Recent content by zachbelle

I had a feeling the coloring was going to be a prominent gene, as the whole litter she came from were that silvery color. im not looking to be a big time breeder, just hoping to be able to sell a few litters a year to help outweigh feed costs etc. thank you for all the info, it was quite...

Sorry I should rephrase...she is small to me. I am used to raising flemish cross meat rabbits and my last litter at 8 weeks was significantly larger than she is at 11 weeks. If I were to breed her to a full mini lop that should keep the kits at a smaller (or medium however you look at it haha)...

Days getting longer, snow melting, ducks and chickens starting to lay again, "The smell of spring", its so funny because the first snowfall I am always so excited and in awe at the beauty of it then come December 26th I want it all to go away and cannot wait for spring for the next 3 to 4...

im not sure if I am in the right spot...I have been raising m**t rabbits for a little while now and have recently decided I want to go into some other breeds for pets, I had decided on the mini lop, and when looking through for sale adds a picture of the most beautiful little rabbit screamed BUY...

I am trying to determine the sea of my 6 week old rabbits. I'm fairly Certain I have 6 bucks 1 doe. I can't help but second guess myself tho. This is the first time I have had to do this with such young rabbits. any tips on being accurate would be greatly appreciated! Thank you in advance

We have converted the small wire cages that you buy into a very large roomy hutch for our buck, my husband built a frame for the cage and a large 2.5 ft by 2.5 ft box attached so his hutch is probably about 5 feet by 2.5 feet which gives him room to move about and exercise he can also be out in...

Thank you for that I have never heard anything about checking the vulva, what would I be looking for in color? She is a great mom and was obviously distressed over loosing her kits but has seems to have finally calmed down now.

Thank you for the reply.. it stinks I lost nine kits but I always try to look for the silver lining and j guess in this case it's a lesson learned the hard way that even if I find dead kits leave the box in a few extra days so this won't happen again...I think that's the hardest part about...

They were all fully formed yes and only bred on one day. I know i didn't miss 5 babies yesterday so not sure what's happened but she is now frantic since i took the second half of the litter out and trying to rebuild her nest i feel terrible for her and even was tempted to foster a couple from...

Thanks! While I've got a response on this thread I've got another question. My doe that had babies night before last that were cold and unable to be revived had five more last night on the wire after I removed the nest box...is this normal to Kindle on two separate night? My only thought could...

Ok so...went out this morning five more babies on the wire frozen...of course I took nesting material out figures...is this normal??? Only thing I can think is she had four babies in one horn and five in the other kindling two separate nights?

Because of my recent loss due to the cold my other doe is in a very large plastic dog crate indoors, she refused to build a nest in the box kept dumping it out and built a nest in the back corner of the crate....plastic bottom and in the house so the kits will be warm and safe but this morning...

Oh and eventually if un treated they will fall off the rabbit on there own once they are done feeding but it takes a lot out of the rabbit as they are feeding on the rabbit. And when I first noticed it I was patting her and felt a lump almost felt like a small tumor and when I picked her up to...

I know this is an old post but just wanted to post for anyone else looking for answers to this. I had this problem last summer it is a bot fly larvae we found one large one like the one in the picture and then a few smaller ones after checking her over. The Hoke is in the skin so that the larvae...

Oh the possibilities. .