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So 2 or 3 days ago i tried to have my doe mate my buck in his cage. They ran around a bunch and it looked like he failed with an incomplete fall off. So I thought, oh I'll wait a couple days and try again. So today I figured, hey might as well be today. I put her in his cage again and let...

I thought this would be fun to talk about and bring up. Today I brought one of my younger rabbits that was a bit more tame into the house. I put her sort of on my lap and under my coat while wearing it. The interesting thing about this is that she'd sort of try to dig through my coat and the...

Be ready! Rumors are there will be a LOT of flooding all over the US this year! Make your place and animals secure early. Don't let vanity and pride get in the way. Kentucky and the Ohio River already seeing this. Lots of extra snow in the Rocky Mountains which fuels the Missouri river...

What protein percent are rabbits getting from barley sprouts? In thinking about overfeeding and why my rabbits weren't popping out babies yet, I wanted to check this. What do you think?

So I found out I was overfeeding my rabbits. They don't look unhealthy. And they don't look too fat. They even surprisingly enough had looked a bit thin with some of them. I guess the overfeeding was absorbed by the energy being put into surviving the cold winter. And it was really cold in our...

Question for you guys... I wondered if you could get zip ties to last longer, by coating melted wax over them? What do you think about this? (Or do you have another way of doing it that would be better?) I'd made a few rabbit hatches out of wood...except the front grills it was easier to use...

I wanted to ask what you thought about which of these two management systems for pens, offers the best attributes? And especially is there any survival benefit to colony style management over individual grass tractor pens? (By grass tractor I mean a larger elongated pen, but that they usually...

So I wondered if any of you have experimented with the idea of cycling a drip irrigation set up for orchard trees, etc to maybe have 1 week of good flow, and then 1 week almost nothing, and then back and forth. How well and what is the ideal setting between trying to keep them alive and going...

I'd heard for awhile people say that rabbits aren't really in the same grouping as rodents. I very much hope that is true. But how much different really? And I hoped to get more details on this with the rest of you, and see what you thought? For humans farming or eating rodents is disgusting...

So I wanted to ask how you guys deal with separated pastures when you can't always get them cheap next door. Like an example, most of your pastures are next to each other, except you have a couple that aren't right next to your others. Maybe its a few hundred yards away or a mile away with...

So I wanted to check on this. Have a couple kits. Wanted to double check how young they can be outside in the cold? (And its winter here.) These are about 8 weeks old. I don't want to take any chances and so I thought I'd double check. This isn't my first time with rabbits, but it somehow...

So I was listening to a video on Youtube entitled; 'Raising Hens with No grain. Some thoughts by Richard Perkins. It was quite interesting. At any rate, when I'm listening to this there's this spot where he says that his pasture was like shoulder high and still green while the other people in...

I wanted to ask pasture leasing rates for your states? My state is somewhat overprice in a lot of things. And I stumbled upon the idea that you don't need to own the land to start up, and in fact could even avoid it entirely, and avoid a lot of the high priced items if you are serious about...

So to follow up, because of help on the forum I did work out the sprouts. Its working! And its exciting to see the savings in food and money. But a new question popped up... Right now I'm in the family basement with my sprouts growing, but how do people do it with sprouts when they have to do...

Question is as above, and what it seems. Interested in what you all might have to say about this. Obviously having pasture would be the best thing. But anything affordable is sort of semi-arid hot AZ stuff. That means it will probably not entirely support all the pasturage needed for a small...

So I haven't done sheep yet. But I'd like to someday. But I wanted to check how well your pastures can recover and grow for places like Arizona? Normally places that are wet can stack the sheep up pretty well for pastures in areas of the US with lots of water. And it seems like a lot of figures...

So I've been wondering, how big a water tank would you need to provide your own water for a small farm etc or household in AZ, NM, or other low water states? (Rainwater collection fueling the household and a few animals?) How do you figure this out? I'd like to move some place rural to live...

So I wanted to ask how you would cook sprouts if you had to in survival situations? I don't really do this normally; I use the barley fodder sprouts with some sunflower seeds in it also as sprouts for the animals. It seems that some people do eat the stuff? But nobody says how they actually...

Can you typically feed livestock irrigation water? I wanted to be sure on this. I'd been around farms a lot. But many of the areas I lived people had wells. And when growing up I didn't always think of what if I was starting out somewhere else where you had to start up all those things on your...

So I've been wondering how do you decide how many rams you can have for how many ewes? I would guess you can't have that many. I don't know much about sheep yet. But its a good time to learn. Is it also a mistake to have too few rams, where if something happens to 1 and he's the only 1 you...