How do you cull your rabbits? In high school I had one baby that was deformed when it was born, I guess it would be called a peanut baby, missing a leg and extremely small. I wasnt sure what to do but it died within 24 hours of being born. I had never felt so bad for a creature before, but I didn't know how to cull it.
So now that I am getting back into bunnies, the breeder I was talking to me gave me a price for 1st cull, and 2nd cull. I didn't ask what he meant by cull but I will.
So how do you "cull" your litters? I only kept show quality rabbits out of my litters, at 6 weeks I sold what was obviously not show quality and culled the rest out as they got older, keeping one or two or none. But by "cull" for myself I mean I sold them to pet homes. If the owner brought me proof that the rabbit was spayed/neutered they got a full refund. And I didn't give pedigrees with the ones sold as pets.
This was some years ago, I am not sure how to go about it when I start breeding in the future, but I don't want to see any suffer like that little one did. And since we are getting into some meat production bunnies too, what is a safe quick method to cull those for eating?
So now that I am getting back into bunnies, the breeder I was talking to me gave me a price for 1st cull, and 2nd cull. I didn't ask what he meant by cull but I will.
So how do you "cull" your litters? I only kept show quality rabbits out of my litters, at 6 weeks I sold what was obviously not show quality and culled the rest out as they got older, keeping one or two or none. But by "cull" for myself I mean I sold them to pet homes. If the owner brought me proof that the rabbit was spayed/neutered they got a full refund. And I didn't give pedigrees with the ones sold as pets.
This was some years ago, I am not sure how to go about it when I start breeding in the future, but I don't want to see any suffer like that little one did. And since we are getting into some meat production bunnies too, what is a safe quick method to cull those for eating?