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It's That Time of Year Again.......
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<blockquote data-quote="nerfherder" data-source="post: 593073" data-attributes="member: 15907"><p>If you have super hot summers, plan to find a way to cool the rabbits. (Frozen pop bottles of water is what we use.) If you have super cold winters, it's only a problem if they kindle and aren't smart enough to actually nest the babies - at first, before the kits are big enough to chase them down, they only feed the babies once a day (predator avoidance.) Which means the babies are mostly left alone, and if they don't actually make the nest for real the babies will die of hypothermia. We had one doe who had beautiful big litters, but she'd leave them *on top* of the belly fluff, and had no clue what else to do. We gave her three chances, then gave her to the crockpot. She was otherwise sweet, but I couldn't keep a litter of hers going.</p><p></p><p>Any of the does who kindle in the winter, I've learned to drape the cage with old wool blankets. It keeps the cage temp above freezing so their water bottles don't freeze. And right now, with all the weeding (back on topic! Yay!) everything I weed out goes to the meat bunnies. No matter how good a weeeding job I do, every irrigation day seeds from the pasture and ditches wash in and start to grow. So no lack of weeds for bunnies, or chickens, or goats.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nerfherder, post: 593073, member: 15907"] If you have super hot summers, plan to find a way to cool the rabbits. (Frozen pop bottles of water is what we use.) If you have super cold winters, it's only a problem if they kindle and aren't smart enough to actually nest the babies - at first, before the kits are big enough to chase them down, they only feed the babies once a day (predator avoidance.) Which means the babies are mostly left alone, and if they don't actually make the nest for real the babies will die of hypothermia. We had one doe who had beautiful big litters, but she'd leave them *on top* of the belly fluff, and had no clue what else to do. We gave her three chances, then gave her to the crockpot. She was otherwise sweet, but I couldn't keep a litter of hers going. Any of the does who kindle in the winter, I've learned to drape the cage with old wool blankets. It keeps the cage temp above freezing so their water bottles don't freeze. And right now, with all the weeding (back on topic! Yay!) everything I weed out goes to the meat bunnies. No matter how good a weeeding job I do, every irrigation day seeds from the pasture and ditches wash in and start to grow. So no lack of weeds for bunnies, or chickens, or goats. [/QUOTE]
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