I agree 100% I had a colony for about 3 years with no problems, I loved it. I moved out to the county and my colony didn’t last 6 months…. Rattlesnakes and disease spread from the cottontails. I now have a new rabbitry using cages and having luck running Muscovies under them.
Love Mr Red! He’s so beautiful!!! We use rabbit tractors for our grow outs but do not sell or keep any rabbits once they’ve been in the tractors. They’re food only after that. It helps us save on feed.
I love your objectiveness on this subject! I have raised rabbits as pets for many years as pets...sometimes indoor, sometimes outdoor, but only one or two at a time, and always in safe protected areas...semi free roam, because I hate having animals in cages. It has always been enjoyable and successful all the way around. A few years ago I retired, and decided to raise a small colony of rabbits and breed for the first time. 🥴 What an eye opener! Rabbits are not the sweet innocent little snugglers we have known them as when there is more than two or three. AND to complicate things further, hormones change constantly due to varying surroundings, new roommates, jealousy over attention, and dominance issues! I had a neutered male that was bonded to an unaltered female for several years. They were the happiest couple ever! She mated with another male and had 2 females that became a bonded pack with them. The 4 were inseparable. The 2 younger ones began to terrorize the Mom a year or so later so I separated them from the original pair. A few weeks later the neutered male turned on the mom and she ended up dying! I have come to understand the wisdom in keeping them separated, as much as I hate it, because I have learned that they are actually the most territorial little monsters I have ever experienced. And while having new litters is so addicting, unless you are serious about rehoming them before puberty, it is just too much drama! I currently have 11, 5 males and 6 females, and they keep me on my toes, because they are little Houdini's when they want to breed...but as much as I crave those babies, I have decided to stick with gardening in the future...baby plants and vegetables are much easier to handle!❤
We love all you do Bobby, I have started a full Breeding program From just dreams with your help. Don't sweat the Haters... I'm hope the positive people out weight any negativity sent your way.😊
Thanks for sharing all of that with us Sir. I've been watching your videos for about a year now and I've learned a lot. You're doing things very much inline with my way of thinking... Also I have a 13 year old female pitbull named Dana that looks quite a lot like your sweet Roxy, my thoughts go out to you and your family for her passing ❤
thank you for the kind words. Roxie was such a good girl and very sweet. Other than chasing squirrels, She’d play and lay with chickens and rabbits and was always very gentle. Roxie will be missed.
Thank you for this. We have a very robust native rabbit population in our rural area and I want to raise rabbits primarily for manure production. I was considering a colony under the shade of our deck. You've given me some really fantastic information I hadn't thought about. Cages are going to be our better investment. Again, can't thank you enough!
i’m so glad the video was helpful. Thank you for watching and best of luck with your rabbitry! you may enjoy this video ua-cam.com/video/mzgcwD8xBCw/v-deo.htmlfeature=shared
I have solar electric fence around the enclosure of the rabbits in 'zig-zag", "x" and running to the bottom about 3 inch from the ground. 1/2 wire "cloth" and the rabbits are in the cages. No problem since the electric fence except shocking myself LOL
Lol love your comment at the end about people identifying as something they aren't. I'm glad you are open minded about different ways to raise rabbits and that everyone has different goals and circumstances. I actually want to move my meat rabbits to a colony set up, but right now the biggest issue I'm trying to problem solve is where? Most of our property is low and floods and I don't want the rabbits to get flooded out. I also don't want to have several areas where different rabbits are, I want a central location so I can do the chores at once, and not have to move around. Anyways, I have some wrinkles to iron out before we do anything but I hope to be able to do that. I'm also realistic about what problems I may encounter and I am trying to brainstorm the best I can to mitigate those issues.
We have our chicken coop next to our Rabbitry and our compost pile next to both of those. we have the Hay shed and Supply shed around the corner with our raised beds not far from that -flooding is a very big problem which could be improved with dropping a lot of topsoil to raise your terrain(it’s not cheap though) so I wish you the best of luck with your Rabitat and hope you enjoy the experience.
