Tre3hugger's Rabbit Thread

[Tre3hugger]

Maple, bred 3.23.21

Crewella, bred yesterday

Hops, the proud papa to be

 

[Cecilia's-herd]

maple looks SUPER preggo

 

[Tre3hugger]

Rightttt

maple looks SUPER preggo

She has so many rolls! Looks like she has 25 babies in there

 

[Fishychix]

How did I miss this? Lol! Looks like I have some reading to do.

just ordered a record log book that comes with pedigree sheets

Where did you get this from? It sure would have saved me tons of time

 

[Tre3hugger]

How did I miss this? Lol! Looks like I have some reading to do.


Where did you get this from? It sure would have saved me tons of time

Amazon. Cheap. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1709805676?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2_dt_b_product_details

 

[Tre3hugger]

Just ordered a Ballista captive bolt gun. Excited to have such a humane way to process my rabbits and maybe even poultry. Any of you guys use one of these? any thoughts?

Ballista Penetrating Bolt Gun

Dispatch meat rabbits and large poultry more humanely, efficiently, with ease. A must-have tool for homesteaders, farmers, butchers, and livestock operations.

www.bunnyrancher.com

 

[Larsen Poultry Ranch]

Just ordered a Ballista captive bolt gun. Excited to have such a humane way to process my rabbits and maybe even poultry. Any of you guys use one of these? any thoughts?

Ballista Penetrating Bolt Gun

Dispatch meat rabbits and large poultry more humanely, efficiently, with ease. A must-have tool for homesteaders, farmers, butchers, and livestock operations.

www.bunnyrancher.com

Haven't used that type, let us know how it works for you.

Here we use a homemade hopper popper for the rabbits and pruning shears for the poultry.

 

[Tre3hugger]

Haven't used that type, let us know how it works for you.

Here we use a homemade hopper popper for the rabbits and pruning shears for the poultry.

Haven't used that type, let us know how it works for you.

Here we use a homemade hopper popper for the rabbits and pruning shears for the poultry.

Will definitely update here. I will likely try it on some cornish x chickens in a week or so, and some rabbits in a couple months.

 

[Tre3hugger]

Maple birthed 10 kits on 4/24/21. One didn't make it. We currently have 9 thriving kits and mama is doing such a good job! All the kits appear black so far.

 

[Tre3hugger]

Some of the kits are soo much more rotund than others. I can't believe she is getting them all fed. I keep expecting to find #9 didn't make it (she only has 8 nips after all) but I just checked again and all are squirmin. Although some are obviously the biggest and "strongest" I hope they all make it. I plan to wean the biggest ones first, at about 4 weeks, and leave the smaller ones in for an extra week or two to get that last bit of milk with no competition. Hopefully this translates to nice processing sizes at around 10 weeks. If I breed her back at 4 weeks, she should have a 2 week break with no babies.