Great information. We were very selective in out breeding stock and we developed a herd We had New Zealand Whites. If the mana did not have eight, she got a second chance. Eight was our cutoff. We bred at six months. We bred two at the sane time. If we needed to, we fostered babies from larger litters to smaller litters. If we had more than eight, we plucked out the runts and fed the dogs. Overall, we found out that does take care of about eight babies at once. Nice information, nice video. God bless.
I like how you describe their behavior and note the nesting behavior. I've watched other videos where the owner just droned on about various parts of the set-up, and didn't explain much into the inner lives of rabbits.
Love all that you guys share with us, and trust your information, but I would like to share some experience that I have had in the pass with regards to leaving the doe with the buck for unsupervised for any length of time. Now first please everyone understand that I am not in no way discarding the information that Sarah has shared here, I respect her knowledge, and am only speaking with respect to some experience that I have had. I know that Sarah states that she observes for two ties, then gives them about an hour unsupervised, and this is the same information that I have been given by several breeders many years ago when I was starting out. This I was told allowed for the possibility of a third tie, which was ideally what we should seek for increased litter size.Well sadly it took me a couple of very bead experiences before I discontinued this practice, and I'll explain why . . . I had on two occasions where I returned to the cage to find blood on the floor, with my buck humbled in a corner neutered, and had to clean up his testicles off the floor, for the doe had decided/declared she has had enough! As such I lost two very good bucks. One in which I paid a good amount of money on because of his registration . . . They both survived, but were rendered useless in our herd as breeders. So, needless to say I no longer practice my procedures in that particular way. What I now do is, supervise for two ties, remove my doe for an hour, and this allows my buck to have a little recuperative time, then return the doe for the possible one more tie. If she show she's not cooperative, I remove her, and keep satisfied with the two ties. I do allow a little more time for th ed third tie, as neither may be as interested as they were initially, but I no longer leave them unattended . . . Again, just what I have experienced, and adjusted for
My rabbits love T/A Cubes. Timothy/Alfalfa. They are a wonderful, healthy crunchy treat. Adults and babies alike love them. I buy them by the 40 lb bag from Rural King. 🐰🐇🐇🐰
My family and I were in the business fir over 20 years..450 plus rabbits so I'm enjoying your videos. Only thing we did different is we faced the best boxes towards the front and far to the rear opposite of the feeder
Rabbits are very cute but they also provide so much to us ❤️ I have learned so much from videos online. Thanks for making such a great informative playlist!
L.O.L. That was wonderful Sarah! You definitely know your rabbits. I love the nice clean setup that I saw with the cages. I can't wait to see part three!
We are excited for you! We experience such freedom raising our own meat. It's a great feeling to sit down for dinner and have literally grown and raised your entire meal! Thanks for following the series! I hope you find it helpful.
Sarah is such a good teacher and enjoyable to listen to…. Great info! Thanks…. I just got a full-blooded couple of NZ bunnies… 2.5 weeks ago. Gonna get another totally unrelated coupla bunnies from the same breeder because they were such honest & good folks! They know of my intention to breed them for meat rabbits & I believe will help me in the best way for the future of our rabbitry & our bunnies!
Your videos are awesome. As a new rabbit breeder, would love to be part of this Homestead. am learning a lot. definitely, a lot of questions will come. Thumbs up team.
Thank you for the easy to understand series. I was very sceptical whether I had enough real info to attempt this. You have put me at ease. Thank you and blessings.
Thanks for the video Sarah my wife and I watch all your videos. We love u guys such a great family u have. My wife and I are planning on Starting a Homestead in Missouri in the future our goal is 5to7 years. Thanks again and God Bless you and your Family.
Thank you so much for all of the information you share! We will be getting our first rabbits in a few days! I just ordered you cook book, looking forward to trying your recipes!
It would be great if you make a video on making granular food along with veggies and hays .Safe foods and especially on what not to eat.In a word food of meat rabbits...plz plz
Thank you both so much your always so helpful and pleasant to watch,I love your cuite dimples hahaha you all are doing a great service and job , thanks again, and God bless you all
New to the channel. I just started raising rabbits for the fertilizer. Maybe one day I will have the courage to do the meat lol. Thanks for all the info! I was surprised you didn't mention the doe pulling fur. But anyhow still a very well presented video lots of good info. Thanks!!
