Weaning The Babies and Re-breeding The Doe 

I agree. Mine are eating and drinking at 3 weeks

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Thank you for watching. I am glad you are finding them helpful.

He is a very good dog indeed. :)

I have had some silver fox before and liked them very much. I have also had some New Zealands and Californians that were much calmer and easier to handle before too.

no kidding. He is always ready. :)

Thank you so much for the kind comments. I am so glad to hear that my videos are helping you out.

Me too I’m hatching out my own quails because of this amazing channel.

I don't have high hopes for the next litter to grow out any faster but she is easy to breed and is a good mother so it could be a lot worse.

Sounds like a good mix. Good luck on the upcoming kindling.

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Thanks for watching. :)

Max is always ready to "make sure you are doing it right". He loves to be in the middle of everything you do. :) Stay warm yourself. We have very cold single digit temps today but no snow (well a dusting of it) and it is going to be 60 this weekend.

Thank you so much.

Same here

I would say it is a lack of light causing it. That is a common issue. It doesn't get as cold here and doesn't stay that way for as long as it does where you are at. And I am sure it gets much hotter in the summer too. Definitely a difference in how breeding is done.

@@Slightlyrednecked The amount of daylight is different, too. Our shortest day is only 8-3/4 hours of sunlight and the longest is 15-1/2. Day length triggers reproductive hormones in most animals.

Sounds like things are working very well for you. That is a pretty good turn around time. Congrats on your new baby rabbits.

@@Slightlyrednecked Thanks. Of course its not a perfect operation. Still no babies with my second doe that should have kindled yesterday. No signs that she is close. Oh well. I'll put her in with a buck this evening and see how she acts. And 7 kits is now 6. Losing 1 from a litter is pretty common for me.

You might give her a day or two more first. It isn't uncommon for rabbits to go up to 35 days before giving birth.

@@Slightlyrednecked I put her in with a buck last night, she lifted right away and I got 2 drop offs. Tried again this morning and got 1 more drop off.

Thank you for the kind comments. Yes it is fine. You don't want to breed brother and sister though.

@@Slightlyrednecked but why not brother and sister?

I don't think I have addressed that in video. I don't have that problem myself but I will see what I can do to get it covered in a video. Unfortunately, full onset bloat is difficult if not impossible to treat. You can use infant gas drops (like what you would use for a small child) to try and help. The best thing is to avoid bloat all together. It is usually brought on by sudden changes in diet.

The water system doesn't work in the winter as it freezes too easy. Mini rubber tubs or crocks work best in the freezing temperatures as you can just flip them over and knock out the ice. Its late but hope this helps 🙂

Any of those are great breeds. I personally like a California buck and a New Zealand White doe.

@@Slightlyrednecked Then I need to find California because we do not have any new zeeland whites in Denmark. Thank you

My cages are 30 inches by 36 inches and 18 inches tall.

@@Slightlyrednecked thank you so much!! Love your videos! I have been learning so much! Again, thank you!

UH family876 wean them at 4-5 weeks old and rebreed the doe when ever you want.

You can ween them from mom starting at 6 weeks most wait until 8 weeks. Bucks and does should be separated no later than 12 weeks, most just separate genders when weening from the doe

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same!

He built his cages, he has a video on it.

I do build my cages. Honestly, if you can find used cages that is probably the cheaper way to go but if you need multiple cages it is cheaper to build them than to buy new cages. On the other hand, if you only need one cage, it is probably cheaper to buy it than build it because you can't buy just one cages worth of wire. My very first video ever uploaded was on how to build a wire rabbit cage. in fact, if you type "how to build a wire rabbit cage" into google my video is the first one that comes up.

Thanks! I watched it. Very good instructions. I’ll keep looking for a used one for now. I won’t need it until my does start having babies. They’re only 3 months old now.

Sounds like a pretty good idea. I am really not sure what kind of stress it might cause on the doe. I might give her at least a week or two after removing the kits to recover a little before being bred again. You might also look into some things you can feed after removing the kits to help dry up the excess milk. Things in the mint family will usually do that.

Thank you so much for your response!! Awesome tip on the mint.

No it couldn't have. Much easier than I expected it to go for sure.

He does just for meat for his family.

