When I raised rabbits we had one buck and 2 does in cages. Everyone always said that they could never eat something that they had named. Our buck was Bugs, the does were Ebony and Sugarfoot. They each had their names above their cages. The bunny cage had been named also. It was named DINNER!
I think the name makes then taste better. It's the difference between a Salad from the big box store vs. One made from ingredients grown in your own garden!
That's awesome! We did something similar, we had a large dog kennel and we just put some chicken wire on the floor and staked it down. Spread some bedding down(straw and wood chips). Then built a small rabbit hutch inside of it and stacked some straw bails around it for winter. They did amazing. Should've just buried a foot of wire down around the perimeter like you guys did (I think I'll fix that) so they can dig. Ended up burrowing and nesting in the straw bails though so they're still happy! Gonna have to copy your setup for more rabbits to come!
This is cool. Been thinking about this as I often hit triple digits at my home. Been planning for frozen bottles and fans for a cage setup, but leaning more and more towards the outside colony idea the more I see it.
I'm pouring bags of concrete around my fence to keep predators out. It's just as cheap as wire now. It also gives me a walk a round my fence mud free . You can also set the bottom edge of your fence in the concrete. I just pour it out of the bag rake it out smooth wet it let it set up. I'm gonna do the inside of the fence as well.
We need your rain and your survival skills for the dangerous drought! Dry as a bone, triple digits, wild fires, heat stroke, rough season in New England. Garden plants dying..no peaches, no raspberries, blackberries... looking forward to winter hibernation rain and snow.
Did you buy the Cage Frame the Rabbits or in or was it Home Made.? I been thinking of something like that for a few Rabbits soon, and your video is the Best i seen so-far. Thanks
That’s where colony raising shines. Living underground helps then to stay cool in summer and warm in winter so they do much better with less intervention then raising in cages. As long as your burrows don’t flood there is no other weather that will bother them
Your bunnies look just like mine. I would love to know how well those metal walk in chicken coops held up. How many years did they last? Any snow? I ended up with a 10-feet by 6-feet A-Frame with 14 gauge 1-inch by 1/2-inch hardware cloth floor with metal corrugated roof panel to funnel the pee, and I'm building a fenced in area around that A-Frame; and I made another for the boys out of an 86"x40" chicken coop with 13.5-feet by 40-inch wood floor with the 14 gauge hardware cloth floor and a dog house with large roofed area. I would like to add an underground colony area next.
Do you raise them with males or a single male? I did rabbit colonies before and had multiple males in the same area with no fighting. People said to me its impossible. But i did it. Must be square footage related?
I don't understand how you keep them from burrowing out. Looks like they dig pretty deep, couldn't they just dig under wire on the sides? Curious if this could ever be an issue. But this is awesome!!!
There is no issue leaving them free to breed as long and there is only one male of breeding age. Otherwise the males may fight but it depends on the males. Some are sweeter than others and will allow for more than one… if you wire down a foot or two they won’t dig out. They never dig straight down so the will always hit the wire and just go in an other direction. We have never have any dig out.
I feed them so they come to me. So I catch by hand to move to the grow out pen. My husband catches and dispatches and sometimes uses a dip net for that
Been missing ya'll. Love it..and want to add that to our system. My wife and I may have missed it...but what breed were the brownish/tan rabbits. We have Cal/NewZ and Flemish...but want to expand. ...and need new bloodlines.
I notice she tarped overhead, as drainage ends up being a lot of labor from what I've seen elsewhere, for this reason I've considered letting them dig into a mound above ground...we get heavy rains
OmG...my mama gaVe me a clue about the birds and the bees Year's aGo...but not how rabbitS get waiii friSky and make about a million babieS in a Year!😂😂😂ThankS deeply foR sharinG your delightful video especially how youR fur babies survived that naSty Hurricane😢...so IntenSe!✌😍🙏😇🌹🌞🌹🐰🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐰☕🍵☕🍹🍻
How did you train your rabbits to poop all in the same area? I have a very similar size colony set up, and my rabbits poop EVERYWHERE. We have to use pooper scoopers, and we have to clean it daily. They literally poop everywhere.