I had rabbits in a well protected area in 1/2 acre but they were digging so many Warren's and not safe for walking. Now they have nice habitats in a air-conditioned and heated building separated by ex pins. Safely secured but large areas to run and rest. Much better then yard.😊
I'm a member of some FB rabbit groups. The people that post most of the time about hurt, diseased, and dead rabbits are the ones using "colony". Meat rabbits are not the same as wild rabbits. Meat rabbits are better suited in a proper cage (do not use 1/2" hardwire cloth and wood for flooring). Proper cages are easy to clean and manage and a better/safer home for meat rabbit production. Decades of university A&M research and large scale rabbit production has proven that proper cages are the best for domestic rabbits.
hardware cloth (tiny squares) and steel paneled walls make nice tractors (no photos available but are high enough for lapins/buns to stand full height, rectangle or triangle shapes) (TAMUK/non show bunny for plate: Texas A & M Univ. Kingsville) and buns can lay next to each other via hardware cloth wall with metal zip ties and rotated daily: build not too heavy to move easily...very heavy when 6 ft long for example...floor: welded wire rectangles: I find raising up very high helps rabbit stay in place...ideally you'd take rabbits out when rotating...teens seen to have most problem with flooring rotation because of their foot size and less fear of people when rotated daily (so don't run to next like babies and even adults not handled, especially females post adulthood or kits)...top I like Billboardy Viny tarps last longest and plastic roof panels get brittle in our 115 F summers NW Arkansas...5 gallon buckets fit as next, I do top lid...steel carabiner tho weasels could get in we don't seem to have...best way to keep predators away is to leave eye pokes but that's a risk to people...especially young fast moving kids...eye could be permanently damaged...which keeps packs of canines away...thank you for the video...all of us still learning (I raise on native plants and grain from birth so they can eat even what people call 'poisonous' online...but I don't feed cabbage or brassica and they don't eat the mint they rotate on that is non native...they are eating privett no problem except the adults that were adopted as adults don't choose anything they weren't raised with except leafy greens...they let it die...such as privett (evergreen bush grows so fast in 2 yrs to 6 inch trunk)....likely nature's safety mechanism...buns live in former cedar woods...eating wheat middling and oat from farmers cooperative, some black sunflower seeds now and then and rabbit pellets at key growing times: pregnant, kits growing etc... our ground too rocky and irregular vs flat to grow in a large dog kennel like neighbors have success with (with the hardware cloth buried below edges only for the digging issue and only doe lives with her protein for the plate kits, they keep male at 2nd location...meanwhile allows enjoyment of multiple generations...
14:43 Sometimes things happen despite best efforts... It doesn't make people bad people. For example, a little girl got a very large cage for budgies (all the doors were closed with clips), not realizing that they could squeeze themselves through the *slightly* bigger space in the wire. She had a math test the next day. So what is better, to just quietly replace the budgies and have a talk with her later explaining the bird-specific needs and risks, or to have them sobbing on the floor for being a bad budgie-parent?
I’m sorry you experienced that. Accidents happen and we all make mistakes. Try to forgive yourself. Actual experience is the best teacher. When you’re raising livestock, there’s no guarantees. In the wild, only the strong survive. Moving forward, I would reinforce the cage, improving it with a smaller cage wire(you may have already did that). When your kids are ready and old enough to understand, you can have that conversation and share that knowledge. Best of luck.
I really appreciate the talk about letting other people raise their own rabbits. I followed a girl that had her rabbitry reported by a viewer of her channel because of the wire floors on her cages. Even though the animal control person that came deemed her rabbits healthy and cared for, and not a hoarding situation, it was enough of a blow for her feeling safe about sharing her set up. She quit her UA-cam channel and closed down her rabbitry shortly after. Her rabbits seemed fine to me. People see the aesthetic youtubers that let the rabbits have the run of the house and think thats the way it should be for every rabbit. But if you're breeding for improvement of the breed, for meat production, or even just to produce manure for your garden, keeping ten breeders free ranging in a pen on grass or having the run of your house is unrealistic.
