Timelapse Baby Bunnies Growing | Rabbit Babies Day In 21 Days
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
- This video will walk you through caring for baby bunnies from birth through week 3. If you have any questions on baby rabbit care please leave it below.
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I really love how you reply on most, if not all, the comments. Like, no other UA-camr I know spends time replying 😊😀
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Really sad knowing their fate.
I'm a vegetarian but I believe people who eat meat are best to do it this way. You keep them healthy and in a clean environment (although I would suggest putting something on parts of the wire bottom to try and avoid some health problems and make the bunny more comfortable)
But buying from a supermarket people dont view meat as an animal that once lived and breathed but just as meat and would be squeamish of the animals death and wouldnt want to know anything about its death or where it came from (even though they eat it??)
Doing it this way you know where your meat comes from and that it was ethical and humane.
Although I would personally provide a bigger cage with less of that metal bottom but I get your trying to save time and money.
Cute little bunnies too! Idk how you bring yourself to do it though 😳
It's never easy, but we believe it's the responsible thing to do if we are going to be meat eaters. Also, the wire bottom prevents health problems, it doesn't cause them. For outdoor rabbits it is vital they have a perfectly clean cage at all time. Wood harbors fleas, mites, and causes urine burn on hocks. Any waste in a cage will attract flystrike and bot flies. Our rabbits have resting mats and wooden hay stuffed sleep boxes. They have no hock sores. Carpet would get soiled and wet, and could kill them when they chew it, which they would.
youre stupid as fuck
@Freya-Louise WILLIAMS that's actually not true. No hock sores here, just clean, dry, fluffy feet
AppleRaple PREACH
@@Urmomsbald you actually should not PREACH when the info is incorrect.
Love all the information you give and easy to understand.
Thank you for sharing and God bless.
Thank you Nancy, God bless!
Wow they grow as fast as quail 😮
Excellent video you are fantastic at explaining everything! 👍
They grow really quickly! Thank you!
We love rabbit here at our homestead. I love that we can produce healthy lean meat for our family and they can experience the good and bad of live and the challenges of raising food. The joys of baby bunnies they can love and cuddle, the daily and weekly chores that get boring and we'd love to skip but can't, and the hardest day when we process our animals and my children think on the costs of eating meat instead of just buying it from a store. Circle of life people, carnivores ripe them open and they die from their wounds, we spend time and money making sure it's quick and quiet. Commercial farming is hard on the environment but people producing just enough food for themselves and their community is the way if the future.
Yes, you live it so you understand completely! Thank you!
It's certainly the kindest and greenest and most responsible way to get fed! I admire all of you who do this. BTW, can I send my 72 year old sister to you to get educated about where meat comes from? I honestly think she believes it grows on Styrofoam in the back room at Walmart. ; )
@@wendysgarden4283 haha we may scare her then.
disgusting and immoral
When I was a kid I would hold them each to imprint. Later I could call them to me. This vid makes me want Rabs again. Better not show my wife, she'll say they are SOOOOOO CUTE.
They are soooooo cute, but also tasty! We are enjoying your channel as well.
@@GoodSimpleLiving Awesome, Thanks
@@GoodSimpleLiving dogs and cats are also tasty...stop kill animals stop eat them
@@evasergejeva12345 when I can get the right mix of amino acids so I have the right protein so my nails are not brittle, I will consider no animal protein. Until then, some will be in my diet.
@@terrirushford1747 protein can find in vegetarian food too
Springy little blighters!! So cute but you just know they will be so yummy too!!
I suppose nurturing these bunnies is no different to nurturing potatoes.
Only difference being that when you peel the rabbits they'll be dead.
What with potatoes trying to still grow and sprout up until the moment they are sliced up and dropped in boiling water.
Makes you realise how evil and murderous vegetarians are. Just saying.
Can't wait for the next episode, so glad I found you guys, a real inspiration, thank you!
Lol, right! Thank you!