Start immediately when you desire to train them. When they poop in the wrong place, stop them, pick the poop up, show it to them, then place it, and them where you want the poop. It needs to be very consistent until it catches.
How do you know which ones are ready to be butchered? When they’re all living together like that it’s hard to determine who is the oldest who is the youngest etc. etc. do you go by size? like the idea of having two sides, but they would all be in varying stages of growth?
I have like 15 bunnies in cages and would like to think that some thing like this would work but don’t they fight ? And how do you control the reproduction.. keep the males separated? In the video you mention “one for the breeders, and one for the grow up s,” By breed ers you mean mommas with babies or gonna have? And is the grow up area for everything else? Probably a dumb question but I know nothing. But I’m learning
Yes, basically keep as many females as you want in one or two males in pen. The other pin is for those growing up for butcher. They won’t start fighting unless you really have an overpopulation of breeding males in a small area. There is no controlling of reproduction unless you keep your male separate and only introduce him when you want to. Females will basically stay pregnant as much as they can so 15 rabbits will very quickly turn into 100s
Not sure if I missed this in the video but how big is one enclosure and how many bunnies can it accommodate at one time. Also how do you give them water Love your set up btw
I have a video posted with the water system that we use. Each enclosure is 10 x 20… we have had as many as 26 rabbits in one at a time with no problems
I suspect she just breeds as many females as she can make use of the babies/kits...J's wife, since litters likely number 7 to 9 babies...the babies get moved to the 'grow out' pen when weaned too, we eat our young pasture raised bunnies with fresh herbs, veggies and whipping cream sauces...the parent bunnies get names and live many years
We had hauled dirt in and made them a mound in the middle to borrow in so the ground was elevated in the middle and they stayed above the flood long enough for us to go get them. It was a hurricane and we don’t usually have to deal with waters that high on a regular basis but we have since stacked them some pallets to climb on in there just in case
They borrow like wild rabbits. That keeps them cool in the summer and warm in the winter. But if you wanted too you could cover it with greenhouse plastic. (or construction plastic would work the same)
raising the females together from babies we had no aggression when area big enough, for example, a 2 W x 8 H worked for 2 females sharing a male they were alongside for a few months before integrating him and all rotated on pasture at least daily (not bored), but new to this so got lucky? nest can be a wired down bucket with hay/edible bedding/J's wife
I'm modeling our rabbitat after yours and am curious about the black and yellow totes. They look like the regular storage bins, but there are openings in yours, and they don't look hand cut like DIY. Could you tell me more about those, please?
@@natalieforbush5518 Why not just plant a verity of types of grass and "weeds" as base to the enclosure. wire mesh still allows in enough sun and rain so it will just grow wild. Then feed them with out side fed to keep them from eating the growing grass down to nothing.
Great job for what you have to work with .... way more natural for the rabbits 🐇 .... maybe one day you'll be ready to try free range rabbits 🐇 ..... the key is to supply all kinds of various covers for them with the hope that they will eventually breed with the wild ones in your area , also resupply your stock every year because you will lose at least 50 % of them every year which is natural. That's how nature works, but the key is to take at least 3 years to build survivability into your stock and get them to resupply themselves the 50% that they normally lose in the wild .... hence the term they breed like rabbits 😂😅 ...😊
I thought the same when looking in to getting rabbits. But domestic breeds come from European hares. They will mate with wild rabbits but there won't be viable offspring. They're different animals.
How does a rabbit colony work? The males fight together and the females are also aggressive. Whats the best way to do it? Like 1 male to 3 females and then the babies are taken out when they are ready to?
