Silver Ridge Rabbitry

The doe in the below photo kindled and had 11, WOW! I am glad I checked them, 2 were down at the end of the nest, not in the fur, I counted and put them all together, I will post photo's tomorrow.

Today was the day to give 3 does nestboxes, but I saw them carrying hay in their mouth, so I gave them their boxes early. All three built, but they get in it a little to eat, and it mats the hay down, so I gave them more today.  I will keep you posted on kindling times when it happens.  I have also posted some photos of a mother and young stock.

Silver Ridge Rabbitry is pleased to anounce that we have changed our set-up, before we were raising out of our garage, not an ideal situation, now we are cooking, we have stacking cages from our manufacturer, in a milk house adapted from my father's cow barn, generations of farmers, now in my family. My new set-up is stacking cages with trays. It is so organized and neat, and I hope to keep it that way, I can not say enough about setting it (the rabbitry) up once and doing it right the first time, I just sold off my used cages, that didn't fit into the set-up, now I have new and wonderful chalenges with my set-up. I can not stress how much you want to think about your set-up (cages feeders watering systems, etc.) As much as you want to find the best stock to begin with. If you begin with great stock and the set-up you can deal with plenty of space, a barn with poop falling, or stacking trays in basement or a garage or shed. Rabbits are a commitment, so start with the best stock and supplies. Please feel free to contact us if you are interested in seeing our set-up. 802-371-9387

Wow! I attended my first show yesterday, it was so much fun, I must thank the lady at the show who fixed my rabbits tatoo, and she did it for free! I was at the show and everyone was so helpful and sweet.

Below are photos of the ride to Taunton

Below are photos of the Show

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Last night my husband and I dressed out 4 of our young bucks. My husband will make rabbit chilli this weekend.

I have about  7 Pure New zealand White bucks for sale from my 2 best senior bucks. Blocky builds, great meat rabbits,  Visit the for sale page to see them http://www.silverridgerabbitry.com/newzealandrabbitsforsale.htm But I am willing to make deals to get rid of them. Contact me at s.ouellette@comcast.net some pedigrees available.

The shelves of our grocery stores are filled with genetically-modified (GM) vegetables. The cows/meat in your Big Mac are fed genetically-modified corn and tons of antibiotics, and they wonder why antibiotics don't work on H1N1. Tell the FDA to take GM corn off the market and put safety over profits http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/755645429?z00m=19825385 

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I have noticed that summer kits and winter kits are different in the way they grow and develop, below are some photos, the winter kit has a thicker coat, and noticeably shorter ears, and a shorter body. The summer kit (not really summer just raised in my basement at a constant 70 degrees.) has much longer ears and and a longer body and better fur quality. Please feel free to comment on why these rabbits from the same genetics (the mothers were sisters) are different

Our new litters are growing fast, we lost a couple of litters, and have one case of nestbox eye,  (that will be culled)

The others are gaining rapidly and are about 6 weeks old.

Our New Zealand white rabbits are quick gaining, I usually cull at about 8-12 weeks, keeping the best prospects till I see growth and good meat or show quailties. I have a litter of pedigree stock available at this time, call 802-371-9387 or email s.ouellette@comcast.net

photo at about 4 weeks.