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One of my friends has chickens in the rabbitry to eat up bugs, but her rabbits are up in cages. She also has a few ducks and geese. My thoughts just from seeing how messy chickens can be is I would not do it...especially with angoras. Sorry.

The way we do ours in particular, yes. Ours are in a compartment that can be closed off when not being used but you also can easily place a wire top in place over one if you are concerned about a rabbit going into zoomie mode and getting hurt when not in use.

I would also suggest that it be a name you love no matter where you live. We are planning on moving and a friend of mine wasn't but a pending divorce changed that and her rabbitry name did not fit the place to which she ended up moving.

"GG's Jumpers & Thumpers" would be under the 25 character limit.

When I came up with Tale of Tails, it was because I was a fairly active blogger as a homeschooling mom and I believe everyone has a tale to tell. I started another blog solely for my rabbitry—my tails—to share my tale, keep a chronicle of how I went from being a meat breeder to a show breeder...

First of all, I will readily admit I do not put up with sprayers, but I have a docile breed and the tendency is low. However, I had a NZWxSF crossbreed chinchilla that I loved and he loved me, but when he matured, he loved me in a whole different way. Anyone could go into the rabbitry, but me. I...

In this picture you see enough of a ledge on the left, which is the door side, that the doe can lay on and not be in the nest. This is a warm weather nest. In the winter we wrap the outside with more cardboard, paper bags, and or foam. In this picture you can see part of the door opening to...

We made our own and that is the exact size we have for our Silver Foxes. Trouble with the depth for me is trying to get a rabbit that decided to scrunch up in a corner. We plan to re-do our rabbitry with cages about 4 inches shorter in depth but longer so about the same floor space but also with...

If you were losing several in every kindle, I would say that you need to change things. One out of such a large kindle is often expected even if all the kits stay in the nest. Sounds like what you have mostly works and that is about the best you can do anytime. I will say I have drop nest boxes...

This is a common misconception. Even after I read an extensive book on raising rabbits, I did not want to believe it, but experience proved it true. In the 8+ years I have been raising rabbits, I have never yet seen a mama doe pull or intentionally push a baby kit out of the nest. They never...

Much depends on your breed and purpose and area. I raised New Zealand White meat rabbits to start, added Silver Fox to cross and for purebreds, culled out all the NZWs and crosses for Silver Fox only in an eight year time period. Through those years, I sold a few NZW couples and trios to...

REW = Red Eye White (or some say Ruby Eye White)

Looks like a Gold Tipped Steel to me. Some are darker and some more golden than others. Steel is a very weird gene.

Sounds like a steel, which is a dominate gene but can be hidden in a REW. Pictures are more helpful.

Thanks, Bunnylady. When I wrote that I was thinking I had it turned around and I do know that there are a few mandolin type breeds in 6 class. In a hurry and did not proof; it never does serve anyone well to type in a hurry. As to the change in body type for the Silver Fox, I got a strong...

I am a Silver Fox breeder and I have several thoughts. The first being that although Silver Fox is not consider one of the "rare breeds" they are few and far between depending on your area. Even fewer are good Silver Fox breeders. Silver Foxes had a sudden standard of perfection (SOP) change...

It depends so much on your set up. I live in the southeast so our winters usually do not have temperatures around 0 degrees for very long, but we had have winters that hung in the teens for a few weeks in many years. I breed all winter regardless and not at all in the summer. We have a kindling...

Thank you, @Bunnylady! This should be pinned at the top of the this forum!

@Bunnylady, I agree that broken is not completely impossible or ruled out; I did write "some certainty," perhaps I should have written "seems less likely." When I had brokens in my cross breedings it usually averaged 50% of colored rabbits, but those kindles did not have REWs, so I get the point...

I was going to say, it looks like one REW, 3 gold tipped steels (but I was teetering on that and I agree with @Bunnylady that they look like they could be chestnuts also, but then the sire is more golden for a GTS than we usually see too), and 2 solid blacks, although not absolutely sure on that...