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Thanks for all your help. :)

Welcome, trcarlton. :) I'm still pretty new and don't usually post much myself. Your post just caught my attention. :) If you're wanting to make money off the rabbits, your best chance is probably selling them as pets. Generally, you can sell them for more $$ at a younger age, while for meat...

I've got something strange going on with one litter of kits. I've lost 3 from the same litter now, and looks like a 4th may be on its way. They seem to be fine, and then I discover them outside the box -- stiffening, cold and looking dead. I can massage them, warm them up, and they revive...

having a similar problem, about to make a thread ...

Bottlejaw GONE as of Tuesday evening. She STILL wants mostly hackberry leaves, so I'm leaving her with that, browse, and hay. I'm still offering alfalfa pellets. She looks a little better, though of course she's going to be thin for a long time. Eyelids have just the tiniest bit of pinkish...

Thanks, everyone :) I actually have her on Probios, I just keep forgetting to mention that when I list all the other stuff. I am using the Probios gel, and giving her about 1-1/2-2x the regular dose, I'd say. It's the only thing I give her that she doesn't HATE. LOL poor girl. I'll look into...

Thanks, I appreciate that. Her mama will be glad to get them then. She thinks I must be giving treats from the syringe when I pull the sick one anyway. Makes sense. I was thinking of getting her more calories and tempting her appetite, but I can see with rumen digestion wanting to keep it on...

Thanks, everyone. :) Nothing new to report. She's finished with the Valbazen yesterday, and I'll follow it up with Cydectin ... right? In a week? Still has bottlejaw. Was ok in the morning, but of course much worse this evening after having her head down browsing all day. Eyelids appear to be...

Thanks, Emily, I'll look into that. I looked it up after I read your post. Not available here, but I can order some when I am able to. Update ... The bottlejaw was worse this morning, and even worse tonight. Her eyelids are starting to show a little more pink. This morning she refused ALL...

Well, according to the charts I saw the links posted to here Copper is 6.6 +/- 2.9 ppm and the bordering county is 4.8 +/- 0.8 ppm. I'm right on the border. I give her a red loose mineral (it's all I have been able to find) formulated for goats. She was eating it sporadically before, but I...

OK, I'll be brave and post a pic of her, who knows, may help if I'm missing something.

Thanks very much. Sigh ... yes, I guess we make bad calls sometimes. I did all the research I could, and did the best I could. I'm just regretting her condition now, but if it turns out she can be restored to good health and I can even straighten those legs out, that would be great. I made...

Nothing to panic over then? I've only seen it once before, in a young very weak doe kid, and she was at death's door when she got it. I had another doe a few years back that KEPT a heavy barberpole load, seemed nothing I did could clear her up or get her FAMACHA looking good, and she never...

True. Any rate, what's done is done, might as well move forward. Gave another 8mL Valbazen, another (same) dose liquid multi-B, upped the molasses and red cell, and gave her 30mL of a calcium/phosphorus/vit-D supplement (good quality liquid for humans, that's a human dose - it was all I had on...

Vet tells me she does NOT have cocci ... but ... I'm not sure how far I can trust this vet. Sigh ... I wonder now if I shouldn't have saved my money on the fecal and just gone ahead. It didn't seem wise, but on the other hand, it hasn't really helped much so far either. I would have assumed...

I appreciate that. I'm almost afraid to tell anyone, but she was 11 months old. Like I said, I keep thinking I should have given her Lute. The only other time I had a doeling that young get in with a buck, I didn't question at all and gave her lute right away (but she was undersized for her...

I'm afraid mine was younger than that. :( So I certainly don't mean that as a comment against anyone who does it that way. Thanks, and I do hope she can recover. Maybe her mama will give me a couple more just like her next year too, instead of the twin bucklings she gave me this year. One...

Missed this before I answered. Yes, I think I'm looking for a new vet. There is one around here who "had goats" and I'm going to talk to her. Otherwise, I think I'm out of luck unless I want to travel a LONG ways. The other one I'd considered was a horse vet. This one I see now ... He does...

Thanks, y'all, She still has a long ways to go, and I'm not 100% confident of her recovery. Still, she's a STRONG girl as far as her will and how she USED TO be. I'm still kicking myself for letting her carry those kids. The doeling is a doll, and I'm glad to have her, but not at the risk of...

Oh, and I should have reported on her condition!!! She's still scary-thin of course, still scouring but not as bad. She DOES have a better appetite, almost cleaned up the grain I gave her this morning, and took the clover I gave her, and went looking for leaves, so I put her back in the pasture...