Raising Rabbits - What You Can And Can't Feed A Rabbit
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- Today's video is a 5 week update of our litter that we have been following from the beginning! They are now starting to eat some fresh grass in preparation for being moved to the growout lawn tractor. We are also discussing what foods every rabbit should have in their diet, and what foods you should never feed a rabbit.
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Pre-season your meat by feeding it herbs!
What a life hack.
A rabbit will absolutely eat carrot, potatoe, beets, saw grass, fire weed ( Alaskan here) in the wild because when they are in the wild there food choices are not 18% timothy pellets. I have seen crops decimated by rabbits in the fall when the green grass is mostly gone including corn, millet, sorgam, green beans, bell peppers, and even tomatoes and peas (especially). Rabbits frequently nest and try to warren in gardens. I am glad you have never experienced losing your garden to rabbits but 90% of what you said they do not eat in the wild is only accurate if they are miles from a garden out in a forest somewhere.
My rabbit jumped on my bed and ate my whole Kit Kat, it’s been 8 months and surprisingly she’s still alive
Honestly, watching back I use to be so defensive about the rabbits lives and everything, but I’ve grown to respect your honesty with the process. You have 1st hand control of your diet and know directly where your food is coming from. We in the comments have to depend on stores with there GMO products and GH produce, not knowing what we’re truly eating. Disclaimer : (People in the comments )please stop with the hate because this woman has an abundance of rabbits and is doing what we all should be inspired to do. PERIODT
Thank you, I appreciate you hearing us out.
I just started watching "rabbit" videos and you are already my favorite because you have no issue just talking about everything. Just like the little smashed rabbit and what you might do with it. My female German Shepherd would totally eat that. Thank you for not being squeamish!!
You bet!
I'm a 2x pet rabbit owner, so I couldn't ever imagine eating them now. But I've ate rabbit before and I respect that they do taste delicious. I appreciate the information you shared in this video. I'm forever googling, "can a rabbit eat..... "insert food" while at the grocery store. Thank you for the informative video. And regardless of why you raise them, it appears you take great pride in their care. ❤
Thank you! It's good to know whether pet or livestock. My breeders are pets. I have breeders I've had for 6 years already.
I used to have rabbits, they LOVED cilantro.
I just got a lawn tractor for my bunnies and their pups once they're of age. They love it! I'm raising my bunnies on pasture in the spring‐fall and winter will be hay and fodder. I live in texas so winters tend to be mild. Already nearly doubled in size since I switched them from straight hay! Can't wait for the first litter and harvest! You've been my main influence for raising meat rabbits myself ❤💗 Thank you!
This was only just recommended to me but I would just like to share this- my rabbit got out one time and she ran around 2 days we couldn’t find her- I then found her in the garden eating the carrots, she dug them out!
Wow! How informative. When I was younger we raised rabbits as pets and meat and we gave them the corn fodder, tops of various brassicas, as well as the rabbit pellets and apples. This was all at the instruction of the lady that we called the rabbit lady.
We also used to trap wild rabbits and it seemed that the best bait for wild rabbits( cottontails) was onions and apples. Thank God for the internet and RUclips. We now get very valuable information that makes much of our past learnings obsolete. Thank you for the information, keep putting out great videos.
Thank you very much! Glad it's helpful!
Onions are not good for rabbits.
Sorry for your loss. People don't understand even if you are raising them for food, you still care about them.
Thank you, yeah losses on the farm are never easy.
I will never understand that myself. I don’t eat animal products as they deserve to live out their natural lives just like us.
😂😂😂That's quite the ethical leap you made there, pal!
@@bvegannow1936 do us all a favor and go take your vitamin B12 supplement you stupid asshole. Your brain is so malnourished you don't even know what you're saying. You have no sense of logic or reason.
bveganow your friends list must be very short, this is very personal for you and you have to JUDGE everyone you interact with and toss all the meat eaters. How many decades can you keep this up?
O'ops, I was feeding Kits broken broccoli crowns I was getting from a Grocer by the Bagful. I have been slowly pruning Apple Tree's that were never Sprayed, and they love the leaves and totally strip the bark which helps dullen their teeth. I save the stripped sticks for Woodstove Kindling once they dry up.
