Rabbits!

[R3dnck]

cross road rabbittry is where I got my new Zealand white s they are all natural. No medicine or bad stuff

I was raising rabbits for meat and profit but now I have moved into profit and for pets lol I did have 5 registered dutch a couple of flop ears and a new Zealand white but I thinned my herd

 

[Bunnylady]

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A rabbit water bottle is designed to hold water. It has a lot of little nooks and crannies where bacteria can grow, that will only be cleaned out with sterilizing solutions because it's difficult to get to them physically (the tube, for example, has multiple balls in it). Yes, you can get bacteria and algae growing in water in a water bottle, but they are usually harmless. Milk has proteins and sugars that will foster the growth of different bacteria, which may be a sort that you'd rather not introduce into a rabbit's digestive system.

If you read the label, liquid milk supplements usually include the instruction to keep opened containers covered and refrigerated, and to discard a container that has been open after a few days even when stored like that. Bacteria will grow in the milk, even in a refrigerator; they just grow more slowly at the cooler temperature.

Milk replacer comes in a powdered form; you could mix it in a dish with dry, rolled oats if you particularly want to feed it to your doe.

 

[Bunnylady]

Quote: Where did you get your rabbits registered?

 

[noble]

A rabbit water bottle is designed to hold water. It has a lot of little nooks and crannies where bacteria can grow, that will only be cleaned out with sterilizing solutions because it's difficult to  get to them physically (the tube, for example, has multiple balls in it). Yes, you can get bacteria and algae growing in water in a water bottle, but they are usually harmless. Milk has proteins and sugars that will foster the growth of different bacteria, which may be a sort that you'd rather not introduce into a rabbit's digestive system.

If you read the label, liquid milk supplements usually include the instruction to keep opened containers covered and refrigerated, and to discard a container that has been open after a few days even when stored like that. Bacteria will grow in the milk, even in a refrigerator; they just grow more slowly at the cooler temperature.

Milk replacer comes in a powdered form; you could mix it in a dish with dry, rolled oats if you particularly want to feed it to your doe.

thank u I will change it immediately.

 

[R3dnck]

Where did you get your rabbits registered?

https://www.arba.net/registrars.htm you have to have someone tattoo a registration number in one of there ears, there paperwork has family history as well, it raises the price when you sell plus you get a rep for well maintained rabbits because you know there history

 

[Bunnylady]

The registration number is not tattooed in the ear, only the registrar's mark - which looks like a R with a circle drawn around it. Registration is only done after a rabbit is at least 6 months old; most people sell most rabbits younger than that. Registration does not increase the rabbit's value; it just indicates that the rabbit is free of disqualifications at the time of registration (though it does give the ARBA a permanent record of the rabbit). And unless you sell the registered rabbit to someone who is also a member of the ARBA and send a transfer of ownership (along with the necessary fee) to the ARBA, the registration is technically null and void when you sell the rabbit - so it is, in effect, an unregistered rabbit once you sell it. Registration really only matters to people who are actively showing; after all, you can't "grand" a rabbit that isn't registered. Especially in a breed like the Dutch, where so many of the DQ's relate to markings, registration of the parents means next to nothing as regarding the quality of the kits being produced - you could breed two grand champions together and get nothing that was even showable.

 

[Wyandottes7]

The registration number is not tattooed in the ear, only the registrar's mark - which looks like a R with a circle drawn around it. Registration is only done after a rabbit is at least 6 months old; most people sell most rabbits younger than that. Registration does not increase the rabbit's value; it just indicates that the rabbit is free of disqualifications at the time of registration (though it does give the ARBA a permanent record of the rabbit). And unless you sell the registered rabbit to someone who is also a member of the ARBA and send a transfer of ownership (along with the necessary fee) to the ARBA, the registration is technically null and void when you sell the rabbit - so it is, in effect, an unregistered rabbit once you sell it. Registration really only matters to people who are actively showing; after all, you can't "grand" a rabbit that isn't registered. Especially in a breed like the Dutch, where so many of the DQ's relate to markings, registration of the parents means next to nothing as regarding the quality of the kits being produced - you could breed two grand champions together and get nothing that was even showable.

(not to start an argument) I disagree with that bolded statement. Registrars have the option of tattooing the registration number or the R symbol in the rabbits ear. I have registered four rabbits so far. Of those four, two of them had the R symbol put in the ear and the other two were tattooed with the registration number.

Whether registration increases the value of a rabbit or not varies from person to person. It can show that your rabbit is free of disqualifications (though of course, as you mentioned, that can change). Registration often shows consistency in a line, especially if you try to get red, white, and blue seals (my personal goal for my rabbits). It also shows that you keep records on the rabbits since a pedigree is required for registration (though of course pedigrees can be falsified, I suppose).

 

[Bunnylady]

At one time, all registration numbers were tattooed in the rabbits' ears, but with so many popular small breeds, it can be hard to get a number that long in a little ear. The symbol was introduced to offset that problem (since nobody really uses that number anyway), and to make it easier on the registrar (since they don't have to try to keep track of so many die). The die itself has had some issues, but most registrars use it anyway (I haven't seen a rabbit with the number in its ear in over a decade).

But oh, yes, pedigrees can be falsified. I have received pedigrees with things on them that I knew couldn't be true, though whether they were errors or attempts at deception I was in no place to say.

The red, white and blue registration is an admirable goal, though with some breeds, it may not mean that much. If you are breeding, say, Florida Whites; you have one color, a two-pound size range, and nearly nothing in the way of DQ's (well, you could have an animal that was over- or under-sized, or with a missing body part). Unless the animal was so far off in type that it was almost unrecognizable (and therefore "unworthy of registration"), it could be registered, but that wouldn't mean it had any business even getting close to a show table. At the other end of the spectrum are the "marked" breeds, where such a registration would be nearly impossible. For many years, I have bred Harlequins, and other breeders have told me that my rate of one showable baby out of every 10 or 15 born was actually unusually good. If I only bred registered rabbits, I would very rapidly run out of rabbits to breed, because the registered ones could very well "age out" without ever producing a replacement that could be registered.

 

[tracyjg]

She didn't drink the milk anyway I throw it out. We had a big any problem in the pen last night. Is there an Easyer way to deal with issues I was up tell 3 am cleaning coop and trying not to allow my partner to spay insecticide around kits. It was hard to keep bedding a fur in nest.

 

[tracyjg]

My home is 80 room temp way to hot.