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more pictures tommorow of the new pasture... This is the pics from day 1... It got dark today before I could take day 2 pics..

42x36 with about a 1x36 divider and a round hole cut in it so they can have a nest/burrow area. I put a solid floor on it when its close to kindling and add lots of straw, leaves etc and let the doe pick what she wants. Its usually leaves n straw.

It's not like I'm taking it away for 24 hours at a time :) In the summer months the rabbits get water 3-4 times a day with ice, in the fall 1-2 times a day, winter time 3 times a day. Depending on when I plan on processing, missing 1 watering won't stress them or cause any issues. Rabbits...

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due to the 1 large single kit I would cull her. Sometimes an undropped kit or kits can mummify in utero and make the doe sterile. JMHO.

well, it is easier to feed 10-12 during the non breeding months than 60 or 70 :) I am so excited though, I found somebody with a big 45 horse John Deere to come out and clear out a couple of acres. By this next thursday I'll be moving grazing pens and planting clover/alfalfa mix!!!!!!!!!!

I take the water dish out the night before for this reason! I learned the hard way :)

I cut my herd (rabbit herd? Demon Spawn?) back in the fall so I don't have as many mouths to feed. I know it sounds harsh, but first time mothers I expect to loose a good amount of kits, but by their 2nd liter they usually have it down. Since I've switched to mostly Cals my mortality rates...

it's easier to clean them without as much of a chance of contaminating the meat if you cut the wrong bits on accident :) As far as the adrenaline goes, I disagree, most things I put down, hunt or harvest never knows what happens. That's just the humane way of doing things.

I've been doing this off and on since about 2000, Now I live in Michigan and it gets cold here.. Unless I had a barn setup versus my hutch setup I may keep breeding through out the winter, but I generally rest my does from November through February. This means 3-4 months of feeding the horde...

We eat them. Any recipe you can make with chicken, you can use rabbit meat instead. There are 7 of us here at home, and instead of going through 10lbs of chicken breast a week, we can go through 10lbs of home raised rabbit :)

10 breeders, 2 bucks and depending on breeding.......... lotsa lotsa babies... Cutting down from 30 breeding does! At least till spring time when I can plant some more alfalfa

Half of my hutches.. Our rabbit clearing in the woods plus a baldy baby The rabbit trail where we house more of our Buns..

I wean between 5-6 weeks old.. but I've had does that I had to seperate kits from at 4 weeks with no bad results. Kits start imitating momma at the 3 week point, and by 4 weeks mostly has it. I rebreed a doe when her liter is between 6-7 weeks old soo..................

hutches are 2x3, the larger grow outs are 4.5x3

I raise cals, and silver fox.. and I cross both for my meat and pelt needs... ;)

for "pet food" a dressed rabbit is between 10-15 dollars depending on weight.

25 breeding does, 1 proven buck, 2 junior bucks one of which accidentally proved his worth :)