In nature, wild rabbits eat bark, when we were cutting Poplar for veneer and Pulp in the winter months we'd see the stripped branches in the morning.
Love you're Videos, much appreciated from Northern Ontario.
A little broccoli is fine, but I wouldn't feed a lot. Stems are probably better. They love the tree trimmings!
I’m sorry for the loss. I don’t eat meat myself. But I know there has to be some kind of connection between you and the rabbits due to the fact that you take very good care of them. They are very cute.
Farmers do love and care for their animals. They are our livelihood, and we do want to see them have a good life until the day. It's always sad to see one get hurt or sick.
@Austin Martín Hernández so you rather farmers starve and mistreat their animals because they are going to die anyway?? What a moron!!! Are you a computer nerd?? You have zero common sense! Probably a farmer will get top dollar for well cared animals versus neglected animals.
@Austin Martín Hernández kind of compare it too, your pets are the moms and dads, you name them and care for them for say 10 years, in that 10 years they have taken care of you by providing food for most of that 10 years. you would eat their young at about 5-6 months old. my granddad waited until the young weighed about 6-7 pounds. they raised rabbits and had over 300 with names. they sold them to pet stores and sold them dressed out as food. they killed 25 every 2 weeks and sold 50 pure breed New Zealand whites to UAB laboratories every month. they had on average 500 that they fed and watered everyday. they had about 6-10 different breeds. New Zealand reds and whites, Siamese Satin, Rex, Dutch (black,red,and blue),Dwarfs,Californians, a couple of Lops and 1 doe from the Giant breeds (she weighed 20 pounds). they would keep the breeders until they couldn't produce anymore then they were fattened up and used to make rabbit sausage. old rabbits have tough meat, they mixed 2/3rds rabbit 1/3 pork, rabbit has very little fat. Rabbit is all white meat like chicken breasts more protein and less fat than chicken also. If you love chicken to eat you would like rabbit very much.
@Austin Martín Hernández I'm fighting that battle in my head at the moment. I need to start raising something for meat. Given the breaks in the supply chains I believe we all do, but I'm not sure I could ever kill anything. Butchers are a good option, or friends who are comfortable with the process are a good option if they'd do it for trade or something. One of the best videos I've watched about it is Becky's Homstead's video "Meat with Mercy."
Good luck!
@@cherylmcelveen2817 one thing you can do is to check if there's anyone nearby with meat rabbits to go to and just observe how everything is done. It's a bit scary, but very informative =)
In the end I could do it myself with no help. I believe that if I've raised them I'm also the one to put them down as well
Love the video. Came here to comment on your lisp. Love it! My aunt has the same slight lisp and hates it. I always thought it was unique! Thanks for the information!
We had a five by five patch of cilantro that would come back each year by reseeding. We always used a good portion for the rabbits, who loved it. After the seeds fell, we would harvest the thick stalks and let them dry. It was a treat the rabbits looked forward to all winter.
I personally have watched a group of rabbits(5).. You're correct, they do eat the green tops of carrots.. But these SOB's did dig up potatoes. They seem to love only the skin of the potatoes.. The tops were partially eaten and the potatoes were "PERFECTLY" peeled.. They also loved cabbage.. Many times, I wanted to kill them.. I got more enjoyment watching them for about 2 months.. Beside, only a matter of time B4 a hawk would pick them off.. Thought I might get to see it.. No such luck.. I "NEVER" saw any smaller rabbits.. All the same size.. No fighting... No chasing.. Like they were a group of related bachelors.. From around mid Aug to late Sep, I enjoyed the antics of these (5)..
I have seen rabbits eating tomatoes in my garden. Though I must admit that is very rare. high sugar and acid, low fiber. I thought it was odd. but after I chased them out, I found that about 6 of them had been eaten half way through.
That being said, I would never feed them tomatoes even as a snack. I built mine 4x12 wheeled cage with chicken wire bottom. over seeded my back yard with clover timothy and alfalfa, and let the dandelions grow. Moved the cage around the yard every couple days. They mowed my yard and fertilized it.
