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Litters in winter

Posted by s.ouellette at 07:26 PM on December 12, 2009

This is not easy, raising litters in the winter. I have had 5 litters, 4 of them today. I have not perfected the timing. It has been so cold. It was so cute to see my husband warming babies today. I was at work and one of the does had the young on the wire, my husband bless his heart, not being the animal person I am, put them into the nestbox, and brought them in. We used some Angora fur from when my mother raised them and covered the babies, and it worked it brought them back to life. 4 of the litters remain outside, I brought the mother that had them on the wire inside, to see if she will care for them, I hope. I will keep you posted on how they do.

See photos:

This is my biggest and best meat doe, her mother had 9 her first litter and 12 her second, and so has she. So this shows the consistancy that I hope to gain with all my does.

These are some of my Hybred does, I call them hybred because I bred a Show buck with a meat doe.

She did well she had 6

Her sister (below) had 7

The other sister had a litter as well

I am trying new nestboxes, to see if I like the metal ones, so far so great!!

Wow, Watch Food Inc.

Posted by s.ouellette at 07:18 PM on November 07, 2009

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Wow, watch Food Inc. Do you know where your food comes from? Do you know how animals are treated? Watch this documentary and visit http://takepart.com/ foodinc

Rogers Rabbits

Posted by s.ouellette at 09:00 PM on October 18, 2009

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Roger is a friend and rabbit raiser his site is

http://rogersrabbits.com/

visit his site and you will find a great reception and exceptional service. Roger said if we BAND TOGETHER and help each other we will have a viable farming enterprise here in New England. He is right, lets continue to raise great rabbits.

Just recieved "Domestic Rabbits" magazine from ARBA

Posted by s.ouellette at 06:13 PM on October 18, 2009

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I was pleased to become a member of ARBA and I just recieved "domestic rabbits" magazine. I was pleased to find a great deal of information in it. We have New Zealand white rabbits, that we purchaced from a top breeder in New England, so I am interested in showing, I am thinking I will breed for next spring, we are all ready raising great NZW meat rabbits, that have, AND KEEP large litters and are big, but I belive that showing would be fun. I am trying to figure out how I am going to breed in winter, we are a small rabbitry raising the most high quality New Zealands for meat, (the stock came from a meat rabbit breeding program at a college, we have selected and line bred them, forward.) in our garage at this point in time, we have shed, ready to put the rabbits in but it will be very small and I still can't figure out how to do the watering, as the shed has no water, I am planning on carrying from the house, the shed has heat, so that will be a plus. We are not exactly set up for it, it is raising rabbits in the city almost. I envy all of you out there with large barns and space, but I realize that has its drawbacks as well.

Check out my other page to see updated photos of my stock

Posted by s.ouellette at 03:45 PM on October 18, 2009

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Visit my other page to see more current photos of our stock.

http://newzealandrabbits.webng.com/

New Litters

Posted by s.ouellette at 06:44 PM on May 16, 2009

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Well, it has been a while since I have posted, I will be posting new videos soon so check the recent videos page.

I got this excerpt off from a website on raising meat rabbits http://www.essortment.com/all/raisingmeatrab_ripe.htm

"New Zealands come in different colours, such as black, red, and the most popular for meat purposes, white. These weigh from 10-13 pounds when mature. They are known for their ability to grow market-ready fryers (4-5 pounds) by 8 weeks of age. Their average litter size is 8-10 bunnies. The breed was developed in the USA and is well-proportioned and has a full, well-muscled body type, and prominently veined ears. "

We are very proud that we just had a litter of 12, 11 and 8 kits. Our rabbits are large bodied with a large survival rate. We weighed a buck from a litter at 10 weeks old and he was 6 lbs. Will post again soon.

Happy New Year!

Posted by s.ouellette at 05:07 PM on January 01, 2009

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Happy New year, 2009 promises to be a great year for growing your own food. I am excited for spring and am looking forward to starting the garden soon.

I am interested in feedback, Do most people build their own nestboxes or do they buy them, what is better? If a kit falls out in the winter outside they are done for, what is the best design to prevent this?

New NZW cross stock available, visit the sale page to see photos.

Questions or Comments please e-mail me!

Posted by s.ouellette at 07:31 PM on December 10, 2008

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To anyone who wishes to post to this blog but is unable to log in please e-mail me at s.ouellette@comcast.net or go to the contact page and fill out the form, but please state clearly in your e-mail if you wish to post to the blog, I will never post any e-mail without the sender clearly wanting the message to be posted. That said, I recieved an e-mail that I thought I would post.

Thank you for such a great response, I think you sumed it up perfectly

" I think if more rabbit raisers here in the north east can start banding together and sharing information we may someday have a viable farming enterprise up here." Roger

This is what it is all about, please contact me and I will be happy to share my experinces with you. I am happy to give you all the links and resources available to me, and if I don't know and can find out I will. If you are looking for rabbits/ young breeding stock we have some available at this time.

Feel free to comment on Rabbits, Homesteading, the state of the economy, whatever.

Posted by s.ouellette at 06:45 PM on November 25, 2008

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Welcome,

Rabbit/ Animal lovers and Bloggers unite.

Please post some comments. I am interested in what you have to say, as you can see I am still working on the site and would appreciate any comments you may have to help me make this a better site.