PET RABBITS

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Sponsored Visual signals are do not make up the main communication system for rabbits. This is not a surprise as we know that rabbits spend most of their time in the dark. So how do rabbits communicate? There are variations that we can look out for to tell how rabbits are feeling. The variations can … Read more

Sponsored If your family is considering adding rabbits as pets to the household quickly decide if you plan on keeping the bunnies indoors in a cage or outdoors in a special rabbit hutch. Having rabbits indoors is fine but you may need to rabbit-proof certain parts of the home that are not safe for rabbits … Read more

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Sponsored Many fairs and rabbit shows have a class called a Meat Pen. If you are buying rabbits for a 4H project, this may be one of the options you want to try. To compete in a meat pen class, you must have three young rabbits that are ten weeks old or younger from the … Read more

Sponsored Constructing a couple of outdoor enclosures costs far less than building many cages. An area of 110 square metres can accommodate 200 free-range rabbits and ten breeding does. It would require 25 cages with eight growing rabbits per cage to match the free-range system. In addition the breeding does require their own individual cages … Read more