Recent content by Jadette

Here they are at day 7!

Thank you! I actually decided to keep grandma in with the mom and the kits and all is well. If anything, both mom and grandma are more relaxed now that they're all together and I see a lot more grooming between the two of them. Sometimes it's just good to let things be and the rabbits just seem...

I have a doe that have spent her entire life living in a large 4x4 double decker hutch with her dam(16 sq feet of space on each level). They get along fine, but the mom will sometimes chase away her daughter out of the blue. No fights involving scratching or biting. Just aggravated chasing. I...

Love hearing happy endings like this!

How tall is the divider? It's crazy how nimble rabbits can be. My lionhead jumped over a 3 foot barrier parkour style by bouncing off the wall and then over the divider. They can also try to bite each other through the gate. I have some buns with scars on their noses and mouths to show for it...

Some of my does naturally refuse to nurse their kits around 4 weeks. I have seen no difference in the health and development of my kits when they were weaned at 4 weeks, 6 weeks, or 8 weeks. I think your kits will be fine as long as they are eating hay and pellets with no issues.

You'll have to understand genetics to answer your questions. Here's a good article on breeding tricolor lops (which is a broken harlequin) https://gardenshedbunnies.weebly.com/breeding-tricolors.html Magpie's are just harlequins that carry the the chinchilla gene in the C locus. Here's another...

Orange is black based (B_D_), so there is a chance of getting black lops whn combined with a squirrel (which is just a blue chinchilla). Most likely will get opals though. Really depends on what they're carrying recessively though. You can play with the odds with this genetic calculator...

After posting about your buck with pants on, how could you not post a pic!? :p

Lucky you! My rabbits are not as crazy for pellets as most other buns are. They are spoiled with all the wheatgrass and edible plants in my garden and would rather hang out in the veggie garden than return to their hutch for pellets! And I know what you mean about the Houdinis being a PITA! I...

Or is the answer that they don't get exercise? I used to let my does out together to run around in a ~600 sq feet area that I had dedicated in my yard for my rabbitry for a few hours, and then let my bucks out together afterwards. But as my herd has grown, I'm getting certain does not getting...

I use Manna Pro Sho because it's available to me through Tractor Supply. I always check the date on the bag though and will pass if it's more than 3 months old.

I don't like bonding my unfixed bucks with does - even when the doe is fixed. It's just constant chasing, humping and spraying on the doe that I think is not fair to the doe. Just realized this is a really old thread.

Since BEWs are VV, that would mean 100% of their offspring would be vienna carriers or marked, correct? And breeders should be making a note of this when they sell the kits? It would be frustrating for me to buy a rabbit from a breeder, get the pedigree and see that one of the parents was a...

Just want to throw my 2 cents in. A pedigree for me is important from a pure academic perspective. I like to know the history of my pets, even if I do not intend on breeding them - just so I know what I have. For example, I bought what I thought was a blue tort lionhead from a breeder...