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Your friend is really the minority. 98% of the breed is fathered by 2 males. Those 7 or 8 "different bulls" are still great great great...grandchildren of the original 2. They have made efforts especially here recently to "fix" the breed but that is extremely difficult to do when 98% of diary...

The problem with your diet right now is that you're getting them the alfalfa based pellet. You now need to supplement with Timothy Hay because rabbits get more nutrition from Timothy Hay. Most pellet producers use fillers and lower quality hay like alfalfa hay instead of the Timothy Hay because...

It's just like anything else. It will take some time to get a routine down and perfect your method. The hardest part is the culling, the actual act of taking that life is not easy. If it helps, remember that it's life and purpose was to die and sustain the life of something else. The next time...

I'm sure they probably make sifters for this specifically, but for diy you just need to find a screen like hardware cloth with small enough gaps to only allow the poo pellets fall through. You probably would need a secondary screen with smaller holes than the poo pellets to filter out debris...

I understand what you're saying. I already have a plan for my breeding program that eliminates any inbreeding and line breeding. I also won't be just breeding rabbits either. Rabbits will actually be the smallest part of my operation once it's going full steam....

Those mutant chickens are not Cornish crosses they are hybrid broiler chickens and they shouldn't be alive. Same thing with the Holstein cows.

The problem with inbreeding and linebreeding is that it's basically an old shortcut in breeding that has a positive short term outcome but a very negative long-term outcome if the practice is done continually. Before I went down the rabbit hole that is worldwide commercial breeding practices I...

I'm not in favor of linebreeding or inbreeding at all and won't do it in my breeding. Half siblings are one step removed from full inbreeding. I understand that it's standard practice across the commercial breeding world but I won't do it.

As flipping weird as it is to say, I can't wait to have this much rabbit poo on hand. I'll be adding every bit of bedding and poo to my compost piles. My garden needs every last bit and will continue to need it as it expands to almost 10 acres of market garden. Right now it's just rabbit and...

So yesterday we drove down to Kansas to pick up a Champagne buck and doe. They were supposed to be a mated pair. They aren't a mated pair as she had claimed and when looking at their pedigrees, we discovered they are half brother and sister. She also told me last minute that they hadn't ever...

Welcome! Sounds like you are well on your way! Those are some gorgeous looking buns too!

I will definitely. 😁

If I were you I would bump selling bunnies to your first year. The sooner you establish a customer base and start getting your name out there the sooner your sales will start offsetting costs. Sounds like good goals to start with though.

It honestly sounds like something to do with the hay. Is he getting enough hay? He's getting agitated and riled up when a certain food is brought in. That tells me maybe something in the hay he's not getting elsewhere. Maybe increase that ration. Also, have you thought about having your...

That's exactly what has kept us from fully committing to that. The bunny hutch idea we got while looking at bunny hutches online to get ideas for building them ourselves. Think raised box with large door for cleaning and human access, opening with ramp for bunnies, either plexiglass or wood...

Oh it won't be a wide open acre with bunnies running wild and free per se. Our current plan is using a raised hutch style bunny dorms with enough space for 12 does that have a common area to roam around in. This will be predator proof with hard wire cloth/chain link all around. Bucks will have...

I would agree had the situation only been a single instance. But from the op it happened multiple times after the first attack. I'm not saying the first attack you cull them. Before culling, investigating any root causes would help eliminate this from happening in the future. Issues like food...

We are starting out with Champagne D'Argent rabbits. Breeding for meat, fur and pets. Most will go to freezer to offset our food costs. Rabbits will just be a minor part of our overall plan in the next few years. We plan on branching out to raising Rex, French Angora, Satin, American Chinchilla...

Sounds like it's time to cull.

Welcome, what are you raising/breeding?