New and in research mode here. Love your videos, you guys are great at explaining your rationality. Could you tell more about what you feed, space required and general care of the specific breeds you choose and why? Thanks again for your videos!
I have a rabbit about ready to apparently have babies. She had pulled alot of hair and made a nest, just since yesterday. Im really hoping she didn't have then already and ate them because she was in with other females up till yesterday . I didn't know she was pregnant.
Hi I’m new here I just subscribed this evening. Love what y’all doing! Just to add my two cents here on pregnancy in rabbits after day 32. Sometimes the doe did in fact get pregnant and for whatever reason didn’t give birth. They often times when this happens, absorb the unborn babies back into their bodies. I have personally witnessed this. The does that do this more times than not are called from our breeding stock.
Good morning, Thank you so much for this video play list! Just wondering what is the size of the cage you use for your expectant moms...going to build my own. Thanks.
I am just now getting into the research side of meat rabbits. I have watched several different videos. Some choose to give the doe time between breeding sessions. I see you breed back to back. What are the benefits you have found in doing it this way and are the benefits to spacing it out? Thank you so much for you videos they have already taught me so much.
Hey, good information, i would never have know about any of that. Just a quick questions, I know you mentioned you kept you breeding rabbits in some form of structure. Can you break down really quick how many breeders you have at a give time compared to how many over all rabbits you have? Thanks!
We have 5 breeding does and 1 breeding buck. Most of the time we have 4 rabbit tractors growing out rabbits (6-10 in each) and 2-3 litters of babies in with their moms. So...I would guess we are growing out about 50 rabbits at any time. Thanks so much for the great questions!
I use to breed rabbits years ago. You need to know to keep the adult males away from the female that has been bred until after the babies are grown until the newborns are grown up a bit . I would keep them seperate for 4-6 months.The adult males will kill the newborn rabbits.
Wait so at 5 weeks you separate the babys from the doe and they stay in the rabbit tractor until u eat them? Or do they live somewhere else? And do u keep the mama doe inside the cage or transfer her? Thank you very much
First, look up tularemia, I almost died from it as a girl from raising rabbits. From meat or tick bite. Also, how many breedings can or should you get from one doe before you retire them. Please go over your setup?
You say to place the nesting box in at day 25, but I have read at day 28. Also if it's placed too early mama bunny will just eat nesting material. I don't want to miss her due date, so what is your suggestion? Thanks and I love all the videos.
I'd like to know how you handle all of their waste (your breeding stock)? I assume there is a catchment, and it goes on the garden, but do you just rake it up? Are there wood chips under the cages for urine? Are there removable waste pans under them? Just curious because this might be in our future. Thank you.
The usual idea if you plan to have a garden and want to use rabbit droppings as fertalizer is to have a carbon underneath the cages. Usually hay as its usually cheapest and lightest. Have your cages raised and let the hay lay on the ground to catch the droppings. This makes collecting with a shovel easier.
Sarah & Kevin, I have bred my Californian's and have one Doe due 10/26, however she pulled a bunch of fur at the back of the cage yesterday, so I gave her a nesting box. She mad a beautiful nest with lots of hay and pulled hair. I have never had a Doe want to build a nest almost 2 weeks early. Thoughts? Maybe a false pregnancy? Now we did get a cold snap as well, however she built this when it was 88 degrees outside, before todays 40 degree weather.
between part 1 and 2, do you straight away isolate the doe after breeding in part 1 and put in the nesting box, or do you return her to her kiddies for a certain period of time. thank you for this very informative series.
If there's a base for the nesting box, how do we guarantee hygiene for the kits. Won't the doe & kits urinate & poo in it, making it unclean? Can't we leave the base open On the wire?
Hi, another great instructional video; will watch all of the others and have subscribed. One question, what size is your nesting box; small, medium, large or extra large?
I wouldn't suggest leaving your breeding pare together for an hour unattended because I've had a few does castrate the bucks and that sucks so I always watch them
Have never had that happen and we breed A LOT of rabbits. Just shows that every rabbit is different though. Personally I would probably cull a rabbit that was that aggressive with the buck. - Kevin
+Living Traditions Homestead they were Rex breeds they are very popular in eastern Kentucky where I live and I've heard and see a few of those horror stories and they always warned me of that in ffa but I agree with all your other advice and find it very informative
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Great information. We were very selective in out breeding stock and we developed a herd We had New Zealand Whites. If the mana did not have eight, she got a second chance. Eight was our cutoff. We bred at six months. We bred two at the sane time. If we needed to, we fostered babies from larger litters to smaller litters. If we had more than eight, we plucked out the runts and fed the dogs. Overall, we found out that does take care of about eight babies at once. Nice information, nice video. God bless.
