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    emaciated rabbits with possible ear mites! advice needed please

    Cleaning her eyes with just warm water a couple times a day has worked good! were she had the soars is a little bald but healing fine!!! Also they are gaining weight!
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    emaciated rabbits with possible ear mites! advice needed please

    Thank you, they now have perfect poo, and they don't run from me when I approach them now! Just the polish lop had eye crusties, when I cleaned them she had soars there so I don't know how long they were there, but she had tiny crusties again today that I cleaned promptly,i think she enjoys when...
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    emaciated rabbits with possible ear mites! advice needed please

    thank you, My suspicion is she was feeding a lot of carrots and maybe scraps or too much veggies, there poo is quite soft and rusty colored, I gave them mostly coastal hay that they ran from at first, and only a little bit of pellet food. Also the mineral block I only let them taste it a little...
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    emaciated rabbits with possible ear mites! advice needed please

    Ok so yesterday I got in touch with a woman who had rabbits for sale, 4 of them and she told me the 2 Flemish were small for the breed but they are still kind of young so I wasn't to concerned, so we decided to trade her rabbits for some of my hens. She arrived at my house with the rabbits just...
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    How on earth do I plug up Rat holes in a stone building in the middle of winter?

    I have tried everything and what worked for the longest is putting steel wool in the hole and then expanding insulation on top of that! but the rats will make a new route to were they want to go!!!! they sell T-rex traps that are so much better than the wooden mouse traps but im too afraid my...
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    20 HENS and no eggs in over 3 months

    I only have 10 hens left but they now lay 4-5 eggs a week each!!!! YAY!
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    Raising our New Zealand Meat Rabbits *Start to finish - Birth to processing* Possible Graphic pics*

    thank you for your response I was going to wait until they were 8 months but 6 is good with me! I have a husband and 3 children so we eat a lot, that's why I need big litters! I will be getting 2 bucks at thanks giving week that are N.Z. I'm so excited, they are gorgeous!
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    Raising our New Zealand Meat Rabbits *Start to finish - Birth to processing* Possible Graphic pics*

    hello all!! I am starting out with the N.Z. the 3 does I have are 5 months old today and my question I know has already been answered but I forgot and cant read through the entire thread again so I apologize, how old do my girls need to be to breed them? Also I don't have a N.Z. male yet, but I...
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    no eggs

    normally hard and full means they ate good! in the mornings there crops should be empty.now if there crops are still full in the morning before they eat, id be concerned, so check before they eat!!
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    no eggs

    GREAT!!! keep the vitamins going! She is beautiful!
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    Egg Eating Chicken and I am out of ideas

    i do ferment feed, its worth the time and only takes a couple minutes a day once u learn! but I mix enough pepper to make the feed rusty colored 1 time a month
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    Egg Eating Chicken and I am out of ideas

    I also use pumpkin to worm! unless you get chickens that have a lot of worms already it seems to work well as preventive!
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    Egg Eating Chicken and I am out of ideas

    Cash money some people are not worth wasting time to try and reason with! A lot of my friends don't understand how I can raise rabbits ducks turkeys and pigs also for slaughter. It depends on how you were raised I suppose, but the thing is people need to respect everyones decision on the issue...
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    need advice

    I am having the same problem over 20 hens, all over 9 months old, not eating eggs not hiding eggs just not laying any in 3 months!
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    no eggs

    please keep me posted!
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