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@speckled6 So sorry for your loss. I really hate losing an entire kindle! It may have been the cold that directly caused their deaths or it may have been more indirectly, as in the doe was trying to stay warm herself and was laying on them in the nesting box. I have not had that happen, but I...

Everyone has given such good advice. Just another thought.... My aunt had a horse that lived to be 38 years old. I remember him from foal to helping break him and I was there when he passed away. The only time my aunt ever had a problem with him getting too thin was after they changed him over...

@BoboFarm Then may I make one suggestion? Before you go foward with your plans to set everything up, place a rabbit on the type of surface you would have and watch how it walks. If its legs are sliding out to the sides unlike it would on a carpet or the ground or it is constantly twisting the...

@BoboFarm I understand and it really is not meant to be "push back" but rather opinions based on our experiences, which obviously vary. I have found that people tend to have the strongest opinions BECAUSE of their experiences. I also do not see rabbits in cages as a cruelty as long as they are...

I am sorry you feel that you that we have been discouraging. Truth is...I actually would LOVE for your concrete floor idea to work well! I just think that there is a reason that it is not commonly done by rabbit keepers with far more experience than I have. I also have reservations because we...

I have the same concerns as everyone who responded so I will not relist what has been said, but I will add two: Depending on the concrete finish itself, which would probably tend to be a bit slick from a rabbit's point of view, you might end up with some or all your kits developing splayed...

Sorry, I did not see this thread until now. I think that is about as good as a price as you will find. We buy ours at a farm that carries only New Country Organic Feed for various animals and it has been $40 for 50 lbs. of rabbit pellets. The one thing I cannot find is organic hay as we try to...

My rabbits are not "living off the land" so to speak (not yet that is), but they do get organic pellets as I am very opposed to GMO alfalfa as well as toxins in our food chain. I think you will find that the grow out progress is longer, but if being self sustaining for whatever reason is a...

We tried different techniques. Like bottle feeding the smaller, weaker ones who were not getting enough nourishment from nursing, too many kits for just eight teets, with kitten replacement milk (and on that note, if we had milking goats that would have been better). However that was very time...

Lots of questions but there are two that really concerned me. Firstly, I would not leave my rabbits for a week without eyes on them and providing hands-on care as needed. I have left them for about 30 hours on a weekend when the weather was mild, otherwise I hire someone to care for them...

I begin giving my bunnies a few greens as soon as they are interested in eating them, usually around 3 to 4 weeks they start trying to get nibbles when I feed their mother some greens. Organic cilantro seems to be a favorite first green and it really is not much more than a taste the first few...

I realize that Steel has other factors and traits that are unpredictable in many ways in how it presents, something genetic that has not yet been identified probably (and I certainly do not know much about otters or how steel would show on one), but I have had a number of steels. I even have two...

Bunnylady, thanks for the information!

Bunnylady, you are certainly more experienced than I am. I have been studying genetics for just a little while and I would love to find more information about an otter with steel. I have read somewhere once that some breeders do believe that steel is expressed only in the tan areas, but I have...

At first sounded like the Agouti would have come from the broken black, but the black markings on him could/should have shown steel, unless he was also a double steel...? :hu Though, if he was showing steel, the breeder should have recognized it. The mother could have been a poorly marked...

Correct. I am sorry that I may have added to your confusion but I will try to clarify better this time. As I understand it, she HAS to be Agouti. I do not have any experience with Otters but I have not found anything to suggest that Otters ("at" gene) can show Steel. I have only found it to be...

Wire but.... We had about the same type of nesting box that Baymule described for some years, now we only use them in the cages of the weaned buns with hay to insulate them from wind in the winter. My husband got a bug to make two compartment brood cage about two years ago and we did use a...

I have learned over the decades of my life that with animals, you have never seen it happen...until you have seen it happen. When you are emotionally involved, it is so difficult to step back and just accept the possibility that neither party might have done anything wrong. It could be as the...

Photobucket betrayed me too :barnie, seven years of posts on my personal blog that I am in the process of removing image links and uploading directly. You can go to Photobucket and download all the pictures to your PC, you can do so by file folders if you created any so you do not have to select...

Although I am not a genetics expert, but I have had some experience with REWs and steels showing up in crosses with SFs. I would say that her underside is definitely showing steel, so not a self, right? As I understand it, to show any steel, you have to have A_EsE, but I have read that EsEs may...