Nice, that's a brilliant strategy there.
The rabbit could have been eating on the tomato for the juice, it could have been thirsty. Maybe you could sit a bowl of water out if you want. Squirrels we're burring on my brothers tomato's in his garden and we think that maybe they were thirsty.
How you can check on your new litters without going all "awww" is really beyond me, i swear. My oldest doe is having her first somewhere this week and im still processing the fact that im going to have to cull some of the kits when theyre older. Sometimes i wonder if im actually cut out for this, but your videos make me feel a bit better knowing its possible to respect and care for your animals while raising them.
maybe it's cause she wasn't doing this for the first time
Plus they're super ugly before their fur comes in
Yeah… I am the same. I want to raise meat rabbits, but I don’t know about that… and I have talked to people who screwed up when killing the bunny and it screamed. Rabbits notoriously scream in a way that sounds like a human child screaming, and I know people it doesn’t effect, and I know people who went full vegan after botching a bunny butchering…. I’d hate to screw up a bunny butchering and go full vegan. I love bacon!
@@johnrice1943 no they aren’t 😢 they are super cute
if anyone is watching these videos and wanting a rex variety like cindy and her kits the color is called black tort. It was called black and fawn in the video, but black tort is the correct term when looking for breeders :)
Rabbits do eat root crops in the wild tho. A rabbit has no trouble digging up carrots, radishes, turnips, etc. Yes, the prefer the nice tender, green tops first but in nature they always go back for the root during winter when the green tops cant be found and nobody left them a bag of pellets behind the stump. They can dig a carrot up in seconds flat in frozen ground, just like deer do. Rabbits often dig into the ground to build a nest for their litter. Digging is necessary to keep the toenail from overgrowing and growing into their feet.
Animals eat much more in the wild than what we give them credit for or think they should eat. Usually the animal itself is the best indication of what its diet needs to contain. They know better than we do on what is good or not so watch closely sometime and you'll see.
I have been raising rabbits just shy of 50 years now. The past 15 years I have allowed free ranging of t b.c e rabbits and that is when they teach you everything you thought you already knew about raising rabbits.
Have fun!!
That's true, they can dig them up, but they only will if greens aren't available.
Ty for info!
Don Pfeiffer great and helpful comment. Funny how we think pellets could be better than anything they get naturally. Encourages me for our rabbits!
I have a pet rabbit in my lawn .. and 90% of the time it stays under the ground .. getting out things to eat although there's loads and loads of grass grown .. .. rabbits can surely dig in and eat reddish carrots n all even if the greens are available
@@rahemahmed7094 do you have fencing? Or how do you teach him to stay in your lawn?
Great tutorial! Who knew? I’ve never been around rabbits and all I know are misconceptions!!
Yeah cartoons always show bugs eating the carrot first. Clearly he would start with the greens lol
Every time I watch your videos I learn something! Iceberg lettuce was something I never would have thought about not being good for them 😮
But now that you explained it, it makes total sense 👍
Yay, I'm so glad! Thank you for your help yesterday!
Good Simple Living And Homesteading
My pleasure, Thank you 👍😁
I only feed iceberg lettuce in the summer when it is hot.
I assumed it would due to it being bad for rats but now I know it’s bad for them.
Your right about the carrot myth.
It's the same like cats and milk
Rats and cheese.
I feed my rabbits hay/grass and each adult rabbit gets 1/2 cup of pellets each day.
I do give a little bit of cooked chicken or beef a few days before the mothers give birth.
I have found that the does don't eat their baby's as long as they have a proper level of protein.
NOOO rabbits are vegans. They are suppose to eat only plants! Give alfalfa as a source of protein and never ever chicken or beef.
The rabbits are beautiful I need to start up again with my rabbits especially for the manure
If I recall correctly the carrot myth is from bugs bunny where mel blanc used the shtick as a mockery/homage to a famous actor, Clark Gable (best known nowadays for the male lead in Gone with the Wind). Bugs of course became a pop culture icon that stuck around and superseded the source material in popularity.