I process them at about 4 to 5 pounds. Usually, that is between 8 to 12 weeks old. I really don't weigh them but when they look big enough I go ahead and process them.

Yes. That is exactly what you want to happen.

Ginger Reid best of luck to ya!

Sounds like a good plan. I am sure they will produce plenty of meat for your freezer. Good luck with your first breeding.

I have done a video on training. It wasn't super in depth though. Here is the link if you are interested. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vBJLd9iLWA8.html

Sounds like he might be a little shy. I don't think it is a problem though as long as he eventually breeds.

Mine took about an hr for 3 fall offs

@@Slightlyrednecked true! Mine had 3 kits 2 days after my friend's doe had 6 kits (same buck). Mine started having fur earlier & he argued it wasn't because they were fewer & had more suckling privilege.

I am sorry that you are having issues. She doesn't sound like she is too old to breed. I doubt that she is having problems at all. I don't know what part of the world you are in but if it is very hot there it could be the buck has gone sterile for a while. I think I would just try again, most likely it will work this time and you may never know why it didn't work the last few times.

@@ginoy007 Sounds like if anything it was a problem with her. Good luck, if it fails again I then I would assume something wrong with the doe for sure.

:) Yup, still around. Thanks for the kind comments.

Wow, that was a while back. She wasn't doing well and I ended up replacing her.

@@Slightlyrednecked I'm apparently a little behind! Thanks for all you do!

Really? That is very early to wean. I am glad that you haven't had any problems. I am not telling you to stop doing that but I can't recommend that most people do it that way.

I do exactly the same thing. 5 does and a buck all different breeds. 4 weeks with mom. Re breed and chill until the next kindle.

The doe is about 1 year and a half old. The buck is closer to 2 years old right now.

I feed commercial rabbit pellets. I use a 19% protein pellet. But the weight gain really has more to do with genetics.

Mine were NZ California cross that were almost 5.5-6# at 12 weeks

You can get some "free" food if you leave them with mom and I have heard that they will grow out larger which is what we look for so 100% up to what you are looking for

right now I have silver fox. but I think the ones in the video are New Zealand and California.

That is a good practice. Always best to protect your arms when dealing with rabbits (aggressive or not) :)

I have standard Rex and just got into silver foxes. The foxes are the tamest rabbits I've ever dealt with (by far). I cradle them with zero worry of scratches. Rex's..... Not a chance. Foxes are more of a challenge with the heat, but worth it if you are up for the challenge.

yes. I live in Southwest Missouri.

yes. You can actually rebreed her before the kits are weened. I wouldn't do that any sooner than a week or two before the kits will be weened but you can do it.

Thanks..

Just saying I'm not an expert, just trying to help. If you're on day 18 now and you had a quail starting to burst the shell 2 days ago, which is day 16, the temperature might've been too high. The humidity seems alright-ish, could be higher but overall that shouldnt be the problem, at least not the reason for that bad of a hatch rate. The one who is not moving is dead, I'm pretty sure of that. If I were you and nothing changes by the middle of day 19 I'd stop the incubation and get the 2 live quail out. If you really really really want to you could stop incubation at day 20, but if anything wants to hatch by that time, by my experience, they're severely disabled to they point that they're not viable (and you might have to do some mercy killing, which, by my experience, isnt fun... Also the reason I don't help chicks hatch anymore). Judging by the day 16 chick I wouldn't get my hopes up. I personally, which might sound cruel, take all the remaining eggs and put them into the freezer. The chance of anything hatching after turning off is very low and the sub freezing temperatures accelerate the death of any maybe-alive-chicks. You can then candle the eggs to see when the death of the embryo accured, the smaller the embryo the earlier in the hatching process it died, obviously. Also you might find that the eggs you bought were not fertile in the first place. (I had 14 eggs when incubating the first time, only 2 hatched but I only had 5 fertile eggs anyway). If you report back we could guess where the problem might've been. I'm sorry for your bad experience... Incubating eggs is a learning process and, at least in my case, it gets better with every hatch. Hope this helps!