I make to as many females as your space will easily allow and remove the little ones before breeding age (5 months). They won’t fight until after breeding age.
earlier someone suggested one male to 10 females, definitely one male is key I suspect, we've only tried one young male with two young females but only because the tractor was 2 w by 8 ft long so couldn't fit more rotating daily for fresh greens on pasture, J's wife
I have a feeling dogs keep their snakes away, otherwise hardware cloth of the tiniest holes needed, as even tiny poisonous snakes will kill a mother rabbit to get to the babies...we've noticed more snakes once free ranged chickens and kept dogs on leads
No there fine. It doesn’t flood all the time. That was a hurricane. A hurricane can drop more water in an hour then most places get in years. But you always know when a hurricane is coming so you can make preparations
Nope. They are animals. Their thought process is a little slow. They don’t think that far ahead. They dig as close as they can and if they can’t get in they give up. In decades of raising. We have never had a predictor successfully dig in. They try a few times a week, but same result every time. They hit the wire and quit.
Wow you have some interesting weather at your place. I'm thinking your eating the rabbits not selling them. Your ears will go pointed after a few years of eating them Lol.
One pen is breeders only. All female and one male. Male can be changed to introduce new blood. As soon as the babies are weened they are moved to a grow out pen when they are removed before breeding age.
Storey's Guide to Rabbits recommends 'inbreeding' to promote strengths in the rabbits you want to keep/replicate, unlike with people where it would have opposite effect...others of course just prefer not to inbreed due to the idea of it...which works too but requires feeding and housing more males and bunnies in general, J's wife
Does *_any_* "homesteader" have content even remotely related to the titles?? 'How to do Brain Surgery at Home" .. _twenty minutes of random video of their own feet_
If you love animals then raise your own in a humane manner like she does and eat them. Buying meat at the grocery store is enabling factory farm animal abuse so that you don’t have to think about where your food comes from. Who is the real culprit? = the person who takes the easy way out.
A colony can exist for fertilizer while the bunnies get lots of love, treats and snuggles. I could not eat mine; not even if I was hungry. They snuggle up to get attention. And ... those EYES!
Question: I have Holland Lop Pet rabbits that had Back to Back Litters. I want to keep all the babies. Will this type of idea work? I dont want to spay or neuter any of them and thought i could have 2 enclosures Male and Female. Will this work in your opinion?
Females, yes, IF you allow plenty of space. Males, absolutely NOT. Males will fight to death if breeding age, 4 months & up. You can keep a breeding male with your females (known as does, pronounced dough) & rotate breeding stock. Set up a good recordkeeping system. And either sell excess bucks or cull em (eat em). Perhaps trade with others if your stock is worthy. Only breed quality animals (back to back litters is not responsible breeding). Inferior stock should be culled regardless, to preserve breed integrity. Please do not breed if you can't cull or are just breeding everything regardless of quality. As that weakens animals and opens th way for disease. Otherwise, God bless. Bunnies can be fun. But it is work too. Please allow recovery time between litters. 🕊
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When I raised rabbits we had one buck and 2 does in cages. Everyone always said that they could never eat something that they had named. Our buck was Bugs, the does were Ebony and Sugarfoot. They each had their names above their cages. The bunny cage had been named also. It was named DINNER!
I think the name makes then taste better. It's the difference between a Salad from the big box store vs. One made from ingredients grown in your own garden!
Thank you for showing an all season video. So many people don't do that. Love how yall made your habitat. Deff going to try that myself.
That's awesome! We did something similar, we had a large dog kennel and we just put some chicken wire on the floor and staked it down. Spread some bedding down(straw and wood chips). Then built a small rabbit hutch inside of it and stacked some straw bails around it for winter. They did amazing. Should've just buried a foot of wire down around the perimeter like you guys did (I think I'll fix that) so they can dig. Ended up burrowing and nesting in the straw bails though so they're still happy! Gonna have to copy your setup for more rabbits to come!
I was thinking of doing what you did. Glad to know it can work!
Lol, love the warning.
Thank Yall, Much Love from the Heart of Texas.
This set up is pretty great, thanks for sharing!!
This is cool. Been thinking about this as I often hit triple digits at my home. Been planning for frozen bottles and fans for a cage setup, but leaning more and more towards the outside colony idea the more I see it.
