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I sold a mini rex last week to a young girl as a pet. He is just over 1 yr and has been handled by me and a few others since he was born (I bred him myself) He has never shown ANY aggression towards me. I got an email from the new owner who says he has been trying to bite her. Now I might be...

Would you use a booted mini rex as a brood doe if it was of exceptional type? I have a litter out of a black otter doe (the dad is a broken chocolate with almost perfect 50/50 colour.) In this litter I have 1 black otter, 1 black, 2 booted blacks and 2 booted black otters. None of the babies...

I have a litter of 2 week old mini rex. 3 of them are castor. 2 have a very light coloured belly and the 3rd has a darker grey belly. The dad has the darker grey belly too but most of the pictures/descriptions of castor mini rex show the light coloured belly. Is the grey belly acceptable for...

Today I harvested the first wool from my junior satin angora buck! I know that satins don't produce nearly as much wool as the other angora breeds but does anyone know what is an average amount for a first plucking on a satin angora? One of my goals for my angora herd is to try and increase...

I have a pair of satin angora rabbits. I was thinking of breeding the doe to a french angora once and then keeping a couple of does to cross back to the satin buck. Mypair are full brother sister and are already linebred. There are no other satin angora's anywhere near me. I could breed the doe...

I posted a while ago about this mini rex buck I am thinking of keeping from one of my last litters. This is an updated picture of him and I'd like some more opinions. I think he's pretty nice but is there anything I'm not seeing? I'd also like some onpinions on this black otter doe. I wasn't...

OK - I have a question that may seem a bit dumb but I am selling my first 2 litters of pedigreed mini rex babies. I am just getting started and don't have a tattoo kit yet, nor do I have anyone close buy that I could pay to tattoo them for me. So my question is - does a rabbit sold with a...

This is one of my babies that I am thinking of keeping. He is 10 weeks old. I am interested in some opinions on him. I am very new to mini rex and learning so I wanted to see if the things I see in this buck are correct or if I am still way off base. Hopefully the pictures are posed ok. He is...

At what age do you start teaching mini rex to pose? I have 2 litters that are both nearly 6 weeks. I am keeping at least one buck that I would like to show and maybe a doe. They are all showable though. They have been handled daily since they were born (and we're starting to play with them a bit...

How much do baby bunnies change as they grow? I have a 3 week old litter (actually 2 seperate litters) and have been eagerly waiting for them to get old enough to startevaluating theirtype. I am a total novice with raising show rabbits so I am excited about this first group of babies. I want...

I recently had a litter of broken mini rex. 2 are blue and one is chocolate. I had not planned on keeping any of these babies as I prefer the solid colours but the broken chocolate looks like it will have what I am thinking is a great pattern. I am much more interested in breeding for type, fur...

Hi, my first two mini rex litters were born 2 days ago, both does are awesome moms. One had 3 and the other had 7 though and I am wondering if it would be ok to move a couple from the bigger litter to the mom with 3? I know a doe can raise a litter of 7 with no problem (I raised rabbits years...

I know that sometimes does will have a false pregnancy and build a nest but not have any babies. Do they normally go the full 31 days though if its false? I have a doe who I thought was finally pregnant (I've bred her 3 times myself and she was supposed to be bred when I got her.) The first time...

My mini rex doe is due today. She started pulling fur yesterday but it was outside the nest box. She is in a wooden hutch with solid floors and bedded with pine shavings. Yesterday evening I put her little pile of fur into the nest box that is lined with fresh, clean hay.) This morning I could...

My new trio of mini rex arrived today - they are all sooooo sweet! I'm looking for some critique on them! The chocolate is the buck, the otter and broken blue are does. Also a picture of my ermine doe that I got last fall. As I get started developing mylines is there any advice you can give...

Hi, I am just starting my mini rex rabbitry. I think I have done enough research to get started but I would like to develop my eye for a good rabbit some more. This is a picture of a mini rex buck I have. He does not have a pedigree and I don't plan on using him for breeding - he is just the pet...

I am just learning about colour genetics with rabbits and have a question about breeding a frosty point doe to a himi buck - what colour possibilities would there be from this cross? The doe is out of a chin/broken black cross with sable point, chin, broken black and a broken tort farther back...

Hi, I recently purchased a pedigreed mini rex doe to start my breeding herd. On her papers it says she is ermine (which I understand is also called frosted point) I have tried researching this colour to try and get an idea of what colours she can produce but the description of ermine/frosted...