Stupid weather change....
The best of my six young growers that I plan to keep has a tummy ache this morning.
He was FINE last night.
I was keep a tight look on my "kids" whenever the weather changes and now the best of the six is looking a bit better than death warmed over...
Gave him probiotics, forced some water down this throat and said :LIVE:
Of course now I"m left with this question.....
Do I want to keep this young buck or do I cull him out?
I want to breed resilient rabbits (very important to me)....
yet I want to breed more to the breed standard for size and type... and this little guy is quite nice in that regard..... but most of my rabbits go to the pet crowd where that isn't quite as important.....
Why did it hit him and not the so-so polish next door to him? same age, smaller even! Same area of the tent and everything! Why him? Why not one of the does that's in the cage that got hit in the spring? One of the does yeah...I'd be sad but not as concerned as I've got three others that are similar in type... but nope...got to hit my promising young buck.
ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I hate this......
The best of my six young growers that I plan to keep has a tummy ache this morning.
He was FINE last night.
I was keep a tight look on my "kids" whenever the weather changes and now the best of the six is looking a bit better than death warmed over...
Gave him probiotics, forced some water down this throat and said :LIVE:
Of course now I"m left with this question.....
Do I want to keep this young buck or do I cull him out?
I want to breed resilient rabbits (very important to me)....
yet I want to breed more to the breed standard for size and type... and this little guy is quite nice in that regard..... but most of my rabbits go to the pet crowd where that isn't quite as important.....
Why did it hit him and not the so-so polish next door to him? same age, smaller even! Same area of the tent and everything! Why him? Why not one of the does that's in the cage that got hit in the spring? One of the does yeah...I'd be sad but not as concerned as I've got three others that are similar in type... but nope...got to hit my promising young buck.
ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I hate this......