What a shame, Im sorry to hear that happened to that youtuber. I’m so glad you enjoyed the video. I certainly have received my share of hate mail and nasty comments and I’ve come to the conclusion after running my UA-cam channel for years that some folks are very passionate about the way they do things and they want everyone to do it the same way. I completely understand if someone wants to raise a farm animal as a pet. Heck, you can raise a Whitetail deer like a dog and it will behave the same way. If that makes you happy go for it! Plenty of people are just fine going to the store and buying meat full of chemicals. This is what they know(Pick out a family pet and get your meat at the grocery store). Sadly, we’ve become very distant from what was considered the natural way of living and the majority doesn’t live in rural areas and they have zero experience in farming. Today young people are relearning what we all once new. If they enjoy the city life, then I’m happy for them, but my heart is at home out in the country. We all raise rabbits for different reasons, hence we raise them differently. Several people that are new to raising rabbits(pet rabbits)are uninterested in learning traditional ways, or even the history of raising rabbits for healthy sustainable living. Rabbits do make great pets, but they produce the way they do because they’re here to balance the ecosystem and feed the world first and foremost. But not everyone is interested or willing to grow their own unless they’re put into a position where they absolutely have to. Thanks for commenting!
Is there a happy medium? I have wanted to raise meat rabbits for YEARS but I hate cages. I know I need to get over it but I just can't seem to. I agree that a colony setup is not a good idea due to disease and being unable to track breeding pairs, litters, etc. But is there some kind of happy medium? Maybe a cage system but each rabbit gets their own enclosed run outside? We have 12 acres so I have the room.
I bought a 50 acre farm, and about 50 meat breed rabbits have colonized the area. Apparently, they have been there for several years, to the point that they act both like a wild and domestic rabbit. They understand danger and can evade, but they come outside and eat in the open. They especially like to eat around the ducks, as in the rabbit is an inch from the duck. There were Guineas, Donkeys and Geese here, but the sellers took those, so the rabbits may need more animal protection. Not many predators want to take on that combination of "guard" animals.
Colonies way more dirty . Especially if people allow Rabbit Warrens … how do you check for nest Eye ? What if the mom rabbit has a dead kit and Does not Despose it ? What about a Rodents , ANTs 🐜 Etc etc …So much bad possibilities 🤦♂️.
certainly presents a lot of challenges. Some Rabbit habitats are pretty neat looking and have wonderful intentions in the beginning, but for some it may take years of struggle and loss for them to finally enertain raising rabbits in caged hutches. thanks for watching and taking the time to comment.
The number of breeders in cages will differ from all families and businesses. We were a small production of 12 cages, but we also run an apiary with a couple dozen hives which you can watch on Bobby’s beez UA-cam channel and we also run a deer hunting channel Bobby’s bucks where we produce food plots and helpful deer hunting tactic lvideos so it depends on how much time and help you have. But when you are running low on time and you can’t give all your rabbits the care and attention they need to ensure they have fresh clean water every 12 hours and clean and sterile environment to prevent disease and ensure productivity, that would be the indication that you may have too many.
Livestock nutritionist have specifically designed poultry feed for chickens to help them lay eggs, rabbits, require different feed that’s designed for a high fiber diet
No, it's not formulated for Rabbits. Rabbits have a very sensitive digestive system and you should never change feed abruptly even when using proper Rabbit pellets. It requires a gradual transition or it can kill the Rabbit. Don't feed them Chicken or poultry feed, it will likely cause GI Stasis and kill them.
Absolutely show rabbits will be bred specifically to meet favorable characteristics which will help you produce a perfect looking rabbit whereas meat rabbits can be cross bred for hybrid vigor can simply be something you’ll process around 10 to 12 weeks color doesn’t matter. There’s certain breeds that are terrific double purpose for meat rabbits, and shows here’s a video that you may enjoy. ua-cam.com/video/cCpR7SYuH3w/v-deo.htmlsi=XgN4o1MYNnjYGycM
I think most Colony breeders decide to have a colony because they don't want to make the investment in individual Cages for their Rabbits. It's easier and better for the Breeder, not the Rabbit. That is why they are so defensive about that decision. It would be impossible to keep an accurate Lineage document for pedigreed Rabbits in a Colony set up.
it doesn’t take long to bury some tea posts and throw up some fencing Cage wire is definitely the more economic choice, but has its risks. Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to comment.
