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1 - In my opinion, your header should be MUCH smaller. People don't come to a site to see your header, they come for the information you put underneath it. Your header takes up 1/3 of the page on my monitor, leaving only 2/3 for the actual information. If you can increase that to 4/5 of the...

A lot of female rabbits do get uterine cancer, yes. And you can usually prevent that cancer by either having the doe bred or spayed. But some bred does still get uterine cancer. The only way to prevent it entirely is to have the uterus removed via spaying. I'm not sure what age the doe...

I don't have a smaller kitchen scale yet, but I will be weighing the litter all together and dividing by eight, to get an average. That's good enough for my records, anyway! And like I said, the adults were smaller than typical meat rabbits, so these juveniles will be smaller too. I'm sure...

Wow! She really does have ALL ages. I bought eight 9-week olds. I had to turn down the seven 5-week olds because I'm now out of cage space - and with this blizzard blowing in I can't use my overflow space because it's not protected from the weather. She also has a litter of babies (I think...

I just found a Craigslist posting from a woman who has a rabbitry, but she's recovering from surgery and can't take care of them until she's recovered. Every rabbit - $4.00 each. She has all ages, and is only keeping a minimum of breeding stock to start back up with later. :D :D :D I'm going...

I have a French Angora, but she's new to me and I'm still learning about her. She's pregnant right now, so her coat is in no way as impressive as yours! I believe I'm caring for it properly. Brushing, removing debris, keeping it dry, etc. And I'm learning about diet, with pellets, hay, seeds...

Wow! I am avidly following this thread because although the largest thing I have right now is rabbits... SOMEDAY I will have cows. Someday. I love the explanation of how to skin, using the hammer and 4 wheeler. Excellent! I never would have thought of that myself, but boy does it look easier...

6-8 ounces from a single rabbit? Is that typical? I had no idea they could give that much at one time.

Awesome photos! Talk about your original "pillow pet"... Do you have plans for the fiber you spin? Anything special?

I thought I had bookmarked a page that told me the ideal age and weight for a rabbit to be at butcher time, but I can't find it. If I'm remembering correctly, it's around 8-10 weeks of age? But I can't remember the expected weight. (This would be for an "official" meat rabbit - Californian or...

I have been looking at nest boxes, I have an Angora due in about 10 days. But nest boxes come in all sorts of sizes, and all say that the box should be "big enough for the doe, but not a lot of extra room". GAH! What does that mean? Should she have just enough room to get in and stand still...

I'm so sorry that happened. How discouraging! Wishing you better success with your next litter.

I know. And I agree. But I didn't get her until just after this last breeding. The repeated breedings that early were someone else's idea and choice. :/ If it matters, she lost the previous three litters to unknown causes. One litter stillborn, the other two died within the first couple days...

So it seems it could be just pregnancy behavior? She wasn't like this before when I first got her, this is new behavior that started a few days ago. I'd like it if it stopped, hopefully it will when the kits are born. Anything I could be doing now to help her relax more around me and stop...

No, her fourth. But I've only owned her for two weeks, so I don't know what her behavior during previous pregnancies was.

I'm not sure what's going on in her mind, so I thought you experts could help interpret! One of my rabbits has started charging me when I put my hands in her pen. She charges right up and bumps whatever I'm holding (water bowl, etc) with her teeth. I don't think she's taking a bite, it feels...

I'm not familiar with the phrase "pack style animal" - would you explain, please?

Good for me to know, too. I want angoras, and my very first angora is due in 10 days, but don't have the cage space for a bunch of individually housed males. I thought I was going to be the weird one, and instead I'm normal! Well, as normal as I can be... :rolleyes:

I'm new to owning rabbits, and I have some *really* basic questions to ask! I'm hoping some of you have answers to these... How high can rabbits jump? (especially the larger breeds , like NZs and Californians) And how far can they jump horizontally in a single bound? How quickly do they dig...

OK, so if I use cardboard in a pinch, does it tend to get wet enough to need replaced? I'm ont sure how much liquid the straw that's in it would absorb, and how much might drip through. (From urine, I mean, not from weather.) A cardboard liner in a metal/wood box can be replaced without much...