Recent content by Preitler

As far as I can tell, it doesn't matter what pellets or food is labeled, when mom eats it she develops the right gut bacteria to deal with it, and passes that on to the kits. All my kits had access to moms food, no issue. Rabbits evolved on a meager diet. Sure, with optimized protein for max...

Whatever food mom gets is fine for the kits. They get their gut bacteria from her. In my opinion, there is too much marketing regarding pellets, avoid colourful pet shop stuff and pick a decent quality brand and you are fine, especially when pellets are just an addition to a diverse diet. I...

Nothing to do but weathering it out. Maybe a dig box might be an idea? Digging is an inherent natural behaviour that's more or less still there in domestics. My 6yo spayed girl still digs now and then, like, a tunnel once a year, was more when young. Little compared to what intact does did...

I would definitly stop any attempts of putting them together for now. Hormones might still need some weeks to dissipate, and even without balls they are adolescents, puberty was in full swing when they got neutered. Can't tell how to proceed, never tried 2 males. It's not impossible, I've...

Isn't dried forage just hay? I get mine from a local farmer, here those farmed single species hays are pretty much unheard of, hay is whatever grows on the meadows.

I would just blunt sharp edges with sandpaper and keep using it.

Some rabbits do warm up over time, others, well, not in the ways one would expect. My late Red never liked to be touched, something that fully manifested during puberty, but she was a docile, friendly, laid back girl, got along well with other rabbits, including rabid dominant ones. But me...

I had a 7yo doe accidentially get pregnant, kit got stuck, couldn't do anything about it and and when I made it to the vet with her she was in pretty bad condition. Got kits removed and spayed, I don't think the vet thought she would make it but she lived to 11 afterwards. So, can't get any...

Hm, if the eye is crusted I would dab and clean it with a sterile saline solution (boiled 2% table salt solution, or commercial product) to avoid that becoming a breeding ground for bacteria, and apply antibiotic eye drops. Haven't had that with kits but older rabbits, and got it to perfectly...

Rabbits usually don't care about toys, imho most are just marketing gags, A few that are made from really tasty wood might actually see some chewing. Some rabbits like to throw stuff around or redecorate, but they don't play like cats or dogs, mine definitly couldn't care less and they are picky...

If all those rabbits live together you are in for a big, numerous surprise soon. You are rather lucky that the bucks get along, well,.. unless,... Is that the doe that has kits? (my guess would be No) Are you absolutly sure of their genders? The Sex Change Fairy might have payed a visit although...

Although does do hump, it is for very different reasons than why males do it. I would still make it a priority to be sure what their actual genders are, at 6 months the risk ending up wading knee deep in baby bunnies is imminent. If you manage to make pictures post them here. Sexing can be...

Really depends on your resources. I feed grass and weeds whenever available, hay, branches and and some veggies in winter, and they can forage whatever they find. Pellets on treat level to round off their diet. There 's more than one way to feed rabbits right, and it also depends on the rabbit...

At the bottom of my bales there is quite a lot of small, flaky, leafy stuff, crumbled grass and weed leaves, some of mine love that and it might be easier to chew.

Imo wrong way around - give the treat after everything is done. Always end whatever ordeal with something nice, their (and our) mammal brains rate the experience way less bad that way. Using the treat as lure makes him associate the treat with something bad. Makes a big difference when it is...