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thank you for that, making this video has actually been helpful. It was quite emotional editing, even that small part of the video. We’ve only had a few english angora rabbits over the years. and the ones that we had were fixed, so we were unable to breed them, and just rehoming for previous owners, I’d recommend posting on social media (or a website)some pictures with some good lighting. That way you can test the waters and see if it’s worth pursuing. It sounds like there’s some recessive fur genetics causing your results. There’s more information in the ABC’s of bunny color, book to help you with your results if you wanted to get more of what is selling. best of luck with your sales. www.amazon.com/dp/B01N103VJR?linkCode=ssc&tag=onamztherabbi-20&creativeASIN=B01N103VJR&asc_item-id=amzn1.ideas.3739X8WNYXOWX&ref_=aip_sf_list_spv_ofs_mixed_m_asin
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I agree 100% I had a colony for about 3 years with no problems, I loved it. I moved out to the county and my colony didn’t last 6 months…. Rattlesnakes and disease spread from the cottontails. I now have a new rabbitry using cages and having luck running Muscovies under them.
Thanks so much for taking the time to share your knowledge and colony experience. I very much appreciate it!
Love this idea with the ducks!..
Love Mr Red! He’s so beautiful!!!
We use rabbit tractors for our grow outs but do not sell or keep any rabbits once they’ve been in the tractors. They’re food only after that. It helps us save on feed.
A large part depends how to introduce them to a new place. A very soft slow release is your best bet for success
@@Specogecko thanks for sharing!
Thank you, once again a very knowledgeable video. I'm sorry for your loss of Roxy, pets always take a piece of your heart when they die.
Thanks for that -she was a sweetie
A good bunch of points, with a helping of common sense at the end. Well done, cheers from Windsor.
thanks so much for watching and I appreciate you taking the time to comment!
I love your objectiveness on this subject! I have raised rabbits as pets for many years as pets...sometimes indoor, sometimes outdoor, but only one or two at a time, and always in safe protected areas...semi free roam, because I hate having animals in cages. It has always been enjoyable and successful all the way around. A few years ago I retired, and decided to raise a small colony of rabbits and breed for the first time. 🥴 What an eye opener! Rabbits are not the sweet innocent little snugglers we have known them as when there is more than two or three. AND to complicate things further, hormones change constantly due to varying surroundings, new roommates, jealousy over attention, and dominance issues! I had a neutered male that was bonded to an unaltered female for several years. They were the happiest couple ever! She mated with another male and had 2 females that became a bonded pack with them. The 4 were inseparable. The 2 younger ones began to terrorize the Mom a year or so later so I separated them from the original pair. A few weeks later the neutered male turned on the mom and she ended up dying! I have come to understand the wisdom in keeping them separated, as much as I hate it, because I have learned that they are actually the most territorial little monsters I have ever experienced. And while having new litters is so addicting, unless you are serious about rehoming them before puberty, it is just too much drama! I currently have 11, 5 males and 6 females, and they keep me on my toes, because they are little Houdini's when they want to breed...but as much as I crave those babies, I have decided to stick with gardening in the future...baby plants and vegetables are much easier to handle!❤
Thank you for taking the time to write your comment. Experience is the best teacher. best of luck with your new rabbitry moving forward.
We love all you do Bobby, I have started a full Breeding program From just dreams with your help. Don't sweat the Haters... I'm hope the positive people out weight any negativity sent your way.😊
I’m so glad to hear that and thank you very much for the positive advice and feedback. Best of luck to your Rabbitry production!
Thanks for sharing all of that with us Sir. I've been watching your videos for about a year now and I've learned a lot. You're doing things very much inline with my way of thinking... Also I have a 13 year old female pitbull named Dana that looks quite a lot like your sweet Roxy, my thoughts go out to you and your family for her passing ❤
thank you for the kind words. Roxie was such a good girl and very sweet. Other than chasing squirrels, She’d play and lay with chickens and rabbits and was always very gentle. Roxie will be missed.
Thank you for this. We have a very robust native rabbit population in our rural area and I want to raise rabbits primarily for manure production. I was considering a colony under the shade of our deck. You've given me some really fantastic information I hadn't thought about. Cages are going to be our better investment. Again, can't thank you enough!
i’m so glad the video was helpful.
Thank you for watching and best of luck with your rabbitry!
you may enjoy this video
ua-cam.com/video/mzgcwD8xBCw/v-deo.htmlfeature=shared
I bought a bew doe and a broken blue buck that came from your rabbitry. Both are excellent kit producers
I’m so glad to hear that!
Thanks for all the wisdom you share brotha!
