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So they really are little piggies.

LOL!

Thank you for letting me know!

Thanks for the info!

That's crazy! Thanks for the warning!

Howdy. Anyone ever raise Flemish x New Zealand buns? How big would one be at maturity? Somewhere in between the 2 breeds? If you kept does and rebred to New Zealand or Californian, would you get a good meat bun with good feed conversion? At what age could you breed a F x NZ doe?

I added a large terracotta water catcher (Intended to sit under flower pot) to cage... like tile, but more like a flat bowl to catch waste. I've been thinking better way would be redesigned feeders...

Thank you for this post!

mine have chewed holes in their plastic ones, too. I'm not impressed! Need to find an unbreakable solution... chew proof and ice-crack proof!

Before launching on such a scale, a test run with far fewer inputs would be in order.

Definitely not a flying predator... needed to pry door. This was a heavy, full grown chicken...don't think a coon would have dragged her. I found a trail of feathers along the back of my garden fence, so carried along ground first, then up a tree.

Thank you for your thoughtful response. Still at a loss for what predator would have dragged my girl 40 feet into the woods and then up a tree. The predator got into a covered run (that had been weakened in one spot where a neighbor felled a tree -- the top of which reached 30 feet into my...

Last night, I heard a ruckus out back around 11pm... found a flashlight and went running out to find that my chicken coop had suffered an attack. All was quiet when I got out there, then I heard a ""thud" in the woods, followed by my girl making a lot of noise back there. So I grabbed a...

Does Kangkung (Ipomoea aquatica) grow on your island? The high protein levels are good for fast growing young rabbits and nursing does. (Don't think you want to give tons of it to fully grown buns.) Water spinach (Ipomoea aquatica) as replacement for guinea grass for growing and lactating rabbits

Do not feed the tomato plants to them. Toms, along with peppers, eggplant, and "Irish" potato are in Nightsgade family and leaves/vines are toxic.

You don't feed the roots... give the buns the vines. Sweet potato vines in diets for growing rabbits on performance, carcass characteristics and meat quality - PubMed

What kind of trees do you use? I haven't had grass to cut since early July due to drought! My "safe" shrubs are withering due to lack of rain. I have "pollarded" a couple of maples in my very dry woods to give the buns something green. Chipmunks have been stealing everything out of my garden...

How are they doing? Generally it is recommended to change a rabbit's diet slowly... introduce just a little of a new plant one day and see how its bowels respond. Adding other new foods slowly over time.

How could they cancel your insurance before they terminated you? That sounds illegal. Do you have paperwork that states the date of your termination? If I were you I would call my state representative and ask them to help you get to the bottom of it. (the people elected to your state...

I am not in the habit of moving mammas right before they deliver. When I wean kits, I DO believe it is best practice to leave the babies in the cage they had been in when they were with their momma to reduce THEIR stress. (I also don't usually re-breed until a few days before weaning, but...