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    Advice on gestation calendar after questionable attempt breeding rabbits

    Yesterday I made my first attempt at breeding rabbits. I've got a 9-month old buck and two does, 10 and 11 months, all silver foxes. Yesterday was the first time any of them had been bred (maybe). I did morning and evening sessions with both does and the buck mounted several times, and did a...
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    Had a cotournix hen killed and dismembered IN THE CAGE

    A couple of mornings ago I went to check the birds and found a wing lying in the roll-out tray. The other wing was still inside the cage, along with some bits and pieces. The entire torso, feet, legs and head, were missing. All it left were the wings and scattered feathers. When I bought the...
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    Do roosters get mean as they age?

    I had to wait till my next hatching. These photos were taken at 21 or 22 days. The birds are jumbo browns from a line developed by James Marie farms of St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. The hen, at left, has a mottled breast. The roo, at right, has a dark orange breast. That off-color strip...
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    How to secure watering cup in rabbit cage?

    When I built the frame to hold my rabbit cages, I didn't know about the "zoomies," so I built it from ripped 2x4s. And the 2x2s I made are spindly enough that when the rabbits get the zoomies, the whole contraption rocks and tosses their cage cups off the cage wall, usually losing all their...
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    Do other hens peck at bald spots my roo caused?

    When I emptied the droppings tray from that cage this week, there were quite a few feathers in the poop. I've got four cages of birds and I noticed there were no feathers to speak of in the any of other three so it looks like I've got an ongoing feather-plucking problem. It was short-sighted...
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    Parasite transmission from quail to other animals?

    Anybody have an occurrence when they think their other animals might have got parasites from their quail? Specifically, cryptosporidia and giardia? Can quail be treated against either cryptosporidia or giardia? I ask this because I'm thinking if they cannot, then the quail have got to go.
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    Do other hens peck at bald spots my roo caused?

    Back in May I posted that I was having a roo that was getting too rough on his hens, plucking bare spots on their backs. I sent that roo to Camp Kenmore and gave the hens a couple of weeks to heal up. After two weeks I replaced him with a youngster about eight weeks old but not before I put an...
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    Okay to feed pears to rabbits?

    Strangely enough, for the last couple of mornings I've had about a half a dozen tiny wild cottontail rabbit kits that can't be more than two weeks old feasting on my fallen pears. I doubt their digestive systems is as delicate as a domestic rabbit's is, but it is funny to see wild rabbits 30...
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    Okay to feed pears to rabbits?

    I have a pear tree that the squirrels have had their way with and there are hundreds of immature pears (pearlings?) on the ground. Would these be okay to feed to my meat rabbits (in small portions)? I do give them bits of apple almost daily but these pears aren't ripe, so I wouldn't want to...
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    How to get guard dog puppy used to my animals?

    This might should have been posted in the general discussion forum, but here goes. I'm raising quail and rabbits in an urban back yard. They're all caged but come next spring I'm going to set up grow-out tractors for both, which will increase their exposure somewhat. I get nighttime visits...
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    What to do with aggressive silver fox rabbit doe?

    She gets all the hay she can eat (but none of mine seem to care much for timothy or alfalfa or orchard grass) and most days I give her dandelions (I mowed yesterday so today I was short on dandelions and went to my neighbor's yard this morning to 'steal' some). I keep straw so I might try some...
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    What to do with aggressive silver fox rabbit doe?

    Why, does he need to be clawed? [rimshot!] Just kidding. I'm not trying to be a smart-alec but what can a vet do? These are meat rabbits, my first rabbits of any sort that I bought home other than in a game bag, so I'm new to all this. I figure the vet will cost more than the doe did so it...
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    What to do with aggressive silver fox rabbit doe?

    I posted a couple of weeks ago about a rabbit doe that fainted when I was trying to remove her from her cage. By the next day she seemed perfectly normal, and continues to appear to be in fin health, but now she attacks me whenever I try to touch her. She rares up and lunges at me and bats...
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    Can quail tolerate -40c?

    Dunno about quail but -40°C = -40°F. It's the one and only temperature where the two scales match. This guy (in Montréal) claims his survived at -31°C. It got down to single digits °F here this past winter and my quail got along fine but my hatch rate plummeted.
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    What's been eating at this quail egg?

    I'm hoping one of you more experienced fellas might have seen this before and know what it was that broke into this egg. This is an odd-shaped and odd-colored egg for my (cotournix quail) flock (I think) because one of my roosters went psycho a couple of days ago and stressed-out the hens. I...
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