You bet! I’m happy to share it. Please let me know if you need anything. Thanks for watching!
I have solar electric fence around the enclosure of the rabbits in 'zig-zag", "x" and running to the bottom about 3 inch from the ground. 1/2 wire "cloth" and the rabbits are in the cages. No problem since the electric fence except shocking myself LOL
Lol love your comment at the end about people identifying as something they aren't. I'm glad you are open minded about different ways to raise rabbits and that everyone has different goals and circumstances. I actually want to move my meat rabbits to a colony set up, but right now the biggest issue I'm trying to problem solve is where? Most of our property is low and floods and I don't want the rabbits to get flooded out. I also don't want to have several areas where different rabbits are, I want a central location so I can do the chores at once, and not have to move around. Anyways, I have some wrinkles to iron out before we do anything but I hope to be able to do that. I'm also realistic about what problems I may encounter and I am trying to brainstorm the best I can to mitigate those issues.
We have our chicken coop next to our Rabbitry and our compost pile next to both of those. we have the Hay shed and Supply shed around the corner with our raised beds not far from that -flooding is a very big problem which could be improved with dropping a lot of topsoil to raise your terrain(it’s not cheap though) so I wish you the best of luck with your Rabitat and hope you enjoy the experience.
I had rabbits in a well protected area in 1/2 acre but they were digging so many Warren's and not safe for walking. Now they have nice habitats in a air-conditioned and heated building separated by ex pins. Safely secured but large areas to run and rest. Much better then yard.😊
Thanks for sharing and enjoy your rabbits!
I'm a member of some FB rabbit groups. The people that post most of the time about hurt, diseased, and dead rabbits are the ones using "colony". Meat rabbits are not the same as wild rabbits. Meat rabbits are better suited in a proper cage (do not use 1/2" hardwire cloth and wood for flooring). Proper cages are easy to clean and manage and a better/safer home for meat rabbit production. Decades of university A&M research and large scale rabbit production has proven that proper cages are the best for domestic rabbits.
thank you for taking the time to write your comment and sharing what you see on Facebook. I appreciate it.
hardware cloth (tiny squares) and steel paneled walls make nice tractors (no photos available but are high enough for lapins/buns to stand full height, rectangle or triangle shapes) (TAMUK/non show bunny for plate: Texas A & M Univ. Kingsville) and buns can lay next to each other via hardware cloth wall with metal zip ties and rotated daily: build not too heavy to move easily...very heavy when 6 ft long for example...floor: welded wire rectangles: I find raising up very high helps rabbit stay in place...ideally you'd take rabbits out when rotating...teens seen to have most problem with flooring rotation because of their foot size and less fear of people when rotated daily (so don't run to next like babies and even adults not handled, especially females post adulthood or kits)...top I like Billboardy Viny tarps last longest and plastic roof panels get brittle in our 115 F summers NW Arkansas...5 gallon buckets fit as next, I do top lid...steel carabiner tho weasels could get in we don't seem to have...best way to keep predators away is to leave eye pokes but that's a risk to people...especially young fast moving kids...eye could be permanently damaged...which keeps packs of canines away...thank you for the video...all of us still learning (I raise on native plants and grain from birth so they can eat even what people call 'poisonous' online...but I don't feed cabbage or brassica and they don't eat the mint they rotate on that is non native...they are eating privett no problem except the adults that were adopted as adults don't choose anything they weren't raised with except leafy greens...they let it die...such as privett (evergreen bush grows so fast in 2 yrs to 6 inch trunk)....likely nature's safety mechanism...buns live in former cedar woods...eating wheat middling and oat from farmers cooperative, some black sunflower seeds now and then and rabbit pellets at key growing times: pregnant, kits growing etc...
our ground too rocky and irregular vs flat to grow in a large dog kennel like neighbors have success with (with the hardware cloth buried below edges only for the digging issue and only doe lives with her protein for the plate kits, they keep male at 2nd location...meanwhile allows enjoyment of multiple generations...
Thank you for taking the time to write your comment. I very much appreciate it.
14:43 Sometimes things happen despite best efforts... It doesn't make people bad people. For example, a little girl got a very large cage for budgies (all the doors were closed with clips), not realizing that they could squeeze themselves through the *slightly* bigger space in the wire. She had a math test the next day. So what is better, to just quietly replace the budgies and have a talk with her later explaining the bird-specific needs and risks, or to have them sobbing on the floor for being a bad budgie-parent?