Ur videos r so educational. I have benefitted greatly as a novice. Keep up the good work. (I'm happy I subscribed) 😍
You guys have the best rabbit raising channel on RUclips.
Thank you, really appreciate that!
I love the way you guys live. We plan on buying land in Oregon when my wife finishes nursing school. Our dream is to have a small farm.
Awesome! What calls you to Oregon?
@@GoodSimpleLiving A few years ago I was injured on duty and now I'm medically retired. I've always loved Oregon and we finally have the opportunity to leave California. When my wife finishes the Nursing program she's applying for a job up there.
I lived in the Willamette Valley for nine years and gardening was never easier. The soil is great. You just drop some seeds in and get a great harvest. Plant dahlias, roses, and hydrangea for beauty. They get so BIG there! And Marionberries, man, I miss those. Great place for apples and grapes as well. And hazelnut trees. So much you can grow if you live in the valley.
My husband and I have decided that depending on where we start our homestead and maybe a few other possibilities of course, that we will give any meat animals that die randomly as an offering so to speak to the near by predators many say this helps keep them from coming into the coops, farm etc., And helps reduce waste if like you said you don't feed it to your dogs/other animal. You could also sell them to a snake breeder for a few bucks/free. We like to try to use everything and new ideas can be helpful/resourceful. ☺️
It's a nice idea in theory, but if you start feeding local predators they are sure to return, and they will feed on your live animals. If you wanted to use them to trap predators, that's one thing, but I sure wouldn't feed them.
I've had rabbits that dug carrots up and ate them right out of the ground.
I believe you 110%.
Rabbits barrow. I was actually questionable about this. Until this question.
Rabbits can really dig deep. They've got Tough Claws. And really Strong legs
Yeah, they would probably eat a lot of the things she said not to feed them in nature, they aren't very picky, and they do dig. That doesn't mean it's good for them, and in nature they'd mostly be eating grasses and leafy greens. But if you are raising them for meat, maybe it doesn't matter so much so long as they live long enough to grow full size.
Know a girl who feeds her rabbits a carrot every day they are all fine no clue why she thinks they shouldn't have them much at all
@@Nick-yh6of exactly,mine too was crazy about her carrots.
Whoa! I'm glad I watched this video. I didn't know about broccoli and cauliflower being no-nos! Thanks a TON for that.
You bet!
M'y rabbit lovesss brocoli and the vet told me that i can give her some. Juste two Times a week instead of every day.
They also like strawberries, clover, and dandelions.
Yes they do!
My oldest buck chows down dandelions faster than Charlie Sheen can snort a line of coke.
do rabbits ever get gut problems from the white powdery mildew? like is seen late summer , squash leaves are really noticeable
commonconservative well you wouldn’t feed them plants with mildew in the first place lol.
in my area the mildew hits around june july so any homegrown greens or dandelions start getting mildew, my point is somebody stills feeds it to their rabbits probably and I wondered if they are able to tolerate it
Those rabbits look really healthy, this woman knows what she is doing.
Thank you!
@@GoodSimpleLiving Vegans just don't understand how much care your giving to these beautiful babies ❤
We do care for our rabbits, thank you!
@Good Simple Living And Homesteading so explain that wired flooring
I have many times, but the reason for hardware cloth floor outdoors is to protect them from fleas, mites, flystrike, and bot flies that are instantly attracted to any sitting waste. The wire floor keeps them clean, and protects their hocks from urine burn. They have resting mats and wooden sleep boxes as well.
They use cooked grains from breweries as an ingredient in rabbit pellets.
I have wild rabbits (as in pests I root for the hawks and owls to get), and they've never eaten roots. They'll eat some surprising stuff though: potato flowers and new growth (which I thought was toxic, but the rabbits didn't read those articles). They love squash blossoms, and I have to drape my squash with chicken wire to get a crop. But bean plants are their fave--they'll eat every single leaf that they can reach. And yes, all my parsley got eaten and most of my marjoram and oregano. Thyme and sage, nope: they won't touch it. And they're fond of day lily flowers.
They love flowers and leaves!! Sorry they are ruining your garden. Our dog and cats take care of the cottontails.