Thanks for all your helpful videos! Our family has been so grateful for the info. We had our first litter today...8 kits! Our second doe is nesting and should have her litter tomorrow...
Awesome!! Congrats!!
They look healthy! Bet they'll be yummy when they're grown 😋 I've got chickens for eggs and we've had lots of casualties, it's just a fact of raising animals. It's commendable that they get old and are healthy enough to eat. Some people will never understand what it's like to raise something, put time, money, energy, and care into it so you can have something good to eat.
So true, nature is not as kind. I see your channel name, are you from Hawaii?
Love the tutorial and in real time makes a difference.
Yeah I want to be realistic with this series.
Looks like such a great live style to have! Props on you for treating these lil guys so well.
Thank you very much!
I do agree except rabbits should NOT have wire bottomed cages cause it can make them get sore hocks on the bottom of their feet.
Thanks, my daughter loved the cuteness overload with the kits and does. Even though she knows they are for meat. Cute little deliciousness fuzzball packets.
Our kids enjoy them as well. I like that I don't have the same bacterial concerns as I had with the meat birds.
Like I said in your previous video, this series is helping me a lot, I should have babies any day now!
Let us know how many you get!!
A mo. later, how many did you have? 🤗
Thank you for sharing your wealth of information. Great things to learn for people considering rabbits as a meat source on their homestead. Keep up the great work.
Thank you so must!
Just had another Litter of 10!! Thank you so much for inspiring me to start rabbits.
We will be getting our first standard Rexes in March. We do NZ right now.
Awesome!!
You made me want to buy rabbits. Thanks for the video and god bless your family.
Thank you, God bless!
rabbit should never be bought, you are supporting animal abuse
david jones even if you adopt from a shelter you still have to pay an adoption fee, so no matter what you’ll “buy” any rescued/shelter animal.
I really appreciate that your rabbits have toys, i've noticed a lot of folks raising them for meat don't do that for their breeders. It's a nice touch!
They like the cat toys. Rabbits get bored, and are naturally grazers so we give them mineral licks, chew branches, and timothy to stay busy.
Awesome! Thank you! This is perfect timing for me. I'm being gifted 3 does and will be on the hunt for a buck. So good to know what's going on before it goes on LOL.
Have fun, and reach out if you ever have questions!
Awesome video as usual! Those are some of the prettiest rabbits I've seen. Wish I could get one from y'all. Thanks for making this series!
Thank you, we do sell them!
@@GoodSimpleLiving
That would be fantastic but I live in Jorja. I think that's a little too far for those poor buns to travel.
Haha, maybe
Very informative... Thank you... I have New Zealand rabbits... Just now entertaining the thought of raising sheep and 1 to 2 feeder pigs....
Sounds awesome! We plan to add both as well!
Sweet stuff, thank you, very informative and excited for the next installment, keep on keeping on!
Will do, thank you so much!
rabbit grows faster than they run❤
These rabbits lived a way happier life and died in a way better way than all the animals that are commercially available in stores or soled to restaurants.
For sure!
Great video, as always it is full of information and it real time. Looking forward to the next one. Correct me if I'm wrong, didn't you use to raise New Zealand rabbits before the Rexs. If so which one is the better for a beginner to raise? Take care and best wishes to you and your family
We use to raise Americans and Satins. For beginners I think Rex are a great breed, because they have easy temperaments.
@@GoodSimpleLiving Many thanks you for the advice. I greatly appreciate it. Take care
Poor little buns I would adopt all of them and give them good lives to live and not become meat..
They were so cute
Kits are always for sale, bring your wallet.
So cute. Would like to get back into rabbits, maybe in the spring. I use to rise a lot of babies back in the day. I use to sell to Pel-Frez back in the 1970's.
What is Pel-Frez? Is it for meat or pet?
@@GoodSimpleLiving It is a (was, don't know if they are still in business) company that bought live meat rabbits then sold the meat over seas as the USA had no market for rabbit meat. Since I've been out of the business so long I don't know if any of this has changed. They where located in Rogers, Arkansas.
