weight at 4 weeks...

[P.O. in MO]

It's terrible what they charge for hay at my local farm supply store. Their alfalfa is $14.50. I have a friend who has raises miniature horses and he buys a barnful of brome every year. last year for $4.25, so that's what I use. Most rabbit sites will say timothy is the best and that's because it has more fiber than brome which is the main purpose of feeding the hay to your rabbits. I have only been raising rabbits a year but I haven't had any digestive problems yet doing this. My breeders get 5 oz.of pellets a day but most of them have it polished off by morning and I think they would be hungry without the hay to get them to feeding time. They are all different and some eat more than others. But my rabbits always have hay to munch on. When I first started I was feeding alfalfa to the nursing mother and the grow outs but I decided I wasn't paying that much for hay.

From a rabbit website: (Pet rabbits)
There are two main types of hay, Grass Hay, and Legume Hay, Grass hay is the best type of hay for your bunny because it contains lots of nutrients, but not a lot of energy.
rabbits can get fat very easily.
Grass hay includes hays like Timothy Hay, Meadow Hay, Brome and Bermuda Grass.
Legume Hays include alfalfa hay, clover hay, beans, peas, and peanuts. Your rabbit will find these hays very tasty, but they are not very good for it because they contain so much energy. The average house rabbit will not be able to burn off all the energy they get from these hays, and they will get very fat.

Hope everyone had a good thanksgiving!

 

[Citylife]

I have 3 bucks and 7 does. I had a few does miss this last fall so it has messed with my breeding program a bit. Also, I have only seen one picture of you on a wanted sign. I say that's not to bad. LOL

 

[Fodderfeed]

My hubby did a neat thing he put worms boxes under the rabbit hutches the rabbits feed the worms and the worms give us some really nice dirt along with not having to clean up after the rabbits!

 

[VickieB]

I had my first buns to reach 5 pounds at 8 weeks. They were a small litter (she only had 4 and normally has 10 or 11). They were the first litter for the season, and I only put her in with the buck 1 time hoping she would have a smaller litter. I don't know if the small litter was due to the fact that I only put her in once with the buck (I've been doing this with my does for a while now and it really didn't seem to affect the size of the litter much before this litter, or after...) or if it was coming out of the hot season and the buck's sperm count might have been down. I suspect it had more to do with the latter.

The bunnies were born much larger than her other buns have been, and grew fast. There were 3 does and 1 buck. All 4 of them had the points that you see on the Altex. (The mother has those points too.) I weighed them at 8 weeks and they ranged from 5 pounds to 5 1/2 pounds.

I made two wonderful meals out of the buck but I'm keeping the does to use for breeders. Out of my original 4 does, their mother consistently produced larger buns than my other does (she's a larger rabbit too) and these babies look like they could do the same. Today I bred their mom again, this time with an Altex buck I got from Animal Mom. I'm really looking forward to seeing what her next litter will be like.