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Need some help here. Have two kits withapparent ringworm one on one side of face and around eyes and on nose,hair all gone on side of face. Other just around theeyes. Have been treating with benedyne. Now have spread it tome. Two patches one on chin and one on neck. Mom also mighthave it on her...

I do the same with the pineshavings/chips. I use it to line the nest box bottom, itoffers good insulation when it is cold. The hay and fur go ontop and it works great in cold weather. I don't use litter asall have drop pans and they are emptied and cleaned eachweek. I do use cat litter on my...

You need to bring the doe to the buck's cage forbreeding. Only put them together for breeding. Manyfemales will hump the male as they want to be bred. The buckshould do this thing. Sometimes, with uncooperative does, wehad to hold their butts up so the male can mount. SOmetimesmother nature...

Congratulations on your litter. Glad to see theyare doing well. We had six rew polish last night, first timemom, had a big fight with her as she was building her nest in thecorner of the cage instead of the nest box. I would put thehay and fur in and she would take it out into the corneragain...

I was looking up fly stike and found thepost. I think this has happened to Danny's bew polishdoe. She had the fur eaten off her face about 4 weeks ago byher neighbor. I moved her and the fur was growing backnicely. When I went to water last night, her face had a bump,when I picked her up and...

Our rabbitry is in an old school bus, one of theshort ones, and tall, for older kids. We have the cages alongeach side of the aisle. All have drop pans, some arestacked. We have about 38 holes out there and two cages in myson's room. I don't use shavings, but clean pans out once aweek. I stack...

As stated in other posts, it is an iffyproposition. SInce they are just 8 weeks old and have just been weaned,there is no harm at all in leaving them together for a while.I always wean my litters into a cage together, boys andgirls. They feel secure and safe with each other.As they go up for...

It is not hard to keep kits alive.Pregnant does. house bunnys or not, should be confined to a cage,alone, with a nest box on day 28 of gestation. Hay sould beprovided. Mom will carry the hay into the box and make a nicenest. When she is ready she will pull out her fur and linethe nest. Allowing...

Glad you have your little guy and I hope thingsgo well for you and him. Stress factors were explained in thenext post and are a very real problem in buns so young. Mostresponsible breeders do not wean the kits until 6 to 8 weeks, no lesssell them. We wean at six weeks. The litter isplaced...

Some buns just aren't good moms, most who mess upthe first time, do well the second time but not always. Forthis reason, I never breed just one doe. I always breed atleast two at the same time. That way you can foster the kitsto the other doe, and problem solved. If you take the kits right...

The site listed in the second post is thebest. We learned how to do it from that site.Printed it all off and used to take the pictures out with us to comparewhat we were seeing with what was pictured. It is easiest todo it between 3 and 4 weeks old. An easy comparison is theboys look like the...

There is a whole series of those books.Try half.com, or ebay. I am sure you will find somethere. Donna

Just a word about pet shops. They telleveryone that every bunny is a dwarf. First of all, there isno such breed as a dwarf polish. The only breed with dwarf inits name is netherland dwarf. Polish are the next larger,going up to 3 1/2 lbs with ears no longer than 3 inches.After that we have...

No! It was not a mistake. The more youhandle, the calmer the rabbit will be. They pee and poopbecause they are babies, and they are nervous. But byhandling them you become the calming influence. Whenever weget new buns, we bring them in every night and hold them and they getthe run of the couch...

We have breathed life into new born kits who wereborn on the wire and were cold, limp and not breathing. Webring them in, massage them and use towels heated in themicrowave. If they don't come around right away, I have blow,very gently into the mouth and nose and several times it has...