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Much wisdom in this and this is exactly why we started with NZ Whites, not my favorites and hard for a child to identify the differences. We started when my daughter was ten years old and she vowed never to eat rabbit meat, but things do change. Now she wants to learn to process. After the...

Interesting. The feed I get has a retail price of $31, if I could run over and pick it up, but as with all feed, it is the freight charges that make it cost so much. So, I am not an expert, but it looks this feed is a mixture of 5 things thrown in together, not the ingredients of any single...

Nice! I would love to see the ingredients label. I have seen many organic feeds high in corn, which I try not to buy.

Blacks can carry recessive genes so out of two blacks with both carrying dilute and chocolate, you can get blacks, blues, chocolates, and lilacs. But because black is dominate you will not know what a rabbit MIGHT have in recessives without some background or just have fun breeding and see what...

Anticipaaation! ;)

You still may get red-eyed white (REW) offspring, if the pair being bred both have a recessive "c." With a broken, about half the offspring will be broken when bred to a solid. A black could carry blue (dilute) so if bred to another dilute carrier, you may get blue offspring. You would...

I have a question that I cannot seem to find the answer to. If a rabbit is a super steel with a silvering gene, does the silver show?

I agree, as that is one of my concerns, but there is hard to please as a buyer and then there is a breeder/seller selling rabbits that at least one other breeder/buyer rejected because of health issues that she pointed out to the seller, so the seller knew...and yet the seller continued with...

@Run Rabbit Run Welcome! :frow I am pretty knew here too. I was hoping to carpool but contact just unpooled. I suppose I do need to make solid plans one way or the other this week. Are you going?

And that just changed one or two years ago from being "critical." I get your point, but because SF was on the critical list previously, people got interested in saving the breed. Most of the dedicated SF breeders I know are not showing, yet they are still working towards show quality. It was...

@secuono It is hard for me to imagine how a SF would develop sore hocks, too. I was not invited to see the rabbitry, so I have no idea what kind of wires she had or the cage conditions. The doe looked clean and healthy overall. I am working with the sore hocks. One of my specialities is...

@Bunnylady :lol: When I read this line, I thought you were referring to their fur at first. I really did not know about the COD so I really do thank you educating me. I was told just this week that the sister of one of my bucks won Best of Opposite recently. :weee I love the SF breed on many...

@BoboFarm Thank you. That is pretty much where I am at. @Bunnylady Not a Rex, but I thank you for the info on the breed. I am transitioning over to Silver Foxes only and replacing aging does after we had been doing NZW and SF purebreds and crosses (hence all the surprise colorings in my...

I caught this kit in the act! He had just climbed up into the hay feeder and then squeezed through a gap at the top of the wire separating the cages to visit with another doe, who surprisingly acted like a nanny to all the kits of that kindle who came to visit her until they were to big to...

I made a rookie mistake of trusting the breeder will call BR more than I probably should have and ended up with a doe that has sore hocks. In my defense, I have not had a rabbit with this problem before, but I should have known to look more closely but they were small sores, about the size of...

Just a little? I have not dealt with colonies (and this is partly why) so there probably are others here that would give better answers, but if I was given this same opportunity and letting the kits grow out was a priority for me and this is a friend that will cooperate, I would do this in...

It also depends on what you feed your rabbits, like if they are fed organic or GMO-free food. In my area, a processed and packaged "natural" (GMO, antibiotics, and steriod free) rabbit sells for about $10 per pound in the shop, regardless of the intended use.

@Bunnylady You showed it when we were talking about the steeled tan-patterned on another thread. And my Silver Fox should have an "E" SO....I really am developing a very strong dislike for "A_ Es_" combinations. Too unpredictable and messy. Thanks again.

@Bunnylady, I have a question on this that did not come to me until tonight. If the NZW threw Black Gold-Tipped Steels in two breedings, this being one with my Blue Silver Fox and another to my Black Gold Tipped Steel, wouldn't he have to be "Aa"? Also, the breeding with the Black Gold-Tipped...

@Bunnylady Thank you so much. I am just rather frustrated right now. I was hoping to find a New Zealand White that did not throw steels, which as we all know is the sneaky gene that is difficult to breed out once in the line. However, at this point, I am concerned that I already have that...