What Can I Feed A Rabbit

Raising your own rabbit meat offers you knowledge about the how the animal was raised, what it has consumed to reach processing weight and where the meat comes from. Retail sales, in particular, require that the meat be processed according to USDA specifications.

By comparison, grain-fed livestock including beef, poultry and pork, require a much higher amount of food in the form of grains, so by comparison have a larger carbon footprint than rabbits.

Courtesy Mary Myers Courtesy Amy N. Want to share photos of your farm's rabbits and other baby animals? Help us celebrate spring and Baby Animal Month as we delight in these farm babies.

It's quite adorable. One delightful way to help keep your angora rabbit comfortably cool is to take empty plastic soda or water bottles and fill them with water and then freeze them.

You'll especially want to harvest the bucks before they begin to emit their musty odor. Look into your local laws, and search your area for small or mobile processors who will take on rabbit meat.

However, this is a very forgiving plant and repotting a rabbit's foot fern at any time of the year is fine as long as it is not exposed to any extreme stresses such as temperature fluctuations.freestar.queue.push(function() { googletag.display("div-gpt-ad-300x250-ATF-1");...

(I'm a botanist from California, so of course I've experienced similar anguish about my hand in some plant deaths.) When I was writing the article for the ASPCA about good rabbit enclosures, I needed to build a new version of my “Rabbitat” in order...

If you don't teach your kiddos on how to properly behave around farm animals, the animals will do it for you—likely with painful results. “Rabbits are usually friendly, but can be rather skittish with unsure hands holding them.

Daily misting helps keep the surface rhizomes from drying out. The rhizomes can grow quite long and over time they take on a spider-like appearance. Functional as well as decorative, the rhizomes absorb moisture and nutrients as they crawl across the...

A friend's advice was to surround the garden with mothballs as an odor deterrent. I hope it doesn't come to that, though, because I wouldn't want my son to see me victoriously dancing around the yard over a sweet, little trapped bunny.

Always prune at an outward facing bud and clip the stem at a slant to prevent disease. I eventually took care of my gopher problem for a good 4-6 months, though they always come back.: You can sometimes stimulate a rose by pruning, providing that it is...

Occasionally we come across a question that we find particularly interesting or intriguing. Fungus gnats love damp soil and as long as your potting medium remains damp, they'll happily reproduce.

It simply won't happen. 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...

They mean to keep the seeds covered with seed-starting mix; these seeds (and many many others) need DARK to germinate. Sun or shade, and which way does the wall face? Phlox subulata and trailing rosemary will sort of billow over the edge and more slowly...

Potting mix is expensive and if you need to supplement with bagged material, you can actually buy garden soil or humus cheaper. However, it will take several seasons without some additional material.

The free access forums are available to everyone and some of our most seasoned paid subscribers devote some time each day to help others. Fall is a great season for planting shrubs.

Occasionally we come across a question that we find particularly interesting or intriguing. 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.

It is possible that you may have a bit of leaf burn from the fertilizer, but it shouldn't amount to any lasting harm.As long as the tips of your branches remain alive, you should be fine.

My personal observation is that bees are so busy when visiting flowers that they don't notice people nearby.adds: Nearly all bees will ignore humans when nectar flowers are around.

I have some scarlet milkweed that I'm going to try and over-winter in the ground, so we're in the same boat. With just a few preparations, you can conceivably increase the climate area where a plant is growing as much as a couple of zones.

Over winter they'll begin to decompose. Gardening is both art and science, with some luck and skill thrown in for good measure. How about a hydrangea? Fresh rose seed needs to stay moist to be viable.

Do this very gradually, taking off no more than a quarter or less of each branch at a time.Meanwhile, you should do two other things. I'd say your jade plant (Crassula ovata) looks pretty healthy, judging by the bright green tips on the branches.

Let me guess, you're EXTREMELY bothered by poison ivy, too. Occasionally we come across a question that we find particularly interesting or intriguing. Cut your stems with a sharp knife about an inch below a leaf joint and make sure that you have another...

It also has white spots on the stem too.'growing - or not growing - under a very shady tree. Yesterday I put a little bit of miracle grow liquid in it. Our writers and admins will handpick a few of your questions and answer them in an upcoming Ask-a-Gardener,...

Some of the smaller winter squash vareties will climb a fence without any additional help as well. Several have specific temperature and soil requirements or the seeds will simply rot.

Don't feel bad, even experienced gardeners will fall victim at times. The condition is a catch-all for several types of fungus and I'm afraid, most seedlings infected ultimately die.

So much of plant health depends on individual situations, and individual gardeners' methods (and madnesses: some love to water, others neglect for weeks.) Not knowing whether you are looking for a potted plant for indoors, or a garden plant, I'll give...