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So that is 5# of feed to 1# of a skinned and butchered rabbit (not including liver, heart, kidneys), right? Not live weight. Thank you!

I guess I spend too much time with the bunnies! We need to make a full accounting and amortize expenses, but with organic feed costing $25 a bag and considering how much time is spent feeding and cleaning, I was thinking that they cost more to produce than what the supermarket charges retail for...

We live in the country and many folks have asked about buying rabbit from us. I don't want to sell meat, but I sure don't mind trading it for other food. Several of the folks involved run food businesses, though they'd be getting the meat for themselves, not resale. They have no problem...

She pulled about four times as much fur as I've ever seen a doe pull, then had about 7 babies, early yesterday morning. I don't have an explanation for the extravagant nest, 'cause we're having very warm weather. (Maybe the fur insulates the kits from the heat?) Also, she has them spread all...

We have a doe, meat breed-mix, a little over 2 years old, that has always been a wonderful mom. She always starts nest building early; with her first litter she was only a week and a half pregnant when she started sporting her hay mustache. She is impeccably fastidious, so I always give her a...

I have a doe who started sporting a hay mustache that early in her first pregnancy. She went on to have a nice, big healthy litter, too. She is extremely fastidious and keeps her nestbox spotless. I always give her a nestbox early because of her wonderful habits.

Here is an informative link about selling meat in California. Rabbits are considered a non-amenable species. They seem very amenable to me! http://ucfoodsafety.ucdavis.edu/files/26481.pdf

So sorry for your loss.

I posted in the disease section, then realized this was a better place to ask the question. I have some healthy looking kits of processing age. Their mother, who had been separated from them several days prior, started showing symptoms of illness a week ago today and was removed from the barn...

All right, we have brought one rabbit into the house for observation -- her eyes were a little moist (my husband doesn't see it, maybe I'm paranoid). It is now butchering time for the bunnies who were the kits of the infected doe. They had been separated about a week before she showed...

Thank you, Maggie. Bad Habit, I believe you all are safe but we in California (particularly around the coast and coastal ranges) have to be concerned with it. Our brush bunnies and (I think) jack rabbits are reservoirs for the virus and we have plenty of mosquitos to act as vectors. We don't...

My husband and I just put down our beautiful mama rabbit, we are pretty sure she had myxo from her symptoms. Two folks we know have lost their buns to myxo in the last few years in this area. We separated her as soon as we saw her "sleepy looking" eyes and lack of energy. They symptoms...

Mystang89, Just that. Eating habits being weird during pregnancy. I just went out to the barn to check on her. She had eaten a bit of the pellets from yesterday. I put in her apple and she picked it up and threw it in her j-feeder. I put in her bowl of fresh pellets with oats and she just...

We bred our does two weeks ago yesterday. One of them seems is eating less than usual. This has happened before with her, but it was later in the pregnancy. She seems largely uninterested in her pellets, but is eating hay. If I give her an apple stick, she'll clean the bark off it in...

Maybe offer her a favorite treat to occupy her while you check the nest box? Good luck!

As long as your friend is eating and seems happy, enjoy your time together. I had a rat with a brain tumor and the vet told me that when she quit eating and started to smell funny, it was a sign her organs were shutting down and her quality of life was such it would be time to say goodbye. I...

:popcorn: This is fascinating! Thanks Fire-Man and PistolPackingMomma, I'm taking notes. -Pat

I'm sorry for your loss, and thank you for the warning. Now I'll know to always leave the nest boxes in for a couple extra days, at least. Yes, me too. :popcorn:

Are they going to be big rabbits or little ones? I have a meat breed, close to 10 pounds each. Our adult cages are 30" deep x 36" wide. The cages for the mommas are 24" deep x 5' wide. If you can afford it, a little bigger for the adult cages would be nice! (My rabbits are thrilled to get...

Aw. I'm so sorry for your loss. I'm glad she didn't suffer at all, it sounds like she felt great right up until the end. I'm with the others, it sounds like maybe she had a sudden heart attack. Again, I'm sorry this happened.