Bobby, you, sir, are awesome! Thank you for taking the time to share all this great info with us. I am new to rabbit raising and have modeled my small but growing rabbitry on your design and with your online advice. I just had my first litter of 11 kits and am waiting for my second litter within 2 weeks. Things are going great, the rabbits are happy and healthy. Visiting with them is the best part of my day! Without your videos, I would never have gotten this far. Thank you for being there for all of us! I'll be watching! Have a great day! ~Craig B.
I started with a black Beveren and two Californians. It’s interesting. One mama only makes black or white ones about 50/50. The other makes spotted ones and all black and all white.
First time subscriber to your channel and first time raising dwarf rabbits. They’re the cutest animals. I learned so much from your videos. You are amazing of knowledge about rabbits. Thank you for sharing.
In your next video, can you talk about cage sizes for those,? BECAUSE I have 7 pounders that have big litters and I don’t know if a 30 x 30“ cage, is good enough for size. Can you go through different sizes of cages for does And kits
Good advice. I move my kits to a deep box like your hide box and that stopped losing kits to the wire. Even at a few days old I've found they would get dragged out on the teat and freeze. Lost some big ones like that. The deeper box keeps the jumpy ones in too.
Hey Bobby, I used the popper and hanger to process my first rabbit. It was a disaster. I popped her neck it didnt work, i popped her again, she was still squirming so i hit her with a 12" adjustable wrench. Maybe i could see the whole video. The actual killing part was ommitted on youtube video. Thanks in advance for your help. Bob
Sorry to hear you’re having trouble. Our harvesting tools come with instructions and recommended titled videos to watch to better understand. Just a friendly reminder that Rabbits passed fryer age (12 weeks )will have strong neck bones and will make dispatch more difficult. These videos may help you. Skip to 6:30 time stamp ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-quVxVpEFcGo.htmlsi=_q7m6g-OSQbQSvxW You may need to entertain a different method for roaster rabbits 4-6 months or older. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Zl6hPH9p1RU.htmlsi=sUDspcJdo0jeFsEf
Peanut is the term for a kit with 2 recessive dwarf genes that results in a problem with growth hormone production. Life expectancy is 2 weeks max. and i haven't heard of one live past 11 days yet with very, very intensive care. Your little one is a runt, and while at a disadvantage compared to its littermates, there is nothing wrong with it other than having gotten less groceries. Color genetics is an interesting puzzle when it comes to rabbits, know what the parents are and keep track of as much of the color coding as you know is very usefull. But breeding for color rather than health, behaviour and such leads to sickly animals and like problems. Such focus on color is more for showbreeding and that has its bad sides in plenty of breeds and species already. Also creating special or new colors won't work if you don't mix between different ones. That predictability is not so much professional, but a focus on a part of breeding that shouldn't be a primary consideration. Other than that, i like plenty of color in my litters, makes it easier to keep individuals apart and for some to stay with mom longer without the puzzle of who is who. (not all my breeding stock has a tattoo as yet). So no for me not having uniform litters is a preference that has to do with what i find important in my breeders and what i like looking at. Neither for freezer nor for pet sale does that make any difference. I don't do shows, the breeders blindness i see to much of due to perfect coat color being more important than decent size litter that all! grow to adult/freezer age is not where i want to go. That is for me not how you breed any breed/species responsibly.
The genetics theory of recessive and dominant genes is already very old. It was the theory of Mendel that gave birth to Genetics, but we know now that genetics is more as probabilities than anything else, and if in the Mendel experiment looked like there were recessive and dominant genes, was because he selected his peas to the point thast had a very extreme genes that looked like there were only green or yellow, but it took 2 years before he could have that, in the process his peas had many colors and sizes that were more the product of chance.
About a decade ago, I started breeding Rabbits with conflicting results, and it was only until I researched the genetics of rabbit color did things start to come in to focus. and get the results I calculated. It’s common these days for folks to discount, science and studies that are quite confusing. do you have experience with breeding rabbit, color, genetics and configuring using a punnet square? using dominant and recessive genes figuring probability has been very accurate with the research that I’ve conducted. so I’m curious what this study pertains to if you wouldn’t mind expanding on your comment. thank you in advance.