Thank you so much for sharing! this is truly inspiring
Really cool setup
You’re so awesome! Thank you so much for this video 👍🏻👍🏻
I'm pouring bags of concrete around my fence to keep predators out. It's just as cheap as wire now. It also gives me a walk a round my fence mud free . You can also set the bottom edge of your fence in the concrete. I just pour it out of the bag rake it out smooth wet it let it set up. I'm gonna do the inside of the fence as well.
I was thinking of doing this as well
I would love to see how you are doing this.
Is there a way to send me video via email or other means?
That's what I was thinking. Because predators, when desperate enough, WILL rip fence, even weld wire.
Great idea!
Very nice! Do you keep the males in there as well?
So cute!
Nice job !
Omgoodness thank you for making me remember hurricanes happen here- so I need to make provisions for my bunnies safety from floods too.
Looks great.How do you catch them for slaughtering ? Are they used to you getting near them?
I absolutely love this
We need your rain and your survival skills for the dangerous drought! Dry as a bone, triple digits, wild fires, heat stroke, rough season in New England. Garden plants dying..no peaches, no raspberries, blackberries... looking forward to winter hibernation rain and snow.
Beautiful😊
Thank you for sharing this. Did you lose any during the Hurricane Laura flood?
This is good. Do you worry about snakes getting into your burrows?
Did you buy the Cage Frame the Rabbits or in or was it Home Made.? I been thinking of something like that for a few Rabbits soon, and your video is the Best i seen so-far. Thanks
Tomatoes looking good for sauce! Bunnies ✌🏽Up Bunnies!!!🐰🐇🐰
It awesome home this is my creative of project do
Is this system good for very cold climate? As in Canadian winters or would I have to find them a closed up space like a garage for winters?
Nice setup, how does the fluffers deal with winter in there? Do they need any extra heat or do you live in a warm climate?
That’s where colony raising shines. Living underground helps then to stay cool in summer and warm in winter so they do much better with less intervention then raising in cages. As long as your burrows don’t flood there is no other weather that will bother them
What size pen is that- also what frame did you buy?
How beautiful ❤❤❤
Where did you get the house frames?
I think I actually based my colony enclosure directly off of yours. I may have even bought the same run LOL
How do you keep them from digging out? Ours like to dig outside of their enclosure now.
Your bunnies look just like mine. I would love to know how well those metal walk in chicken coops held up. How many years did they last? Any snow? I ended up with a 10-feet by 6-feet A-Frame with 14 gauge 1-inch by 1/2-inch hardware cloth floor with metal corrugated roof panel to funnel the pee, and I'm building a fenced in area around that A-Frame; and I made another for the boys out of an 86"x40" chicken coop with 13.5-feet by 40-inch wood floor with the 14 gauge hardware cloth floor and a dog house with large roofed area. I would like to add an underground colony area next.
How far down did you dig? And did you put wire all on the entire bottom?
Do you raise them with males or a single male? I did rabbit colonies before and had multiple males in the same area with no fighting. People said to me its impossible. But i did it. Must be square footage related?
This is beautiful. What do you feed your rabbits?
Rabbit breeder feed, hay, grass, and treats from my garden
What is the size of your colony cage?
I don't understand how you keep them from burrowing out. Looks like they dig pretty deep, couldn't they just dig under wire on the sides?
Curious if this could ever be an issue. But this is awesome!!!
Also, is there any issue with leaving them free to breed? Or do you keep males separate?
There is no issue leaving them free to breed as long and there is only one male of breeding age. Otherwise the males may fight but it depends on the males. Some are sweeter than others and will allow for more than one… if you wire down a foot or two they won’t dig out. They never dig straight down so the will always hit the wire and just go in an other direction. We have never have any dig out.
@@SurvivalHT what buck/doe ratio would be ideal when you house them this way?
So great! Thanks for the video. What kind of rabbits?
New Zealands
really like the owl friendly color of these new zealand (reds?) J's wife
Do you keep your bucks together?
How do you catch them to move to the grow out pen and to process them?
I feed them so they come to me. So I catch by hand to move to the grow out pen. My husband catches and dispatches and sometimes uses a dip net for that
Wow! What breed?
