Shelters Are Here!
Rabbit winter shelter is here!!!! Time to get building! It is a 12 x 12 foot structure that is 8 feet tall. In it, I can put 3, 12 foot […]
Category Archives: Rabbits
Rabbits vs Guinea Pigs for Meat: Costs and Considerations Part 2
Now that I talked a bit about the pros and cons that I have found while raising both rabbits and guinea pigs for pet food and my own consumption in […]
Rabbits vs Guinea Pigs for Meat: Costs and Considerations Part 1
There have been a lot of questions recently about the costs of keeping rabbits vs. guinea pigs for meat production. Many of them are in my own head, as I […]
Rabbits FINALLY Have a Proper Setup
So, i have been REALLY behind with the rabbit setup, what with the fact that I got so many on the bargain. It takes quite a bit of capital to […]
Last Set of Guinea Pig Babies: Cassius
Well, this morning I moved Alchymyst to a temporary cage with a nesting box, as her and Magician were hormonal as all get out! While I was out, I got […]
Why are there never enough cages?
I leave on Saturday morning at 7 AM to go to Long Beach, CA for the Soil Science Society for America meeting (so excited, many things that I planned and […]
Closer to Being Legit
Well, I got my tuition refund, so it is about time to buy some much needed supplies for the rabbitry. I have a bunch of rabbits coming due, and needed […]
Bad Day on the Homestead
So, I went back up to WI where i came from on Thursday. I get a phone call that night that momma bunny and her two babies had died sometime […]
Daily dose of Cute!
Well, two babies are left out of seven! But, they are out of the nestbox with their eyes open. I really enjoy watching them flip onto their backs to follow […]
New Does
Yesterday, I got 5 breeding age does off craigslist for $30 total!!! (That is a reasonable per rabbit price around here). Syren is a 6 month old American Chinchilla. The […]
New Three Hole Rabbit Cage is Done
I finally managed to finish the three hole cage! It’s about darned time! This one is 18″ high, 30″ deep, and 8′ long. Each cage is 32″. Hopefully this will […]
We have babies!
Well, trying to count her babies was a difficult process. Needed to do it so I could remove the dead. She had five babies that I found so far, two […]
Spytfyre is in Labor
Originally, she would charge me every time I would stick my hand in the cage (seriously, I was kinda scared). Now, she has become accustomed to my hand feedings of […]
Introducing Darke
This is a breeding ready doe that is about 1 year of age. She is a bit smaller and a bit darker than Spitfyre. So, she will be known as […]
American Chinchilla Breeding Line
After some major scouting on Craigslist, I was able to find a rare breed of rabbits that I liked. Everyone here grows Californian and New Zealand. Boring white rabbits. They […]
New Digs and New Does!
After the unceremonious end to my last rabbitry (needed to liquidate stock after the landlord flipped out, even though we weren’t violating any city codes or laws). We officially have […]
Germinating Pumpkins!
Well… The awesome pictures that I got from the installation of PRS nutrient probes (more on these later) and nutrient sampling with my interns Karyn and Bella went into the […]
Another Weekly Update: Week 1 for Baby Chicks
I realize it has been FOREVER since I have done a weekly update. I have been moving a lot of stuff around, cleaning things, etc. I have also been really […]
More Guinea Pigs and a Rex
Craigslist was good to me again. I got another free guinea pig cage, that also had two free hamster cages (aquariums) that I can use for my quail babies!!! Both […]
A Pregnant Doe
So, i got a free pregnant doe (she thinks) off craigslist. She was bred to a male lionhead previously, and had 5 kits. The person I got her from said […]
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