I’m sorry you experienced that. Accidents happen and we all make mistakes. Try to forgive yourself. Actual experience is the best teacher. When you’re raising livestock, there’s no guarantees. In the wild, only the strong survive.
Moving forward, I would reinforce the cage, improving it with a smaller cage wire(you may have already did that). When your kids are ready and old enough to understand, you can have that conversation and share that knowledge. Best of luck.
I really appreciate the talk about letting other people raise their own rabbits. I followed a girl that had her rabbitry reported by a viewer of her channel because of the wire floors on her cages. Even though the animal control person that came deemed her rabbits healthy and cared for, and not a hoarding situation, it was enough of a blow for her feeling safe about sharing her set up. She quit her UA-cam channel and closed down her rabbitry shortly after. Her rabbits seemed fine to me.
People see the aesthetic youtubers that let the rabbits have the run of the house and think thats the way it should be for every rabbit. But if you're breeding for improvement of the breed, for meat production, or even just to produce manure for your garden, keeping ten breeders free ranging in a pen on grass or having the run of your house is unrealistic.
What a shame, Im sorry to hear that happened to that youtuber. I’m so glad you enjoyed the video. I certainly have received my share of hate mail and nasty comments and I’ve come to the conclusion after running my UA-cam channel for years that some folks are very passionate about the way they do things and they want everyone to do it the same way.
I completely understand if someone wants to raise a farm animal as a pet. Heck, you can raise a Whitetail deer like a dog and it will behave the same way. If that makes you happy go for it! Plenty of people are just fine going to the store and buying meat full of chemicals. This is what they know(Pick out a family pet and get your meat at the grocery store).
Sadly, we’ve become very distant from what was considered the natural way of living and the majority doesn’t live in rural areas and they have zero experience in farming. Today young people are relearning what we all once new. If they enjoy the city life, then I’m happy for them, but my heart is at home out in the country.
We all raise rabbits for different reasons, hence we raise them differently. Several people that are new to raising rabbits(pet rabbits)are uninterested in learning traditional ways, or even the history of raising rabbits for healthy sustainable living. Rabbits do make great pets, but they produce the way they do because they’re here to balance the ecosystem and feed the world first and foremost. But not everyone is interested or willing to grow their own unless they’re put into a position where they absolutely have to.
Thanks for commenting!
Is there a happy medium? I have wanted to raise meat rabbits for YEARS but I hate cages. I know I need to get over it but I just can't seem to. I agree that a colony setup is not a good idea due to disease and being unable to track breeding pairs, litters, etc. But is there some kind of happy medium? Maybe a cage system but each rabbit gets their own enclosed run outside? We have 12 acres so I have the room.
You may enjoy this video ua-cam.com/video/XsugHQxiGRA/v-deo.htmlfeature=shared
I’ve pondered exactly the same idea!
I bought a 50 acre farm, and about 50 meat breed rabbits have colonized the area. Apparently, they have been there for several years, to the point that they act both like a wild and domestic rabbit. They understand danger and can evade, but they come outside and eat in the open. They especially like to eat around the ducks, as in the rabbit is an inch from the duck.
There were Guineas, Donkeys and Geese here, but the sellers took those, so the rabbits may need more animal protection. Not many predators want to take on that combination of "guard" animals.
That’s very interesting Sounds like you have one heck of a property.
on your last video i left a question hoping for advice on something potentially wrong with my rabbits. I would appreciate some advice on this
I believe all comments have been responded to. You can also contact me at bobby@therabbitrycenter.com for more information.
Colonies way more dirty . Especially if people allow Rabbit Warrens … how do you check for nest Eye ? What if the mom rabbit has a dead kit and Does not Despose it ? What about a Rodents , ANTs 🐜 Etc etc …So much bad possibilities 🤦♂️.
certainly presents a lot of challenges. Some Rabbit habitats are pretty neat looking and have wonderful intentions in the beginning, but for some it may take years of struggle and loss for them to finally enertain raising rabbits in caged hutches. thanks for watching and taking the time to comment.
How many breeder rabbits do you have. What would you consider to big.
