Howdy from Bartlesville, Oklahoma, We need a male rabbit for breeding our New Zealand does. Prefer a New Zealand, Californian, or a cross of those 2 breeds....
That sounds like a good idea. I think I will have to get an air rifle. Thank you. ... but ... rain ... before ... lid) and ... hutch ... trash ... they ... ...
I'm not Nathan but I'll tell you how I've been doing things. I've had a colony for about three years now. I keep hay in front of them 24x7. Mice and...
Leslie, Thank you so much for your detailed account. I think I am going to try to deal with our rat problem and you really helped in that area. Thanks so ...
hi group, I joined last night. I'm totally new to rabbits but have been interested for a long time... in raising a small colony for meat. We finally are in a...
Hi Kim, and welcome to the group! ... It's not that they try to escape, it's that they prefer to burrow against something, like the bottom of a fence or a...
We used plastic barrels cut in half. Put a hole in one half and set them out. A couple were put back to back. Funny they made a burrow to connect the two...
Leslie, Thanks for answering my questions perfectly! I have the general idea (and thanks to your blog for "visual") down. :) As far as predators-- the ones...
rats will cause a problem for rabbits, both with disease and with wounds and eating the kits,  i would limit the amount of grain/pellet feed left in the...
Hello All. I'm wondering about old tree stumps. My thought was that these would provide a good starting place for rabbits to burrow in/around given half a...
anything they can get in or under or next too will likely be used to start their burrow, so tree stumps would be the same i would guess, all my rabbtis...
I am very interested in raising my rabbits in a colony, but I am not so excited about them digging to freedom. Nor am I particularly excited about them...
any time you have a colony you wont know whos litters are whos anyway,  its not really that difficult to keep them from digging out,  if you want to...
Hi, I had problems with rats. I ended up resorting to using poison because absolutely nothing else was working. I removed the food each evening and put it...
it sounds like he has a line and makes a big "TO DO" over nothing, they are just meat rabbits like any other, the whole bit about being "bred genetically...
Actually, what he's bred for is a high resistance to coccidial infection. Valuable trait if you want to colony raise or graze. I've seen exactly ONE long...
well that would be something differint, it would have been nice if there was actuall information on what he has other than a quick snippit of a paragraph, ...
I've had my colony for about three years now and so far (knock on wood) no major problems. I had ringworm on some ears once, but no Cocci, no ear mites,...
We just got rabbits in September and put some in an enclosure and some in cages. As a few of the rabbits we aquired got big enough I butchered them. Did...
Linda,  I am a veterinary hospital manager, & I asked my doctor if winter weather would kill the coccidiosis. He said it is very unlikely.  It is very...
Hello Group, I recently decided to try and raise rabbits. I stumbled on the "colony system" and it seemed like a good idea. I really don't know what I am ...
Mark, I am not sure what you mean by a straw hutch. But 14 rabbits in a 70 square foot area is a lot of rabbits for such a small area. I would not recommend...
... in a 70 square foot area is a lot of rabbits for such a small area. Do you think 14 rabbits is too much just for the hutch if they can play in the 4000 sq...
Hi, I'm new and my name is Marian. I've been raising meat rabbits for a couple of years now and finally got them in an inside colony setting. I'm really...
Hi Marian,  I am afraid I am new myself, and can not really answer your question. I have cage raised rabbits for ages, but have always been interested in...
Hi Frank, Well, cutting holes in the newly made chicken coop/bunny barn would be frowned on here. Especially since I lined the whole floor underneath with...
There seems to be a real upswing in interest in raising meat on a small scale around here (Vermont). That was my original intent when I started looking around...
A farmer once told me that the poison for rats works best if it is in a place where the rats drink water. Just a thought. I used a product called "Bar Bait"....
My colony is on dirt so mine burrow, but I've read from the rabbit group on HomesteadingToday.com that folks who have problems with kits getting out of the...
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