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Actually, you might not see much evidence that they have nursed the first couple of days as the mother's milk does not really come in for two days. Is the shed in the shade? On hot days. the kits may be too warm in the nest with fur and might move out to be on top of the hay and be more spread...

As far as I know, all black rabbits have a lighter color on the underside of their feet. I raise Silver Fox and I am not seeing anything that says Fox to me in the picture.

That is a doe. However, the way you press can make a buck look like a doe or a doe look like a buck. I always check more than once.

Speaking of which, I read a post of someone who claimed to have kept a peanut alive for 8 weeks by fostering after the mother dried up and then bottle fed for several days. I guess it had a slightly more developed digestive system than most peanuts do, but right after he posted about it, it...

Yes, with very good eyesight or very good reading glasses. ;)

I usually know their sexes at two to three weeks and mark their ears with numbers, because I weigh each one about once a week starting at three weeks, but you can wait until they are weaned. Kind of depends how hands on you want to be and how you manage your rabbitry.

Actually, you can bred siblings in an attempt to lock in desirable traits, but you can also lock in some undesirable ones as well. I had a whoops! when we thought a doe was a buck and she was impregnated buy her brother(s). Not a problem. Many breeders prefer father to daughter, mother to son...

The chinchilla coat can be a bit brassy when younger, which usually molts out. They can also get pee-stained. Also, even if these were from New Zealand rabbits (which I would say maybe be true in part as they could likely be from cross breeding), "breed" depends on phenotype (how they look) not...

Health food stores or online.

If it is an infection or to prevent one, I personally would use a drop or two of 10 ppm colloidal silver in the eye.

For Independence Day, we processed six rabbits. Three were breeders being culled out of my program for various reasons and that meat was deboned last might and will be ground today. The other three were between 5 to 6.5 pounds and they went on the grill. The meat was quite tender and tasty!

@Pastor Dave I'll take your two cents. ;) My husband is the real cook at my house, especially when it comes to meat.

It means you could not confirm that she is pregnant...yet--I always assume that they are pregnant. Does do not have a magic due date either. They can kindle a few days early to over a week late. Keeping records helps you to learn about how each doe handles pregnancy, nesting, and kindling. I...

At least until the meat is cool to the touch or easier to cut. We keep some whole and some we cut up. You can also age the meat in a brine for a few days until rigor mortis passes to make it more tender. I would (and still do) l experiment with what works for us and how we prefer the meat to be.

We have have done it with and without the brine. Either way, we do cool/rest the meat before vacuum sealing and freezing. It depends more on how you plan to prepare it. Slow cooker or ground...why bother to brine? Grill, brine or marinate. We have not made jerky yet as I am not a fan of that...

Kits regulate their body temperatures on their own and move around to make themselves comfortable even while they are still blind. Kits move deeper into the nest covering themselves with fur when they are cold. Kits move out from the nest and away from the fur when they are too hot. Does do not...

I have a knack for discovering all kinds of health issues like small tumors and such things within animals, but I have not yet ever been able to confirm a pregnancy in any of my does until about a week before their due dates in the seven years I have been breeding rabbits. I really have not met...

@Bunnylady, I would want one of those t-shirts! In fact, I might just design one! I had another breeder tell me that she has had rabbits for 7 years and hoses down cages as well. In that time, she had two rabbits that did pretty much the same thing. I remember a friend when I was a child, who...

Every now and then a rabbit does something I have never seen any rabbit do before. I have been raising them for 7+ years and you would think I have seen about everything, but, no, there is always some new antic to try to shock the human and crazy was in my rabbitry this one day. I was cleaning...

Considering her condition when you got her, I think she did well to have the four alive and well! :) They should have some nice looking fuzz by now.