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Built a rabbit tractor for my grow outs. And man what a difference, those little bunnies are so happy in there. I’m thinking of building one for each of my breeders. They might have to live in the hutch during the winter but they would sure be happy in the tractors all summer.

Just to put the “20 chicks” into prospective. The original plan was to have SIX hens. Hahahaha. I’m pretty sure someone on here warned me that this was going to happen. Granted some of those 20 are from straight runs so some roosters are bound to be in there and I’m pretty sure we have a rooster...

Sorry just been busy with the warm weather. Trying to get the garden ready and planted, we have 20 more chickens in the brooder, apparently wives are addicted to chickens once they’ve seen one baby chick. Oh well she’s happy I’m happy I’ll build bigger coops if I have too. All the schools are...

The rabbits are going good and just added chickens for eggs to the homestead. Now I need to decide what’s next to add. What ever it is probably won’t be added until this fall or next spring more than likely it will be next year, but I’d like to get started on fencing and housing for said...

The lowest part is about 22inches off the ground. I built them into the wall so lowering them at this point would not be an easy task so hopefully they will work the way they are 🤞. My wife did make curtains for each cubicle too maybe that will deter them from using them as a hotel. I also added...

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We got our chickens and the coop already to go! We got straight run of some rare breeds I can’t remember what we got the wife knows all about the chickens and she got some maran hens too. We lost four marans in the first two days unfortunately. But she was quick to order more birds. Our goal was...

We didn’t get hardly any compared to a normal winter. I guess we got quite a bit up in the mountains. The snow pack is reporting normal anyways. I don’t know if I believe that report. We will see what happens this summer.

Well we are getting chickens to add to the family. We got a grab bag special of who knows what and a few rare breed that I don’t know what they are. My wife is going to be I charge of the chickens so she knows what she has coming. Should be fun

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Thanks. I don’t know what I’m gonna do with them yet but cat toys is a pretty good idea. I might use some for a nice winter hat something. I plan on just collecting them up until I have enough to start making stuff.

Sorry I haven’t had updates very regularly. Just been a crazy couple months. I butchered my first littler today. I’m not a fan of the hopper popper. I botched half of the dispatching and it was horrible. It’s not near as easy to use as it looks like in the videos. Maybe I need to mount it...

Thanks for the coffee, it’s processing day for my first litter of rabbits. I’m not sure where I went wrong but my rabbits are 14weeks today and only pushing 3.5 pounds I think one or two where almost 4 pounds but I don’t want to keep feeding them for weeks on end when my new litter will be here...

Closed up a lot of places here in Montana. I feel bad for all those jobs lost, my wife being of them. Me and the kids all have asthma so it’s a bit scary to be truthful. I think this could turn pretty sour pretty quick if something doesn’t change. People are in edge and a lot of them without...

Question. When do you guys process your rabbits. I’m pushing 14 weeks but they’re only 3.5 to 4 lbs

I have a blue otter and a blue.

We hopefully good news. I was able to get three fall offs with my two satin pure breeds. Wish my other doe wouldn’t have died a couple weeks ago or I might have two litters in the way. Now I have to wait months before I have another full breed satin to add to the breeders and she’s going to be...

Same thing happened to me two weeks ago. She slowed on eating one day and was gone the next. I don’t know what happened but she didn’t have any discharge or runny nose. Everything seemed normal other than her not eating and she wouldn’t come see me at the cage like normal.

Any tips on figuring out sex of young kits? I thought I could figure it out easy enough based on research and comparing with my adult rabbits. But they all but one look like females. One has a round hole down below but the rest seem to me to be slits. Which maybe I have all but one females but...