Been missing ya'll. Love it..and want to add that to our system. My wife and I may have missed it...but what breed were the brownish/tan rabbits. We have Cal/NewZ and Flemish...but want to expand. ...and need new bloodlines.
New Zeelands
Do you put wire underneath
Do you get problems with them fighting and injuring each other?
do the rabbits not dig under your buried wire and escape im building something like this soon just curious
Question does it stink? And if so how do you deal with it besides getting used to it? Have always been told their urine stinks!!
Beautiful colony. What breed are they?
New Zeelands
Do you have to separate any out? I tried a small colony and they would fight and injure each other.
We keep one male in the breeder pen and the rest go to the grow out pen. So we have no problems
How many females do you have in the breeder colony?
@@stefaniemckee3354 may ratio is 1buck for every 10 doe. 1:10
What are the dimensions of the colonies (length, width, height)?
Any other tips regarding flooding? We’re moving where we should be getting lots of rain soon.
I notice she tarped overhead, as drainage ends up being a lot of labor from what I've seen elsewhere, for this reason I've considered letting them dig into a mound above ground...we get heavy rains
OmG...my mama gaVe me a clue about the birds and the bees Year's aGo...but not how rabbitS get waiii friSky and make about a million babieS in a Year!😂😂😂ThankS deeply foR sharinG your delightful video especially how youR fur babies survived that naSty Hurricane😢...so IntenSe!✌😍🙏😇🌹🌞🌹🐰🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐰☕🍵☕🍹🍻
Do you mix the males and females. Don’t they fight?
Do your rabbits get fleas?
You have the most beautiful eyes!
How did you train your rabbits to poop all in the same area? I have a very similar size colony set up, and my rabbits poop EVERYWHERE. We have to use pooper scoopers, and we have to clean it daily. They literally poop everywhere.
We didn’t train them. They just did it. But we started with just 2 rabbits and they taught the rest as they came
Start immediately when you desire to train them. When they poop in the wrong place, stop them, pick the poop up, show it to them, then place it, and them where you want the poop.
It needs to be very consistent until it catches.
How do you keep track of them. Do you process for meat and when. You didn’t explain that.
When they have babies just catch and process when they get a few months old. You can tell by the size when it’s time
Hi, do you need to change the substrate (rice straw)? or just refill it over time?
Just refill over time
How do you know which ones are ready to be butchered? When they’re all living together like that it’s hard to determine who is the oldest who is the youngest etc. etc. do you go by size? like the idea of having two sides, but they would all be in varying stages of growth?
@@naturalgardengrows you can always ear tag em if you really have a lot.
Does your buck live with your does 24/7?
I have like 15 bunnies in cages and would like to think that some thing like this would work but don’t they fight ?
And how do you control the reproduction.. keep the males separated?
In the video you mention “one for the breeders, and one for the grow up s,”
By breed ers you mean mommas with babies or gonna have?
And is the grow up area for everything else? Probably a dumb question but I know nothing. But I’m learning
Yes, basically keep as many females as you want in one or two males in pen. The other pin is for those growing up for butcher. They won’t start fighting unless you really have an overpopulation of breeding males in a small area. There is no controlling of reproduction unless you keep your male separate and only introduce him when you want to. Females will basically stay pregnant as much as they can so 15 rabbits will very quickly turn into 100s
do you eat those.
Can I just ask something.
Do you guys eat these rabbits.
how did you battle coccidia we kept a clean environment yet our colony all came up with coccidia.
Not sure if I missed this in the video but how big is one enclosure and how many bunnies can it accommodate at one time. Also how do you give them water
Love your set up btw
I have a video posted with the water system that we use. Each enclosure is 10 x 20… we have had as many as 26 rabbits in one at a time with no problems
How do you keep from having too many rabbits? Do you separate male and female?
