I am in Northeast Mississippi. Temps average 90-100 degrees the last few weeks. Our humidity is high about 60++ percent, we are close to the water. We have...
Guineas are something you eather LOVE or HATE, and i happen to be one that LOVES them, we had a flock of between 35 and 50 free rangeing on our farm back in...
It's been a few months since putting the rabbits in a larger kennel without wire on the ground and the most mature group in Matrix 1 has 3 burrows so far. One...
sounds like your well on your way, once the innitial nest in each burrow is used they will continue makeing other tunnels and the main tunnle will stay open,...
AAhhh, so what I will see is an open tunnel and they will close it up closer to the nest??? How do the babies BREATHE??? I had thought about burying the pipe I...
how much room is in each pen? honestly i am not the EXPERT in that i HAVE my own warren at this time but i have done alot of research both on our domestic...
Yes, I read that book. It was wonderful. He had a ton more room for the rabbits than I do for sure! And I remeber he said rabbits didn't poo in their...
i wonder if his observations about them not useing the burrows for a latrine has to do with the differince between a Burrow and a Nest box? i have NO IDEA but...
I think I have decided to move my 5 rabbits from the stall in the barn to the 30' x 30' pen outside. They will have more space there and trying to keep the...
This is the area I will be moving them to, minus the dog! http://community.webshots.com/photo/27464465/1103103674033740259NhBgmJ> The tree is a big mulberry...
. They will ... Rabbits and chickens co-habit fine, BUT, if there are young bunnies, they get snapped up as soon as the new mother rabbit leaves the nest....
that looks like a good enclosure and they will dig their burrows soon enough, the rabbits will be fine as long as the pen is secure, and nothing can get in to...
i would make a good coverd area to keep the snow off the ground where you can put the feeders and such, that way the rabbits have a refuge also if you get...
I'm not a chicken expert but my firend who is temporarily staying here says that once a chicken knows it can go in an area (eg the 30x30 area) they will always...
What size is the fencing wire? babies will go thru most stuff. You may have to add smaller wire to the bottom 1 1/2 to 2 feet. Looks nice though. They...
... its a good idea to have the rabbit food and the chicken food at opposit ends of the feeding shelter i would think just to give everyone space Mine all...
Hi all, Well I doubt I will ever actually try this but I was looking at some pics for a project and I got curious... So far, I think the only colony situations...
With appropriate litter training I could see it...MAYBE. But it's awful hard to bunnyproof a house for adults; adding in the hormonal nesting instinct and the...
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Tried it the first winter, now the closest thing that my rabbits get to indoors is the garage, unless I'm socializing them individually with my kids. I would...
a couple does could POSSIBLY be potty trained to use a litter box and then have their own nest boxes, but the kits and the buck are a TOTALLY differint story,...
I'd like to try an indoor/outdoor dog kennel idea for the rabbits so hopefully just food, water, and babies indoors and adults hopefully mostly outdoors except...
Hi all, Stumbled upon this group searching for more rabbit raising sites....I lurked a few hours and thought this was a REALLY great idea! We are in central IL...
Hey Cathie!! Good to see you here! I met you at the last meeting for the bully breed club! There is a guy not too far from me who has been raising rabbits for...
i would say useing pens of about 10x20 feet or 20x20 feet and haveing three to four does plus a buck would be about right then you can have multiple groupings...
There is an out of print book called THE PRIVATE LIFE OF THE RABBIT by Lockley. They had set up acre large areas for study of the rabbit. If you can get it,...
Hi Andrea, Well my experience with the snow... we had over 12 inches this past winter (I took a ruler out and stuck it on top of the rabbit hutch where the...
Hey! That looks really nice... wish I could give my rabbits something like that! (In the new old house, I will, yay!) What I would do is extend the roof of the...
About how do they dig warrens... front paws! Watch any rabbit in the snow and you'll see what I mean. I take my rabbits out of their hutches to dig in the snow...
It's not a matter of choking; it's a matter of indigestibility. When/if something with lots of starch (like corn) manages to make it allll the way through the...
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