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Welcome to BYH from upstate NY!! We are happy to have you. There are tons of goat and rabbit people here. Check out the Backyard Chickens website. It has a lot more poultry people. I raise Dutch rabbits for showing, so feel free to ask questions. And we all love pictures!!!

Rabbits can take temperatures of below -20 F. Mine stay outside all year, and no problems yet. The most annoying thing is having to go outside to feed them, and all the frozen water dishes. I've heard of rabbits killing themselves in panic attacks. Mine have never hurt themselves doing it, but...

A good step is to buy a book about rabbit veterinary medicine. There are whole textbooks on the subjects. I have my eye on a couple that I found on Amazon. It's cheaper to buy a vet book than have to track down a vet every time something comes up.

Yes!! A vet is very important. And if you can't get a vet, you have to almost become one yourself. There are almost no vets that treat rabbits in my area, and the ones that do cost an arm and a leg because rabbits are classified as "exotics". I've had to do the same thngs as @CntryBoy777 .

Nice. Does it get cold where you are? I couldn't get English lops even if I wanted to because their ears would freeze. The show I bought my rabbits from was a few hours away from my house. I live in almost the middle of nowhere, so rabbit shows are pretty far away.

Buying at shows has the risk of disease, but, at least at the shows I've been to, sick rabbits aren't allowed on the premises, and are sent home if found to be sick later on. I bought my Dutch at a show, and so far, so good!! The only downside is not being able to look at the conditions the...

@OctoberKitty , your doing great!! Rabbits have great immune systems, but if they are going to get sick, it usually happens within 1-2 weeks within being exposed to a disease. I HATE quarantining, so I see how it is unattractive. I quarantine all new rabbits that I buy, so it can become a pain...

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Your options are fairly limited. You may have to spend some money if you want to get rid of your mosquito problem. There are a few options that are cheap and would help, but not get rid of the problem completely. You could get rid of any standing water near your rabbits and install fans. If you...

Welcome to BYH from northern NY!!! I hope your farming venture goes well, and as @animalmom said, we all LOVE pictures;).

Germs can travel from the possibly infected rabbit to your fuzzy lop very easily if you do not wash your hands between handling things that touched your dead rabbit and touching your live rabbit. If your rabbit died from infection, that is. It may have been a genetic disorder, or a heart attack...

Sorry. I thought someone mentioned coming from BYC, but with so many threads, it's hard to kerp track.

Your English lop could have died from a heart attack, but there are other possibilities. Quarentine your other rabbit until you are absolutely sure what killed your English lop. Some diseases do not have visible symptoms.

Have fun with your new rabbits!! But be VERY CAREFUL. Your bucks will probably end up fighting, maybe to the death if you do not either bond or separate them(your best option is separating them. Bucks will most likely not be able to be bonded). For preventing more fur matts, you may want to...

Welcome to BYH!!! We are all happy to have you with us. As previously stated, there are TONS of rabbit and goat people here. There is a BYC website, which is more geared towards poultry people. Check it out!! I'm a rabbit person(mostly show rabbit breeding), so if you have questions, ask me or...

Has your doe been in contact with a buck since then? If she was in a cage right next to the buck, there could have been a mating right through the cage wire. Or she could have escaped and gotton bred.

60 days:ep?!? A rabbits normal gestation time is 28-32 days. Are you sure that the rabbit was really 60 days pregnant? Maybe her previous owner rebred her after 2 or 3 weeks from the first breeding and either didn't tell you or forgot. We're the kits very large? If they were over 60 days, they...

Glad we don't have the problem of water. It rains all the time. It makes the feed bill cheaper, but the wet weather makes the wood on my hutches swell up. It makes opening the hutches pretty hard sometimes. Our growing season in only a few months.You probably know that up here, you have to...

I used to feed alfalfa, but it was to expensive, and what I could get was super dusty. I can get a bale of grass hay for $5 to $7 a bale, though. My pellets cost about the same as yours. I put mine in a container, but still hoard old feed sacks.

Great post, @Hopalong Causually !! I will probably have the same problem with future NZs. I may have it when the time comes that my favorite Dutch breeders arent useful anymore. A good suggestion would be to not name the rabbits until you are sure which ones you will keep and which ones you will...