@@GoodSimpleLiving Thanks for the sympathy. I plant extra and hope they leave me some! lol. And I fence, and spray hot sauce, and deer net. And sometimes at dawn I go out with the pellet gun and hope for dinner.
Moi check out Hunting with Hardman. He does pest control. He has an impressive pellet gun set up.
@@wendysgarden4283 eek! I think they'll probably have more babies and call their mates over!! I like your thinking though - enough for all :)
I don’t have any issues with bloat but one time I bought a rabbit that brought coccidia in and the new bunny was isolated from my breeding stock but was in same yard area as my grow outs in tractor. With coccidia the bloat seems to be what gets them 1st. I had great luck with using the baby gas drops and horse probiotics. Of course antibiotic Albon for the coccidia part. Saved all but one baby. Our rabbit food we feed recently was on the list for recall due to much calcium in the food from a machine issue they had. Probiotics I can’t stress enough if they have a bit of diarrhea. This time I used a powder form that can be added to the water.
Awesome, wonderful information
I grow sweet potatoes, and they grow all over the place. Out of my garden and into the grass. I keep cutting them back to keep them from taking over the yard. Can I feed them the sweet potato plants, the vines that grow on top of the ground. I have a 20 by 25 ft garden and like I said they fill that up grow into the next yards and out into my lawn and keep cutting them back. I have a lot of this. I don't know how much they can eat but I run my lawnmower over it to keep from having sweet potatoes growing in the yard.
If I can't grow grass, can I just use pellets, Timothy hay, and the other things you mentioned?
Yup, pellets and hay
..'loss of life.. in fact IS life' ...i do respect how y'all care for your animals..as i admire your willingness to share specific information & tips to those who wish to learn to raise rabbits responsibly..., another video (btw as long as it's factual and helpful...you can never share too much information - r.e. your LIVE last evening ☮️&🌱's
Thanks Leroy, and we appreciate your respectful approach even though we eat differently.
@@GoodSimpleLiving ..as i do yours as well...have a great week...☮️&🌱's
@@leroybrown7757 thank you, you too
That's MY cilantro! When we get our rabbits, they better step off my herbs 😛
Getting into all sorts of new things , small time homesteading.. rabbits are next . Thanks for all great info . New sub here 👍🏻
I have 3 rabbits and my rabbits love herbs and thank you for the info!!
Sounds like that litter has a secret fight club, and nobody's talking about it. How many litters do you get from a Mother, and what do you do with the older mother rabbit when it's past it's litter years?
Not sure what happened to that fluffy guy?? He was the runt, maybe there is some Lord of the Flies going on. I get about 4 litters a year from our does, but I don't breed heavily. I breed them about 4 years, and then retire them to pet homes.
My retired breeders and the other rabbits that I don't eat become cat food. I grind them up and add egg yolks, water, taurine, fish oil, vitamin e, and vitamin b complex. Then I freeze it and the cats eat it raw at body temperature.
Will Dwyer aw that’s not very nice to those hard working rabbits. But I understand it. Can’t waste any I guess
great video the only thing we really do deferent is the hay I cut and bale all our on hay and it a mix of every thing lol it what most people would call mix grass hay but that's an easy way for people to say idk hay. I have noticed just like in our horses and cattle the rabbits eat the mixed grass hay better than a single variety so it may save you some money to try a 2nd cutting bale of mixed grass hay just to see pure Timothy hay here is 5 to 7 dollars a square bale were mixed grass hay is 250 to 3 dollars a bale I sell all mine out of the field 3 dollars a bale and it's gone as soon as I get it baled. thanks again for the good info
We grow timothy alfalfa mix at our 20 acres in Idaho, so they eat that now. Here in WA they eat a lot if grass hay from our own property. They seem to love both just the same.
Great info. I am considering starting to do this. Your info was great. Thank you
Great vid and very informative. Super healthy food sourse do a vid of processing the meat please.
My adult rabbits rex, California & netherland dwarfs love whole wheat kernels mixed into their pellets! I have been mixing scratch in with their pellets sometimes too. I will quit doing that now. I also give them celery & carrots occasionally. I am going to build a rabbit tractor as well.
