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Yes sheep people would definitely be interested in genetic testing for color/pattern!

I meant overcooked as in born late.

If I had that situation happen to me I'd keep the nest boxes in with the does until day 40, because my luck I'd pull it and one would birth then. By 40 days they're definitely not bred and if they do have over cooked kits in there the survival odds are almost none from what I've seen.

Ya it's curious that your experience would be only brokens from broken x broken breeding. Unless you're dealing with some rabbits that are heavier marked charlies? Why the harlis are mostly black, that I don't know. Very interesting.

😂 Guardian dogs are big enough as it is and eat plenty. Just curious though, you can't freeze them for lack of freezer space or...? I know I did the math for mine and to feed the border collie (6y/o) for a year raw it would be just shy of 750#. And the great pyr is already significantly bigger...

You can use the search function to see other posts about crosses with flemish giants. The thing is they are giants. They grow skeleton first. Then fill out. I had got two flemish does years back. They were out eating my standard saanen milk goats that I was milking. Not exaggerating. Each...

The auctions are full of 50 cent and dollar rabbits. Dealing with selling directly to people is always weird because people are weird and unreliable.

I'm trying to grow Moringa again. Have seeds to start. Will have to over winter cuttings or keep buying seed because it's not near surviving Ohio winter. But the feed value seems like it could be workwhile.

Thread for reference on fed kits vs unfed kits. Fed look over stuffed and round. Unfed will be more long and less jelly bean like. Once you see several litters it's easy to tell. https://rabbittalk.com/threads/fed-vs-unfed-kit-pictures.3052/

Sorry to hear that. I think we need more information to help. What is the housing situation? Outside hutches, cages inside, cages in three sided building,... Has there been any changes recently? New treats? Feed change? Same brand but new bag of feed? Hay change?Change of activity around...

Grass clippings are different than making hay. You need sun, heat, and air movement to get the hay dried after it's cut. Grass clippings are little tiny pieces and you'll have to be turning and stirring it to get the air movement through it. On a small scale it's much easier to just feed it...

I'm working up to raw feeding with my dogs. I'm in a fb group of people that use different methods and this is what my notes are... Diet make up- 65% muscle meat 15% organ muscle meat (heart, gizzard, tongue, eggs) 12-18% bone (poultry bone, sheep, goat, pork neck/rib) 10% organ (liver...

Sounds like a made up number. A quick search turned up nothing. Best I could find was a news article about a humane society pleading for people to not get live rabbits for kids for Easter. It said they did a study, I'm guessing for their area, and it showed the average life span of pet rabbits...

They look healed. Could be from rabbit fight. Could be an over cleaning mother who nipped the ears when cleaning them at birth. Small as it looks I'd say maybe rabbit fight.

We've had a growth spurt apparently. 3/18 6# 0.6oz

2/21 Br doe, 4# 8.6 3/4 Br doe, 4# 15.3 She's not the biggest rabbit but she's built pretty nicely. Solid. The others had nice loin on the carcass. I was trying to pose her and she is not into it. She doesn't have the nice round commercial shape but she's not long mandolin shape either.

I'd have guessed flemish or cross just based on the pics. I once got two flemish does and was going to cross them to Californian buck. They were bottomless pits and still hungry. I was milking two full sized goats at the time and the flemish were literally eating as much as the goats. And still...

Broken doe, 2# 5.6oz Broken doe red, 2# 3.4oz Solid male, 2# 5.4oz Broken male 2# 3.8oz 1/13, 9wks Br doe, 2# 15.4oz Br doe red, 2# 15oz Solid buck, 3# Br buck, 2# 12oz 1/30, 12wks Br doe, 2# 4.6 Br doe red, 2# 7.6 Solid buck, 2# 6.4 Br buck, 2# 2.7 2/11, 13wks Br doe, 4# 6.5 Br doe red, 4#...

Sorry to see you have had some does be messy nesters. That has always been a big culling point for me. I have better things to do than manage a does nest for her. Luckily I can only recall one doe I ever had like that.

Bucks will always try to breed does. They don't care lol. But in my somewhat limited colony experience the buck seemed to be able to tell the does had a change close to birthing, probably hormone change. I once caught a doe in the nest birthing and she had the nest blocked off and the buck was...