Calling All Rabbit Nutters

[The Moonshiner]

Such pretty colors! I love the blue Dutch.

So you had a rabbit colony type setup? If I were to ever get into breeding like that I'd be interested in trying that.

Ya a few different ones at different times.
Space is the key. Area in general. multiple feeders, waterers, hides etc.
Also best to set it up and leave it. Adding, swapping etc. isn't always harmony.

 

[Kiki]

Craigslist

Has a million bunny ads near me.
I don't think people get bunnies fixed around here.

https://houston.craigslist.org/d/farm-garden-by-owner/search/grd?sort=priceasc&query=Rabbits
They all live in my quail type cages too.

 

[EverythingDucks]

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It's not one! Those are reserved for King

 

[ColtHandorf]

Yes, that’s how normal people keep them.

 

[Disheygirl]

Are you a real life rabbit nutter?

This is my first Floofer. I'm figuring out how to rabbit like a real nutter pretty good.

Kind of! I had them as a kid, and then got a male for my kids about four years ago. Decided he was lonely so I got a female and bonded them. Of course the week after he was neutered, she had kits (oops). So now I have six mini Rex. They are cute bunnies and when they’re babies...you’d die. If I could breed bunnies just for the babies, I would. The problem is that I then feel responsible for them and wouldn’t trust them to anyone else. An easy way to become overrun with rabbits. Their faces are SO smooshy as babies!

 

[The Moonshiner]

He said he free-ranged them, no? Which means they could potentially chew on things that weren’t purchased with kidneys. Or get chewed by something.

Yes completely free to go anywhere and do anything.
That brush pile was for real. I made a couple like that one and a smaller one. That's basically all I did for them.
I never fed or watered them but they did steel hay from the barn.
I had them for years like that. It was really quite fascinating to see what they did and how they interacted.
Unlike popular belief they are very social. I loved to go set on the porch at dusk and watch them come out and litter the yard grazing and playing.
They loved to play tag more then anything.

 

[ColtHandorf]

Yes completely free to go anywhere and do anything.
That brush pile was for real. I made a couple like that one and a smaller one. That's basically all I did for them.
I never fed or watered them but they did steel hay from the barn.
I had them for years like that. It was really quite fascinating to see what they did and how they interacted.
Unlike popular belief they are very social. I loved to go set on the porch at dusk and watch them come out and litter the yard grazing and playing.
They loved to play tag more then anything.

So domestic rabbits are more like the European ones that live in warrens and not our native cottontails. That’s cool.

 

[The Moonshiner]

So domestic rabbits are more like the European ones that live in warrens and not our native cottontails. That’s cool.

Domestic rabbits are European rabbits. That's what they domesticated.
We have very few cottontails here but sometimes they would cross paths. They can't and didn't interbreed and for the most part would not even interact.
One year there were three small cottontails that stayed with one of the groups but as they matured they moved on.
Mine formed loose groups. The males laid out territories and mostly stuck to them. The females moved where ever they wanted. Some stayed with one male. Others stayed for a period then moved. Rotating around. Others seemed to move often and weren't content anywhere long.
But the females made all the moves for the most part.

 

[ColtHandorf]

I knew they were bred from European stock but I figured they’d been domesticated so long they wouldn’t really behave the same way. It’s interesting that they can’t hybridize with cottontails.

 

[Sapphire Sebright]

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They literally sell sticks.
Dear goodness. This is foreign to me.