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Deworming is the best place to start. About checking his teeth, obviously you can easily check the front teeth. The back ones are not so easy to do. It pretty much takes a vet to check his back teeth, he would need to be sedated and the vet needs a special tool. If the deworming doesn't help...

I use crocks/bowls all year round, so that is not a problem for me. If you don't want to use bowls, they do make heated rabbit water bottles, and you can get heated waterers for your chickens too. Do a google/Yahoo search for them if you don't have a Rural King or TSC near you.

Hi there! I have never had Silver foxes (yet!) but they look like a cool breed. I love the idea of helping to preserve a breed that is in danger of extinction, too. Where are you located?

First of all, I am so sorry about your bunny, I know how hard it can be too lose one especially when you don't know why. For future reference...You cannot ever put adult rabbits together that have not been raised together. They are very territorial and as previously stated, will do their...

Yes, that can cause diarrhea. Slowly increasing his pellets is fine, but don't reduce his hay. I have seen that happen here, I ran out of hay and couldn't get more for a couple of days, I had four/five come down with runny poops and pasty butts until they got their hay back. Oh, and now that...

Here is a quote from the HRS: "In any case of domestic rabbit babies, do not remove the babies until they are a full eight weeks of age. Separate the male babies from the females at this time. Males can become sexually mature as early as ten weeks!" Small breeds mature faster, so the ten weeks...

Well, that is hard to say from here, LOL, but it is possible. Although any "lumps" that are baby bunnies should be further back in her abdomen, not under her ribs. Where did you get her? Can you call and ask the person you bought her from if she had been around a buck at all? Even ten seconds...

To me the main reason to spay a doe is for behavioral issues. I have had soo many does handed over to me (I run a small rescue) because that previously sweet little bunny hit puberty and turned NASTY! I used to breed as well, and still have a couple of my intact retired breeder does around at...

Oh, one other thing. You can show her without papers, but if you want to get her CH status she has to be papered. You can't get her a champ cert without that.

Took the words right out of my mouth. Plus they are must less likely to get pregnant if you WANT them too, as opposed to just not knowing anything about them. Been scientifically proven, LOL. BTW, if your breeder friends are breeding 20 does with only seven having litters, mabye they need to...

Crimson Rose is totally correct. Chickens will kill and eat any "pinkies" or newborn bunnies, and will probably harass older bunnies. Plus you really don't want your bunnies to be walking in chicken poop. An outdoor run is a great idea, but make sure it has strong wire (not chicken wire) and a...

Someone else said this already, but I would like to give you a little more detail. You cannot EVER keep an intact buck and doe together in the same cage. You will literally have baby bunnies every four weeks, and of course that is not only hard on the bunnies, but on you as well! Doe rabbits are...

I have a tri-color collie, and I have half way thought about what if this hair was spinnable. I don't spin though, so I would have to find someone around here that not only spins but would want to spin with dog hair, LOL. If I did, my goodness she could pay for her won feed all summer. Anyone...

I would guess there is pygmy in there somewhere, LOL. How old is she, and how tall?

Isn't "milking out" emptying the udder? I never empty it when I am drying a doe off. I am not sure I understand why Dr. Holliday says to not milk for five/six days and then milk her out? Wouldn't that just signal her body to begin producing again? I like to do it gradually and take less each...

How can you age it if you are having it butchered in a plant and have nowhere you can hang it? I am planning on getting a steer to butcher in the next few months, so I am trying to learn all I can about this stuff.

Actually you are trying more to get her to stop producing rather than to reabsorb it. They can reabsorb small amounts, and even that takes a long time. And to stop milking cold turkey is an excellent way to wind up with a nasty case of mastitis, plus being incredibly painful for the doe. Having...

Looks great to me. Thanks a lot!

Hykue,could you post a picture of the pruners you got that worked so well? Or a link to a similar product online, what ever is easiest. :) I am just very curious, the only pruners I know of are the huge ones you use for cutting tree branches, LOL. I have been using the hoof rots shears too, and...

I use either half gallon or quart Mason jars, you can get plastic lids for them that are a lot easier than the canning lids. I didn't have any trouble finding half gallon jars around here, they had them with all the other canning jars/supplies at our local Rural King.