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Hi Dierdre!
We don't have bunny's right now. My lovely wife Tracy is working on her doctorate (Education) and when she's done we'll decide if we can get back into rabbits and chickens.
But I do have 10 years worth of rabbit info so I left my rabbitgeek website active and I like to...
Thanks! I use pine only for the shavings and I change them out 1st on day 10 then about every 4-5 days depending if it is warm or cold weather. You do have to watch babies eyes as they are opening and make sure they open ok. But this is true with any bedding. Personally I have used shavings...
Thanks, so far we did good, we lost power but they had it back on in about 10 minutes. Phew. Next storm please!!
I do have a humidity gauge.
The babies all have their eyes open now and their funky ears. I will try to get picks for ya all. SInce I am stuck home right now any way.
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I so hope you have wood and a fireplace or wood stove. If so, could you put the bator (and litters, if need be) near it and adjust the distance depending on temp?
We have enough firewood to sink a ship, that is the game plan. The chicks I have hatched are 2 weeks so they are easy...
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Part of it depends on the breed, for example my angora's would get uncomfortable at 80 and when I had english lops or large earred breeds around 90 is when I would worry.
It really depends on the humidity and shade, etc....
I use a swamp cooler in the summer if it is over 95 on the...
I go to the tile store and they let me pick through broken ones. I freeze mine too, it works soooo well. Course, we don't get very many hot days up here.
Well anytime you get a high calcium concentrate, rabbits will get red urine and yes alfalfa has a lot of calcium, I don't feed it because it is already in their pellets, I give mine grass hay.
High calcium can cause kidney stones as well.
There is something they put in sheetrock now to...
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Well,I can see that dmiravalle knows a lot about rabbits and is a wonderful person to have in this thread.
What I tell you about treating sore hocks may be outdated but here goes.Use Preparation H on the sore hocks.Cut a piece of sheet rock for the rabbit to rest on in it's cage.It...