The baby rabbits opened their eyes a couple days ago; this normally happens ten days after being born. When the kits start to open their eyes I check each baby rabbit to make sure both eyes have opened. Any closed gooey eyes could indicate nest box...
Both our does (female rabbits) have kindled (had babies) for the first time this year. I am always a little nervous when kindling time draws near. I feel the tension and excitement as the does busily build their nests. I check on them every couple hours so...
Throughout North America there is a movement to relearn the forgotten skills of self-sufficiency. People from various walks of life are recognizing that our consumerist lifestyle has a negative impact on the planet and on our quality of life....
When we decided to move South we weren't sure if the rabbits would join us. There were so many unknowns. We thought we might rent a place at first, which meant we couldn't bring the rabbits. Then we bought a place, so rabbits were an option again. In the end...
We keep our rabbits outdoors. This limits us to when we are able to breed them. When we are in the dead of winter, no rabbits breed. The risk of losing a litter, no matter how well built the nest, is too high and the stress incurred by the does and ourselves is not...
Disclaimer: If you think butchering and eating rabbit is an awful thing, I recommend reading another post. We've chosen to raise meat rabbits so that we can provide our family with healthy, environmentally sustainable and locally grown meat, and butchering the rabbits...
This is the first time we've had to deal with eye infections in our rabbit litters. I'm a little dumbfounded. I keep the nest boxes very clean as well as the cages.I've been checking on the kits a few times a day and wiping any gooey eyes with a warm...
Most of our kits are over two weeks old now. They've grown fur and have entered the cute phase. Around the ten day mark the kits open their eyes so for the last few days I've been making sure that this has happened. A couple kits in each litter have an eye (or two)...
Our rabbitry has increased in size exponentially over the last two weeks. We went from seven rabbits (5 does, 2 bucks) to twenty-nine! Don't worry, the other twenty-two rabbits are still pretty small. It doesn't look like there are twenty-nine rabbits in our rabbitry...
[Update November 20, 2012: For more information read my new post Raising and Breeding Rabbits for Meat]We started raising Champagne D'Argent rabbits the summer of 2009. Many people consider rabbits to be pets, not food, but rabbits can be cheaper and...
Now that we've started keeping rabbit kits for the purpose of breeding and selling we need a way to tell them apart. Enter the tattoo artist...Tattooing the inside of the rabbit ears gives a permanent way of identifying one rabbit from the other. It's also...
I realize that I've never properly introduce our furry friends. But first a little back story...A year and half ago we decided to raise rabbits. I can't pinpoint our decision to raise rabbits to something specific. I know that it grew out of a desire to be more...