I raised Californians years ago. After harvesting the broccoli or cauliflower I would pull the whole plant up and feed it to the mother & babies of any age. The next morning only the middle core of the stalk would be left. I never had any problems. Maybe I was just lucky. They liked broccoli the best, but carrot tops were their favorite.
Enjoy watching your video
This is great information to know before starting to raise rabbits. Thank you for sharing.
So glad, thank you!
I feed my rabbits with corn and other seeds for over 15 years. I give them greens also,but main good are seeds like corn and it is much cheaper. They eat anything. Enjoy
They will eat anything, but doesn't mean they should. Corn kernels have hulls that are indigestible to a rabbit, and can cause life-threatening intestinal impactions/blockage.
@@GoodSimpleLiving didn't had any dead rabbit in 15 years,but I understand. Thank you for responding
We put wood blocks (pine) and pine cones to help keep their teeth down. It this ok they seam to love the pine cones
Yes mine love pinecones too! They also love crunchy fall leaves.
We do that also!
What's the point they are just gonna be eaten. It's cruel
@@aleiyuh1712 Do you eat meat? If you do, an animal had to die. The meat in the store did not magically appear.
@@aleiyuh1712 well because we believe in them having the best life possible whole they are hear, but more importantly, we keep our breeders many years. I still have rabbits 7 years after I got them. Their tooth health matters. BTW all your little snippy comments are really good for my channel, and for that I thank you.
Casually looking out the window and seeing some rabbits munching on carrots in garden beds...😂
You mentioned not giving them Brocoli or Cauliflower. We have a garden and actually intended to make the greens of our brocoli, carrots, tomato trimmings, etc. As a major staple in their diet. We are growing lots of sunflowers and lavender for our rabbits and our chickens. I was wondering if you thought this was a good idea or a really bad one?
Sunflower and lavender and carrot greens are great. Broccoli is gassy and can cause bloat. Don't feed them tomato greens. They are of the nightshade family and can poison them.
They are growing so fast! this is a great series and very concise, thank you, cant wait to get growing my own rabbits!
Awesome, so glad!
Throw it to the dogs 🤣 you’re really going to get the keyboard Warriors all worked up.... are you working on a part 3 on haters comments.. enjoyed the informative video!
Part 3 could be made today, there have been some really nuts comments this month!
Good Simple Living And Homesteading well I enjoy your regular videos but definitely would like to see part 3 for a good laugh
I raise rabbits for dog food.😳🤣
@@MrRbrgrn it'll be coming!
Good Simple Living And Homesteading don’t engage with trolls, they have closed minds.
Another good informative video! I am planning to start a rabbitry this spring here in Ohio.
Awesome, have fun
Thank you for sharing some information. 🐇
There so cute! Thank you for sharing, very informative! Just subscribed 😀
1. wild rabbits absolutely will eat root crops as long as they are not completely buried. they will dig up beets or just eat the tops and so on. That said... the carrot thing is from Bugs Bunny, and THAT is from him being based on an actor who in a noted movie was given a carrot and gestured with it.
I grow kale and comfrey specifically for my rabbits
an occasional thin slice of banana with the peel
That's awesome!
I have comfrey also.
do you feed them it when the powdery mildew season starts in late summer?
@@commonconservative7551 I don't feed them anything with mildew
Ooops we've been giving them carrots and apples quite a lot! We'll have to change that. They really enjoy them. We've also been giving kale and chard, grass, dandelions and blackberries. When I first got the rabbits I bought a big pack of spinach from the supermarket and between them it was all gone in 24hrs.I love watching the rabbits eyes go big when they see a lovely pile of fresh leaves and goodies and they devour it!
They really love the natural greens. You can still give them apples and carrots, just not as a staple in their diet, more like a treat :)
@@GoodSimpleLiving I love to see them getting bigger. None of them are fat, but of course that is a distinct possibility in time with what they're getting.
Ripe apples fall from the tree, and would be accessible to rabbits since before the May Flower.
Our rabbit and the wild rabbits around here love dandelions.
That they do!
Wow. Can you visit im starting a rabbit
Will they eat the tap root from a dandelion?
