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Hi Everybody, as usual- thanks for your attention and advice. I have 7 8-week old Silver Fox kits who are only 1.5lbs each. They seem happy and healthy. It's winter and they've been eating only free choice hay and alfalfa pellets, plus some fresh bamboo. Is this normal? I know they'd gain...

When he tries to mount her, he sometimes intentionally yanks a bit of fur out. Anybody seen this? What can I do?

Hi Everybody! My 8 mo. old SF doe just kindled a week ago. Today we found her (2) kits dead. Here's the situation: It's an indoor colony with buried 30 gal totes. The tote she chose has 8" pipes on either end. She made a really nice nest, then industriously blocked up and buried one pipe...

Silverfox. They always have organic grass hay free choice, otherwise I'd have to work a lot harder. If I didn't have hay, I'd have to take them through the winter on bamboo. Black locust. They love the leaves, bark, and thorns. So do my guinea pigs. They leave the branches smooth and white. I...

Never any grains, except for the seed heads on grasses.

This is my passion too. I've been successfully feeding my buns 100% forage for some years. Lots of locust, mulberry, and maple, comfrey, plantain, grass, bamboo, etc. They grow more slowly for sure, but seem healthy. If I want to speed them up I give them organic 100% alfalfa pellets.

So grateful! I contacted her and she's still successfully breeding the cuy. I can hardly believe it! She told me to check back in a few weeks, so I'm planning to go out and buy whatever she'll sell me. I'm thinking I'll breed them to each other, maintaining a purebred line, and also breed one of...

Aqrabuamelu, I have a lot of my extra boars outside free ranging. They do really well, but if a weasel or a mink comes by they tend to disappear. I have all my animals trained to come to a call, except the guineas. I haven't given up, but it's been hard so far because there's not really...

Shea, that's precisely what I'm looking for! I looked carefully through the YouTube profile but can't find any contact info, though. I didn't even see Kentucky anywhere. Am I missing something?

Yes, bucks and does for rabbits, boars and sows for GP's. I didn't make it up. What's even funnier is that the young are called pups.

So I began with American GP's, standard pet sized (because I couldn't, and still can't, find any cuy), and now I'm running a herd of 40 or so. They are very healthy, live on hay and forage, no problems breeding. In a coop, colony style, separate sexes. I always breed the biggest boar to the...

Hi Everybody, really appreciating what you have going on here. I live in Earthaven Ecovillage in the mountains of Western North Carolina. Looking forward to learning together. Sam