Are these like wild rabbits you breed? Or something along the lines of boiler chickens? Rabbits specially bred for meat?
No these are rex rabbits. There are quite a few breeds got for meat production. wild cottontails are pretty small and lean.
it's best to buy breeds for meat/fur but you can just buy the common rabbits they sell for pets around easter they usually come from factor farms anyway
I like the looks of the kits when they're three weeks old. When do you "retire" your breeder does? Do you process her with the "meat rabbits" but keep an off-spring doe? Then you would need a different buck, right?
We retire does when they start producing smaller litters, visually between 4 and 5 years old. We never eat breeders, they just get retired to pet homes. You can cross breed rabbits for meat, although we keep our lines separate, because we do a lot of pet sales.
@@GoodSimpleLiving the reason you don't eat them is because the meat does not taste good when they are that old right?
I love watching your videos this video was so helpful thank you
Thanks for the sharing of ur farm life. Maybe one day I could send u a small video of my babies since as your videos encouraged me. Happy New year
Yeah!!
@@GoodSimpleLiving I actually got a surprise this morning my doe gave birth
@@GoodSimpleLiving how do I send the video
Great video on the rabbits, now to come up with the cost factors? The food and work ethics for the children not a cost factor at all. Thanks for sharing with us and keep up the good work and videos.
Video coming out soon with full cost breakdown per pound!
They are so darn cute! Great, informative video. Thanks. Love & Hugs from Vicki in Ft. Worth, Texas 🇨🇱🇺🇸👍😊
They are!! Thank you, Vicki!
Question: I notice that you're raising Rex. Any particular reason you chose Rex as opposed to NZ's, Californians, or Satins?
Wow they grow pretty quick,they look so cute.
Nice video.
You are good at this. I'm going to nominate you for a UA-cam Oscar award! Lol
Oh man, if only that was a thing lol
What the heck is wrong with people criticizing you for raising animals for food? We all know that the animals you raise will have a better life then any factory farm. Any of these people who disagree with you should stop eating meat and become vegan. Then they will have a right to complain.
Thanks for the video though! You and a few other youtubers inspire me to live a more sustainable and self-reliant life!
Even then they wouldn't. Factory farming of corn, grain, and produce slaughters hundreds of small animals per acre with heavy cutting equipment. Now if they were hand planting, and hand picking all of their food on their own property... then they could preach.
Looking at these cute little ones make you almost forget about their fate that they will meet eventually. How do you actually get along with that kind of guilty feelings? Is that some kind of practice so you get used to it or does this really require you to be a certain type of person to be able to stay sane?
The first litter was really hard, and honestly, it's always hard. I didn't feel badly with the chickens, but with any mammal it's difficult. The trick is don't get attached, don't name them, and remember they are livestock. Not all meet that fate however, many are sold to live homes.
this shit is abusive and immoral. It takes more work to raise meat than you eat plants
david jones You can't be serious. Try farming on any real scale and it's way more work to grow plants. The only thing that's abusive is having to read what you wrote.
I grew up raising everything we ate. The only thing my parents ever bought at the store was coffee and tp. We made everything else from what we grew or raised. With that said, it's always a little sad when it's time to process any farm animal. I was raised to know that you treat them well and they will feed you well.
C R S you are so wrong it’s cruel and not needed when you can buy animals that is already killed that you can’t stop rather than adding to the kill.
What colour is this called? Thanks! (I’m a huge colour genetics nerd and have been having fun figuring out colours and genotypes with my first 2 litters)
Gosh her babies have such pretty coats.. just like the momma!
Have a wonderful day 🌻🌻🌻
Yes, this is the first time they all came out tortes!
I would like to do this kind of thing one day when I retire.