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My 8 year old has watched this whole series and last night we welcomed 10 kits to the world. Thank you for your informative and concise videos!
As rookies just set to breed our herd, this information couldn't come at a better time. Thanks much!
I like how you describe their behavior and note the nesting behavior. I've watched other videos where the owner just droned on about various parts of the set-up, and didn't explain much into the inner lives of rabbits.
Thanks! I appreciate your feedback!
@@LivingTraditionsHomestead And I don't appreciate your savagery!
Love all that you guys share with us, and trust your information, but I would like to share some experience that I have had in the pass with regards to leaving the doe with the buck for unsupervised for any length of time. Now first please everyone understand that I am not in no way discarding the information that Sarah has shared here, I respect her knowledge, and am only speaking with respect to some experience that I have had. I know that Sarah states that she observes for two ties, then gives them about an hour unsupervised, and this is the same information that I have been given by several breeders many years ago when I was starting out. This I was told allowed for the possibility of a third tie, which was ideally what we should seek for increased litter size.Well sadly it took me a couple of very bead experiences before I discontinued this practice, and I'll explain why . . . I had on two occasions where I returned to the cage to find blood on the floor, with my buck humbled in a corner neutered, and had to clean up his testicles off the floor, for the doe had decided/declared she has had enough! As such I lost two very good bucks. One in which I paid a good amount of money on because of his registration . . . They both survived, but were rendered useless in our herd as breeders. So, needless to say I no longer practice my procedures in that particular way. What I now do is, supervise for two ties, remove my doe for an hour, and this allows my buck to have a little recuperative time, then return the doe for the possible one more tie. If she show she's not cooperative, I remove her, and keep satisfied with the two ties. I do allow a little more time for th ed third tie, as neither may be as interested as they were initially, but I no longer leave them unattended . . . Again, just what I have experienced, and adjusted for
wow, scary 🙄
My rabbits love T/A Cubes. Timothy/Alfalfa. They are a wonderful, healthy crunchy treat. Adults and babies alike love them. I buy them by the 40 lb bag from Rural King.
🐰🐇🐇🐰
Just bred our first doe. Thanks for another great video. God bless!!!!!
My family and I were in the business fir over 20 years..450 plus rabbits so I'm enjoying your videos. Only thing we did different is we faced the best boxes towards the front and far to the rear opposite of the feeder
Rabbits are very cute but they also provide so much to us ❤️ I have learned so much from videos online. Thanks for making such a great informative playlist!
Good info, well presented. Nice when the animals follow the script. ;)
It sure is! Lol! Thanks so much!
L.O.L. That was wonderful Sarah! You definitely know your rabbits. I love the nice clean setup that I saw with the cages. I can't wait to see part three!
You guys should make a video showing how to build those cages! 😀
I can't wait to join the rabbit crew! I enjoyed your video and will refer back to it once I have my rabbits. Thanks so much for sharing!
We are excited for you! We experience such freedom raising our own meat. It's a great feeling to sit down for dinner and have literally grown and raised your entire meal! Thanks for following the series! I hope you find it helpful.
I feel the momma rabbit wanting to get away from the kids for a minute.... Lol.... I need a ledge like that sometimes.... Lol
Sarah is such a good teacher and enjoyable to listen to…. Great info! Thanks…. I just got a full-blooded couple of NZ bunnies… 2.5 weeks ago. Gonna get another totally unrelated coupla bunnies from the same breeder because they were such honest & good folks! They know of my intention to breed them for meat rabbits & I believe will help me in the best way for the future of our rabbitry & our bunnies!
Thank you! I want to learn how to breed rabbits for food and I will be watching you as much as I can
Your videos are awesome. As a new rabbit breeder, would love to be part of this Homestead. am learning a lot. definitely, a lot of questions will come. Thumbs up team.
Thank you for the easy to understand series. I was very sceptical whether I had enough real info to attempt this. You have put me at ease. Thank you and blessings.
That is so great to hear. We have a few more videos coming up in the series. I hope they continue to help!
