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    Rabbits!

    Flemish giants are gentle giants. Had a few and never a mean one. Even had some Flemish crosses.
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    Rabbits!

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    Rabbits!

    We breed and cross breed for fur colors. We process our own rabbits. The meat goes in the freezer and the hides go to a tannery. We use the hides for the wifes business. So pure strains are not really a huge factor in our rabbitry. We acquire culls and either butcher them out or breed them for a...
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    OK to feed hogs raw eggs?

    Post the recipe. Purina can stand a loss in revinue. I know the rabbit feed we bought in the green bags with the checker emblem always had mold in the bottom 1/3 of the bag.
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    Meat rabbits

    You can remove 1 wall of 3 of your cages and connect them together so you have 120" wide by 36" deep and build a frame under them and a roof the same size and connect them with the legs. Build nest box on back of the cages so you don't minimize the rabbits movement space. We feed Timothyhay...
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    Rabbits!

    Go to some rabbit shows. People are selling and sometimes giving away their culls. If all you want is meat rabbits who cares if it is a cull. We purchase a lot of culls because we raise rabbits for their meat and fur.
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    Limping Rabbit!

    You can try to align the bones (if it's broke) and get plaster cloth from hobby lobby, Michaels, or other craft store and put a cast on it. Might check to see if she ripped the nail off or her toes or if she is missing a toe because an animal got under the cage and ripped the digit off. If that...
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    New Zealand meat rabbits breeding/genetics question

    I am assuming because the tissue around the opening is red and irritated that it still has blood flow and will heal over time.
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    New Zealand meat rabbits breeding/genetics question

    Bunny Lady. We acquired 3 mini Rex rabbits about 3 weeks ago and this past weekend one of the does had trouble breathing. Wife secluded her and was gonna put her down, but I decided to check her more closely and found a bot fly larva on her neck about ready to drop out. Apon removing the...
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    Rabbit thread!!!

    I build my nest boxes on the back of the cages. I connect 4) 30" X 30" or 30" X 36" havahart cages together and build a wood frame under them that sticks out 12" from the back side of the wire cages. Apon that I build a 30" X 12" X 11" nest boxes.
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    Raising our New Zealand Meat Rabbits *Start to finish - Birth to processing* Possible Graphic pics*

    This website has been helpful for us in treating rabbits. https://riseandshinerabbitry.com/?s=Medicinal+herbs&submit=Search
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    Raising our New Zealand Meat Rabbits *Start to finish - Birth to processing* Possible Graphic pics*

    If I may make a suggestion on pens setup that I build. I use 4 of the 24"X24" havahart cages connected together build a frame for it to sit on that extends 12" beyond the back (24"X 36") the extension is for nest box. I build a roof on top. If you ever have to move the hutches you can remove the...
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    New Zealand meat rabbits breeding/genetics question

    I bred a broken red buck to a rew and all the offspring were rew, black, and broken black. Bred the same buck to a black doe and got red, black, broken black, rew, broken red, and red Dalmatian (as I call it) and black Dalmatian.
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    new Zealand rabbit genetic question

    Thank you.
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    new Zealand rabbit genetic question

    Bunny Lady I have a New Zealand red doe and a broken red buck that I crossed, and one of the doe kits produced is a broken red with greyish seal points, all her red offspring have the same markings. [/IMG] This is the female
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