I suspect she just breeds as many females as she can make use of the babies/kits...J's wife, since litters likely number 7 to 9 babies...the babies get moved to the 'grow out' pen when weaned too, we eat our young pasture raised bunnies with fresh herbs, veggies and whipping cream sauces...the parent bunnies get names and live many years
I couldn't quiet get it how they survived that rain flood. Can you please explain? I want to try your colony method of raising rabbits
We had hauled dirt in and made them a mound in the middle to borrow in so the ground was elevated in the middle and they stayed above the flood long enough for us to go get them. It was a hurricane and we don’t usually have to deal with waters that high on a regular basis but we have since stacked them some pallets to climb on in there just in case
Im always nervous to breed the females at the same time. They wont kill the other females babies?
How do you keep it warm in winter
They borrow like wild rabbits. That keeps them cool in the summer and warm in the winter. But if you wanted too you could cover it with greenhouse plastic. (or construction plastic would work the same)
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Can you have more than 1 female in the colony along with the one male? If so does the females get aggressive towards each other?
You can have as many females as your enclosure will alway. They won’t fight and will help each other mother
raising the females together from babies we had no aggression when area big enough, for example, a 2 W x 8 H worked for 2 females sharing a male they were alongside for a few months before integrating him and all rotated on pasture at least daily (not bored), but new to this so got lucky? nest can be a wired down bucket with hay/edible bedding/J's wife
Why chicken wire and welded wire instead of 1/2" wire cloth?
I would imagine due to cost.
I'm modeling our rabbitat after yours and am curious about the black and yellow totes. They look like the regular storage bins, but there are openings in yours, and they don't look hand cut like DIY. Could you tell me more about those, please?
They are normal storage totes that I cut. If you scar it first with the box cutter it will cut clean. I’ll post a video on it
@@SurvivalHT sweet, thanks! I really appreciate it.
How many does do you have in there.
We have had as many at 26 in there at a time. But on average there are about 7 females and 1 or 2 males with about 7 babies in there at a time
How to Prevent Flees?
The habitat looks so cute! I did think I heard that rabbits are more susceptible to parasites if they are raised on dirt?
Yes, but you can feed them herbs to prevent and treat parasites.
@@natalieforbush5518
Why not just plant a verity of types of grass and "weeds" as base to the enclosure. wire mesh still allows in enough sun and rain so it will just grow wild.
Then feed them with out side fed to keep them from eating the growing grass down to nothing.
Great job for what you have to work with .... way more natural for the rabbits 🐇 .... maybe one day you'll be ready to try free range rabbits 🐇 ..... the key is to supply all kinds of various covers for them with the hope that they will eventually breed with the wild ones in your area , also resupply your stock every year because you will lose at least 50 % of them every year which is natural. That's how nature works, but the key is to take at least 3 years to build survivability into your stock and get them to resupply themselves the 50% that they normally lose in the wild .... hence the term they breed like rabbits 😂😅 ...😊
I thought the same when looking in to getting rabbits. But domestic breeds come from European hares. They will mate with wild rabbits but there won't be viable offspring. They're different animals.
How does a rabbit colony work? The males fight together and the females are also aggressive. Whats the best way to do it? Like 1 male to 3 females and then the babies are taken out when they are ready to?
I make to as many females as your space will easily allow and remove the little ones before breeding age (5 months). They won’t fight until after breeding age.
earlier someone suggested one male to 10 females, definitely one male is key I suspect, we've only tried one young male with two young females but only because the tractor was 2 w by 8 ft long so couldn't fit more rotating daily for fresh greens on pasture, J's wife
Do you notice a difference in the quality of meat with the colony rabbits from the caged ones?
Not too much but they do have a much better quality of life that usually does translate to better meat
Do you ship rabbits? I live in Arizona
No sorry. They are New Zeelands. Search social media and you will likely find some for sale near you
@@SurvivalHT thank you have a great day
How do you keep snakes out? They can’t climb through the chicken wire?
I have a feeling dogs keep their snakes away, otherwise hardware cloth of the tiniest holes needed, as even tiny poisonous snakes will kill a mother rabbit to get to the babies...we've noticed more snakes once free ranged chickens and kept dogs on leads
@@johnrowley4686 thank you..
