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I need to get a third doe. I don't want to wait almost a year to raise another doe from the litters we are currently expecting.
I'm thinking of getting a NZR or something. Something more designed for meat production. How do you check out a breeder? I don't know anybody yet, but there is a 4H livestock meeting on the 9th.<br /><br />__________ Mon Nov 01, 2010 11:10 am __________<br /><br />Bumping this...
When I got Pearl, I really didn't check the breeder out. I didn't know if there were any other breeders in the area, or how to find out. I found a good-looking doe on Craigslist, called the seller, and went out there and bought her. I did look Pearl over first. I looked at her teeth for malocclusion, her feet for cleanliness and sores, checked to make sure she was a doe, her ears for mites, her eyes for brightness and cleanliness, and her fur for cleanliness. The other rabbits looked clean and had balls to play with, though their cages were a bit on the small side and there were many flies about because of the waste hay and rabbit by-products being composted below. Perhaps that would have been best done outside the rabbitry.
But is there some way to check out a breeder before you go there?
I'm thinking of getting a NZR or something. Something more designed for meat production. How do you check out a breeder? I don't know anybody yet, but there is a 4H livestock meeting on the 9th.<br /><br />__________ Mon Nov 01, 2010 11:10 am __________<br /><br />Bumping this...
When I got Pearl, I really didn't check the breeder out. I didn't know if there were any other breeders in the area, or how to find out. I found a good-looking doe on Craigslist, called the seller, and went out there and bought her. I did look Pearl over first. I looked at her teeth for malocclusion, her feet for cleanliness and sores, checked to make sure she was a doe, her ears for mites, her eyes for brightness and cleanliness, and her fur for cleanliness. The other rabbits looked clean and had balls to play with, though their cages were a bit on the small side and there were many flies about because of the waste hay and rabbit by-products being composted below. Perhaps that would have been best done outside the rabbitry.
But is there some way to check out a breeder before you go there?