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Fall Kindling and Baby Rabbit Rescue

Fall Kindling and Baby Rabbit Rescue

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...

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Treating Baby Rabbit Eye Infections

Treating Baby Rabbit Eye Infections

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)...

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From the Rabbitry: Taking Care of Kits

From the Rabbitry: Taking Care of Kits

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...

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