Thanks for the video Sarah my wife and I watch all your videos. We love u guys such a great family u have. My wife and I are planning on Starting a Homestead in Missouri in the future our goal is 5to7 years. Thanks again and God Bless you and your Family.
Very informative, good stuff.
I am thinking about raising rabbits, so these videos are very helpful. Thank you.
I love what you guys do because of my health I can't keep doing what you're doing I love your Channel
You do the best informative videos.
Thank you for all of your help. I will be getting my first buck and two does in a couple of weeks. Your videos are sooo helpful. ❤
They also will pull fur out for the nest. That is very normal. It won't be long now....the anticipation is killing me, lol!
A great show, thank you.
Great video Sara
i am starting rabbit rearing and i like the info you are disseminating. thank you. i will post some updates soon on my facebook page
Very interesting .l am just starting out with raising rabbits
They always looks so funny with a mouthful of hay!
Looking forward to my first round of baby bunnies! Your videos help so much
Enjoy watching your video
Well presented, very clear and concise and just enjoyable.
Thank you so much for all of the information you share! We will be getting our first rabbits in a few days! I just ordered you cook book, looking forward to trying your recipes!
It would be great if you make a video on making granular food along with veggies and hays .Safe foods and especially on what not to eat.In a word food of meat rabbits...plz plz
Thank you both so much your always so helpful and pleasant to watch,I love your cuite dimples hahaha you all are doing a great service and job , thanks again, and God bless you all
I was waiting see her reaction inside the nesting box! However great video!
Thank you! 💖🌺🦋🐇
Very cool. I have been raising Californians for meat for about 4 months now and have not seen that behavior
New to the channel. I just started raising rabbits for the fertilizer. Maybe one day I will have the courage to do the meat lol. Thanks for all the info! I was surprised you didn't mention the doe pulling fur. But anyhow still a very well presented video lots of good info. Thanks!!
This series is the best series that i have seen good job sara love the vids
Thank you so much!
thank you so much
I love it, subscribed
I had to listen to this on very low volume! My headphones just picked up the camera man breathing hahaha. Great video though!
Love these series
That is too adorable. Thank u for educating us $ sharing.
I really enjoy your videos, you explain everything in detail that everyone can understand. Great videos, tysm
Thanks for the video
Excellent video and very informative. Thank you.
Thank you very much!
thank you
New and in research mode here. Love your videos, you guys are great at explaining your rationality. Could you tell more about what you feed, space required and general care of the specific breeds you choose and why? Thanks again for your videos!
On to Part-3
I have a rabbit about ready to apparently have babies. She had pulled alot of hair and made a nest, just since yesterday. Im really hoping she didn't have then already and ate them because she was in with other females up till yesterday . I didn't know she was pregnant.
Enjoying your videos very informative!
Great video thanks for the advice
Great videos. Thank you so much and God bless from Nova Scotia
This is so helpful. Thank you!
Very practical. Love it big time!
This was a great instructional video!! Thank you!
Good video
Best videos i have three rabbits and i m seeing this video to gets started:)
Hi I’m new here I just subscribed this evening. Love what y’all doing! Just to add my two cents here on pregnancy in rabbits after day 32. Sometimes the doe did in fact get pregnant and for whatever reason didn’t give birth. They often times when this happens, absorb the unborn babies back into their bodies. I have personally witnessed this. The does that do this more times than not are called from our breeding stock.
Thanks, Charles, we're just going through this and will Re-Breed for a 2nd time today. She was pulling fur and lining her Breeding Box, but no Kits.
Charles Weekley are called from your breeding stock? What does that mean?
Thank you for the very informative video
Good morning, Thank you so much for this video play list! Just wondering what is the size of the cage you use for your expectant moms...going to build my own. Thanks.
Thanks for sharing.
Inspirational
I am just now getting into the research side of meat rabbits. I have watched several different videos. Some choose to give the doe time between breeding sessions. I see you breed back to back. What are the benefits you have found in doing it this way and are the benefits to spacing it out? Thank you so much for you videos they have already taught me so much.
Nice vedeo..
Hey, good information, i would never have know about any of that. Just a quick questions, I know you mentioned you kept you breeding rabbits in some form of structure. Can you break down really quick how many breeders you have at a give time compared to how many over all rabbits you have? Thanks!
We have 5 breeding does and 1 breeding buck. Most of the time we have 4 rabbit tractors growing out rabbits (6-10 in each) and 2-3 litters of babies in with their moms. So...I would guess we are growing out about 50 rabbits at any time. Thanks so much for the great questions!
