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Our nest boxes have a screen stapled to the bottom

Another thing to consider is that once a rabbit has sore hocks, even after they have healed they are still vulnerable to get them again for quite a while. It is not the skin that protects from the wires, it is the thick coarse fur that cushions against it. This takes a lot of time to grow...

I've accidentally had the litter container hide become a kindle box. I didn't add a wooden wall, just left the lid on, and let the lever portion act as a ramp in. Then one day there's fur in the back, and little wrigglers happily sleeping. Convenient thing about leaving the lid on, it was...

Have you looked for parasites?

If you can get nettle, that will increase her milk supply. You can find dried nettle at health food stores. If you're lucky to have stinging nettle in your lawn or garden, let it wilt (or heat it a bit) to get rid of the stinging oils. For condition, you're doing good with the high fat...

Especially with rats about, it's good to have that protective instinct! I wish her luck, I hope she is super vicious to the rats, but only distrustful when it comes to anyone else.

Someone needs to market bunny warming bras, use as regular underwear until needed to rescue frozen babies.

There's bunny specific music on YouTube, just search calming bunny music and you get hours of music designed to be in the right pitches and tempo for rabbits

For the ice cream pails, with holes poked in the Bottom, the urine does build up; our fussy lil guy needs his pail changed every other week. However I've used egg baskets (the wire ones) they have damp spots at times, but most of it goes right through. As long as you add straw once the poops...

If the bunny is too small for dog and cat harnesses, look in the ferret section, I've had luck with the adjustable figure-8 style ferret harnesses for the young and small ones.

May I suggest a "litter box"? Thanks to instinct, even adult buns might immediately take to a box of straw put in the poop corner. This will be easier to clean than the cage floor. Get something large enough for them to lay on, with a mesh bottom -or at least a drain of some kind to keep it...

Is he eating normally? To make sure he isn't dangerously skinny, feel along his spine. If the muscle is parallel, he's healthy. If it is sunken, that means he has no fat stores and is burning muscle to survive. This is the too skinny that requires rescue diet. He has long enough fur, you...

If you happen to have a heated pad, ie for gardening or those heated pet mats, or even a small heated blanket you don't care if it gets messy, put it under half of the nest box; the kits can wiggle their way to it when they are cold, and wiggle away if they are too hot. I have considered with...

It could be because hen 1 is the dominant, therefore getting more food, therefore healthier. If you want hen 2 to lay soon, in order to ensure that she does actually lay, feed her some pumpkin separate from the others. She'll get the nutrients needed to lay, and will not have to compete for...

If you like her genetics, I'd suggest breeding both at the same time. That way, if she doesn't have interest in rearing kits, you can potentially have the other doe foster. I've done this a few times, I used to put Vaseline on their noses before birth, to mask the scent of kits that were not...