It's been a really big blessing!
animal abuser
@@davidjones-wy3ln go away idiot
david jones stupid vegan
@@davidjones-wy3ln shut up! Your abusing animals cause your eating what they need so dont even.
Enjoy watching your video
...very nice step-by-step..day-by-day .. progression of the development & care of bunnies...as always a professional and organized presentation with clear and concise directives and tips. ..hope y'all have a great rest of your weekend ..☮️&🌱's
Thank you so much! Have a good weekend Leroy!
I'm paying close attention! We are finally at the point where we are starting to get our homestead ready to be able to raise our own meat. Rabbits are definitely on the list! If I read correctly in the comments on another video, you are raising rex rabbits? They are BEAUTIFUL! Now i'm leaning towards those. 😊
Yes we raise re , because they are a dual purpose breed. We also save hides and sell live. If you want only for meat then there are breeds that grow faster like New Zelands
Thank you for replying! I'm actually interested in saving the hides as well. I've watched your video on pickling the hides twice already. Lol!
Awesome, then rex would be a great breed.
highly recommend the rex’. I had one die of heat stroke after flipping his water bowl and being in mid-80s indirect sun for less than an hour , so be careful as they are extremely heat intolerant
Literally makes me so sad because they are so cute 😭 but I understand you have to eat
They don't stay this cute luckily. All baby animals are adorable, but then they get bigger. Still cute, but not baby cute.
Good Simple Living And Homesteading no adult rabbit is still cute toooooo
@@user-kl1hp8qd1r yes, still cute, just not as cute or small or fluffy.
you dont need meat to live, they can grow beans instead
this shit is abusive and immoral. It takes more work to raise meat than you eat plants
The baby bunnies are soooooooo adorable😄🐇🐰
Great video!
Looking forward to the next episode.
Oh, no I didn't quit because I didn't win...lol
Yay Edward, we appreciate that!!
Really enjoying this series! Seriously considering rabbits just need to make sure I can physically do the dispatch correctly.
Pellet method is really east.
Good Simple Living And Homesteading I know you probably can’t do a live demo of it but could you do a video of preparing yourself and the rabbit for the kill and the kind of physical how to of it? I’m so scared I’d do it wrong and just cause pain.
We plan to show everything right up until the actual second, because last time we did it was demonetized. We use the pellet method, and since it's technically using a pellet and the G-word it can't be shown.
Did you find the set up for a caged co.onyod rabbits expensive have you fed your rabbits comfrey which I have heard is good for them and grows fast enough that you just cut and drop then gather what you dropped to feed and the plant will keep growing
Enjoyed the video. I haven't had a pet rabbit since I was a teenager. Now I'm old like dirt.
Rabbits are really enjoyable to raise.
I bred my show english angora for ffa and am planing on showing some of her offspring they turned 3 weeks today I had 5 babys 2 died so now I have a pointed white and a blue and a lilac chinchilla but we got 8 inches of snow in Texas where I'm at and I got heat lamps on them I hope I don't loose any shes pulling wool to keep them warm
the nest in the beginning of the video looked really soft and clean. What material did you use for your nesting? new information regarding the nail tips in baby rabbits. Great video.
Thank you. We use grass hay from our property, and mama pulls the fur.
Back when I was a kid we had a Netherland dwarf rabbit baby that had eyes opened at way too early and fur got in it. Cleaned it out but he was like 2 days old and it definitely made him blind his eyes didn't have a chance to finish developing I think. Gotta be extra vigilant with eye issues. Super sweet bunny and we did our best to give him a good life but someone broke into our shelter and had their dog kill pur bunnies they piled them head to toe head to toe at the front of the shelter. Some people are jerks. At least they lived well before then. We lived in town. He made it until he was 2 though.
Also such adorable rabbits. I love their colors.
Oh man, haven't had that happen before, but developmental things can occur. Sorry about the dog incident, what a bummer.