Do you separate the grow outs by sex or just leave male and female together?
Leave together. They won’t breed for 5-6 months. You’ll pull them out before then
What is the name of the metal structure?
Just search “chicken coops” on Amazon
Search chicken coops on amazon
About how many rabbits are you able to keep in there
Right now we have about 60 and they are doing fine. But I like to keep it closer to 20. There is a culling coming
Well. Let me clarify. We expanded to two of these and there are about 60 between the two.
What are the dimensions of your enclosure?
Each section is 10x20
Do you sell your rabbits
Rabbit holes can be ten feet deep. I would think they could escape after time.
We have had the colony for 4 years and not one has escaped.
Are these meat rabbits?
I missed what you said... "Two colonies, one for the breeders and one for ??? What did you say?
Fun fact a rabbit colony is called a fluffle
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You have very nice eyes.
Looks like if you have a litter of babies when it rains they're done for.
No there fine. It doesn’t flood all the time. That was a hurricane. A hurricane can drop more water in an hour then most places get in years. But you always know when a hurricane is coming so you can make preparations
you should try suspended tunneling like i created, great idea though
This how I want to do it
predator : oh im gonna dig in (sees the wire).......oh i should not dig here i will move it a little bit and start to dig in
Nope. They are animals. Their thought process is a little slow. They don’t think that far ahead. They dig as close as they can and if they can’t get in they give up. In decades of raising. We have never had a predictor successfully dig in. They try a few times a week, but same result every time. They hit the wire and quit.
Wow you have some interesting weather at your place.
I'm thinking your eating the rabbits not selling them.
Your ears will go pointed after a few years of eating them Lol.
How do you keep inbreeding from happening
One pen is breeders only. All female and one male. Male can be changed to introduce new blood. As soon as the babies are weened they are moved to a grow out pen when they are removed before breeding age.
Storey's Guide to Rabbits recommends 'inbreeding' to promote strengths in the rabbits you want to keep/replicate, unlike with people where it would have opposite effect...others of course just prefer not to inbreed due to the idea of it...which works too but requires feeding and housing more males and bunnies in general, J's wife
Meh if starving I could eat my mom! I’m looking to have rabbits for their poo . Rabbits will have vet appointments
Does *_any_* "homesteader" have content even remotely related to the titles??
'How to do Brain Surgery at Home" .. _twenty minutes of random video of their own feet_
Narcissism.
They know you won't click the "our backyard flooded" video.
I love rabbits, but could never us them for food.... I am kosher, but even so, I would not eat such a lovely animal...
That's what I say, but then again, I have never been hungry.
If the grocery store shelves go empty you might get hungry enough
If you love animals then raise your own in a humane manner like she does and eat them. Buying meat at the grocery store is enabling factory farm animal abuse so that you don’t have to think about where your food comes from. Who is the real culprit? = the person who takes the easy way out.
@@RevivalHomeDecor thank you 🙏. If they’d watch a video of grow farms, they’d think differently.
A colony can exist for fertilizer while the bunnies get lots of love, treats and snuggles. I could not eat mine; not even if I was hungry. They snuggle up to get attention. And ... those EYES!
Question:
I have Holland Lop Pet rabbits that had Back to Back Litters.
I want to keep all the babies.
Will this type of idea work?
I dont want to spay or neuter any of them and thought i could have 2 enclosures Male and Female.
Will this work in your opinion?
Females, yes, IF you allow plenty of space. Males, absolutely NOT. Males will fight to death if breeding age, 4 months & up. You can keep a breeding male with your females (known as does, pronounced dough) & rotate breeding stock. Set up a good recordkeeping system. And either sell excess bucks or cull em (eat em). Perhaps trade with others if your stock is worthy. Only breed quality animals (back to back litters is not responsible breeding). Inferior stock should be culled regardless, to preserve breed integrity.
Please do not breed if you can't cull or are just breeding everything regardless of quality. As that weakens animals and opens th way for disease.
Otherwise, God bless. Bunnies can be fun. But it is work too. Please allow recovery time between litters. 🕊