Best Veggies For Rabbits

“If someone wants to sell rabbits, I recommend they do research and outreach before beginning,” Humphries says. A membership also offers a way to connect with rabbit breeding community.

These breeds produce a fleece that can be harvested prior to processing the animal for meat. Quick Turnaround It takes rabbits 70 days from birth to reach market weight. A $20 membership to the American Rabbit Breeders Association offers members six issue...

Courtesy Tasha S. Courtesy Melani I. Help us celebrate spring and Baby Animal Month as we delight in these farm babies. Courtesy Beth H. This time of year, everyone from small children to seasoned adult farmers get a little twitterpated over our long-eared...

Due to the extreme fluffy nature of angora rabbits it is important to thoroughly dry them after any kind of washing. Wool block is also shown though the complete lack of poop. These are not to be confused with night poos, or cecotropes, which will have...

In The Backyard Homestead Guide to Raising Farm Animals (Storey, 2011), the author writes, “A wild rabbit picks and chooses what it eats to get a balanced diet. There are many different reasons to keep rabbits—for meat, for fur, as pets or for manure...

This goes for repotting, trimming or training.It is a little harder to tell when indoor plants are dormant but, basically, it is when no new growth is being produced. Place the container in a warm location and keep evenly moist.Remove the plastic wrap...

Some days, when I was working for hours digging and sweating to make the rabbit paradise, I would cross the street at lunch time and eat in a funky restaurant with all the rustic locals.

I would say that a young child who has a hard time sitting still or being quiet (and let's face it, that is a lot of young kids!) may have a harder time with rabbits. Your Children's Behavior Most animals don't take kindly to being laid on, kicked or...

(21-24 C.), and slightly cooler temperatures at night.Water the plants lightly but often to keep the surface of the soil lightly moist. Mix regularhalf-and-half with sand to create an ideal medium for rabbit's foot ferns.

I'd release him—unharmed, I swear—in the far back of our property and hope he couldn't find his way back to the garden (hahaha). I hope it doesn't come to that, though, because I wouldn't want my son to see me victoriously dancing around the yard...

Folks start grilling at an early hour, so we will pass by and buy our chicken on the way back so it will still be warm for lunch. And if you feel like the orange juice embellished with banana and pineapple is not sweet enough you can upgrade to sugarcane...

Their business-end “offerings” don't need to be aged before use like poultry manure, and it's a prime for raising earthworm or incorporating into a vermiculture system . It can also be collected by daily grooming of the animal or by occasional shearing...

#etsyseller #handmade #handcrafted A photo posted by Melanie Wales (@pureangoraknits) on Dec 13, 2014 at 1:12pm PST Search online for market opportunities in your area. Notice she is still alive and well.

This article contains excerpts from Bottle Babies, by Sue Weaver, a Hobby Farms contributing editor. If you buy one, you won't know anything about his background and by being at the sale barn, he'll be exposed to diseases he isn't equipped to handle.

We hope to see your livestock photos in an upcoming print issue of Hobby Farms . Include your name and address in the body of the email. Jon Harpst Jr. Abby Stewart Angela Tomsha Nancy Olschewsky Kandye Jones This story originally appeared in the September/October...

“He learns management, responsibility and how to handle money.” 2. Poultry Care A strong poultry flock is a vital part of any diverse farm or homestead, and the perfect opportunity to integrate children into the day-to-day management of farm livestock.

Your friends will love you for it!Beauty products are easy and fun to make with ingredients from you garden. Once they have cooled and hardened, wrapped the lotion bars up in some craft paper and tie with string.

Some of theover the years are due to mass production leading to poor quality nursery stock. As a small to medium sized tropical, false aralia has a lovely lacey look, made even prettier by the dark leaf color.

Ugh, tax time! Are you wishing that you had a magic money tree? A minor point but one that some readers may find importantMoney Tree art at left by the incomparable "Inky" Used here with permission, Thank you! Inky Art not to be used elsewhere without...

Horses For Work and As Pets William Murphy/Flickr More than most other animals, horses are the stuff of dreams and often one of the first acquisitions on a hobby farm. But besides drinking it, you can make: goat cheese, aka feta soap yogurt kefir Pretty...

Stretch out the cord as long as you wish your hanger to be. This will include the tassel on the end and about 6" extra for good measure. If your cords are long enough, you can step on them with a toe to hold them too, but as the work progresses, you'll...

Giant Angora: You guessed it—the Giant Angora is the largest of all the angora rabbit breeds, weighing in at about 9½ pounds. Satin Angora: Approximately the same size as a French Angora, the Satin Angora rabbit breed boasts a wool with a marvelous...

Is your Spider plant perpetually spindly? Your odds may improve with Lucky Bamboo. Lucky bamboo stems and arrangements can be ordered directly from growers via their websites. Fertilizers labeled for hydroponic growing would be most suitable.The most...

After that, it was a matter of cutting many lengths of grapevine and winding them in, out, and around the supporting tomato cage.Using lengths of thin, flexible wire, I attached the grapevine to the cage at convenient intervals.

Carrots would nicely fill that bare space down below with lush, green foliage, keeping theat bay. If you have gardens, you have room for veggies!! A recommended daily serving of vegetables, no cooking required!!Many thanks to bebop2 for the use of the...

I read a little farther, and there were reports of using the pillows for aching necks or shoulders, chills caused by fevers, and to soothe the aching tummies of little ones.The two that June had made for me were of a soft, stretchy, tube-like fabric,...

Instead of listening to mindless music radio, I exercised my twig identification skills. While I can't advise you on apps, the virtual market where I am shopping for them has user reviews attached.