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What a nice structure! Clean, neat and tidy with no place for rats to hide. I'm so sorry you're having such a problem with them.

I made wooden nest boxes with 1/4 inch hardware cloth on the bottom, and I put a layer of straw on the bottom. I call them nest boxes but even my buck has one. None seem to pee in them although I do find the occasional poop. I leave them in all the time, occasionally refresh the straw, and clean...

We have our rabbit cages in a hoop-house under mature oak trees. It is protected from the North by a six foot privacy fence. The doors are on the East and West sides and the fence funnels the summer breeze right thru the doors. In the summer I put 12"X18" ceramic tiles in the cages with a frozen...

Taking him in the rabbit house with me. Talking calm. Holding a bun on my lap and letting him sniff it. He showed aggression no matter what I did. He is extremely intelligent but also a very possessive, territorial dog. At three months old he chased the mailman. At four months old he was...

My LGD was 3 months old when we got him and raised with the rabbits. He does think they are his. His dinner, that is.

I've had dogs, big dogs, my whole life and a variety of breeds. I consider myself a "dog person" and pretty good at training. I really think that dogs, like people, are born with different personalities and different degrees of intelligence. You can sometimes train a dog to do something against...

That is truly incredible.

I'm in NW Arkansas, also very, very humid and hot summers. However, there is a BUNCH of hay bailing around here so I guess if you do it right it still works. I think part of the trick may be the kind of grass you have and to not cut the grass too short because that would make it more likely to...

More than one fall-off is a good thing, IF the doe will allow it. Rebreed the next day, IF the doe will allow it. I have one doe that will cry miserably if I put her back in with the buck and she's pregnant. She seems to know, others not so much. Some does will hurt the buck so you really have...

There's not enough ventilation in an enclosed garage. The smell would build up and be horrendous, or your life would be spent cleaning up after them - daily - and then you would end up putting them outside anyway to preserve your sanity. Don't ask me how I know.

It can be difficult at that age but I'd say they are all males. Normally (normally?) the anus would be much closer to the vagina, which is more elongated on a female.

I think that's great. Wonderful even. However, not all dogs are trained that well and not everyone is that good at training dogs. In that case, we need to overcome a dogs prey instinct in other ways.

I agree with you completely. The answer was for Duck Survivalist's concerns about that dog, not all dogs in general.

If I was worried about my dog I wouldn't give it ears or feet because that would likely be associated with the live rabbit. I wouldn't ever feed a dog a whole rabbit for the same reason. Skinned, cut up pieces will unlikely be associated with a live rabbit.

No. My Cali/NZ breeding rabbits are all in 30"X30" cages with 30"X48" grow out cages that house 4 or 5 grow outs each. Some intensive breeders go even smaller. In my experience, you can never tell when a doe will be receptive to breeding but I have had only a few times when they weren't in the...

It seems I always have at least one in every litter that will constantly pop out of the nest box at a time that I consider too early. I have found that I can pile up straw in front of the box and they'll use the straw like a ladder to crawl back in. Straw holds it shape better than hay. Once...

I haven't fed the squash to our rabbits since we don't get many due to heavily pruning the vines. Any squash we get, we eat. However, I have fed chunks of winter squash to the buns. They nibble on it. Don't seem to be crazy about it. I haven't tried feeding summer-type squash but I have read...

If you are looking for something that grows like crazy and the rabbits love, grow chayote squash. The more you prune the vines, which are crisp, juicy and crunchy, the faster it grows. You only need one or two plants to supplement several rabbits. All of the plant is edible and if you are lucky...

I choose not to think about costs since my rabbits are for a clean meat source. I might lose my appetite if I thought they were costing as much as Fillet Mignon. :confused: