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  1. Hansbear

    Rabbits!

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

    Rabbits!

  3. Hansbear

    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...
  4. Hansbear

    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.
  5. Hansbear

    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...
  6. Hansbear

    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.
  7. Hansbear

    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...
  8. Hansbear

    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.
  9. Hansbear

    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...
  10. Hansbear

    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.
  11. Hansbear

    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
  12. Hansbear

    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...
  13. Hansbear

    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.
  14. Hansbear

    new Zealand rabbit genetic question

    Thank you.
  15. Hansbear

    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
  16. Hansbear

    Rabbit thread!!!

    the gray and white is called Broken Blue.
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