How Much To Feed A Rabbit

She remains with her offspring until they are weaned at 5 to 8 weeks of age and moved into their own individual cages. Years later, she continues to search out the best rabbit from her local butcher in order to recreate that special meal.

Responsible rabbit care includes: planning for hot weather (rabbits can easily overheat) keeping rabbits safe from predators (dogs are the most common) daily feed and fresh water sanitary conditions year-round Clean, well-ventilated cages protected from...

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First, remove the rabbits' access to fresh food, and then increase their access to Timothy hay. Secondly, wash off the mushy poops with soap and warm water, and remove the soiled wool around your rabbit's bottom, hind legs and tail.

Is A Breeding Bull Right For Your Farm? Are Pigs Right For My Farm? 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.

Well, for those of you who have some spare time today, let us go there! The fruit is of course the main product but the stems are also sold as. As they can be seen from the road and are really spectacular especially after heavy rains, the local council...

There are many “footed” ferns which produce fuzzy rhizomes that grow outside the pot. Removing the fern from the existing pot is the trick. Plant in the new soil with the rhizomes balanced around the edge of the pot.

I embarked upon a series of husbandry and butchery projects, and managed to variously raise (or at least help raise), kill, butcher, and help eat a steer, a goat kid, several chickens and some turkeys.

“One, your child needs to be mature enough to understand that rabbits need food and water on a regular basis, and that they need a clean cage at all times,” says Heather of the The Homesteading Hippie .

Even with the best of care, you may occasionally lose some of the older fronds. Tobacco smoke, scented candles and most forms of air pollution also harm the plant.Though it may need a little more maintenance than other plants in the home, growing a rabbit's...

It ‘s not a big rabbit, mind you. I can't wait until the dang thing is too big to fit through the chain link fence—I only hope he has his growth spurt while on the outside of the fence.

And EFFECTIVE! I was amazed. But maybe the new ones aren't as needy as you think. Are they fancy newcomers that require fertilizing and watering all the time, or did you do that just to give them a good start their first year.

Watering is the key. We hope you find these questions (and answers, penned by our admins and writers) helpful as you grow your gardening knowledge! Potting mix for Clivia must be well draining.

Whether you actively compost it by layering "green" and "brown" material, watering, and turning, or whether you just dump them and forget them for a couple of years, the sweetgum balls will have a chance to break down with the leaves, and you'll have...

Sun or shade, and which way does the wall face? We hope you find these questions (and answers, penned by our admins and writers) helpful as you grow your gardening knowledge! Saxifrage might trail over the edge; I haven't grown it myself.

Every week or so,I change the water to keep it fresh. Potting mix is expensive and if you need to supplement with bagged material, you can actually buy garden soil or humus cheaper.

Use a good-quality potting soil that contains some organic matter, or add peat moss, coconut fiber, or polymer crystals. We hope you find these questions (and answers, penned by our admins and writers) helpful as you grow your gardening knowledge!

Our writers and admins will handpick a few of your questions and answer them in an upcoming Ask-a-Gardener, one of our Saturday morning features. A big part of what attracts people to Dave's Garden has always been our forums, where gardeners ask and answer...

We hope you find these questions (and answers, penned by our admins and writers) helpful as you grow your gardening knowledge! I took the picture just for this question, so the foliage looks like this right now.

The heat or sometimes the chemicals in the smoke, weaken the seed coat and allow water to enter and germination to begin. I desire a blue garden, myself, and would be irritated if an iris named "true blue" turned out to be lavender! I have yet to find...

It could mean putting a tomato cage over it and wrapping in burlap. When the worst of the winter is over, remove the bucket and pull the mulch back so your plants can wake up. Gardening is both art and science, with some luck and skill thrown in for good...

I hope you can turn your yard situation into a real bonus of edible and medicinal plants!Yes, you can grow roses from seed. Can you scrounge those from your neighbors too? They do need 90 days of stratification, which means they'll need to spend most...

With your jade plant, it sounds like you want to drastically change its shape. Gardening is both art and science, with some luck and skill thrown in for good measure. Other questions may be moved to one of our other forums so your fellow members can help...

A big part of what attracts people to Dave's Garden has always been our forums, where gardeners ask and answer questions for one another. No way to keep them permanently out of the yard that I know of, except live in Alaska, or don't grow anything they...

Are the roots from these behemoths very invasive and/or should I think of installing this palm elsewhere?"Remember, if you have a gardening question that you would like to suggest for this feature, post it.

Sometimes a lack of bees in the area results in poor pollination. If space is an issue, you might try trellising smaller, icebox varieties. Sorry, unkapete, it sounds like they're not annuals, but read theadds: Depending on the species of banana, some...

That worked for me. I was advised to dig them back up and plant them at a shallower depth. We hope you find these questions (and answers, penned by our admins and writers) helpful as you grow your gardening knowledge!