@@GoodSimpleLiving Yeah sometimes people can be pretty cruel thinking it was someone trying to train their fighting dog who really wanted to be a jerk. I know dogs don't break in open cages and line them head to toe. But a lot of people bred dogs to fight in that town 😑 presents it's own problem I get animals fight on their own sometimes but I think people who force them in those situations are just too cowardly and weak to box and put themselves in a ring so they get their animals to take the hits for them. As far as the early eye I wonder if maybe mama's nails or siblings nails possible just sliced them? Have no clue hasn't happened since but it's definitely something I look out for in case. He was a sweet bunny being blind didn't stop that but I'd rather not have another bunny go through being blind if I gave a chance to prevent it. Not the dog thing either. Where I'm at here I doubt that will repeat we have some pretty nice neighbors who love animals.
It's one thing to kill for food but whomever it was wanted me to see what they had done to them for sheer entertainment value so they had to be pretty crazy. Wasn't at all a normal thing.
I've heard we have to be careful when rehoming animals these days because of people who want to use any animal to help make their fighter get a blood lust. They look for free animals on craigslist. I was warned when I had pups for free when living in AZ. And boy was that lady right I had three nice women contact me about how they are a shelter or oh they love dogs so much they will take them all. All similar stories but all wanting all the pups. I thought that was super weird and didn't give them to them. Truth is animal shelters don't have time to check out free animals on Craigslist they are caring for and trying to rehome the pets they have in their shelters already. These people had women doing the contacting too as if men asked for them it would be more suspicious. I'm an over thinker it being a woman instead didn't make it any less weird to me lol.
Those people are who your veganazi haters should be after them instead, maybe they could actually do some good instead of harassing good people lol
Shoudve eat them first bfr dog
@@pewdavid3338 Netherland dwarf rabbits are very small they were show rabbits. Also no I shouldn't have to jump to eating something in anticipation of some jerk breaking into our yard with a dog trespassing and murdering our animals. It didn't eat them it killed them and piled them head to toe. Even if it's meat rabbits you kill them when you are ready to do so. You aren't suppose to speed up your plants to anticipate these kinds of acts. The person who brought their dog to do this had no right to be there. It's not my fault for not eating them so someone couldn't rob me. Sorry if that wasn't your intent but that's how it looked. I shouldn't have eaten them first, he shouldn't have tresspassed. If we break this down passed the emotional factor, because I was a kid who loved my rabbits, we get into property rights. All around he had no business there and a person was involved because the cage doors were opened. Also dogs don't like them head to toe out of habit. For sure a dog was involved due to the bite marks but he was definitely coaxed into doing it by his owner it wasn't just some stray dog.
Wow. Lovely
You are are so blessed keep up the good job doing great
Thank you very much!! We sure are!
Greetings from Long Beach ... Pulling onions and garlic soon ... Strawberries winding down ... Love the "chunky monkeys" ...
Oh we're practically neighbors! We just pulled everything for salsa!
@@GoodSimpleLiving lol ... Put a batch of cherry tomatoes in the dehydrator yesterday ... Always cut them in some way first ... Do not TRY to dry them whole ... Or it takes forever ... Gotta have an escape for the moisture ... Cut took 10 hours ... Uncut is 3 days so far ... I dry and vacuum pack in half pint jars ... Bags just get holes in them ...
I am falling in love of raising rabbits now
It's been much more pleasant than meat birds!
Thanks for fulfilling our curiosity. 👍🏿
Y’all should stop bustin up @good and simple living. That’s how we survive on meat and animals. I’m not sure why some of y’all are putting meat rabbits and pet rabbits in the same category. Some are raised for eating and some are raised for pets. Good and simple living, y’all seem like great people! :)
Thank you
mother nature is the best gift given by the God where we can being rejuvenated !!!
Good Simple Living what size are your nest boxes
Great video. We’re waiting on 3 does to kit. They should each be 1 week apart. Any day now for the 1st one. 🤗
Awesome, good luck!
i use olive oil if rabbit got scabies and it works, better than expensive antibiotics which can upset rabbit stomach if they lick it.
