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They'll be alright. I have just four outdoors in a wood hutch in the snow all day today... Doing great, too. Mama's PO'd but the kits could not care less.

It could be they are coming into their hormones and like teenagers need their space. When they are out of the cage they are on neuteral ground. When they are in the cage they are competing for territory. That is why colony rabbits have such a hard time working out. They will continue to use...

Hooray! :D I looove big fat babes!

So the reason for the law is a consumer protection law... If you cant see where they are raised they need to be inspected. However... Meat, fiber and breeding animals are exempt.

Hmm. Guess I heard it wrong then! Double checked and you are right. :P Still good to know and States and cities often have their own laws.

Well, the pet sales thing is nation wide federal law. If you sell $500 of pet rabbit sàles or more you need to be licensed. In Ohio meat rabbit sales are almost unregulated!

Be careful selling pet rabbits. This is big news these days on the meat rabbit pages but an Indiana couple who raised and sold rabbits as pets recently got fined something like $100,000 for not being licensed. And if you sell $500+/ yr as pets it is federal law you be licensed for it. Meat is...

YOU CAN DO IT! Processing rabbits is SOOOO much easier than chickens... Especially young rabbits.... There IS a resting period. But if you slow cook it for a few hours nobody will know. ;D Mmmm.... Slow cooked chipotle bbq pulled rabbit sandwiches, anyone? I have a rescue in my herd too...

Angel, there ARE natural tanning methods. Most of them require rubbing some condition of salts, oils and tanning based plants into the hide and the simple fact is that it takes forever and you will spend 30 hours tanning a hide that is worth about $5. One of the popular methods for example is...

TW, I sell under the table to freinds in a medevial reenactment association that I am part of. Angel, hide tanning is a lot of elbow grease. Tanning them is easy, you throw them in a bucket of water, salt and either battery acid or alum and wait a couple weeks. Peel the flesh off, then toss em...

TXcarl; Slow cook or oven roast low and slow with some apple juice, red wine, olive oil, garlic, salt, pepper and paprika! Stuff the body cavity with sage and onion dressing like a turkey beforehand. Mmmmm.... Makes me drool to think about it! Gent, I have just been getting into tanning. I...

Angel, I have a rex I cross with NZW. You'd never know that the white kits aren't high quality NZW and the blacks weren't NZB. The mom (rex) is only 8lbs but these kits grow just as fast and sometimes faster than their purebred counterparts. Crossing NZW/Cali is very popular for similar reasons.

Oh! I an answer this one! Altex is a terminal cross much like a Cornish cross. They are a mix between 3 breeds and I think they are champagne d'argente, flemmish giant and Californian. Much like a CX they grow very big very fast as they are a four way cross that promotes hybrid vigor. Basically...

Ours have a standing three strikes rule. If they fail at three litters in a row that is three strikes and they are out of the herd, regardless of age etc. Two fails in a row with one successful litter is just one strike, but if that becomes consistant (happens 3 times) they are also out...

Yay, progress! I just had two first time moms in a row flop on caring for their first litters. Pretty bummer.

I tend to process mine at 10-12 weeks. I have some people who prefer a younger, smaller carcass so I aim for 4lbs at 10 weeks... Sometimes I hit, in the dead of winter like this I tend not to so I try to keep them for a little extra time. However I also have crazy good dressage ratios. I have...

As it turns out my "black" kits from my muttXNZW litter have a brown patch behind their head that is agouti (black, brown tips), so I am thinking I will be seein more gold tipped steels once they develop their coats fully. Kind of disappointing if that's the case. It will mean both my NZWs...

Bee, I have heard from several NZR breeders who threw in other colors for funsies that they got a muddy mix as well, so it's not unreasonable for you to think that.

So... What I said was totally accurate except for the bit where I said I wasn't sure about my info. 9_9 Also, your info on the genetic colors of rabbits... Conveniently is exactly the same exact things used in dog coat genetics and so if I'd fallen back on my dog coat genetic knowledge to...

Bunny lady, are you saying that a rabbit that doesn't carry albino will produce albino kits? Because that info came from your own data provided in another thread. Or that albinos don't carry patterns that can be expressed when bred to other colors? I know for a fact that my pedigree info is...