The number of breeders in cages will differ from all families and businesses. We were a small production of 12 cages, but we also run an apiary with a couple dozen hives which you can watch on Bobby’s beez UA-cam channel and we also run a deer hunting channel Bobby’s bucks where we produce food plots and helpful deer hunting tactic lvideos so it depends on how much time and help you have. But when you are running low on time and you can’t give all your rabbits the care and attention they need to ensure they have fresh clean water every 12 hours and clean and sterile environment to prevent disease and ensure productivity, that would be the indication that you may have too many.
Very well said.
Thanks for watching!
Is it right to feed rabbit poultry feed
Livestock nutritionist have specifically designed poultry feed for chickens to help them lay eggs,
rabbits, require different feed that’s designed for a high fiber diet
No, it's not formulated for Rabbits. Rabbits have a very sensitive digestive system and you should never change feed abruptly even when using proper Rabbit pellets. It requires a gradual transition or it can kill the Rabbit. Don't feed them Chicken or poultry feed, it will likely cause GI Stasis and kill them.
OK
Poultry feed often has grit added to it and it can be physically harmful to the rabbit, they have pretty sensitive digestive systems.
Is there a difference between a show quality rabbit and a meat rabbit.
Absolutely show rabbits will be bred specifically to meet favorable characteristics which will help you produce a perfect looking rabbit whereas meat rabbits can be cross bred for hybrid vigor can simply be something you’ll process around 10 to 12 weeks color doesn’t matter. There’s certain breeds that are terrific double purpose for meat rabbits, and shows here’s a video that you may enjoy. ua-cam.com/video/cCpR7SYuH3w/v-deo.htmlsi=XgN4o1MYNnjYGycM
Identifying as a rabbit 😂 You nailed it. Much bigger problems!
Thanks for watching the entire video!
Do you guys still use your instagram account ?
Thanks for asking. We have an account but, we probably post to Instagram the least out of all the social media sites.
I think most Colony breeders decide to have a colony because they don't want to make the investment in individual Cages for their Rabbits. It's easier and better for the Breeder, not the Rabbit. That is why they are so defensive about that decision. It would be impossible to keep an accurate Lineage document for pedigreed Rabbits in a Colony set up.
it doesn’t take long to bury some tea posts and throw up some fencing Cage wire is definitely the more economic choice, but has its risks. Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to comment.
Is 10 does to many
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I let mine out of the cage and they are better off free ranging
Thanks for taking the time to share!
I let mine out in fenced yard or tractors. Just not worth risking with cats, raccoons, and dogs around. Not to mention disease.
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I HAD A QUESTION HAVE YOU HAD ANY EXPERIENCE BREEDING HAIRLESS RABBITS ?
MY MIXED LION HEAD THROWS ABOUT 35% HAIRLESS TEN PERCENT ANGORA LOOKING KITS AND THE REST AVERAGE HAIRED AND MOSTLY THE AVERAGE HAIRED RABBITS COME OUT ALONG WITH THEM BEING AVERAGE-SIZED IN WEIGHT. I BEEN KEEPING THE FEMALES TO BREED HOPING I CAN BREED IT TO A MINI REX And GET A HYBRID HYPERALLENIC LINE GOING IDK LOLMAYBE IM CRAZY But I BELIEVE THAT THERE WOULD BE A BUYERS MARKET FOR THEM WITH THEIR HAIRED FEET AND NOSE AND TAIL. WHAT'S YOUR THOUGHTS ON IT THANKS AND GOD BLESS...
thank you for that, making this video has actually been helpful. It was quite emotional editing, even that small part of the video.
We’ve only had a few english angora rabbits over the years.
and the ones that we had were fixed, so we were unable to breed them, and just rehoming for previous owners, I’d recommend posting on social media (or a website)some pictures with some good lighting. That way you can test the waters and see if it’s worth pursuing. It sounds like there’s some recessive fur genetics causing your results. There’s more information in the ABC’s of bunny color, book to help you with your results if you wanted to get more of what is selling. best of luck with your sales. www.amazon.com/dp/B01N103VJR?linkCode=ssc&tag=onamztherabbi-20&creativeASIN=B01N103VJR&asc_item-id=amzn1.ideas.3739X8WNYXOWX&ref_=aip_sf_list_spv_ofs_mixed_m_asin
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