RABBITGIRLFORTHEWIN
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I marked my rabbit's ears with sharpie a few days ago. I have to remark. Stayed on for 4ish days.
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My tattoo routine is timed for weaning/separation by gender.
My does kindle in a growout cage (2’x4’). At 4 weeks I remove the nestbox; at 5 weeks I remove mama into her normal cage (2’x3’). At 6 weeks, I move all of one gender into a second growout cage. On that day, everyone gets checked out for anything that would make them a freezer bunny — malocclusion, poor structure, etc. Toenails are trimmed, overall quality is determined, and tattoos are done. Prior to this point I use a Sharpie low in the ear to mark kits so I can track growth — bucks are marked in the right ear with a single digit while does are marked the same way on the right.
My permanent tattoos are 6 characters and look something like “4BL2D5.”
In this example, the tattoo means:
The litter was born in 2024.
The sire is Bucko; the dam is Lassie.
It’s the second litter of the year with these parents.
This is the 5th doe in the litter.
The “Sharpie tattoo” for this doeling would have been the number 5. The lower in the ear this is applied, the longer it lasts.
My does kindle in a growout cage (2’x4’). At 4 weeks I remove the nestbox; at 5 weeks I remove mama into her normal cage (2’x3’). At 6 weeks, I move all of one gender into a second growout cage. On that day, everyone gets checked out for anything that would make them a freezer bunny — malocclusion, poor structure, etc. Toenails are trimmed, overall quality is determined, and tattoos are done. Prior to this point I use a Sharpie low in the ear to mark kits so I can track growth — bucks are marked in the right ear with a single digit while does are marked the same way on the right.
My permanent tattoos are 6 characters and look something like “4BL2D5.”
In this example, the tattoo means:
The litter was born in 2024.
The sire is Bucko; the dam is Lassie.
It’s the second litter of the year with these parents.
This is the 5th doe in the litter.
The “Sharpie tattoo” for this doeling would have been the number 5. The lower in the ear this is applied, the longer it lasts.