@@TheRabbitryCenter You can choose notebelieving me, but you can ask at every genetist, university and research center or any professional institution that study or works with genetics. What I say, is old, is decades old, in high school they teach us the Mendel's theory, but they don't update what we humans know now. Obviously, humans have breeded many animals and plants long ago before Mendel, that's why we have corn, wheat, rice and even dogs, but probabilities is what works in genes, and in nature probabilites are more present, but we in controlled environment, choose which traits we want and make even more probable that they appear in the subsequent generations, but again, that's in a controlled environment. In nature, traits appear by probability, and the ones that are more prone to survive are the ones that persist. At the end, even if you think that Mendel theory is complete or is about probabilities, you choose which tratis and make them appear and creat races and everything you want. We as humans did't have to know about recessive/dominant or probabilities to modificate organisms, but we know now that genetics aree far more complex than that.
@@codniggh1139 Thanks for taking the time to respond. This video is to help folks understand and certainly isn’t to confuse them further. It’s important that folks do the work and try their best to understand become familiar with the A-E series of genetics first and not disregard the information because it’s complicated. If you strive to understand why things are happening with your rabbits and conduct breeding research with rabbits that possess the characteristics your interested in, this will help you understand it better. These are fun experiments and when using a punnet square you’ll find only based on the genetics the rabbit possesses do the mutations increase or decrease random results. I guarantee it’ll come into focus for you if your interested in the subject. That said, comparing natural selection or vegetables to color mutations isn’t the same thing. I really hope you give it a shot.
Nice videos I was asking what are That vaccines that need to be administered to the rabbits right from being kindled.... Or even just the vaccines given to rabbits
Rabbits are pretty hardy on their own. Our Rabbitry is run chemical and drug free. Only rabbits bred are 100% healthy. If a rabbit were to experience health problems they'd be culled from the breeding program. RHD vaccines are given to those that have colony rabbit setups & break outs in their immediate area. But that's pretty rare.
So if your raising rabbits for meat and pets and you wanted to get them used to humans, can you handle them and bring them inside once they are about 2 weeks old? Because I have heard you say not to put them on your chest and all that in multiple videos, but are you mainly referring to the first week or so?
They’re your rabbits and you can raise them however you want but what I was referring to was newborns once they’re a little older, feel free to handle them more often even taking them inside for a bit.
I think someone should do a video on what to watch out for when you take a rabbit inside. In 30 seconds our very friendly buck hopped around the back of our 3 seater lounge and chewed clean through a 240V power cable which was on. The kids tried to carch him while I tried to work out what had happened. When I saw the cable I was astonished, that he wasn't dead. Meanwhile they had cornered him under the other lounge. We got him out with some greenery but not before he had also bitten clean through the Audika hearing aid charger cable too. Total cost of replacement of both cord and charger $580 Australian. One very lucky rabbit to still be alive, and I am not just talking about the electricity either:) The upshot... I do not recommend bringing rabbits indoors unless they are totally confined to a penned area or the owners have rabbit proofed the house.
Bobby I had my buck get in with my does she is about 4 months old don’t know how long he was in there but I marked the day for when she possibly have kits do you think it’s possible he got her pregnant I have New Zealand rabbits thank you
There’s a good chance, if he’s big enough to get the job done. They sexually mature at approximately 14 weeks. Those little guys have a hard time getting it done. But if she’s receptive that’s another thing. Good thinking marking the date. She might mustache some hay in a few weeks…
She could be either two old two young and if it's really hot out the buck can come out in fertile till winter the doe coukd be stressed which cause hard time to get doe bred and she coukd be a free Martin so in other words she can't have babyses if she is a free Martin try breeding her to a proven buck a once or twice if she don't concive then she is possibly a free martin
I have a pair of Ermine Rex rabbits but I have mated them 4 times and she has missed each time how do I know who is infertile or do you have a suggestion on breeding these two I have no other Rex
I'm sorry to hear your having trouble. This hot weather can cause problems to prevent infertility we try to keep our bucks cool with full time shade, frozen bottles, fans and burrowing systems. I'd keep breeding, test breeding 5-7 days later, palpating and keep them on a strict diet so they're slim and trim and ready for love! Keep at it!