I am sorry to hear about your problems. As Cuberus said, it is most likely a temperature issue. The incubator could be reading a little high or a little low. If you haven't already get a couple of calibrated thermometers (make sure they are calibrated and accurate first) and verify what the temp is in the incubator. Sounds like you did everything else correctly and i am sure your next hatch will be much better. Hang in there.

thanks, yeah had one more last night get shell piped all the way around then stopped, day 19 here yes I have two extra thermometeres all within a degree diff, been 37.5 the whole time about 65 % humidity after lock down, never opened the incubator yet...cept for lock down. we will see what today brings,

@@yerneedsry How'd it go?

Just the two... AJ farms said they will replace them tho, so thats nice..

I think I should have waited another 2 weeks once they started laying so is that why so little where fertile

it is possible that they may have needed a bit more time to get the fertility up. You didn't mention your male to female ratio but I am assuming that is fine. It could also be that the eggs that didn't develop were fertile but just didn't develop for some reason. That can happen if they are stored too cold, or too warm at first and then too cold. It could be problems with the incubator not incubating at the correct temp. If it were me, I would just try again. While you are waiting to collect eggs and incubate again start checking the fertility of the eggs you aren't going to incubate. Crack them open and look for a little white dot on the yolk. If it has a faint bullseye ring around it, it is fertile. I hope that helps.

Thanks I I have a 1 to 4 and I just checked the eggs about 2 days ago and out of 6 eggs 5 where fertile

sure. hay is always good to have for the rabbits.

Tarique Hanson you need! To offer hay all the time

Oh and I was grinning at your dog...I think he was hoping for a rabbit scooby snackLOL

I didn't weight them but I think they are about 3 pounds probably and are at about 8 weeks old right now.

That isn't normal but it isn't really that abnormal either. Sometimes they just have a strange pregnancy. Usually, if that happens the one kit will be much larger than a normal newborn kit.

@@Slightlyrednecked Many thanks. Cheers

I filmed this over the weekend. it was January 27th, 2019

@@Slightlyrednecked ok bro

Today is February 1st in Missouri. :)

Please show pictures of two week old rabbit.

hello.

no breakfast today yet. If I do it will probably be sausage and eggs.

nothing wrong with that. I break in the summer because it gets so hot here but that is specific to my situation.

yes. They get as much hay as they want.

It can be indeed. I probably didn't need the gloves after all but better safe than sorry. :)

@@Slightlyrednecked yeah. I have one that's about to be 🍜 because he is so aggressive. I DIDN'T use gloves and he scratched a sensitive part of my wrist (not why hes gonna be soup, hes just plain mean besides that) and now my whole wrist is sore. I was moving him to a different cage because the cage he was in was bigger, and the Doe I moved in has been bred. I give my does bigger cages than my bucks because of all the bunnies.

I am sure he does. :)

That is a great way to do it.

Looks great to me.

No its not.

She is a breeding meat rabbit. And he did explain that he's giving her more time off than he has to. Maybe think of it as she gets to live rather than just being a meal.

He gives them time off, I give mine time off too.

Not exactly. She will have about 3 or 4 litters during the breeding season but she takes the summer off.

Seriously you should just put all your animals in a shelter they’re better off there than with you!

He was playing with him???? Have you never owned a dog before?

Yes five I’m actually a dog walker and basic trainer myself I just got mistaken

I understand. I can see how some people could not bring themselves to eat rabbits. It isn't for everyone for sure.

I am sorry you feel that way.

@@Slightlyrednecked hoping you use yours for food and not as a pets because they shouldn't be held that way. the extra skin on their necks isn't enough support for them as it is for a dog or cat. They need to have their whole bodies supported unless theirs some kind of emergency and you have to pick them up a different way.

@@jazzyharvey4217 he is

@@jazzyharvey4217 he supported every single rabbit he picked up. i don't understand people that have to make things up to gripe at people about,

He does support their Lower back with his other hand so it isn't that bad. Most of the rabbits are killed anyways so it doesn't matter that much

Lol ur crazy alot of breeders use this set up

Wow reading the message I wrote I must have been really mad lol

And DON’T call me crazy animals are NOT food and whoever kills or breeds animals should stop it it’s not right

@@Theroyalelollipop so we should all starve to make u feel better get the fuck outta here . u think we shouldn't kill animals ur ancestors killed and we will keep on killing animal to provide food. And u should stop commenting on shit u know nothing about u complete fool

You literally said there prey animals they were created to be food. And the wire cages are fine as long as you have a board they can rest on.