Nice
Thanks for the IDEA ..Watching here from PH.
This video was super helpful! Thank you so much!!! 😊
Hi I wanted to ask my indoor bunny mommy just had kits I been doin my best to leave her be an not touch the bunnies all thou it's day 5 I wanted to check in so I put a bag over my hand I found a couple dead do you think the momma is gonna continue feeding them I'm just worried I haven't done this before.
Does are not like birds, they don't mind of you touch the kits. Go ahead & check them
Love your channel and your rabbit moms they are the cutest
We have awesome does, thank you.
Very helpful thank you very much
thank you .Im in the process of starting my own rabbit project.thank you Im inspired.
Oh awesome!!
What breed of rabbits do have? Really like their colors...of course they must taste better than any of other ones too = :>)
They are Rex
@@GoodSimpleLiving thanks for the reply ya'll are great!
Thanks for another informative video! Do you ever creep feed the kits? I used to creep feed my little palominos on Calf Manna to put some extra bulk on their little bones.
No, I only give tiny runts a boost.
@@GoodSimpleLiving I was raising show rabbits so I wanted them to be nice and chunky for the ring. I thought about creep feeding the goat kids I'm currently raising, but I decided to see how they turn out with just regular feed.
Rabbits will usually get pretty chunky all on their own.
They grow so fast! Wow!
Yeah they really do! Tiny hairless kits to butcher age in 15 weeks!
Good Simple Living And Homesteading - Wow! I didn’t know it was that fast! Seriously going to come to see y’all next year for a process learning. Lol That’s amazing!
Please do!
Good Simple Living And Homesteading - With bells on! 😉
Thank you so much for sharing all your wisdom on raising rabbits! We have Silver Fox rabbits, which i love, but a question i have not been able to find an answer to - How long do you use your breeding stock before replacing? Our one buck is now 4 years old. I hope you can help me! Again, thank you for these videos - and I LOVE your intro song - are you singing it???
Our oldest buck is 5, and still going. We will breed our does about 4 years or until their litter sizes decrease significantly. The bucks are the same way. We will breed them until they start producing smaller litters.
That helps so much - thank you! Don't take the negative comments to heart, please. They don't have to watch - they just do it so they can feel like they are big stuff with their nasty comments.
I am a new member but have been going back to see earlier videos, i just LOVE this song you use in the opening....Make the most of everyday........I sing along everytime. I am so interested in this rabbit series. I live in the city and to be honest I have never eaten rabbit but am not opposed to trying but raising them for food I might have a hardtime doing. Im not against it at all, but how do you do the processing? I hear horror stories of chicken slaughtering and such. I am just curious. Ya'll are great!!!
Rabbits are so much cleaner, but taste very much like chicken. Welcome to our channel!!
You can warm babies under the tap (water). When they are chilled they are motionless. As you warm them up, you can see them start to move, slowly at first, then you can put them on the mother to nurse. There is even a way of catheter feeding a newborn but it is very difficult unless you know exactly how to do it. But, never give up on a "dead" baby unless you have first tried to warm it in water (not too hot).
I usually use a heating pad or out them in my shirt. I've brought back quite a few.
Should I take out some of the nest fur and hay? My Rex rabbits are 9 days old today and they DO NOT want to stay in the nest box. Them little suckers pop out like little jumping beans!!!
Nope, leave them alone. The doe knows what to do. At 3 weeks take the front off the nest box so they can go in and out. At 9 days they will go out, and not be able to get back in.
You talked about at 2 weeks they will start eating grass. Do you need to put more nest grass in to compensate for what they eat? Thanks for the great videos!!
Yes at 2 weeks we clean out the nest, and give them fresh nesting material.
Oh part two didn’t see this but yes pretty colors
Red fawns
Where did you find your Rex breeds in washington? I'm in eastern wa (north of chelan) but willing to travel. I can't find them anywhere when looking online. And do you exclusively keep rex or would you recommend any other breeds?