Have you ever given them comfrey leaves, they are said to have a lot of protean in them.
Same here. My rabbit who died a few years ago LOVED dandelions. By far his favourite food.
So I'm assuming things like, clover, radish tops, and such are okay? Any flowers they should not eat? What about foliage? Like tomato leaves and similar?
I have goji, garden huckleberry, and tomatoes in my yard. Lots of solanaceae actually. Is that gonna cause issues? And should I not tractor around that?
Love your videos...very informative. Bless you.
Thank you so much!
Good video..i really thinking about to farming a rabbits for food..its clean and good for human...keep sharing and i i really like ur video..cheers
Thank you!
A couple we know are quitting their homestead life to move to the city.....don’t ask me why, maybe they don’t watch the news. But they are getting rid of their rabbits. Sooooo I’ll be watch all your rabbit videos.
Wow! Do you have any advice or tips to start this kind of life? I’ve been binge watching your videos all morning!
We did a video a while back called "Cop saved $200K Buys Homestead" that explains our journey. We also did a speech that is on her for Mother Earth News that may have some helpful tips. This winter we are going to do a more in-depth series on finances, and planning.
Personally i don't give my rabbits anything green until they are 8 weeks old. By so doing I greatly minimize chances of them suffering from diarrhea or bloated tummies. I also wean my bunnies at the age of 8 weeks and by then most of them will be weighing 2.1kg to 2.3kg. I feed them hay and pellets only until they reach 8 weeks. After that I start giving them greens, including fresh grass and vegetable leaves but in very small quantities for about a month. As for bigger rabbits, i give them mainly pellets and also hay as something to nibble on whenever they feel like chewing something. I should also mention that rabbits that feed on pellets mainly taste much nicer than rabbits that eat greens and hay mainly.
You had mentioned a video about how you set up the watering system. I looked for it but could not find it. Can you please share the link?
Very informative. Looking to get rabbits soon and this channel kept coming up. Thumbs up! Awesome!
A good note is all the kitchen herbs we usually grow are good for digestion and gas for people... this is a better treat, that they can in nature find... Look plants up before feeding them to your animals... Food and water with any animal is high priority... when keeping any animal it's up to us to learn about it
If given a mix of food they will always go for the herbs first! They love parsley and cilantro!
I have free range rabbits in my backyard. Rabbits dig like made and eat roots, so carrots etc. are on the menu. In the summer. I go up to the local veg stand everyday and they give me all of the questionable stuff. The rabbits literally come running when I put it out. Never any issues, I'm aware of. They also have access to rabbit pellets and alpha hay.
I’m getting my 2 8-week bunnies today. Thank you for the excellent info! Very helpful!
Sure, I’m anxious for part 3. Maybe include the kids in some that aren’t to bad. They need to learn how to interact with those of different viewpoints. I’m not picky, you videos are always well produced, you have a easygoing tone as you explain what’s happening. You could do a video on harvesting nuts, and make it entertaining.
haha thank you! I'd harvest vegan nuts but I don't think they have any.... what?
Good Simple Living And Homesteading hahahahaha I busted up on that
You recommend Trayvax knives. They are $169 and thats just too much. Do you have another less expensive choice you like?
Thank you for another informative and interesting video. I appreciate it. Art in CA
So glad, thank you!
My rabbits are on endless timothy hay, and are hiven once daily of carrots and apples and weekly strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, raspberries. They are healthy.
The bunnies are looking more delicious every video😂😂🇦🇺🇦🇺
This is for sure the cutest stage, but they keep growing lol
Now a serious one. Kale, spinach, carrot greens, do you purchase these items when not available in garden? These are pretty close to year round garden. Or better question, February March April, do you give any “treats”?
I feed seasonally like they would eat naturally. Kale I have year round. If I don't have garden food them I stick to timothy.
You should put a few nails through the bottom of the nesting box so it has pegs on the bottom that stick through the wire bottom, would prevent the box from sliding
Just want to clarify, wheat is an ingredient in rabbit pellets, so they aren't completely averse to grains but it shouldn't be a bulk of their diet at all :)
Which kind of meet rabbits are these?The color is lovely!
