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What sort of spinning wheel did you get? Pictures?

Hmpf! Well, 'sheeples' here is sheep that acts like people, so maybe it doesn't matter which way the crossbreeding goes? I've heard the term to mean "folks who blindly follow the herd" so maybe it's a multipurpose word? There aren't any traveling sheep shearers on the island, AFAIK. The...

We had a spring loaded blade at the bottom of the cone which worked a treat. Put the chicken in the cone and pull the cord and the blade would take off their head. The blade and spring were from the hardware store. The blade started out as a hand held weeding tool and the spring was one of...

Did he make any noise when he fell off? We had one who would yodel, strangest bun, ever. Then he'd lay there stunned for a bit, then get up and stomp around letting everyone know "he's the Bun! He's the Bun!" while the doe would just roll her eyes.

Ha! There's now three less of them! The Taureg (some sort of V8 Volkswagen) got hauled out of the sheep pasture since they finally ate enough of the grass away that we could find it again and get it out of there. It's actually fairly new and fairly fancy, but it needed a tail light to pass...

Yeah, I forgot to tat the doe I was grooming so she could be bred and now that she's with a buck, I don't want to get green ink all over them. The clamp type only makes so many nail holes per letter and if any of them don't take the ink, it makes it 'interesting' to interpret the tat...

If you are going to complain about shipping, move to Alaska or Hawaii. Or go a step further and move to Guam, Am. Samoa, etc. Then you'll find out that many folks won't ship to a 'foreign country' and no more shipping problems because they won't ship to you at all. Are there any West Coast...

They may have a 'pet' category at the bunny show, but usually rabbits are show according to what breed they look like and the bunny which looks the most like the breed they are claiming to be is the one who wins. Since he's a mini-lop x lionhead cross and doesn't show either lopped ears or...

The clamp type is what we've been using. With green ink that shows up better and the ink is put on the tattoo needles before clamping and then rubbed into the holes after clamping. I must admit that it's not the best system so I'm looking to change over to a tattoo pen, too. Has anyone tried...

Ooops! BunnyLady is absolutely right! I don't have the harlequin or steel in the herd here so I forget about those options on the E gene.

Check your local feed stores, they should sell the stuff in fifty pound bags for a reasonable price. Also, if you get barley, it's easy to make beer from sprouted barley. Might even be able to make the beer and then feed the mash after you've poured the beer off of it to the rabbits? I've not...

The palpitation itself could be the problem. Breed the doe and then leave her alone. If you see a fall off, figure the deed is done, put the doe in her nesting site and wait twenty eight days. Then give her a nest box and nest material. Are these proven does? If they're over a year and a...

This is a basic wool harvest set of tools, although the clippers only work on some coats. If they're too dense or too matted, the clippers don't work. The barber's scissors are usually the default choice. The Ivermectin horse wormer is used to keep away wool mites. There should also be a set...

There's a pedigree program called 'Kintracks' which is a great resource. It's less than $20 Australian which makes it around $15 US. And, once you have the program, it's got unlimited upgrades. Also, if you're running an 'older' operating system (anything before Win10, I think) the program is...

IMHO, meat should be canned in smaller jars, probably quart size at the largest and in a pressure canner and not just a water bath canner. I can meat when there's not enough room in the freezer. Several years ago, there was a huge sale on frozen turkeys so we now have canned turkey. Although...

We use big ceramic tiles since those clean easier than boards, but if you're in a cold place, she may appreciate a wooden board over a cold tile.

Yup, what Larsen said! When the bunnies aren't eating, first thing we do is check their water. A doe will sometimes go off her feed several days before kindling, but not usually so early in the pregnancy that I've ever noticed. But, bunnies all do what they're gonna do and they don't all get...

There's an apple flavored horse wormer Ivermectin gel that works a treat on wool and ear mites. Just smear a dab of it about the size of a split pea on the bunny's ear. No more mites. We have angora bunnies, as far as I can figure wool mites spontaneously combust out of thin air. Ivermectin...

If you plant a garden, you can raise a lot of fodder for buns. They like to eat a lot of the plant parts we don't eat. But, there's also a lot of plants out there poisonous to buns, so check each type of plant first to make sure it's non-poisonous to rabbits before feeding. Can you grow...

Picked up one of the babies and he must of thought he was going to die. He was screaming really loudly. Silly bun, he should know humans bring food by now, but it was the first time he'd been picked up since his eyes opened. Maybe he was afraid of heights?