I love her
Fabulous explanation 👍🏿
Your videos are awesome thank you
Thanks! Y'all are awesome!!!
You're so good at sharing helpful information! I feel like I could actually do this, thanks to your clear instructions, tips, and videos. Thank you!
I use to breed rabbits years ago. You need to know to keep the adult males away from the female that has been bred until after the babies are grown until the newborns are grown up a bit . I would keep them seperate for 4-6 months.The adult males will kill the newborn rabbits.
Great information
Hi I Just started watching your you tube Channel and was wondering how many baby's would be in a litter. Thanks for the great video adventure
i love this
Good vid!
Am i hallucinating or Im hearing a man breathing?!
I thought I was going crazy 😂
lol
yeh i can hear it
😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
I was thinking the same! Darth Vader homesteading!
🤣Man's gotta breath.
I usually give mine a nesting box as soon as I breed breed them but some time not
Wait so at 5 weeks you separate the babys from the doe and they stay in the rabbit tractor until u eat them? Or do they live somewhere else?
And do u keep the mama doe inside the cage or transfer her?
Thank you very much
First, look up tularemia, I almost died from it as a girl from raising rabbits. From meat or tick bite.
Also, how many breedings can or should you get from one doe before you retire them. Please go over your setup?
You say to place the nesting box in at day 25, but I have read at day 28. Also if it's placed too early mama bunny will just eat nesting material. I don't want to miss her due date, so what is your suggestion? Thanks and I love all the videos.
What size wire do you use to build the cages and where did you purchase the nest boxes? Very informative videos. Thank you so very much.
Can we see a video after she has the babies with the babies look like when they're first born
Hello LTH
What size are your rabbit cage and the size the one with the baby's.
Do you have to consider winters to avoid breeding? At What low temperature is everything still "normal" for the rabbits life cycles?
Suuuuper helpful video! Thank you! We're days away from our first nesting box!
I'd like to know how you handle all of their waste (your breeding stock)? I assume there is a catchment, and it goes on the garden, but do you just rake it up? Are there wood chips under the cages for urine? Are there removable waste pans under them? Just curious because this might be in our future. Thank you.
The usual idea if you plan to have a garden and want to use rabbit droppings as fertalizer is to have a carbon underneath the cages. Usually hay as its usually cheapest and lightest. Have your cages raised and let the hay lay on the ground to catch the droppings. This makes collecting with a shovel easier.
Would you then mix the soiled hay with soil for a garden or lay it on top?
Sarah & Kevin, I have bred my Californian's and have one Doe due 10/26, however she pulled a bunch of fur at the back of the cage yesterday, so I gave her a nesting box. She mad a beautiful nest with lots of hay and pulled hair. I have never had a Doe want to build a nest almost 2 weeks early. Thoughts? Maybe a false pregnancy? Now we did get a cold snap as well, however she built this when it was 88 degrees outside, before todays 40 degree weather.
Could u use number 8 hardware cloth it has 1/8th inch square?
Did Darth Vader help record? Lol
Thank you for the info
Eric Cantu ahahahahhahahha I AM YOUR FATHER!!! :)
between part 1 and 2, do you straight away isolate the doe after breeding in part 1 and put in the nesting box, or do you return her to her kiddies for a certain period of time. thank you for this very informative series.
If there's a base for the nesting box, how do we guarantee hygiene for the kits. Won't the doe & kits urinate & poo in it, making it unclean? Can't we leave the base open On the wire?
Can you just use Texas native grasses for hay?
Hi, another great instructional video; will watch all of the others and have subscribed. One question, what size is your nesting box; small, medium, large or extra large?
How and what do you track with your rabbits?
What's the width, height & length of your nest box, thanks
Do you ever cover the cages for the moms with breathable material? I know my cats love that...more like a cave or burrow i guess
I wouldn't suggest leaving your breeding pare together for an hour unattended because I've had a few does castrate the bucks and that sucks so I always watch them
Have never had that happen and we breed A LOT of rabbits. Just shows that every rabbit is different though. Personally I would probably cull a rabbit that was that aggressive with the buck. - Kevin
+Living Traditions Homestead they were Rex breeds they are very popular in eastern Kentucky where I live and I've heard and see a few of those horror stories and they always warned me of that in ffa but I agree with all your other advice and find it very informative
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