Rex
Can rabbits eat any purple herbs/vegetables like purple basil, purple oregano or purple carrots for example?
Gosh he is a gorgeous guy.. you have a some beautiful animals there. Nothing to do with rabbits but you said chocolate and dogs...had to laugh not because your wrong but because I have a pitty who ate a 5lb bag of chocolate lindt truffles on Christmas. I freaked out no vet was open. She was fine just had colorful poop from the wrapers.. not even a case of diarrhea or vomiting. Go figure.
Sorry for your loss
Have a wonderful day 🌻🌻🌻
Wow, lucky pup! I bet some dogs do just fine with it, but I know it can kill some breeds. My Pei ate a chocolate easter bunny when I was a kid, and she almost died. We puffed up, and turned bright pink. Her eyes swelled shut, it was awful!
I used to give my pet rabbits carrot tops. Good to know my chosen treat for them was a good choice.
Yup, one of their favorites!
My grandmothter gave her rabbits cuttings from the orchard during the winter. They nibbled the buds and the bark first before they ate hay.
They love bark and pinecones!
I laughed at the little bag of apple twigs I saw at the store the other day. If your don't have an apple tree ask a neighbor that does for prunings. The bags was stupid expensive for what it was.
They can also get bloat from cucumbers. And it will give them diarrhea if given too much
So sad to see you lost one. I’ve had wild rabbits around here and I could swear they were eating on my strawberries 🍓. Strawberries are they harmful to rabbits. These are fat pretty healthy rabbits around here and occasionally if I’m steaming kale I leave the stems out for them although I’m sure the deer might help.
They love strawberries!!
Good Simple Living And Homesteading , that’s good to know.
... How would a bunny have access to carrots etc...
Burrow! We Rehomed 2 year old house bunnies. Nice day we put them out in the garden, so quickly they started burrowing!! Yes they like greens, however the roots too! So that is how lol.
Autumn they would have access to windfall fruit. 😊
I don't mean for this to be a hate comment, but as a house rabbit owner, this made me cry.
Here in the high desert of the Mohave, the wild cotton tails and the black tailed jacks will eat anything, and I do mean anything, that you plant, if you don't protect it VERY well!
If your not using a greenhouse, or a high, heavy gage fencing, thats buried at lest 18 inches to keep the hoppers out, and covered with tull or mesh to keep out the collard dove, don't even bother trying to grow anything!!!
Oh man, that's hard. Our dog and cats take care of the cotton tails around here.
@@GoodSimpleLiving Yeah, can't let our pets stay out cause of the packs of coyote. Yeah, they pack hear, go figure.
They do where we are moving also
Great info. I've kicked around the idea of raising meat rabbits for a while. I'm still working on getting past the "cute bunny feelings" though. What breed are your rabbits? I'd also like to have a breed with nice fur to tan.
Rex, they have the best hides hands down.
I love rabbit ❤️ my favorite rabbit 🐰
Curiously, are these mostly Satin rabbits? Are they the breed you & your family prefer for meat production? I'm very interested in starting a small rabbitry for freezer meat, as it's so lean & very delicious (your Dutch oven BBQ recipe had me salivating!). I have more binging to do, so I'm sure you'll have answered my question in a video before you get a chance here! Thanks so much for the wonderful content, you are truly knowledgeable, skilled & compassionate.
Allie in Maine 😊
Hey Allie! These are Rex rabbits. We have raised satins in the past, and growth rates were very similar.
They look pampered. If you gotta live life as a meat animal thats a way to do it.
This is probably a stupid question but can they eat weeds? Also when do you stop breeding a bunny? (like till what age). How do you decide which are good for breeding and which are good for eating? When do you breed the mom again after the babies have been weened?
Also heat lamps for Winter or how to care during winter
How can bloat be treated ?
What is the feed ratios in pellet for rabbit looking at 100kg.
Crude fibre -%
Crude protein -%
Fat-%
Energy %
Treat bloat with infant gas drops, and remove all feed except hay and water
2:16 I just lost my 9 week old grow out who also got trampled this morning.
I didn't think that I would lose one that old.