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Well, we are officially getting meat rabbits next week.
Picking up a Californian buck and New Zealand White doe on Sunday and then a pair of bred New Zealand/Californian cross does on Monday or Tuesday.
Should be a good start to the hobby farm.
I did get all of the 16 fruit trees pruned, I may have left too much in but I can always take more out later.
The FB pictures of the rabbit cages and pruning are nice.
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Originally Posted by line052
Congratulations, Fox! You're on your way to some real good eating.
Careful when pruning that many trees to not pass any disease between them. I learned that one the hard way on my poor decimated pear trees.
congrats on the purchases
my lil ones are now a month old, and doing well, growing like weeds... ended up with 3 black ones and 3 white ones, the white ones are starting to take on the california colours, guess the california is more prominent in my buck than newzealand... my champagne d'agent is due in a week and a bit, along with my first batch of chicks of the year...
just bred one of my doe's today and had a good laugh, tossed her in with the buck, and he got right down to business, did his job... well as soon as he was done, she turned around, and pinned him against the side of the cage and gave him the gears... kind of a let me show you how its done haha
We got 2 8 month old cross does from a member on here on Wednesday to bring us up to 4 total for now.
My plan is to keep 2 does from these cross animals so that we have 5 does and 1 buck.
We put the young doe in with the buck last night as they were trying to rip the cage apart trying to get to one another. Well, he was trying at first but I was not sure if things actually worked. I removed her for an hour then put her back in with him and within 2 min it was all done and she was eating his food and trying to get away from him, ha ha.
I was told the does that I got were from large litters, litters of 12 and 10. If the new doe does not lose her litter and everything goes well there is a possibility of having in the neighbourhood of 30 bunnies all born within a week and a half.
when you see the buck fall over it was a sucessfull breeding... return the doe for reserviceing a couple hours later to maximise sucess, but never more then 8 hours after the intial breeding...
my doe that is due next week is a champagne d'agant and they suposedly routinly have 10-12 kits, the breeder i bought her from said he had one give birth and raise 15... its my does first litter though, so good chance she will lose them...
Can you guys share some pics of the setups. My 10 year old boy is trying to talk me in to raising some meat rabbits