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Thanks, I'm located up in the northeast in RI. I checked out your pics and it looks like you have the "parts" to put together a decent meat producing herd. I raised Satins a while back and it was my experience that although they are a decent meat rabbit, they didn't make processing weight as...

If they're gonna be indoor cage bunnies, you can't beat pine pellets for bedding.

I finally located a breeder who has been working with the blue variety of NZ's, and was fortunate enough to obtain 2 really decent does. I can't wait to get them into production. I love my NZW's but it's gonna be pretty cool to mess around with colored rabbits that still retain the meat...

I guess it all depends on your goals. If you want to produce the most efficient, economical, best quality meat rabbits, use the best quality available pure NZ, Californian, or crosses of either, to obtain your goal. Crossing a FG to either a Cal or NZ is a step backward. FG's are heavy boned...

If I were to give my goats only one animal cracker, I'm quite sure that they would bend their little hooves to form a "goat middle finger" at me.

Seems pretty quick with the shears, but you would gain all the time saved back by trying to remove the enormous amount of fur/hair that she puts all over the carcass. I can see the shears to cut feet and head off, but a sharp knife for making the initial skinning cuts would eliminate all the...

Jenna, I'll probably see you at the one on the 7th. I'll be there snooping around for some new FW blood, lol.

I don't know if it's just the camera angle, but that fella sure does have a big ol ' melon.

I haven't tried this one, and I don't know exactly how much they're giving you for free, but maybe worth a look. http://www.agritecsoft.com/en/

I've been working with some NZW/Chinchilla crosses for a line of meat rabbits. the F1's are incredible. They have the Chin color and fur quality, but the bulk and meat producing qualities of the NZW. I live about 1/2 an hour away from you, and you are more than welcome to swing by and take a look.

Just curious, has anyone ever experienced ankle/leg injuries with their goats bouncing around on those pallets? Maybe I'm just paranoid, but it would seem pretty easy for a goat to slip a hoove awkwardly into one of those slots/spaces between the boards. I can only speak for my goats, but when 2...

I m constantly reminding my 13 year old son as to how important it is to use correct grammar and spelling. Fair or not, at one point in life you will be judged based upon it, and it is a direct reflection of how you conduct your everyday business. I speak for myself, but when I read a post on a...

I live pretty close to your area. (Tiverton). When you are ready to dig a little deeper into raising rabbits, you are more than welcome to come out to my place and check out my rabbitry. I often have exceptional breeder rabbits for sale. Most of the rabbits that I butcher are as good as what...

"Shrinkage", lol.

Or maybe it's "D", since this great nation no longer has a labor base of manufacturing and producing for the world, and our new labor base consists of 'passing paper', in the form of banking, insurance, medical, etc. Maybe, since we have nothing left to sell, the "powers that be" have decided to...

CM, an ATV on the farm is a life changing experience. I can't even imagine how anyone with a significant farm type operation functions without one. Farm chores are hard, and using my Honda 4 wheeler saves me enough time and energy to be able to focus on other things that I wouldn't ordinarily...

But................., and it's a big but here, but what if someone did have the room, and brought 100 of these goats in. Let's say that it cost 30,000.00 or so to pull it off. With 80 or 90 does and 10 or 20 bucks, how long would it take to recoup the initial 30k by selling offspring from these...

I'm absolutley positive that the global warming theory is a bunch of crap. If the polar bears are running out of habitat, they can move into my backyard. I'm sure they'll do fine here.

Thanks Wayne. I will now have to spend eternity trying to erase that first little tidbit of information that you provided from my memory. LOL!

I don't think my goats got the memo about the oak leaves being toxic. If they did, they probably ate it before they read it. I live in a dense oak forest, and my goats eat bushels of oak leaves, with no ill effects. They also eat acorns like crazy. I assume that the goats build a tolerence to...