We had a rabbit give birth today. We hadno idea she was pregnant as wejust got her. The babies fell through the cage floor. Out of 5, 4 were still alive. I quickly made a safe nest for them and put them in and brought mama to them. Will she kill them if theres not a hiding box? I have to wait till morning to get material for a box. Right now they are nestled in a cotton fluff area of the box.
Can you just get a shoe box or something
like that so they can't get drug around after nursing? Did mama pull fur?
love your videos and your decision to take your family to a better healthier way of life... you're inspiring a lot of people... including my wife and I... thank you and God Bless!
Thank you Love this series.
Awesome, so glad!
No, I didn’t see any resting pads. You need a wide board. The babies also like to get on too. When I moved the babies to the “fryer” pen I made sure they had plenty to rest on. I pulled the boards out and scraped them off. Washed them if they needed it and usually they did. I’m looking at your video at the time. Babies jumping around in the box. Good view of the outside of the nest box. No resting anything. The babies acted scared being handled.
I don't mess with kits much in the first few weeks so they aren't use to being picked up. Every hutch has a resting pad 12x12, and a timothy stuffed box. I was cleaning hutches so resting pads were probably drying. You can watch any of our videos, every hutch has a pad. Our growout pens are on pasture so they dont need resting pads, but they do have a loft with hay. Our rabbits are healthy and we don't have any issues.
Hi, Sorry I could not find that part of the video. It was in the rectangular metal bin hanging from the bunny cage door--thought I saw lavender buds.
Oh that is their pellet feeder. It's just pellets inside that.
@@GoodSimpleLiving Aahh. Thanks for your time.
QUESTION. I have two females in one big cage on a stone floor. One is pregnant. Can I leave them together when the little kids are born?
Depends on the other doe, and whether she uses the nest box as a bed or bathroom. Out a nest box and nesting material in there, and if possible I would remove the other doe. If not possible give them each a box.
@@GoodSimpleLivingGood advice! Thank you. I will put a netting (metal) wall between them. So they can be 'apart together'.
Great idea! You don't want the pregnant doe to feel her kits are in danger or you run the risk of her killing them.
Question, where did you get that rabbit? From a farm?
Which one?
Any breed?
I try not to judge but how could you eat something so cute?
Right?! Rabbits are quiet and not smelly and quick to grow, but they are so cuddly and adorable I could never :(
What did you feed the rabbits at 2:39? 😊
nice video. What is the name of the giant plant you were feeding it?
I believe it was Swiss chard
You guys are so smart. I’d love to see you do aquaponics. I guarantee you’d do it well.
Well thank you!! It is something we have thought about.
Awwwwwww I'm happy
When do you give the kits water? I put in a little chick waterer. It seems to be working fine.
They naturally start drinking from the bottles around week 2 or 3
@@GoodSimpleLiving thank you! I wasn't sure it they have to have a water bowl or something lower.
I keep bottles a bit lower with kits but they stand to reach
This video is very attractive and so beautiful...
Thanks!
I am just preparing to raise rabbits - saw your video. Cage has hardware cloth for bottom. I was told this would hurt their feet
Watch my why wire bottom cages
Its also great that you treat them humanely
Thank you
Just interested that’s all but how do you kill them?
We use the pellet method. Basically just a small pellet back of the head, and out the mouth. Kills them instantly while they are eating. They don't see coming, co stress.
It’s probably painless and instant
Ur farm s absolutely amazing. R the rabbits flemish giants or rex?
Thank you, they are Rex
Beautiful rabbits! What breed are they? Thanks for the informative video!!!
We raise rex rabbits.
I was wondering if a rabbit world make a good pet for a 2 year old ? My son just love animals and I just want to find one that he would enjoy
They can if handled daily. Lips are a good option. The bigger issue is often toddlers squishing them or getting bored with them. They don't play like a dog or cat does.