bit addictive and I keep looking at adding alternative stock to strengthen the qualities of our existing trio. That sounded legit but the reality of it is I see a breed and go ooh I want some...