How you have your Rabbitry set up, what kinds of cages do YOU use for things like breeding, living, Kindling? The largest cages are for the Velveteen's and the New Zealands, but my show bucks have the smallest cages, does keep their 'medium' sized cages. Coated wire and the vlops and New Zealands have resting mats
Are you're rabbits wire floored or solid? Wire with trays. the smaller cages are a coated wire, the big ones are a regular wire(hence sitting mats)
What breed of rabbit do you have? Velveteen, Dutch, New Zealand, a few Mini Rex and a few Holland Lops left
Do you have just one bunny per cage or multiple buns? my mini rex is mother/daughter only for company while mother gets old, Juniors are together until they are completely settled and ready to leave each other or they hit 6 months
Types of Food dishes, Water bottles/dishes, Hay racks or no? Litter Boxes or no? crocks or clip on metal dishes, my Vlops and mini rex have hay racks, along with any bred doe. water bottles, but they do know how to use dishes for when bottles freeze in the winter.
What kind of Bedding or anything do you use? bedding for nest boxes is a couple handfuls of shavings and hay, other than that, no bedding
What kind of food, Greens, Hay do you use and how much how often of what do you feed? 4-5 oz's a day for the smaller rabbits, handful of hay daily(if no hay rack) and greens like collards, dandalions or clover whenever possible.
Breeding your Rabbits:
How successful are each of your breedings?I've only had a few not take
Are Breeding for colors Important? depends, type over color certainly, but with the dutch I try to keep them to like colors so I don't get too many un recognized colors
Unlike Rats, I see that Mother-Son, Father-Daughter, and so on are ok. Not Litter mates though? I've seen it done, I personally won't do it, I would have to own several generations back so I know what the bloodline consists of-good and bad- before I would even think about it.
With your breedings do you leave them together or do you do the standard, wait til they breed, then try again a few hours later thing?I usually let the buck mount up at least 3 times the first day and then test the doe's reaction the next day.
Do your rabbits get run time? as often as the weather allows
What's with this show supplement that I keep seeing ya'll are talking about?I tired to use manna pro show, I noticed some improvement but not alot.
Do you have a website? Yes, http://ayasorarabbitry.webs.com
How do YOU keep pedigrees? (as a rat breeder I use Breeder's Assistant, and have added the Rabbit system to my computer, but do you use that or another program or what?)I do use Evans now, it's an extra licsense off my friends copy so I just put return address labels over her address, with my address. I also keep paper copies/originals in a binder that go to shows with me.
