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Sorry I missed this! At three weeks I would not give them milk replacer. I have never had good luck with goat milk either. I'd just give them whatever you were feeding the mother, plus maybe an alfalfa cube for them to nibble on for added calcium. Oats are good too, but add them slowly and...

I raise mostly meatmutts, but standard chinchilla rabbits keep my rabbitry bills paid. They are laid back and calm, enjoy attention, don't require near as much feed to get them to butcher weight as Newzealands, have great meat to bone ratio and high quality pelts. I don't know about where you...

Yes. Developed by Texas A&M for improved heat resistance.

A whole half might be a little excessive for your little bunnies. You don't want to create little bunny diabetics. I only give my big girls a quarter... Less if a slice of apple or sweet potato is on the menu too.

No bananas in Scranton PA!

I have a Phoebe too! She is a Standard Chinchilla/TAMUK NZ doe. :bunny

Of course! I'll give you at least three weeks notice.

I have family near Nashville. If you are seriously interested in Polish I'd be happy to meet up with you and gift you a trio. I don't have plans to visit until next spring though.

(((((HUGS))))) I am so, so sorry that you had to go through that. I don't have much experience with dwarf breeds, but it is my understanding that this is an unavoidable common occurrence. Don't beat yourself up, and don't give up on rabbits... It is very clear how much your rabbits mean to...

Crap... I just saw this. Update?

Oops. :hide Mine can smell when I enter the rabbit yard with one... The yard will go from perfectly silent to a frenzy of cage door rattling and bunnies hopping back and forth at he front of their hutches impatiently begging for a slice. I have managed to turn several mean, aggressive bunnies...

I have hard time with it every single time... But the reason I started raising my own animals for meat in the first place was because it just seems so wrong to me how most meat animals are treated like commodities and not given the love and respect that a living, breathing creation of God who's...

Yay! :celebrate:weee:yesss::highfive:

Also, find out when your city treats their water. They usually keep a regular schedule. I figured out the hard way that my rabbits did not handle freshly treated city water well... Either they would drink it and get sick or die, or they wouldn't drink it at all for the first three days after...

Maybe not if their mother was not eating it. I feed my does a diverse diet and their kits just eat whatever I feed her. I've never had any problems. If does eat a diverse diet while pregnant and nursing, the kits generally don't have many issues with a diverse diet.

I use Pedialyte. I buy it by the case at Sam's Club. I mix it 1-2 cups per gallon.

I would continue with whatever you have left of your corrid cycle and add probiotics. If heat is an issue, maybe add electrolytes too. When It got really hot here all my rabbits started eating less and a few got pretty lean looking. When I started giving bits of banana and watermelon as...

Maybe a combo of corid without probiotics and gastro-stress from weaning/transition to solid food?

Did you make any changes in feed after you started the corid treatment?

I've had cases where where a baby just fails to thrive and his litter mates outpace him and push the weak one away from the food. Was he on the runty side? How old was it? I have also observed that in large litters (more kits than nips), even if there are no obvious runts to begin with, if...