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I had one break a toe--maybe be twisted it?--and lose the nail and part of her toe. As long as there is no infection, it heals and, as ugly as it looks to you, it is actually healing well from what I see. It is not really skinned but rather dead tissue that is going to come off soon.

She is having fetal giants http://taleoftailsrabbitry.blogspot.com/p/fetal-giants.html and the fact that she had them with her last three kindles in a row and losing all the rest, except for two...well, that would be three strikes and time to cull for me...at the very least I would not continue...

I am assuming the ones advocating a wooden floor have rabbits as pets only and/or are warning you about sore hocks. Wire .5" x 1" galvanized after weld is durable, allows rabbit waste to pass down through, and does not cause sore hocks in a vast majority of rabbits. I have a doe that came to me...

I have raised meat rabbits for seven years. I only had one rabbit that got ear mites and he got them twice. No other rabbit in neighboring cages nor my cats that played with him through the cages wires got them. I was told that some rabbits are just more susceptible, but if he had gotten them a...

As long as they are in good condition, not fat, I will free feed up to when they level out to eating the same amount I give an adult rabbit, which seems to be around 4-6 months on average.

@thewolf1039 Not heating pads! Warming pads that are specifically made for animals is what we use. Huge difference! A warming pad does just that, warms. You can place your hand on it and it does not get hot. A heating pad even on low gets too hot and are of materials that a rabbit can chew into...

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People ask about fancy diets for themselves all the time. I have articles published usually about once a year on the subject, but here is the big secret of weight loss, the essence of why diets that work do work whether or not you exercise and it will apply to any animal you ever own. Eat/feed...

I think it is always best to have one where gravity works for you. Stocking on top the fresh, they pull out the hay from the bottom and side. This allows the fresh to fall down to be eaten rather than leaves the oldest on the bottom to be covered with fresh.

I concur and when it dries it can turn dark golden tan to white! Totally normal.

At first I was trying to get past that your neighbor was living in a hutch! :lol: I have no doubt she will adapt. My concern is you already have had her on the ground with the chickens, which may not be a problem as to them getting along, but it could have exposed her to parasites and...

Not that you will need to put down wire in your situation, but I beg to differ about wire damaging rabbits' feet as was suggested above. Much depends on the wire, but I had a rabbit come to me with sore hocks and she healed up very nicely in my wire cage. We use a heavy gauge ½”x1” galvanized...

Why? A well built cage with the right wire flooring is not a dugeon of torture, as so people make them out to be. My rabbits see their cages as safe places. I even had one rabbit come to me with sore hocks and not only has her hocks healed up, but she was on wires as she healed. Is it...

You have months to learn before your doe will be ready to breed. A doe should be at least 6 months old, not that she cannot get pregnant earlier but it will stunt her growth and it is more likely that her first kindle will not survive.

@cassie That was 40 years ago, dear! I have no idea how often my cousin fed them. I just remember that all the bunnies lived and my aunt told me about the article because she was a subscriber and it validated what they had done. (And we did not have the Internet back then to debate it.) People...

At six weeks, they can survive dips to below freezing. When it gets around freezing, I would to give a rabbit at any age a nesting box with hay or straw, although I use warming pads mostly now.

My cousin raised rabbits and had a couple of really bad mothers. My aunt, her mother, raised Nubian goats for milk. All the kits of both kindles survived on Nubian raw goat's milk from birth. In fact, it was just a few months later that there was an article in Mother Earth News that goat milk...

@HuskerHens18 Don't feel bad. In the wild, rabbits are prey animals. It is just the way it is. Most kits do not make it to adulthood. As to overfeeding, a kit will gorge itself on its mother's milk to the point that its belly is tight and white. You should feed it at least twice a day, but if...

First of all, it is very hard for one kit to survive because it relies on the body heat of its siblings. Breeders have a difficult time keeping the body temperature regulated for a single kit even when brought indoors. Putting it back in the nest would be ideal IF there were siblings, but it...

Are you feeding her pellets also?